Author Archives: tony

What do you trust? The usual reply is, “I trust myself!” If we look closely, that actually says, “I…trust…myself!” “Is that wise?” Which of these two is doing the trusting? Which one is you? There is awareness, and that of … Continue reading →

The Buddha and mental health.. The Buddha’s teachings are all about dealing with mental illness – with a disturbed mind. Here are some statistics FROM THE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION. The facts and figures around Mental Health in the UK are alarming. … Continue reading →

Are you alone? Are we awake, or still living in a dream? Upon being asked that question, we will assume we are awake! We may even awake at that moment, but quickly fall into the dream again. Being awake is … Continue reading →

Dealing with negative people.  Empathetic skills come from experiencing personal suffering, and then one knows how someone else is feeling. So suffering is of value – it can benefit others when relating to them.  Dealing with other’s negativity will depend … Continue reading →

How to suffer and be happy.  Suffering does not last. *Unconditional happiness does. (OK, but it doesn’t seem that way!) The condition of living in this body and mind (software on a hardrive) – in this avatar – is constant … Continue reading →

Being over positive.  Treading the spiritual path, isn’t all flowers and “namastes”. Being over-positive can be stressful, covering up reality warts and all, this can turn life into something which it is not. It is misleading, as it is trying … Continue reading →

CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM. Chogyam Trungpa.   To the conventional way of thinking, compassion simply means being kind and warm. This sort of compassion is described as ‘grandmother’s’ love. You would expect the practitioner of this type of compassion to … Continue reading →

Sorting Your Self Out  There six psychological neurotic realms that we live in as sentient being. During a day we may pass in and out of them without noticing. We may also find that we get stuck in one for … Continue reading →

Buddhist science takes everything apart to reveal what is left…nothing! Buddhism talks about 4 types of ‘I’, (there could be more): The social ‘I ‘, the self-cherishing ‘I’, the reified ‘I’ and the ‘I’mere ‘I’. Normally we lump it all … Continue reading →

The problem with the theories of evolution.  There are two arguments: the first is that we ascended from Apes, while the second is that we are a creation of God. Oh, and there’s a third – we came from Alien … Continue reading →

The Buddha, Demons and Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is a charter created in 1992 by the UN for sustainable development of the planet: this means killing 6 billion people ( read about the “Georgia Guide Stones” in Atlanta USA) or … Continue reading →

Compassion in action. Compassion is a tricky subject. We start by being kind to ourselves…”There I go again! But at least I learned something.” We all assume that we are compassionate – until the moment our button gets pressed, and … Continue reading →

Spiritual centres – what to be aware of.  Spiritual centres have two aspects, the meaning of the teaching and…people! The meaning of the teachings is what we go for… the people can be a problem. However, people can work as … Continue reading →

A PERSONAL VIEW. I love the topic of the two truths -what is real and what seems real. The Buddha said it all, and so have many others. There is no difference between them and us, except that they have … Continue reading →

Freedom. We all want freedom, but from what? Anything that happens ‘out there’ is only recognised ‘in here’ – the mind. In formation is received by the senses, goes to the brain and is seen in the mind…and noted by … Continue reading →

Practise makes perfect.  Although we read and hear word, it is only in practise that anything is understood. The meaning is beyond the words. The words are necessary, but the real meaning is in experience. Conceptual understanding can convince the … Continue reading →

Knowing Without knowing we wouldn’t know. Knowing allows everything to be known. We couldn’t ‘be’ without it! Knowing knowing Appreciating knowing is the next step back. Awareness of knowing. Knowing, knowing knowing Is the final stage. It is the nature … Continue reading →

There is nothing to burn.  The demon knows the I inflames. We ignore what we know. Dropping our wind, reveals pure empty essence. There is nothing to burn.      

Meaning to love.   I mean to love, but I’m mean with love, because I’m not comfortable with me.           .

