Author Archives: tony

Having A Good View Having a good view is having a clear view, with no obstructions, no mental commentary, no taking sides of likes and dislikes. We may have a preference, but we’re never obsessed because we recognise our reactions … Continue reading →

Too Much Information Information isn’t knowledge. Information is belief. Knowledge is experience. Too much information cuts our capacity and our ability to digest properly. When we intellectualise, we lose the simple joy and reality of life. All the information we … Continue reading →

Nothing Will Make Us Happy There are, of course, two ways of looking at this statement. We are either never satisfied, always looking for something better, or we realise that the emptiness of phenomena and self are totally satisfying. How … Continue reading →

If We Want To Be Special, We Lose In the cult of celebrity, we trust in an inner circle to feel special, rather than relying on ordinary, direct experience. When we defer our reality to others, we lose. Lost in … Continue reading →

Humans Are Natural Addicts We can all be enthusiastic devotees. Evil and Goodness both know this. Can Evil and Goodness both be addictive? Addiction is an intense urge to engage in behaviour providing immediate sensory rewards. This is obvious when considering evil, but what of goodness? They are the same; we … Continue reading →

The Words Or The Meaning? What is more important, the journey (words) or arriving (the meaning)? Or the meaning of the meaning? Once we experience and realise the meaning, the result is empathetic compassion. That is when we know the … Continue reading →

The Sad Truth The truth is that which is constant, like a straight line. It is the direct perception of consciousness, without contaminating presumptions.We are this pure consciousness and, as such, nothing special. Our problem is that we want to … Continue reading →

The Cheese In The Trap Following a ‘name’ rather than practising the meaning of the teaching, we fall into the trap of addiction. Escaping the trap: through empathy, we know the traps we all fall into. This is in no … Continue reading →

There Is Nothing For A Creator To Do If the universe is infinite, why would there be a creator? The infinite universe is home for infinite conscious beings, commensurate with their karmic tendencies. This consciousness is pure, and needs no … Continue reading →

Long Term Or Short Term Values Is our personal evolution a long term or short term aim? Life is short, so some conclusion or realisation must be resolved about the value of life, sooner rather than later. Conclusion: decision reached … Continue reading →

We Are Primordial Purity To most, this sounds daft. That’s because of the world we live in! When we realise we are pure consciousness – the potential of enlightenment – our world changes. We no longer fit into the common … Continue reading →

Thoughts Arising In Meditation All thoughts are related to the past (memories): even if they are considering the future, they still relate to the past. So when a thought appears, just say inwardly, “Past” and let it go, just as … Continue reading →

The More We Communicate, The Better The World To communicate is to know what we have in common. When we only spout the facts we have learnt, this isn’t communication – it’s repetitive, and can be a form of aggression, … Continue reading →

Isolated From Reality The contents of the mind is our barrier to pure perception, as the mind identifies and translates almost immediately, not noticing that a moment of pure perception has taken place, and that pure consciousness is present. Ignorance of … Continue reading →