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- MEDITATION TRANSFORMS June 21, 2026
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- BEING KIND TO OUR SELF June 19, 2026
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- WE ARE THE PURPOSE OF LIFE June 18, 2026
- EVOLVING INSTEAD OF REVOLVING June 18, 2026
- EVOLVING CAN FEEL VERY UNCOMFORTABLE June 18, 2026
- THIS BLOG SHOULD BE SECRET June 17, 2026
- FREEDOM FROM THE CYCLIC EXISTENCE June 17, 2026
- THE SHARED HALLUCINATION June 17, 2026
- WHY THE OBSESSION WITH THE PAST? June 16, 2026
- THE MUD IS JUST A DIRTY LENS June 16, 2026
- STARVING THE MONSTER June 15, 2026
- THE NOVELTY TRAP June 15, 2026
- NO LONGER SATISFYING June 14, 2026
- THE MORE WE REALISE June 13, 2026
- REALITY IS CONTENTMENT June 13, 2026
- THE DANGER OF ADOPTING STORIES June 13, 2026
- WHAT ARE WE A PRODUCT OF? June 13, 2026
- WHAT REINCARNATES? June 12, 2026
- THE HABITUAL LOOP June 11, 2026
- WHY DO PEOPLE ACCEPT LIES SO READILY? June 11, 2026
- THE PARADOX OF RITUALS AND WORDS June 11, 2026
- WHAT DO WE BASE OUR LIFE ON? June 10, 2026
- SPIRITUAL AUTONOMY June 10, 2026
- THINKING THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE June 9, 2026
- NOT TOO TIGHT AND NOT TOO LOOSE June 9, 2026
- OUR GREATEST PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT June 8, 2026
- PRIDE STOPS US EVOLVING June 8, 2026
- THE TINKERBELL EFFECT June 7, 2026
- EVIL IS ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE SUPERIOR June 7, 2026
- FOUR OPIUMS OF THE PEOPLE June 6, 2026
- THE CONSUMER BECOMES CONSUMED June 6, 2026
- ULTIMATE MATURITY June 6, 2026
- THE BUDDHA SAID, “I SEE YOU MARA” June 5, 2026
- THE TWO ASPECTS OF ‘HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT’ June 5, 2026
- SULKY SELF June 4, 2026
- THE COMPLETE PICTURE June 3, 2026
- GIVING UP GUILT June 2, 2026
- TESTING MARA AND GURU June 1, 2026
- THE BUDDHA. JESUS, SOCRATES AND OTHERS WERE REBELS June 1, 2026
- ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS REALISED BY ABSOLUTE TRUTH June 1, 2026
- FINDING WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR May 31, 2026
- WE ALL LIVE IN DIFFERENT ECHO CHAMBERS May 31, 2026
- A HARD LESSON TO LEARN May 31, 2026
- BUDDHIST FORUMS CREATE CONFLICT May 31, 2026
- ONE MIND, OR MANY MINDS? May 30, 2026
- SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISM May 30, 2026
- SPONTANEITY IS THE ONLY REALITY May 29, 2026
- REALITY IS BEYOND WORDS May 28, 2026
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THINKING AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Thinking And Consciousness Whatever and whenever we think, consciousness – pure consciousness – is already present. We merely have to recognise this, and realise the significance. It sounds so obvious when we say it, but it’s what we ignore in … Continue reading
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WHO CAN WE TRUST?
Who Can We Trust? We are all beings whose essence is enlightened, so there’s nothing special about this, but we doubt it – and that doubting makes it seem ‘special’. Some people have more experience than others in certain fields, … Continue reading
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DON’T OBSESS ABOUT MEDITATION
Don’t Obsess About Meditation Quality not quantity in meditation, even though quantity is promoted. Short moments, many times. When meditation just becomes a ritual, it’s not meditation. The real meditation is letting go, hence short moments, many times. Know why … Continue reading
IMPOSING VIEWS ON THE VIEW
Imposing Views On The View The view is pure consciousness. In imposing a view on the view, we are split. We create a duality of the view and my view. In truth, there is only the view; personal views cause … Continue reading
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THE PATH OF NOT TRYING
The Path Of Not Trying Those who want something feel that they don’t have it. There’s a lot of religion out there, with a lot of rituals and a lot of words, all extremely consuming. These all engender a feeling … Continue reading
STAYING ALIVE
Staying Alive Staying alive is staying open to all possibilities in the moment now. It’s not about carrying a load of information around, or being mindful; these are merely devices to remember to be aware. Awareness itself needs no devices. … Continue reading
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JUDGING OTHERS FROM OUR STATE OF MIND
Judging Others From Our State Of Mind Our personal mind is limited to our perception – the way we see. Whatever we think we know, others will know much more. We judge from mind memories; this merely makes us predictable … Continue reading
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BUDDHISM IS A DISCOURSE
Buddhism Is a Discourse Buddhism is a discourse – or should be. Words are a generalisation. Perfecting understanding is a one-to-one affair, either with another person, or with the words. It isn’t about hearing a talk and thinking that we … Continue reading
