Author Archives: tony

Exaggerating The Guru We, as humans, exaggerate everything. The guru/teacher is merely a conduit for words, which are symbols with meaning. We decipher the meaning through experience and realise that knowing needs no exaggeration. We do not take someone’s word … Continue reading →

Once We Realise The Truth 1 Once we realise the truth, we recognise what isn’t true. Truth is constant; it can never change. If something can change, it is impermanent and cannot be said to be true. Consciousness never changes … Continue reading →

Once We Realise The Truth 2 Once we realise the truth, we notice how surprisingly scary we were. 🙂 Realisation isn’t about gaining anything. It is removing the jaundiced, bitter, resentful, cynical, soured, distorted, disenchanted, disillusioned, disappointed, pessimistic, negative, sceptical, distrustful, suspicious, misanthropic, jealous, proud, envious, narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, intolerant, discriminatory beam from one’s own eyes.

Is The World Over Populated? There are two views on these subject: too many people using up resources. or more beings having the potential to become enlightened. Although resources are being abused, the mega-wealthy always want more, and this behaviour … Continue reading →

Meeting Your Maker You are pure consciousness. What else, in reality, can you be? When pure consciousness thinks it is something other than pure consciousness, consciousness forgets its purity and forms a contaminated self-image. That is your maker, your master. … Continue reading →

Spiritual Mysteries Mystery: something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. Here, we are talking about the possibility of out-of-body beings who influence embodied beings. As this is a mystery, it is something that we, as intelligent beings, can neither … Continue reading →

Knowledge Is A Lot To Handle Knowledge is neutral. What we do with knowledge may become either harmful or enlightening. If we exploit knowledge to gain power over others, we are facing lifetimes of suffering. If it is used to … Continue reading →

Happiness Is Solving A Problem Life is one problem after another to be solved. Life is therefore our teacher. Complaining doesn’t teach us anything. Others may disagree with this – and they too have their problems to solve.

Love Does What Is Right Love is desire-less and fear-less, and knows the divine nature of all beings. Human nature is selfish, and boastful of possessions, abilities and knowledge. Divine nature knows self to be a preoccupation, – askew, off … Continue reading →

Being Happy With Our Decisions In Life All the decisions we make in life come down to the present moment, now. Life may have been unsatisfactory, with all its pointless distractions and misinterpretations; all the while, there was an ‘itch’ … Continue reading →

We All Know That We Are Never Told The Truth We all know that we are never told the truth, and we accept a life of mental poverty. Once we realise the ultimate truth – that we are not a … Continue reading →

A Lack Of Empathy Causes Harm We cause harm when we lack empathy.

Dear Illuminati; Karma Never Fails Dear Illuminati, The creation of ‘A New World Order’ or ‘The Great Reset’ or ‘Build Back Better’ must be founded on compassion, on doing no harm, and on allowing people freedom to realise their true … Continue reading →

In Ignoring The Truth, We Accept Lies When a lie no longer works, another lie is added. Even though the new lie is a contradiction, it creates hope … and fear and hope … … and we fall for this … Continue reading →

We Gain Certainty Through Practice But what practice? Real practice – real Dharma practice – is gaining confidence in just being, rather than excelling at repeating texts and chanting mantras. Just being is esoteric realisation. Being good at a practice … Continue reading →

Stop Looking For Togyal It’s too needy 🙂 Tibetan Lamas say that Togyal has to taught to the right person. We can wait a very long time … and that, in itself, makes us needy. Togyal is the realisation of spontaneous presence. … Continue reading →

How The Media Works – It Influences The Influencers Psychology at work: How easily are you influenced? You don’t need sheepdogs … just sheep. This video isn’t for entertainment. It’s a sad warning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RksLFJ7A2M Still say TV, films, music, cartoons, … Continue reading →

Sadness Resulting From Joy Sadness is empathy and compassion. Knowing what is natural, sadness – rather than anger – arises when something is amiss. Human beings, although enlightened in essence, are a devious lot. Devious: departing from the direct route.  We … Continue reading →

Enlightenment Is Disenchantment As long as we are enchanted, we will remain trapped in sentimentalities. Enjoy life mindfully, being neither obsessed, nor caught and held. Overcome enchantments by realising their limitation. Realisation is disillusionment resulting in joy … and sadness.

How Long Has Humanity Been Imprisoned…? Q: How long has humanity been imprisoned … by the mind? A: For as long as humans have been led to believe in something they cannot see. This has been going on for thousands … Continue reading →

Simplicity Is Never Thrown By Complexity When we know our essence of pure, compassionate consciousness, together with the three corresponding poisons of desire, fear and indifference that obscure this essence, we then know everything we need to know, as practitioners. … Continue reading →