Author Archives: tony

Mara’s Very Presence Is Its Demise The ultimate checkmate. Most of us only want to read or hear nice Dharma, uplifting Dharma. That, in itself, is a delusion.We have to know what it is that is obscuring the pure consciousness … Continue reading →

Ego Is The Devil Incarnated Ego is consciousness clinging and fixating on ideas. If the devil represents separation, pride, fear and conflict, then the human ego fits that description perfectly. When looked at through non-dual view, the ego functions exactly … Continue reading →

Trapped In Ego Is Living In Hell Being trapped in ego is a state of psychological confinement; we are completely at the mercy of our mind. When we (consciousness) are trapped in the ego, we’re in Hell. Hell isn’t a … Continue reading →

Invert The pyramid Understanding our world is vital to regaining sanity. If we want to know what’s going on at the top of the pyramid, we only have to look at the bottom – what people say and what they … Continue reading →

Academic, Philosophical And Linguistic Distractions We all want to appear clever.Mara works at a very subtle level. We are supposed to be wise beings (homo sapiens), but we’ve become homo callidus (clever beings), homo ingeniosus (gifted, or ingenious) or homo … Continue reading →

Led To Believe We’re Not Enlightened Enlightenment is realising our true reality.How sustained that is is up to each individual. We are enlightened, but believe that we aren’t.Through distraction, we fall into the illusion of not knowing. The who believes … Continue reading →

Our Confusion Is Based On Labels When consciousness identifies with something, it gives it a label, and forms an attachment. We are claiming a specific understanding, meaning, or ownership of the way that thing is perceived. This collection of ideas … Continue reading →

Valuing Emptiness – Pure Knowingness Emptiness means uncontaminated mind, pure awareness, pure consciousness, pure knowingness. It is the clarity of silent witnessing that perceives through this body and mind; pure perception from behind the scenes. This empty cognisance is ever-present, … Continue reading →

Nothing Is New Humanity has fallen for trickery for generations; it’s not something new. History proves that media manipulation is as old as print itself. While the technology changes, the psychological traps used to exploit human curiosity and outrage have … Continue reading →

Our Thoughts Are Not Our Own Thoughts are words, and words are inherited, therefore thoughts are inherited and that limits our experience. We talk about things we are programmed to talk about, so nothing changes. We actually boast trivia. Have … Continue reading →

Finding The Right Words It’s difficult to find the right words in the right order to convey experience. One could say to be aware of awareness, but it’s subtler than that; being aware of awareness still sounds like doing something. … Continue reading →

Observer And Observation Pure observation is objective.An observer is subjective as it can be perceived. The moment an observation passes through our mind, it’s filtered through our personal history and cognitive biases. Pure observation is the what, without judgement, narrative, … Continue reading →

Not Coping, While Pretending To Cope The problem with relying on AI and ‘spiritual teachings’ is that we live a cut-and-paste life, and stop feeling our way directly in a situation. AI and texts become our go-to place, instead of … Continue reading →

We Are Inherently Divine We are inherently divine – we just need a nudge in the right direction. The ‘just a nudge’ part is important, to understand the nub, the central point that holds everything together. Instead, we seek full-blown … Continue reading →

Nothing Can Be Resolved With Others It feels frustrating, but we recognise others’ boundaries. Keeping our door open represents a mature balance between boundaries and constant availability. We recognise a person’s current inability to open up, but we don’t let … Continue reading →

What Is Devotion? Devotion is certainly not worshipping a person or a deity. This is where we become confused about deity practice, Vajrayana, Guru yoga. There are no mysterious transmissions. Such claims are unsound logic that seem convincing, but are … Continue reading →

Reverse Engineering Our Self That which we think of as ‘our self ‘ is an over-excited mind which excites consciousness. We think we are this mind, but that is actually the reverse of our reality. This is all observed by … Continue reading →

Suddenly, It Hits You There is no tomorrow.When we’re in tomorrow, it’s today.Life is only now. Of course, it’s been said before,but suddenly we realise it. Enlightened awareness is like that. If we think enlightenment is in the future, then … Continue reading →

The Antidote For A Poisoned Mind A poisoned mind is one fed information, suggestion, belief, hearsay, which creates emotions and reactions, turning a natural, open mind into an infected state. The antidote for a poisoned mind is taking everything that … Continue reading →

Imprisoned By Language The paradox of lectures on pure perceptionis that pure perception is without words.

Enlightenment Is Not Up There Compliance doesn’t come from a lack of access to information, but rather from information overload designed to capture our attention and influence behaviour. Unless we train our mind to clear the clutter, we will be … Continue reading →

Living In Complete Understanding Living in complete understandingis opposed to living in incomplete understanding. We are non-material consciousness embodied in a human form, and driven by our karmically created conceptual mind. If we ignore this truth and think we’re only … Continue reading →

The Choice To Opt Out We’re all part of the foolish game of following followers. Using huge surveillance systems to monitor our foolishness is even more foolish than the foolishness they’re tracking 🙂 as all we hear people talking about … Continue reading →

We Become Labelling Machines Our modern environment traps us in artificial loops of language and concepts rather than direct, lived experience. We become stuck in word play rather than resting in pure observation, as our brain instantly attaches labels to … Continue reading →