MEANING The Experience is beyond the Word. When Experienced the Word has real meaning. ARGUING Arguing is cling to like and dislike. Drop the clinging and Enjoy the preference. EMPATHY Is merely Reflecting what others are feeling, allowing space for … Continue reading →

To talk of truth is worthwhile repeating, until it is recognised in reality.   Anything else is not worth repeating, but we do it all the same.    

Still clinging to likes and dislikes?  We naturally gravitate towards some things, and away from others. We may like tomatoes on toast and not smelly people. But if that tomatoes on toast were someone’s only food, and that smelly person … Continue reading →

Interesting is boring, boring is interesting. A spiritual teacher, took his students to a Japanese tea drinking ceremony. Afterwards the students, said how wonderful it was. How the experience was so up lifting, so enriching, such an interesting ritual, and … Continue reading →

We have to find a suitable soap (method) to wash away our conceptual mud. Once the mud is off, we have to wash off the soap (method) as well. The soap (method) reveals our true qualities: once revealed we no … Continue reading →

One of the main obstacles in our own minds is not seeing clearly, due to negativity, which tends to involve others. We blame others for what is happening in our own minds. As like attracts like we end up in … Continue reading →

I don’t see pure awareness!  Oh, but you do: you simply do not notice it. I enjoy writing because I like to share experience, and to give a flavour of “what’s it all about”. It took me years to understand … Continue reading →

What is not true?  EVERYTHING!  This may need some further explanation. Everything may seem real, but is not real. This may need some further explanation. Everything in the universe, is made of subtle matter. Matter being particles that are attracting … Continue reading →

Look for that which never changes, and that is truth. Oh! So what is looking?

  What if it is both? Self cherishing and engineered: we know how easily humans get distracted, over react and protect a self image. Distractions, over reacting and self image are the obstacles (and tools) to spiritual development. What if … Continue reading →

Crazy Mind How do we recognise a crazy mind, when a crazy mind is crazy? Tricky! We all assume the mind is normal, when a normal mind is crazy. Tricky! Being aware that the mind is crazy, is …  …the … Continue reading →

Being intelligent. If we believe everything we hear, the mind becomes…cluttered…and chatters away! The problem is stopping the chatter-clutter. The clearer the mind the clearer we see. Intelligence is clarity. We only need is a simple principle. Let go. . … Continue reading →

Reacting.     Reaction is re-enacting, playing out a script that we wrote, due to our stored re-enactments.   A reaction comes from our past. It only re-presents itself in the present moment. If we simply re-act, we are doing … Continue reading →

Being Awake.  Being awake is being just aware. Just means nothing else. More than just is, is back in the dream. Being Asleep. . Dozing, Tony .

Karma.     Karma is an imprint in the mind. It is the result of mind clinging. It’s our attitude. Lose the attitude. Lose the karma.       . Tony       .

Happiness   Happiness is. What is is? Is is being. When being is known, Happiness just is.       . tony       .

“I”     “I” is being something.         . Tony     .

  Recognising the death process. This is a Tibetan Bardo supplication by Kunga Paljor. Translated by Gerardo Abboud.  This is a short prayer, describing the process of so-called death, the intermediate state and reincarnation. It is basically is a reminder … Continue reading →

Feeling jaded?  There are time when we feel that meditation does not work, or we are getting a little bored with it. That’s OK. Some days are good and some days aren’t so good. Some times we just feel flat … Continue reading →

The double edged sword of reality. We are born with tools, and these may be used in either of two ways – deception or perception. However, there is a trick to seeing perception in deception, and deception in perception. The … Continue reading →

Recognising, deciding and confidence: these are known as the three steps to liberation. Recognise your true empty nature….free of thoughts. Decide on this point….that there is nothing other. Build confidence in liberation…be confident and know freedom.  Because of being able … Continue reading →

We are the jewel in the mud. The mud is conceptual thinking. The mud just needs washing off. The mud clings because we (our consciousness) have got used to holding on to concepts about ourselves, and phenomena in the universe. Yes, … Continue reading →