OBSESSION : A LAUGHING MATTER
Obsession: A Laughing Matter Obsession is holding on to any concept or emotion; it is a laughing matter because it’s justified as ‘being interested’. If we cannot laugh at ourselves, then we have a problem. Obsession is our teacher, showing … Continue reading
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EVIL TIMES
Evil Times The manipulation of viruses and minds. Interfering with nature is a crime against nature. Working with nature is the path to our natural state of enlightenment. Gross nature is body and mind. Subtle nature is consciousness. Putting viruses … Continue reading
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IF WE DO NOT PRACTISE
If We Do Not Practise If we do not sit in solitary stillness with an open mind, we will never realise the ultimate answer to all our questions. In practice, all questioning drops away, because we realise that that which … Continue reading
KNOWING WHAT’S WITHIN TEACHES US WHAT’S WITHOUT
Knowing What’s Within Teaches Us What’s Without A teacher is something or someone whose advice can dispel anxiety, alleviate worry and enlighten darkness, so giving confidence. A mind-wound or trauma from early life may still be present, but now it … Continue reading
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DIFFERING VIEWS CAUSE CONFLICT
Differing Views Cause Conflict We may differ on what we see, but we can never differ on pure awareness. People can argue about this and that quite eloquently; humans are very good at making their views believable, but we cannot … Continue reading
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FORGETTING OR IGNORING WHAT WE ARE
Forgetting Or Ignoring What We Are When we forget what we are, we neglect what we are, and fail to care properly. How many people know what they are? How many couldn’t care less? This is the sort of mind-world … Continue reading
RELIGION V SPIRITUALITY
Religion V Spirituality Religion is the form, while spirituality is the means. Although religions attempt to be spiritual, they cannot stop being hierarchical organisations where people have titles, with different ranks or positions depending on how important they are to … Continue reading
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IT’S ONE HUGE MANIPULATION
It’s One Huge Manipulation In other words, it’s one huge political agenda. An agenda is not for the benefit of others; it’s of benefit to those behind the agenda who are religious in their efforts. Manipulation involves using multiple skills … Continue reading
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OUR MINDS HAVE CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Our Minds Have Changed Ownership Our mind changes ownership when it believes something, and becomes an acquisition no longer able to tell the truth – mundane ‘political’ facts perhaps, but not truth. We may think we own our mind, but … Continue reading
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NO MUD, NO BUDDHA
No Mud, No Buddha No mud, no Buddha. Know mud, know Buddha. The mud is the illusory concepts of mind which is realised as Buddha nature, our enlightened reality. Seeing the mud, and realising that the mud never existed is … Continue reading
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LONG-TERM SUBLIMINAL REACTIONS
Long-Term Subliminal Reactions It’s amazing how many non-theistic people say, “Jesus!” or “Oh my God!” when something suddenly happens. What gets in, stays in, unless we are aware of it 🙂
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THE NONSENSE IN OUR MIND
The Nonsense In Our Mind Where did it come from? To deal with the nonsense in our mind, we first have to recognise it, and how it got there. What is nonsense? Irrelevant information about culture, society and politics which creates the … Continue reading
‘I’ IS A FICTION, AND A MISDIRECTION
‘I’ Is A Fiction, And A Misdirection There is a trap in the English language which we all fall into that reinforces the idea of self. That word is ‘I’, which comes from the Latin word, ‘ego’. In consciousness-awareness terms, … Continue reading
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WHAT IF ENLIGHTENMENT IS NOT AS IT IS PORTRAYED?
What If Enlightenment Is Not As It Is Portrayed? Humans are extremely clever, and extremely stupid; both states are distractions. What if enlightenment is merely understanding, experiencing and realising the fundamental reality of our natural being, of just being aware … Continue reading
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WE DON’T WANT TO BE TAKEN IN
We Don’t Want To Be Taken In All beings are perfect in essence but, through ignorance of this reality, we became embodied in a form, being taken in by the measure of our uncontrolled fixations and emotions. We can see … Continue reading
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WHAT IS PRACTICE?
