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The Search Box At The Bottom Of This Page To date, there are three thousand six hundred articles on this blog (goodness knows how that happened! 😀 ). Type a word that comes to mind in the search box at … Continue reading →

Flawless Consciousness Consciousness is without imperfections. It is very alive and very sensitive, but is easily distracted by ideas and emotions. It is precisely because of being so readily distracted that it is easier to spot – if we are … Continue reading →

What’s Eating You? Emotions – brought on by strong association with thoughts and feelings of hopes, fears, pride, jealousy – stir up our mental state, and eat away at us. We become distressed, anxious and disappointed, and we suffer. This saps … Continue reading →

Religion: The Beginning Or End Of Our Journey? Is religion the beginning or the end of our journey? Religion can be a magical home, where we meet like-minded people who accept the same given answers to happiness. Conversely, religion can … Continue reading →

Why Use The Word ‘Emptiness’? The word ’empty’ is the opposite of the word ‘full’. The mind and consciousness are, by nature, clear. We recognise this in the very first empty instant of seeing, before we start judging and filling … Continue reading →

‘I’ Blindness The ‘I’ is blind to reality. What we think of as our selves is blind to reality. The result: the blind leading the blind. All of us, like silly sheep, have gone astray from our true reality because … Continue reading →

Whatever Someone Says Doesn’t Matter It doesn’t matter what people say; what matters is what’s happening in our mind – our reactions. Ideas placed in the mind make us think that we ‘know’, when this information is having opposite effect … Continue reading →

Earth: Beautiful But Bonkers People of Earth are beautiful but bonkers. Their essence is a pure heart – the beautiful – but their minds are self-indulgent – the bonkers. When we know our true nature, all the bonker-ness makes sense. … Continue reading →

Is It Really A Scary World? In a genuinely scary situation, we have no time to be scared as we have something to deal with which overrides fear. Fear derives from rumour – every good filmmaker knows how to achieve … Continue reading →

It Doesn’t Matter What We Know About The World … It doesn’t matter what we know about the world, things will happen anyway. They always have. Under the guise of a warning is insidious programming. We see and hear, and … Continue reading →

The Dharma Isn’t Hoity-Toity The Dharma isn’t haughty, snobbish and self-congratulatory. The Dharma isn’t holy or other-worldly. The Dharma is right here, right now, in all conditions; even if we get things wrong, and life is a mess, consciousness is … Continue reading →

Dharma Needs No Adornment Pure consciousness needs no adornments to attract. Never allow materiality to pull the wool over your eyes. Dharma isn’t an adornment. Dharma is our realisation. Dharma is independent of structure and organisation.

Some Days Are Light, Some Heavy, Some Flat The condition is which we find ourselves on any particular day is the karmic display of the absolute truth of the universe uncovering our path for us. We are the absolute truth … Continue reading →

Beyond Knowing And Not Knowing Is Knowingness Thinking we know, we are in an occupied state. Thinking we don’t know, we are in a vacant state. We cannot deny that knowingness – which is synonymous with awareness or consciousness – … Continue reading →

Science And Religion Have The Same Effect In the early years, we seek the mythical, holy grail of life. It doesn’t matter whether we follow science or religion, we end up obsessed and fixated. Depending on the type of person … Continue reading →

We Need A Constant Reminder We need a constant reminder of our true reality, because of constant, misleading information. If we hang around with clowns, we become part of the circus. Recognise and gain certainty in the one principle that … Continue reading →

Making Our Self Feel Better … Making our self feel better, instead of feeling better about our self. This has always been the human dilemma – to cover our self in selfishness, or to understand this self. We spend our … Continue reading →

Does Anything Exist? It’s not a question we like to ask 🙂 Existence: coming into being. If something comes into being, it didn’t exist before. Does it exist now? Is it a temporary phenomena? We think we exist, but how? … Continue reading →

Can The Dharma Be Used Against Humanity? Dharma is the knowledge to enable enlightenment, pointing out whatever obscures this potential. Dharma principles are unfailing, especially regarding the obscurations of desire, aversion and ignorance that obscure our potential. If these obscurations … Continue reading →