Author Archives: tony

Aware That We Cannot Meditate That is meditation 🙂 Meditation is simply being aware – open, clear, empty consciousness. That’s what we are – but it’s possible to meditate, fall into vacancy and just drift off. Within this pure awareness/consciousness, … Continue reading →

Increase Blur To Sharpen The Picture Increase blur to sharpen the picture: this is a Photoshop trick. 😀 It also pertains to our view. We all think we’re normal, unaware of the blurred, extreme views we hold; our likes and … Continue reading →

A Teenth Of Dharma Goes A Long Way Merely acknowledging that we are dissatisfied with the world of theories is enough to set us on the path to enlightenment. Merely acknowledging that consciousness could be our fundamental reality in a … Continue reading →

‘News’ Is The Drug For The ‘News’-Addicted Left alone in a room with a newspaper, do we read it? 😀 😀 😀

Greed: Never Enough = Hungry Ghosts Greed: intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. Pretas, or ‘hungry ghosts’, are beings who are tormented by desire that can never be sated. They are often portrayed with tiny mouths and throats and the swollen bellies … Continue reading →

Consciousness Matters Where would we be without consciousness? We wouldn’t be anywhere. We are consciousness. In looking for consciousness, we won’t find anything. Why? Because it is consciousness that is looking. In silent stillness, this is obvious. We’re usually unaware … Continue reading →

Let’s Start At The Beginning Why are we here?Why are we here, in this body, on this Earth, reading this page? This blog is coming to the end of its tenth year, so why not start again? But before we … Continue reading →

Confusion, And Then Doubt, And Then Anger It’s not all our fault. 😀 We live in a culture of compromise, within an organisation. Organisations become institutions, and participants become institutionalised and dependent. Most are the silent majority who fit into … Continue reading →

Being Modified We are constantly modified by mind-games.It is only in silent stillness that we are released. The more we refine,the more we return to our natural reality.

Sleepwalking In The Mind Sleepwalking: engaging in an activity without interest, enthusiasm, or awareness of the possible consequences. We often do and say things mechanically, just going through the motions, and merely achieving more of the same. This could be synonymous with vertical thinking: “Vertical thinking … Continue reading →

Karmic Residue Residue: something that remains which we thought we’d left behind. We engage with others, which will have an effect and a consequence – a residue. This residue can become a demon, waiting in ambush to be re-activated. If we hold on to … Continue reading →

The Art And Craft Of Dharma Craft is discipline, study and meditation.Art is skilful empathy in all situations.

We Are The Way We Are We’ve come out the way we have because of our ingredients.Those ingredients are karma – the result of previous experiences and reactions. What do we do then?We change the ingredients by dropping old karma … Continue reading →

We All Know, But We Ignore That We Know We all know but, for convenience,we ignore that we know by believing conventionality. We are so intent on knowing about things ‘out there’ that we are indifferent to what is going … Continue reading →

Do You Get Upset? It is only ego/I that gets upset. Ego, or I, is created by consciousness that fixates on ideas and becomes a brittle self-image. It is precisely because of this self-identity that we judge others – me … Continue reading →

Are ‘Spiritual’ Centres Cults? Is there a culture of charismatic personality?Charismatic:exercising a compelling charm which inspires devotion in others. When we become dependent, we are controlled by others’ determinations. The Buddha did not advise,“Do not take my word for it; test … Continue reading →

Being Of Good Humour Kind-hearted with sadness.Spontaneous moments of recognition.Concepts melt, and the mind becomes moist. Inspired by ignorance.Not taking our self seriously.Realisation of wisdom. Gratitude for letting go of past fears.Realisation that we have empathy.Confidence. Letting go of grudges.Good … Continue reading →

Giving Up The Ghost A ‘ghost’ is a slight trace of something, a faint secondary image caused by a fault in an optical system – in our case, the mind behind the eyes. 😀 The ghost in the mind is our self-image that consciousness holds on to for a feeling … Continue reading →

Conspiracy Of Indifference  Conspire: from Latin – conspirare; agree, plot We agree to enable the plot by pretending we do not see it. There are plotters in the world who never have enough, and if we agree to be silent or indifferent to this … Continue reading →

Where We Went Wrong When we were young, we followed others in a long chain of confusion. George Orwell’s book, “1984”, is a reality that’s happening now – a false reality, and one in which everyone is living but doesn’t … Continue reading →

Is Consciousness Material Or Immaterial? Is consciousness created at birth?Did God created consciousness?Or does consciousness occupy a karmic position in space? The way we view consciousness is fundamentalto how we conduct our life,and how we treat others. If we realise that, due to habitual … Continue reading →

It’s All In The Details! We may know the details of our social life,but do we know the details of our mind?Why we do and say what we do? Our mind is the psychology that drives us.Consciousness is the mind’s … Continue reading →

Impostor Syndrome I doubt myself. My dad had a woodworking test at school: the test was to read the instructions and make the item. My dad made it, and then looked around and saw others making something different, so he … Continue reading →

Is Life Precious Or Cheap? If life is precious, we are rich due to inner qualities.If life is cheap, we are poor due to mundane worldliness. If we are only concerned with worldliness, we lack insight.If we have insight, worldliness … Continue reading →

Why Do I Write So Much? Every day, we hear and read total nonsense which has a subconscious influence on people: this happens at an alarming rate. There is so much ‘information’ that we just give up being critical. Machiavellian and … Continue reading →