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The Practicality Of Negative Emotions Being Wisdom … really! Q. How is this practical? A. It brings a situation back to sound health, rather than making it worse. This question was asked: “How do we recognise the unity of negative … Continue reading →

Neither God Nor The Buddha Can Forgive Us This is not in their power. Forgiveness comes from our own realisation through grace. Grace is being pleased, thankful and grateful for realising that the past was the past, and now is … Continue reading →

Worried About Ego? If we observe something, share an experience or have a poo, none of these are ego-orientated. Ego is the fixations that govern our entire life. On meeting someone, there is an impression, a momentary view. We may … Continue reading →

In Rigpa, Nothing Sticks Rigpa, in the Tibetan Nyingma tradition, is the word for pure awareness: it is pure, empty conscious space, the very nature of mind. It’s what we are – we are pure mind essence. When we wake … Continue reading →

Old Mind, New Mind “Why do I see things differently to the way I previously saw them?” “Why isn’t anyone seeing what I’m seeing?” Carrying on from the box analogy, the stuffinsidethe box is our old ideas, traumas and collective … Continue reading →

Thinking Outside The Box Has Its Problems A moment outside the box could lead to a sense of superiority and narcissism, and we are back in the box of self gain. Outside the box is but a stepping stone to … Continue reading →

Thinking Is Only Outside The Box whereas thoughts are inside. Imagine a box full thoughts that we carry around with us; it’s our ‘workings’. Heavy, isn’t it? Thinking is whatever is relevant to us right now and comes to the … Continue reading →

We Have To Comprehend Before We Can See … … only then we can recognise. In order to come to any kind of decision about what is taking place in our mind, we need to have already comprehended the nature … Continue reading →

It’s All We Know – So We Think We live in a collective consciousness, wound up like clockwork toys. It’s all we know. We don’t actually think; we repeat. If something comes along outside our repetitious life, either it doesn’t … Continue reading →

Spirit Is Always Free It is pure emptiness itself. We are empty spirit. Concepts (karma) that enslave us are empty of any true reality. Nothing is real. Pure spirit is free in the moment of seeing. All we do is witness. … Continue reading →

We Will Never Find Reality Or Truth by thinking about reality or truth Reality – or truth – is the pure consciousness that is aware of the thinking. Pure consciousness never changes, whereas thinking does. This is not theory; it … Continue reading →

What Would Be The Final Teaching? . . Just to clarify: Sit and realise pure awareness. Exhaust all fixations on self. To clarify even further: Whether we’re listening to someone else or the thoughts in our own minds, we no … Continue reading →

We Need A Shock To Wake Up People are devolving rather than evolving. Humanity is dumbing down. That is the shock. We are all suffering and do not recognise it. If we don’t recognise suffering, then we remain in our … Continue reading →

Illuminating Darkness Can Be Depressing When we see clearly what we and others have done and are doing with our lives, it’s bit of a shock. It can also be depressing, as we realise that love is not all around … Continue reading →

Antidote: A Temporary Spiritual Medicine  An antidote is something that counteracts an unpleasant feeling, as in ‘laughter is a good antidote to stress’. But this does not get rid of the cause of the stress. Chanting, singing, praying out loud does relieve … Continue reading →

The Next Step Read “Starting From The Beginning”: the teaching is all about the beginning. We doubt, so more text was created. Remember, “Beginner mind, Zen mind.” The very recognition that we are dissatisfied is the meaning of the unity … Continue reading →

The Dragon’s Roar The reason we turn to spiritual psychology for answers is that we desirea better life than this materialistic way of living. This desire can have one of two aspects: we either desire to know more and be … Continue reading →

Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 1 Before we start a journey, we have to know where we are going, and why we’re going there. This is especially true with our spiritual journey – the journey within consciousness – … Continue reading →

Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 2 The uniqueness of Dzogchen (the Tibetan word for pure awareness/pure consciousness) is the realisation of the goal without a journey. It’s not the only system: there is a plethora of spiritual traditions … Continue reading →

Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 3 There are many spiritual paths offering vertical approaches to spirituality, where we do this and then this, and we get this – if we are lucky. The ‘lateral’ approach to spirituality is … Continue reading →

Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 4 Ordinary words convey conventional meanings, but those very same words can also have an extraordinary meaning. This extraordinary meaning cuts through the neurolinguistics we have adopted (neurolinguistics is the study of the neural mechanisms in … Continue reading →

How Do We Value Truth? Even though we may recognise and acknowledge that ultimate truth is pure consciousness, it’s sometimes difficult to appreciate something so ordinary – ordinary in the sense of not being anything, without characteristics, just clear. Being clear doesn’t … Continue reading →

Karma Is Our Undoing! Karma is our fixations about whatever we think we are. It creates our moods, where we are comfortably numb to our – and others’ – reality. Noticing this illusion cuts through all that crap. Acknowledging that … Continue reading →