Author Archives: tony

Seeing Too Much Seeing too much can be depressing. Observing people around us entertaining their minds through staring at screens, reading the news, plugging in ear buds, chattering about their history. The screens, the news, the music, the chatter … … Continue reading →

Irrefutable Proof Of Reality For something to be real, it can never not be real; it has to be constant. Space has that quality, and so does consciousness. There is a third aspect, and that is formula. Formula runs the universe: attraction, … Continue reading →

How Stupid Are We? It’s amazing how stupid we are. We’re imprisoned by others’ words, and we’re proud of it. Words are written for us to believe in, so much so that we consider those who don’t believe the same words … Continue reading →

We All Hear And See Differently The difference is in our personal mindset of memories – our translator. Every time we react or respond, our particular, peculiar mindset – the ‘product’ – is revealed. This mindset is activated when the … Continue reading →

We Should Never Assume That We’re Talking To Sane People People look sane until they start speaking, and then they reveal what’s in their minds.We may think, “Surely there must be more! Perhaps they talk about reality at home?” 🙂 … Continue reading →

Believing The Truth ‘Believing the truth’ is an oxymoron. Belief has been our greatest deception.Belief is the opposite to knowing. Belief obscures knowing.Belief is suggestion.Belief makes us stupid. To believe is to accept that something is true without proof. We are governed by this principle, … Continue reading →

Recognition Questions Induce RecognitionQuestions aren’t about getting the answer.Questions are about our answer along our path.Interaction creates an open atmospherefor the answer we need to know at that moment. Looking Back On StupidityI look back on life and see how stupid I was – and why. … Continue reading →

‘Path’ Means Levels Of Understanding Our path is not one idea, one identity that we carry along with us. Our path is a continuous refinement of understanding, which means constantly dropping what we thought we knew, and the type of … Continue reading →

Transmission And Receptivity No communication, no transmission, no reception,no spontaneous insight, no magic, no open mind, no blessings. An open mind clears all channels.

There Is No Dharma In The Present Moment In the present moment, there is nothing to hold on to – not even the Dharma, words, devotion …These separate us into a duality – me and something. The greatest trick evil ever … Continue reading →

Being Taken Over Capturing the mind en masse is a war we never noticed. We don’t notice that we’ve been taken over by a gradual cultural change until it is too late. When people have taken on ideas, they’ve have … Continue reading →

What People See And Don’t See Which is more amazing –what people see, or what people ignore? Magic is the art of deception. It has captivated and enthralled us for over 2,500 years. The first recorded magic act was by the magician … Continue reading →

What Is ‘Going With The Flow’? Whatever comes our way is due to our previous decisions that cause our re-actions now. It’s our programmed mindset, which is called karma in Sanskrit. Karma is showing us our judgemental re-actions which just create further … Continue reading →

What Is More Important? What is more important,our thoughts or the awareness of those thoughts? One is our original reality, while the other is our interpretation, which is either a generalisation or a fantasy.  One is the common element that unites … Continue reading →

Ideas Separate People It’s obvious that ideas separate people, but we still cling to our ideas.Why? It’s a habit, and it’s wilful – this is me, that’s you – so we appear to different, while in essence we’re not. We … Continue reading →

Existentialism Is A Misnomer Existentialism: a philosophical theory which emphasises the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. The misunderstanding here is that it makes us believe we have … Continue reading →

Blaming The Distraction There is suffering in the world, and we blame the effects but not the actual causes. Nothing just happens; problems are orchestrated by the ‘right elements’ in order to create suffering and produce a desired effect. Why? … Continue reading →

Is Enlightenment Simple, Or Out Of Reach? Enlightenment’s simple. There is nothing to it! 🙂 If we become stuck with the idea that our true reality is something out of reach, extra special, secret with complicated rituals, we will remain half-hearted about … Continue reading →

Leaving the Auditorium We live in a theatre, repeating our script every day, and making our entrances and exits. Karma sees to it that we are always on cue, our signal for reaction. All the while, we misuse the space … Continue reading →

Once We Realise The Truth Once we realise the truth, we realise what is a substitute for the truth.

The Pointing Out Instruction And The Realisation (Previous pointing out instruction at https://buddhainthemud.com/?s=the+pointing+out+instruction) The way we hear this will depend on our being mentally uncluttered, having the right intention, and being totally confused (which means we aren’t holding on to any … Continue reading →

The Satisfaction of Accuracy  We all have different levels of satisfactionbecause of different levels of accuracy. This is why one person’s satisfaction is another’s poison.That same poison, conversely, is another’s satisfaction. Negative emotions (poisons) become wisdom. The more accurate we … Continue reading →

We Grow When We Feel Uncomfortable We are sensitive creatures living inside a hard shell.Times of stress signal growth; we evolve through adversity.  If we yearn for a pleasant life,and have people only say nice things about us,we cannot grow.Ego … Continue reading →

Dealing With Vacancy In Meditation In meditation, it’s easy to fall into a state of vacancy – a not knowing, that creates sleepiness. Merely be aware of that which is aware of this state; that is our true reality. We … Continue reading →