Author Archives: tony

Different People Say Different Things We hear a lot different things, so we have to choose what makes sense to us. The important thing is not to criticise others because that comes from a reaction in our mind, and we … Continue reading →

Not Believing Can Get You Arrested The power of belief is to make people stupid. There are those who believe the world is flat. To say otherwise is said to cause them harassment, alarm and distress – which in itself … Continue reading →

Fool Me Twice Fool me once, shame on them. Fool me twice, shame on me. After being tricked once, we should learn from our mistakes and avoid being tricked in the same way again. But we’re fooled into reacting, time and time again. It is our reactions that … Continue reading →

Our Intelligence Reveals Our Stupidity We may know about this and that, and even be experts about this and that, but how much wisdom is there? How much E.Q. = emotional quotient = control of our mind? We learn to … Continue reading →

What Is the Point Of Miracles? What’s the point of a rainbow body (where the physical body transmutes into light), walking on water, leaving footprints in rocks … ? When miracles are hearsay, they are pointless. They may be real, … Continue reading →

The Wrong Shopping List Realising our enlightened essence isn’t out of reach; it’s already present. But this essence is piled high with concepts in the mind. Our problem is eliminating the heap of ideas we’ve borrowed from others’ ‘shopping lists’. … Continue reading →

What Adam And Eve Were Told When Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, this meant that our pure state of consciousness is beyond good and evil. Good and evil … Continue reading →

We All Suffer From Exaggeration Exaggeration creates more exaggeration and sentimentality to bolster self-esteem, the building blocks of a demonic mind. Exaggeration: from Latin exaggerat- ‘heaped up’. Originally meant ‘pile up, accumulate’ – later, ‘intensify praise or blame’. Exaggeration is the representation of something as … Continue reading →

Diversity Diversity: from Latin divertere ‘turn aside’. To divert. Diversity: different beliefs create a culture of a country. It is obvious that trade between cultures is the story of enriching world history, but promoting diversity over the host population creates tension and doubt, causing people … Continue reading →

Created Or Just Is? In an infinite universe, there can be no creator, as there can be no beginning to start from. This is difficult for a materialistic mind to comprehend as creation / creating is the only thing in … Continue reading →

Realisation Is A Private Matter Private: from Latin privatus‘withdrawn from public life’. This private matter then extends to public life: we remember the silent withdrawal, and engage with others from there.

Realisation Is A Private Matter Private: from Latin privatus‘withdrawn from public life’. This private matter then extends to public life: we remember the silent withdrawal, and engage with others from there.

How To Meditate We can become caught up in ideas about meditation: sitting in a special posture on a special cushion in a special room, burning special incense … Meditation is remembering to be aware. We can do this anywhere, … Continue reading →

We Can Learn Everything From Everyone We can learn from everyone, including our self, because, within every sentient being, there is both goodness and pride. Pride is our downfall. Humility is our safety net. The term ‘humility’ comes from the Latin word humilitas, translated as … Continue reading →

Opposites Are A Unity Mara activity wants us to think there are two sides which divide us. You can fool most of the people most of the time, but not all the people all the time. Left/right, up/down, light/dark, heaven/hell, … Continue reading →

Our Eyes Do Not Lie ! Our eyes do not lie. Neither do our ears, tongue, nose, skin. It’s our interpretation and bias that changes what we see. Our reality is pure perception, but our perception can become skew-whiff (not … Continue reading →

Interested But Not Attached With the realisation of our true reality of pure awareness, we see directly, but respond differently from the way we responded before. We now see the cause behind the cause, and don’t become excited, hyped-up or … Continue reading →

No One Can Tell Us How To Think No one can tell us how to think. But they do. When we are in a group – be it family, friends, work, religion – we are all expected to think the … Continue reading →

Sensing Things Are Not Right We all have this intuitive feeling – why? It’s because we aren’t acting normally, naturally, contentedly. We’ve learnt to act to protect ourselves, but we don’t know what this self is. The ideas we’ve acquired … Continue reading →

Between Thoughts We are the silent reality between thoughts, ever-present pure consciousness. To train in perceiving in this way is Dharma practice. Thoughts aren’t the problem; it’s attachment to those thoughts that keeps us captured in a vicious cycle of … Continue reading →

Is Consciousness In The Brain Or Ever-Present Everywhere? Scientists treat consciousness as an evolutionary by-product of neural wiring; that is to say, matter produces mind. Through observation, the brain and body – with all their instincts and drives – are … Continue reading →

Tradition A tradition is a transmission of customs or beliefs passed on from generation to generation. It is only when we get older that we see the pattern of customs and beliefs change. Who sets the trends, and why? Those who make us feel … Continue reading →

Tradition: Programming Our societies are made up of traditions that programme our behaviour in certain ways. But behind this facade is a deeper programming, where we are encouraged to argue, blame, complain and mentally engage in trying-to-put-things-right. That is part … Continue reading →

Oblivious To Reality Oblivion: from Latin oblivio(n-), from oblivisci ‘forget’. It’s totally shocking that few know their reason to be. What’s that? To know we are not just this body and mind but consciousness. What we do with this body and mind is down to our … Continue reading →

Mara: “The Show Must Go On … And On … ” All the world is a stage, and all the men and women are merely players. We learn a script, and then play it out unto death, and Mara sees … Continue reading →

We Are Caught On A Roundabout It’s the far left that creates the far right, and the far right that creates the far left. In the middle is their unwitting supply of sustenance.

The Dharma is Understanding Mara Activity (Evil) “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.” Conventional suggests that “Better the devil you know” is something we can put up with it. That is not the meaning here. “Better … Continue reading →

Fashioned to Fail Each generation is encouraged to complain and rebel against the previous generation that was also fashioned to rebel, so there is a lack of continuity. This maintains chaos, confusion and suffering, which most people ignore; we unconsciously … Continue reading →

A Great Mind Or A Wise Mind? The essence of mind is ethereal pure consciousness without thoughts. When pure consciousness forgets its essence, it clings to thoughts, which creates the characteristic of a self. Consciousness then becomes materialistic. People admire … Continue reading →

The Same Old Dharma Dharma is our original reality of pure consciousness. As long as there are sentient beings, there is Dharma. It is timeless, before any books are written. It’s like maths; it wasn’t invented, it was discovered, and … Continue reading →

The Undeniable Truth Truth about a situation is a personal preference, but the truth about the first instant of awareness is the same for everyone.

There Is No Stopping Truth Evil spends its time misdirecting our minds. Once we’re aware of this activity, evil has to move on. Unfortunately, as long as there is a self in the mind, that mind can be manipulated. Fortunately: … Continue reading →

The Teacher-Of-All-Phenomena A human teacher can only help us to recognise and then realise the teacher-of-all-phenomena: that every encounter, and every thought, and every interaction with others is a teaching, by showing us the habitual reactions that cause us suffering. … Continue reading →