Author Archives: tony

The Effect Of Laziness Laziness produces inertia, indifference, ignorance, not knowing – but with much talking. Laziness is created from fear of the realisation that there may be more to us, and that we must make a real effort. This is … Continue reading →

Spiritual Ineptness Ineptness: having or showing no skill; clumsy. Better than doing pujas, try empathising with and listening to those with whom we disagree. Show your compassion. Falling into spiritual materialism is falling into cultural politics to maintain an image. If we do … Continue reading →

Most Of Our Suffering Comes From Thoughts That says it all. Thoughts are memories or programming that dictates how we behave. All our hopes/likes, fears/dislikes, and ignorance/indifference comes from the mind. These three principles – also known as desire, aversion … Continue reading →

Getting To Know Our Mind Our mind is our playhouse, full of information-toys. When, in 1 Corinthians 13 it says, “see through a glass darkly”, this means to have an obscured or imperfect vision of reality. It explains that we … Continue reading →

The Myth Of Self Myth: a misrepresentation of the truth. When consciousness looks around and just sees, no self is present. There is only pure perception or pure consciousness, free of all ills. Self arises when consciousness reverts to memory to identify with … Continue reading →

Beyond Belief, Beyond Dzogchen Buddhism is not a belief system. In Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Dzogchen is a tradition of teachings to awaken pure consciousness. It is what we are – the ultimate beyond, beyond words, thoughts, or systems. Dzogchen, the great perfection … Continue reading →

Fear Of Letting Go Of The Practice We cling to ‘authentic’ names and sounds, using Sanskrit and Tibetan words to feel safe and protected. This all adds to the illusion of practice, and is very attractive and lucky-charming :-). But … Continue reading →

Are We Undermined? Undermine: to lessen effectiveness, power, or ability gradually and insidiously. We have tremendous power of full realisation into the nature of our true reality, but we are given toys (ideas) and fears (ideas) to play with instead; these occupy us … Continue reading →

The Beginning Of The End The first sign of ego-failure is seeing seeing, and this is the beginning of the end. 🙂

Surpassing Ourselves We are better than we ever expected. All our life, we have been kept in the dark about our true nature, and led to believe in limitations. Realisation is accompanied by joy and sadness. Be grateful for surpassing … Continue reading →

Simplicity Keeps Us Focused It’s the simple things in life that keep us focused: chop wood, fetch water, peel vegetables, cook and serve. The machinations in life keep us defocused and worried. The more complicated our thinking is, the further … Continue reading →

Assault On Our Minds, And On Consciousness If we don’t see it, it’s already happened. Misdirection is pumped-out daily to instruct us, dulling minds and confusing consciousness. Redefining ‘beliefs’ is the insidious art of deception. Why is this happening? Divided … Continue reading →

So, Why Didn’t I See This Before? We may wonder, “Why didn’t I see this before? It’s so clear now, so why didn’t I get it?” We have to be in the right place, at the right time, through the … Continue reading →

Aware That We Cannot Meditate That is meditation 🙂 Meditation is simply being aware – open, clear, empty consciousness. That’s what we are – but it’s possible to meditate, fall into vacancy and just drift off. Within this pure awareness/consciousness, … Continue reading →

Increase Blur To Sharpen The Picture Increase blur to sharpen the picture: this is a Photoshop trick. 😀 It also pertains to our view. We all think we’re normal, unaware of the blurred, extreme views we hold; our likes and … Continue reading →

A Teenth Of Dharma Goes A Long Way Merely acknowledging that we are dissatisfied with the world of theories is enough to set us on the path to enlightenment. Merely acknowledging that consciousness could be our fundamental reality in a … Continue reading →

‘News’ Is The Drug For The ‘News’-Addicted Left alone in a room with a newspaper, do we read it? 😀 😀 😀

Greed: Never Enough = Hungry Ghosts Greed: intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. Pretas, or ‘hungry ghosts’, are beings who are tormented by desire that can never be sated. They are often portrayed with tiny mouths and throats and the swollen bellies … Continue reading →