Author Archives: tony

The Ultimate Prize Is Consciousness  Consciousness is either your prize, or the prize of influencers. When we realise consciousness, we realise that we are nothing other than consciousness. If we do not realise that we are consciousness, we will simply … Continue reading →

To Tell The Truth, You Don’t Want People To Believe You You want them to know, themselves.

What Is Hell? Hell is – our inability to drop our reactions. Heaven is freedom from hell – we are able to drop our reactions. Note: there is still a reaction! Hell is the vicious cycle of existence in which … Continue reading →

Do We Use Spirituality To Escape Life? Spirituality is not about hiding away from desires and adversities. Spirituality is living life to the full – making life fruitful. When we face the music, we are facing the consequences of our … Continue reading →

This Is Absolutely The Right Time This is absolutely the right time. We all go through a process of worry and wondering, and come to a certain point of dissatisfaction. This moment is important, and time to move on. We … Continue reading →

The Dharma Is Beyond Our Expectations and our wildest dreams. The Dharma is blown out of proportion into something spectacular … and unattainable. That keeps us in a state of poverty. We hear fantastic stories from the past, but none … Continue reading →

Accepting Others’ Limitations Is Love Accepting others’ limitations is love. Seeing others’ limitations is compassion. Feeling others’ limitations is empathy. Taking advantage of others’ limitations is selfishness. Conditioning others’ limitations is evil. Limitations = suffering. Love is blind to limitations … Continue reading →

Become Aware, Now “But I am aware!” That’s the mistake we all make. We are aware of our surroundings and that’s all. Being aware is realising that we are that awareness. Consciousness! Through familiarity with our true nature, whatever needs … Continue reading →

Make Life Meaningful Don’t settle for anything less than your own perfect reality. Who are we trying to impress anyway? If we do not see evil coming, we are, unfortunately, already part of it. Our lives are becoming more restricted. … Continue reading →

Controlling Our Mind Controls Our Behaviour If we cannot control our mind, we cannot control either our reactions or our behaviour. This becomes a habit, and our acquired behaviour now controls our mind. We go round in circles and become … Continue reading →

We Have To Be Our Own Psychologist Ordinary psychology just wants us to be ‘normal’, to fit in to the collective. I once spoke to a psychologist and asked, “What your job, really?” She replied, “To get people back to … Continue reading →

Clearly Seen; Few See It Clearly seen: pure consciousness just sees. It doesn’t do anything. Few see it: because we’d rather do something. Realisation isn’t something fabricated. Realisation is disappointing … “Is that all there is?” If you met me, … Continue reading →

What Does “Beyond Birth And Death” Mean? Taking that saying literally implies something supernatural – that life goes on elsewhere (which may be possible). Another way to see this is to realise that pure consciousness is always present, and is … Continue reading →

We Never Noticed The Switch Do we own our minds and bodies? Where did our ideas come from? How long have those ideas been there? Our mind is full of ideas acquired since birth. Just as the name given to … Continue reading →

Masters Of Procrastination We all know when we procrastinate but we still do it, with excellent excuses. The more we are presented with distractions, the more we become diverted. We need some sort of discipline … but we don’t like … Continue reading →

If you’d like to talk privately, write to Buddhainthemud@hotmail.co.uk– even if it’s just to say hello.  Clear doubts, gain confidence.All confusion dawns as wisdom,when we (pure consciousness) recognise confusion,realising that we have never been confused! For modern times, we need spiritual, scientific … Continue reading →

What Guides Us? What guides us? Conscience? Karma? Consciousness? They say, “Let conscience be your guide.” Well, that will depend on several things … Our conscience tells us whether what we are doing is right or wrong. When we’ve done … Continue reading →

Spoon-Feeding Or Realisation It doesn’t matter what scientists, philosophers or gurus say, their findings are theirs, not ours. Because we hear something doesn’t mean that we know; accepting what others say is merely hearsay. It is we who have to … Continue reading →

Best Wishes The cause of suffering and dissatisfaction is a mind filled with a muddy concept of self. We transform the mud through spiritual awakening,thus realising the activity of a Bodhisattva – a well wisher. And they don’t all look … Continue reading →

Communal Gaslighting Our confusion isn’t all our fault. Communal confusion is the result of institutionalisation. ‘Gaslighting’ is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own … Continue reading →

Feeling Inhibited? Inhibited: a feeling of being self-conscious, fearful, and unable to act in a relaxed and natural manner. Our main cause of anxiety is a feeling of self which we feel that we have to protect. Did you see it? … Continue reading →