Author Archives: tony

Treating The Symptoms And Not The Cause If we use ‘treats’ as a treatment to make us feel better, rather than dealing with the cause of the symptom and thereby bring an end it, we will merely go round in … Continue reading →

The Four Compassionate Activities (also known as the four enlightened activities) PACIFYING, ENRICHING, MAGNETISING AND DESTROYING EGO. Pacifying: There are no problems. There is nothing for ego to fight against, which brings inner peace to ego. Enriching: Brings the light … Continue reading →

Realisation Is Hopeless! 🙂

The Show Goes On The word ‘entertainment’ originally meant ‘to maintain’; to maintain our attention. Entertainment has a long term effect on our memories and so, on consciousness, replaying in our mind and captivating us ever after. In this way, … Continue reading →

We Don’t Have To Obsess About Dzogchen I did … We seek the truth because we aren’t satisfied with the world in which we live, so we join an organisation or become attached to set of ideas. Groups use different … Continue reading →

We First Acknowledge Our Dark Side What is our dark side? It is consciousness clinging to an acquired, imagined image of a ‘me’ – and that is the cause of all our troubles. “No, no, my troubles are caused by … Continue reading →

The Effect Of Feeling Unworthy And Inadequate The effect of feeling unworthy and inadequate is that we become half hearted and disconnected, and may even give up. Many religious and spiritual set-ups are so theatrical in their appearance that students … Continue reading →

Why Are We Are So Busy? It is not difficult to reason that we have consciousness, and to reason that consciousness has to be pure consciousness in order for us to see perfectly clearly. This consciousness is, in fact, our … Continue reading →

Wanting To Be On Top Of The Pile “The pile of what?” – Sadhguru “If we want to be better than others, then we want them to be worse.” – Sadhguru “What is the most sophisticated machine on the planet? … Continue reading →

There Is No Need To Be Confused Ever Again! There is no need to be confused ever again! There are merely different names for the same non-thing. Our interpretation of how we think others think may be biased: there is … Continue reading →

If We Just Do What Is Needed If we just do what is needed rather than what we like, our problems would diminish and contentment increase. Our likes and dislikes are products of our past. Assessment of what is needed … Continue reading →

Truth: Simple To Acknowledge, Easy To Forget That which perceives through the senses is consciousness. That which perceives consciousness is consciousness itself. Finding nothing but consciousness, it is realised as being empty of other. It is pure consciousness. That is … Continue reading →

Confusion = Perfect Maths = Realisation Confusion is beautiful: the geometry of mathematical properties and relations. An ice crystal is a unique, geometric design, but if we ignore this icy condition, we will slip in a certain way and break … Continue reading →

First The Inspiration, And Then The Reality When we first seek teachings on truth, we hear positive language to inspire us, offering things we like to hear and associate with. But then, there comes a moment when we realise that … Continue reading →

What Matters Is What We Are, Not What We Know Once we know what we are, then what we know matters. Once, we had bits of information that we believed in. Now, we have bytes of information that we believe … Continue reading →

Teachers Should Be Devoted To Their Students Teachers should be devoted to their students, rather than expecting students to be devoted to them. Teach by example.

Do We Know And Have Enough? If we know we have enough, we are rich. If we think we don’t have enough, we are poor. This applies to both the material world and spirituality. When we know we are pure … Continue reading →

How Do Demons Think? How do demons think? You know. And you know you know 🙂 Demons aren’t something over there; they’re right here. Demons are our own desire, anger, fear, jealousy, pride. Our demons are created the moment when … Continue reading →

Dear Oh Dear, Don’t They Make It Complicated? Complication can hide the simple truth that we are pure consciousness; the truth that we seek. It is from that, that everything flows. There is nothing in inner peace but inner peace.

From Absurdities To Atrocities To Realisation It is truly amazing that we can all see things differently while ‘clear seeing’ itself remains the same. We are all the same Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, original consciousness of purity. Ignoring this pure … Continue reading →

Where Do Our Thoughts Come From? Or rather, where does our programming come from? When we perceive anything, this perception takes place in the mind, and we end up with a reservoir of information, causing the brain to wire in … Continue reading →

Ultimate Nostalgia Nostalgic for what? We all have this longing to be in the right place. But what is this right place? If we look, we will realise that the right place is in that recognition. The right place is not about a place … Continue reading →

How We Sentence Ourselves Whatever views, thoughts, concepts, opinions and fixations we hold on to at this moment will be the basis of our next moment and, for most of us, our entire lives, unfortunately. Holding on to thoughts that … Continue reading →

Seeing, and Then I See Seeing, and then I see. Perception, and then I perceive. There is an extremely subtle difference here. When consciousness does not realise its own nature of purity and instead perceives something, consciousness starts to narrate about whatever … Continue reading →

Tea, Not The Tea Cup “When we want tea, we aren’t bothered about the cup it comes in. Likewise, the Dharma we want is the teaching on the nature of reality: the culture it comes with does not matter. We … Continue reading →

OM MANI PEME HUM is a Mnemonic Mnemonics are an aid to memory The mantra, OM MANI PEME HUM, represents compassion within wisdom. This compassionate wisdom is directed towards what is happening in our own minds, and the minds of others. … Continue reading →

How Everything is Perfect How is everything perfect, when the people are ignoring reality? If we do not sharpen our tool, the cut will not be clean. We know that a blunt tool will produce a ragged edge: this is … Continue reading →

Can’t Meditate? Simply rest in whatever takes place in the mind, in whatever happens. In the very moment of recognition of being aware lies the moment of empty cognisance, pure awareness, Rigpa. Just note and realise that is one’s true … Continue reading →

How Do We Experience Our True Nature? The reason that we do not experience our true nature is that there is so much going on our minds to distract us. Whatever we see, we immediately judge by relating to memory … Continue reading →

Upgrading Our Teacher To teach means to point out, to show: “Look! See!” But it is wewho have to look and see. And what we are seeing is that we are this seeing. The teacher can only show us generalised … Continue reading →

The Perception Trap It is through perception that we navigate the world, but it’s also easy to forget who is navigating! In the very first instant of perception, perception is non-conceptual. There is just seeing, hearing etc, so that we … Continue reading →

We Reincarnate At Every Moment As sentient beings, we become addicted to a programme that we have created and which we relive again and again, unconscious of our true potential. It is the practice of awakening to consciousness that leads … Continue reading →

The Gap Between Thoughts This is where we will find and realise emptiness – pure consciousness, the natural state of rest free of mental turbulence or dullness. We normally oscillate between thoughts and this gap of emptiness, but miss this … Continue reading →

“I Am Nothing Without My Opinions” It is our opinions and concepts that create the fixations with which we identify as a self. Because of these ideas to which we cling, we limit our true potential. “But, I need to … Continue reading →

If You Don’t Find What You’re Looking For … 😀 … just make a suggestion in the comments section and we can see what manifests. Or go privately to buddhainthemud@hotmail.com Of course, you know the answer will be, “You are … Continue reading →

Nothing Else When we hear about enlightenment/pure consciousness, we are being enlightened about our true nature. We are being made aware of the potential of our true nature. The next stage is to practise without distraction to become aware of … Continue reading →