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What Are You Doing To Your Mind? Or rather, what is your mind doing to you? We need to be precise about this. O The essence of mind is the emptiness of pure consciousness; this clarity of direct seeing is … Continue reading →

What if God is just the three laws of the universe?  What if God is the principle of the infinite universe, and not a being? God can be understood – or misunderstood – in many ways, either to abuse mankind … Continue reading →

The Dharma Is Do-It-Yourself We can go to teachings, do retreats, read books, but these comprise generalised statements or concepts obtained by inference, just like a video on plumbing, electrics or bricklaying. We don’t actually know until we put the idea … Continue reading →

De-escalating  The ability to de-escalate a situation requires insight and wisdom. The ability to escalate a situation involves politics, manipulation and reaction. When we exaggerate or elaborate on a situation, we are lost in fault-finding, which creates further conflict. This … Continue reading →

The Esoteric The esoteric isn’t a teaching in a book of ‘mysteries’; it is that which is reading the book. The suggestion that the mystery of life – the big secret – is something written down, is the exoteric – … Continue reading →

Evil Is Out To Get You 🙂 It’s not a problem if you know. We cannot reason with evil as it has a set script. It tries to find our weaknesses, wanting to charm us, and reel us in like … Continue reading →

Mind Is Memories Mind is just memories; it’s what we juggle with, affecting our behaviour and causing discontent and suffering. When we obsess about our past, we’re not relating to now. “So-and-so said this!” So what? “Well, the Buddha said … Continue reading →

Thinking Isn’t Knowing Thinking isn’t knowing; it’s regurgitating. When we think, we live in memories, but what is it that observes these memories? It is the spontaneous presence of consciousness, our reality of knowingness itself.

Spiritually-Wise Is Worldly-Wise ‘Spirituality’ isn’t something that has been depicted for thousands of years as being up in the sky with wings. Spirituality is simply consciousness. This is not a vague idea; it is that which is aware. We are … Continue reading →

Does Religion Over-Elaborate What Is Natural? 🙂

Consciousness, Conscience, Morals And Behaviour Our morals don’t mean we are right; they’re about what we decide is right or wrong. Morals come from the clarity of mind, which comes from the clarity of consciousness (or lack of it) that … Continue reading →

The Relief Of Not Being Special We are all taught to be ‘somebody’, to be something special, to succeed, to win, to better ourselves … to be better than others? This makes life miserable, and we suffer – as do … Continue reading →

Satisfaction Is Fleeting We can complete an action or understand something, and feel satisfied … for a moment, and then we’re back to just being aware. It’s a good place to be, as holding on to the satisfaction creates pride.

Is Buddhism The Illusion Within The Illusion? The Buddha’s teaching is a realisation of the Vedic teaching of “not two” – non-duality. Any appearance is simultaneous with perception, as in a mirror and its reflection. Take note that all appearances, … Continue reading →

Divine Splendour And Everyday Life Divine splendour doesn’t mean we have no problems; we just see them clearly. Clarity: the quality of transparency or purity. Middle English (in the sense ‘glory, divine splendour’): from Latin claritas, from clarus ‘clear’. 

It’s A Shock We are the alpha and omega – the beginning and the end. We look for the truth, and realise we are the truth, when we stop living others’ histories. Our truth is pure consciousness. Once we realise … Continue reading →

Thinking We Are Communicating We think we are communicating, but in reality, we are unable to communicate. We usually talk about a history we’ve inherited, which lacks empathy and relevance for what’s in front of us now. We long to … Continue reading →

Locked In The Mind Through Suggestion Locked in the mind through suggestion: Middle English (in the sense of ‘an incitement to evil’). Hypnosis is the power of suggestion. Although not necessarily evil, it can be used in this way, as in believing without … Continue reading →

Living In The Real World The real world is conscious awareness, rather than ideas held in the mind. Life is fruitful when we realise that we are this consciousness awareness: the reality that never changes. We’re not puppets to have … Continue reading →

Levels Of Waking Up Knowing there are bad people in the world is not waking up. Knowing there are stupid people in the world is not waking up. It’s always been this way. We are meant to see injustice and … Continue reading →

Our Minds Have Been Colonised Our minds have been taken over, and we never noticed; we surrendered at birth, because our parents told us how to think, just as they were told how to think. We assume this is normal, … Continue reading →

The Immediate Path To Liberation Ordinary psychology studies (looks at) the mind. Spiritual psychology studies (looks at) that which looks at the mind – consciousness – which is pure logic, but which ordinary psychology omits. Proof of spiritual psychology is … Continue reading →