What Is Practice? Practice is training in remembering that, before we are human, we are non-dual consciousness, and aware of illusions. When we train like this, we become practitioners who learn from life’s experiences of the unity of opposites. When … Continue reading
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE STUPIDITY
Never Underestimate Stupidity Never underestimate how much stupidity there is in the world. Enlightened beings are walking around everywhere, but don’t know it. When evidence beyond ‘normal’ thinking is provided, stupidity asserts itself because of a stagnant view in a … Continue reading
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SYMBOLS ARE ONLY A REPRESENTATION
Symbols Are Only A Representation Symbols are only a representation and not the real thing. It’s a trap we all fall into. Symbols are ‘brand awareness’, when the brain lights up before consciousness is aware of it. Symbols are therefore … Continue reading
WE KNOW MORE THAN WE THINK
We Know More Than We Think Whatever we think is not the truth, and that is the conundrum we live in. It is our limited thinking that inhibits us from knowing everything that we need to know. Knowing everything? When … Continue reading
AWARE OF BEING AWARENESS
Aware Of Being Awareness Being aware of being awareness is a subtle state of being. The subtlest state is realising we are pure awareness. Awareness has no name; it is individual consciousness. Calling this something creates an identity, a group … Continue reading
WE DIS+COVER WHAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE
We Dis+cover What Has Always Been There The enlightened essence of all sentient beings merely needs re+cognition. We dis+cover what has always been there. Racing around like hungry ghosts, looking for where it’s at, we are where it’s at already. … Continue reading
MEDITATION IS JUST BEING AWARE OF AWARENESS
Meditation Is Just Being Aware of Awareness When more people meditate, the world will change for the better. At the moment, people are all about ‘me-and-what-I-know’. This limits understanding of an infinite reality. Just being aware can be at any … Continue reading
THE POINTLESSNESS OF PROTEST
The Pointlessness Of Protest Protest merely maintains the existing structure. When we protest, we activate, and promote division: “We can’t let them win!”? Either way, ‘they’ win, by the maintenance of the status quo, which refers to the current state of social structure or values. This policy … Continue reading
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DEMOCRACY IS AN ILLUSION
Democracy Is An Illusion Democracy is an illusion. As all opposites are a unity – you can’t have one without the other – so is government. The two main parties are two sides of the same coin, and other parties … Continue reading
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BECOMING DEPENDENT
Becoming Dependent Everything is up for interpretation, depending on our perception; perception depends on our experiences, and experiences depend on our environment which, in turn, depends on the collective thinking. What we digest, we become. It takes close investigation to … Continue reading
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ADDICTION TO INFORMATION
Addiction To Information Evil is that which obscures our reality and, by doing so, causes harm. This happens through being addicted to enthralling information, arousing insatiable curiosity. All information creates a formation in the mind. It’s a form of hypnosis, … Continue reading
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NO OFF SWITCH
No Off Switch Most people cannot turn their self off. If we cannot switch off, we find no peace. When, in meditation, we do switch off, we come to stillness. The silent awareness of consciousness. Short moments many times.
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GET THE EXPERIENCE, THEN YOU KNOW
Get The Experience, Then You Know I do go on about this, but we do not get experience from scriptures. The absolute truth is beyond conceptualisation. This is why a simple person can get it, while a scholar discusses all … Continue reading
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PRE-BUNKING IS MIND CONTROL
Pre-Bunking is Mind Control Pre-bunking is the opposite to de-bunking. Pre-bunking is priming people before an event. If you want to see mind control in action, this is it. Our ‘controllers’ say that pre-bunking is to prevent their information from … Continue reading
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OUR ENVIRONMENT
Our Environment People react to the environment – that which surrounds us. The mind is our first environment. If our environment is contaminated with concepts which obscure our direct awareness, this affects our entire life. When obscurations create stress, it … Continue reading
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BOOK LEARNING – NEWS LEARNING
Book Learning – News Learning Book learning: knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience. The result of reading too many books and commentaries is confusion and doubt. Been there, done that. We are reading … Continue reading
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HOW DID IT ALL START?
How Did It All Start? It didn’t. The universe is infinite, so there is no beginning. If we try to speculate on this, we will never, ever understand reality. Infinity is something we just have to accept; there is no … Continue reading
DOES DEATH MATTER?
Does Death Matter? It will happen anyway. What we think happens at death will have an affect on how we live. Death will happen anyway, so why not consider all possibilities about what may occur then? If we do not … Continue reading
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FROM INFORMATION TO A FIRM FOUNDATION
From Information To A Firm Foundation Information is something we receive, but have not experienced as we are still looking for the conclusion of this information. The result is little or no empathetic understanding, as we haven’t had the experience … Continue reading
DRAWING ACCURATELY AS MEDITATION
Drawing Accurately As Meditation This isn’t about drawing well. It’s about observing one’s inaccuracies. If we want to do ‘art’, then we can be good enough but here, we are drawing exactly what we see. This the same when studying … Continue reading
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GIVING UP THE PAST
Giving Up The Past Giving up the past is giving up attachments, giving up karma. First, we have to become aware of the effect that the past has on us now. Are we stubborn? There are many things that we … Continue reading
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BRINGING PROBLEMS TO LIGHT
Bringing Problems To Light Meditation is the light of awareness, of seeing clearly without distractions. We can do this in a moment. When we dwell in beliefs and assumptions, we dwell in the dark, and that is the problem. We … Continue reading
THE SOCIAL ENGINEERS AND THE SPIRITUAL ENGINEERS
The Social Engineers And The Spiritual Engineers Humanity has been manipulated by gradual social engineering for millennia, through politics, science and religion, resulting in irrational beliefs. These memes that we mimic affect social behaviour in order to steer it in oscillating directions. … Continue reading
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KARMA AND MERIT
Karma And Merit The way the word ‘merit’ is used can sound like a reward– a carrot held in front of a donkey. The Dharma is a complete personal uncovering of what we are, which is ever-present.Any elaboration of pure … Continue reading
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WE HAVE ALL WE NEED TO KNOW
We Have All We Need To Know We have all we need to know.If we feel that we don’t know but want to know,the result is eternal neediness. Being needy, we doubt and become dependent on others, not realising we … Continue reading