Author Archives: tony

Don’t Join Buddhism! If we merely join something because of someone we know, we have to know what we are doing and why. It’s the reason that I started a blog. Understand the teaching of the Buddha – any Buddha. … Continue reading →

The me Behind Me Behind what we think we are is the essence of pure consciousness. We may think that thoughts are immediate, but it stands to reason that, before a thought can arise, there must be an awareness already … Continue reading →

Pride Comes Before A Fall If we’re conceited or self-important, something will happen to make us look foolish, and we realise that we are not as special as we think we are. Whatever we think we know, that in itself reveals partial understanding. We … Continue reading →

Two Systems: Two Prisons One totalitarian, and the other, living the dream. Living the dream? Whose dream? These states are both prisons. We may think we have freedom, and are awake. That is the illusion; we are living by others’ … Continue reading →

Got A Spiritual Problem? Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters? You can’t talk to your teacher, or to other students. Why not? They will merely give you doctrine from that tradition, and their background, but they won’t know your background … Continue reading →

Wanting Proof The proof of truth is a precarious objective these days. It all depends on how we personally read information. Do we work through belief or intuitive experience? I have never met anyone who proves pure consciousness to me … Continue reading →

How Much Mud Can We Take? It seems we can hold on to quite a lot of sticky matter. Everything we touch becomes contaminated. The mud is ideas that hold our persona, and is the reason why we keep returning … Continue reading →

There Is So Much Distraction In The World The fact that there is so much distraction in the world is the very reason to simplify life. You are not missing out on all the fun, the politics, the news, the … Continue reading →

How Much Truth Is There Left In The World? We are constantly being told how to think and how to obey. People are being ‘cancelled’ for what they think, and we’re all being forced into narrow parameters with the use … Continue reading →

Why Are So Many People Reactive? Actually, most of us are reactive precisely because we are unenlightened. We just function at a certain level and stop there; All sentient beings have Buddha nature, which means their essence is enlightened – totally free … Continue reading →

The Ultimate Truth Cannot Be Assimilated From A Book The ultimate truth cannot be assimilated from a book; the authors had to go through much discipline, as we must. Breaking out of the illusion of ideas that we are just … Continue reading →

Beyond Experience Is Truth Truth is beyond experience. Truth is what experiences. Truth is the seer. The seer is pure consciousness. Pure consciousness cannot see itself; it can only be realised through its reflection. Something appears in the mind, and … Continue reading →

Don’t Fight For What You Believe Don’t fight for what you believe, as it only causes division. Belief is accepting something as true without evidence. Reading something and saying it’s truth or not is only belief. Therefore belief has no … Continue reading →

Learning To Live With Crap: The Residue Of Ignorance We are definitely not going to change the people who indulge in beliefs of some sort. Every time someone talks, those beliefs reveal themselves … “Oh, I just heard on the … Continue reading →

Where Do We Get Our Information From? “If you don’t read a newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” – Mark Twain We have to read between the lines; in looking for or discovering … Continue reading →

Do Buddhists Get Offended? Do Buddhists get offended? Er … yes. Buddhists are people too. 🙂 Why would anyone be called a “precious one”? Because someone said they were? Don’t be offended at this question. To question is to want … Continue reading →

The World Used To Be Crazy … The world used to be crazy… now, it’s scary. In the past, mass behaviours were slow to develop, but nowadays, the process of mimicking others is changing fast, and causing great confusion. As … Continue reading →

The Truth Cannot Be Hidden Forever Truth cannot be hidden forever because truth is the consciousness that is always watching. When people realise that they are the truth, the way and the light, no one can ever pull the wool over … Continue reading →

Why Make What Is Natural Complicated? We are pure consciousness. Why make something so natural and beautiful into something so complicated and elitist? Even through reasoning (a rare event), we can realise that we are pure consciousness. That’s if we … Continue reading →

Formula; The Unchanging Nature Of Nature I’ve written before about the three unchangeables: space, consciousness and formula. Formula: from Latin, diminutive of forma ‘shape, mould’. Formula is how everything takes shape. It is the nature of everything. We may think of nature as … Continue reading →

Jumping To Conclusions The problem with jumping to conclusions about pure consciousness is that we can come to an intellectual belief that we are pure consciousness, but is it experienced? The assumption is a good start, but then it is … Continue reading →

We Are Incomplete Without Meditation In the ‘normal’ run of life we panic, and exhaust ourselves, falling into vacancy. Simple meditation is sitting in silence, witnessing the distraction (panic). Gradually, we calm down, and relax by letting go of exhausting … Continue reading →

Awakening To Our Enmeshment We don’t realise how deeply enmeshed we are in concepts – even righteous ones – where we feel morally right or justified. This what we are seeking liberation from. Our relative reality (the way we relate to … Continue reading →

Fear Stops Us Being Honest Fear stops us being honest about how we really feel. This is why we cannot communicate with one another; we talk, but it doesn’t go very far as we skirt around issues. Perhaps in the … Continue reading →

The Ability To Understand The ability to understand doesn’t come from mantras or scholastic study; both of these merely focus the mind with intention. Understanding comes from realising that that which rests within silent awareness is our reality – that … Continue reading →

Who Or What Do You Believe? This is the most important – and also idiotic – question possible. It’s tantamount to saying, “Who or what do you accept without proof?” Your life depends on the answer, and ignoring the question … Continue reading →

The Real Teaching Is Within The real teaching is within, and never ‘out there’. Out there is only second-hand generalisation, organisation, institutionalisation … with lots of long-winded words 🙂 The teaching within has no words.

Is It True Or Not? Just reading something and identifying with it won’t do. We have to reflect and contemplate with an unbiased eye. That, in fact, is the answer we seek. It’s not wrong to question a statement. This … Continue reading →

Dream State v Awakened State When we merely repeat what we have heard or read, we live in our mind’s dream state. In the raw (uncooked) moment now, we wake up and wonder, “What is this?” = awakening possibilities.