Author Archives: tony

The Boatman Think of this difficult-to-attain body as a boat, offering the means to escape from the ocean of Saṃsāra (suffering). Standing in the boat of the human body, we cross the flood of misery through skilful awareness. If we … Continue reading →

The Reason To Wake Up When we recognise a habitual pattern, we recognise a routine, a predictive programme within our selves and the world. Every time an idea is created by a small group, it’s a precursor to consequences and … Continue reading →

Keeping Up All Lines Of Investigation This mean not taking one side or another, but seeing the effect. Taking sides incapacitates people from seeing clearly. It delays keeping up all lines of investigation because we’ve already adopted a bias. This … Continue reading →

Facing Away From The Truth Looking for verification to establish the truth – the validity of our essence and reality – we have to turn our view 180 degrees. That which is looking for the truth … is the truth! … Continue reading →

A Lack Of Understanding = Inability To Care To care, we must first understand. For understanding, we need to see clearly. Seeing clearly is where goodness or moral compass comes from. Seeing clearly is the presence of pure consciousness. It’s … Continue reading →

Where Do We Go To Find Ultimate Truth? Where do we go to find ultimate truth? When we get there, how do we know it’s true? The decorations? The poetic words? The term ‘ultimate truth’ is a misnomer; it is … Continue reading →

Keeping Up With Corruption? The word ‘corruption’ means to destroy. Destroy what? Destroy all traces of consciousness in society. Do people discuss this much? This is how we are corrupted – by thinking we know. The path to enlightenment is … Continue reading →

We All Like A Good Story We all like a good story, and better still, a good ending. The Heart Sutra’s … “Gone beyond” (letting go) … and Shakespeare’s “All the world’s a stage” – “Sans everything” – and Puck’s … Continue reading →

Where Buddhists Go Wrong We forget we are just people. This happens in all religions. We may talk about compassion for ‘poor’ people, and get together to raise money for a guru’s charity, but all this seems to do is … Continue reading →

Honest Communication Makes A Better Life Honest communication makes a better life … and a better world. Honesty comes from contemplation beyond likes and dislikes. Our reluctance to communicate comes from fear. We adopt a comfort zone, either because of … Continue reading →

Mara Fools Us Every Day Mara fools us every day. How and why? In Buddhism, Mara is associated with the vicious cycle of existence of desire, aversion and ignorance. It causes turmoil, confusion and suffering, being the personification of obstacles to … Continue reading →

The Dark Side Of Dzogchen The dark side of Dzogchen? Thinking that it’s something special 🙂 Our true reality is Dzogchen. It’s just a word. Know what it means = pure consciousness. It’s what we are. The dark side of … Continue reading →

Learn Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan … Really? Why? To suggest that learning Sanskrit, Pali or Tibetan will get us closer to our reality is not only idiotic, it is a misdirection. Absolute truth did not start anywhere. It just is. In … Continue reading →

Chains Of Belief For generations, we have been led to believe something or other, and this is the chain that we carry around. The hallmark of belief is refusing to admit that a belief is just a belief; it’s something … Continue reading →

Evil = Misunderstanding Dharma Dharma is the principle of the universe: attraction (desire), repulsion (aversion) and inertia (indifference). Evil knows this law, and uses it to ambush minds that are easily trapped by likes, dislikes and indifference. Evil feeds off … Continue reading →

Knowing That We Don’t Know Is The Reality We Seek Knowing that we don’t know is the reality we seek. WHAT!? If, in life, we try to do good and do no harm, we are training the mind. 1 Do … Continue reading →

Meditation: Spiritual Psychology Meditation: seeing how our mind works, and dropping all attachment. In dropping all attachment, we see clearly. We can do this any time, any where.

The Dharma Should Go To Our Heart, Not Our Head 😀 When we say ‘head’, we mean mind. When we say ‘heart’, we mean consciousness. Once our heart is in the right place, our mind follows. Realisation and conduct go … Continue reading →

The Moral Compass of Compassion Our caring is either biased or unbiased. We may say that we care, but at what level? Do we care about the things we like, and not care about the things we don’t like? Do … Continue reading →

We Belong To The Devil Every time we give in to desire, aversion or indifference, we enable the devil’s work. The moment we realise this, we are released – kicked out, in case we contaminate the others. 😀

Dharma Is Impossible To Discuss 🙂 Our path is realising our individual confusion about self that never existed. Discussion about the Dharma isn’t Dharma. Real Dharma (pure consciousness) is that which experiences whatever is experienced, and leaves it alone. 🙂 … Continue reading →

Positivity Is Mental Resilience Negativity is an inability to adapt. In this age of being bombarded with negativity, we need resilience to see through the justifications How do we become resilient? Train the mind to stop reacting. This is done … Continue reading →

The Inability To Understand Knowing ‘about’ a subject doesn’t mean we understand it. We just have an attitude towards it, such as like, dislike or dismiss. We can only understand something when we engage with it wholeheartedly. Like a spiritual … Continue reading →

Paranoia – Irregular Mind Paranoia: Greek, from paranoos ‘distracted’, from para ‘irregular’ + noos ‘mind’. A mental condition characterised by exaggerated self-importance, or a serious condition in which the person loses touch with reality.  Narcissism: selfishness, a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration. Failure to distinguish the self from external objects. If you no longer need a boost of … Continue reading →

We Are All A Type We fall into categories of ability, behaviour and gullibility. Certain types identify with certain jobs influencing certain other types by having particular shared characteristics, which helps to promote selective information. Different conveyor belts form a … Continue reading →

Realisation Is About Awakening, Right Now Whether we reincarnate or not, we are not awakening to some future event. Realisation is about our sanity – right here, right now. Sanity: no longer living under others’ delusional illusions. When we awaken … Continue reading →

Our Reality Isn’t Buried Under Layers of Illusion Our reality isn’t buried under layers of illusion: it’s right here, right now. The illusion in which we live has to constantly distract us precisely because our reality is right here, right … Continue reading →