Author Archives: tony

What To Do In ‘Lockdown’ Clear up, and stop making more mess. Clear the mind, and stop reacting. The word ‘Buddha’ means realising the essence of mind (pure consciousness) and bringing an end to karmic effects (habitual reactions). This is … Continue reading →

We Read What We Want To Read That is karma in action; our propensity to certain ideas. Karma is our bias, which means that, on any given subject, we have a view, a side. Rarely do we read both sides … Continue reading →

Looking For Authentic Teachings? Authentic teachings are what we re-cognise. We re-establish – it is a reunion! When we recognise these teachings as being true, then we are the authority, rather than a copy of anything. A teacher is only … Continue reading →

Author’s Note On this blog, some articles have a similar theme as they are linked, but putting them together in one article would make it too long and heavy. Also, some time is needed to reflect and elaborate. The whole … Continue reading →

Is The ‘Cock-up’ Our Gold Standard? Why Everyone Must Meditate Everyone must meditate to make sense of our mind and the world in which we live. Meditation is a reminder of what is reality. The world is in constant chaos … Continue reading →

 Psychological Resilience To A Pandemic 😀 In general, trauma will be caused during this pandemic, and there will be a post traumatic effect. So how do we stay stable? We all know that life will end at some point due to … Continue reading →

Do I Have To Act? We all go into an act of some sort, as we aspire to be thought of as better than we are – and ‘spiritual’ people are no different. This is foolish. Who are we trying … Continue reading →

If We Fixate About Our Spiritual Path … … then we are not on a spiritual path Fixation: “the process of reducing a volatile spirit into a permanent bodily form”. A true spiritual path is consciousness freed from feeling guilty, touchy or obligated. Obligated: “restricted to … Continue reading →

Become Buddhist And Find God! 😀 It’s all about our true reality: to realise that we are what we seek. Believing is not seeing. Believing is ignorance. Seeing is knowing, and knowing is realisation.

Modern Times: Lulled Into Confusion We are lulled into confusion by distraction, thus creating dissatisfaction, depression and suffering. When our attention is turned away from the breath of consciousness – life itself – we will always be wanting. Now is … Continue reading →

Today’s Entertainment 😀 Meditation is resting in spirit. The word ‘spirit’ means breath. Resting in pure spirit (being undistracted) is pure consciousness. That is what we are. Our supreme reality is our pure consciousness. We could call that ‘God consciousness’. … Continue reading →

Find Out How Crazy You Are These are ideal times to see the cracks in our mind. We find ways to amuse ourself: we focus and fixate upon books, games, music, films, news, social media, work, family … There are … Continue reading →

Learning How To Relate To Others From a Dharma point of view, learning how to relate to others is empathy. It is through sadness which arises from recognising that emotions obscure our true state of inner peace that we can … Continue reading →

Healing And Provoking We either need to become stable before we can cut through our opinions, or cut through our opinions in order to become stable. The sort of mind we have will dictate the approach we need; one isn’t … Continue reading →

How Do I Know If I’m Happy? If we are neither unhappy nor indifferent, then we are happy. The nice feeling of being happy comes about when everything we are doing drops away. If we are neither unhappy nor indifferent … Continue reading →

Formal Dharma And Informal Dharma Formal Dharma is using all the right words. Informal Dharma is the experience of the right words. We may go for all the right words and stick to them … but realisation is becoming unstuck.

Enlightenment: Release From Self-Hypnosis This self is a collection of ideas generated from influences around us when young; it’s a programme we are caught and held by that we believe to be real. We are all “Manchurian candidates” – push … Continue reading →

Conscious Communication, Or Just Noise? Consciousness is our true inner state; the intelligence centre. It is concerned with the practicalities of maintaining a conscious life, one that can investigate the nature of reality scientifically through meditation = uncontaminated seeing! The … Continue reading →

Gurus Don’t Do It For Me 😀 😀 😀 The term, “doesn’t do it for me”, usually means something is no longer satisfying. In the context of our progress, the experience of the teaching is more important This leads us … Continue reading →

Do You Know What Is Real? Nothing that we see has any reality as it’s all impermanent. Reality is in the seeing. When we understand this, life is no longer serious and we can be happy. The world is full … Continue reading →

Is Covid-19 World War Three? People have been talking about WW3 for years … it turns out that we are the enemy!

In These Abnormal Times In these abnormal times, don’t try to act normally. Normality is conforming to a standard.  Abnormal: Latin abnormis ‘monstrous’ When we realise our true reality is pure awareness, anything ‘normal’ is a monstrous standard of deviation. We are … Continue reading →

How To Become An Alien To become an alien, we detach ourself from organised political, social and religious associations. Alien: Belong to another ie not belonging to organised political, social, and religious associations. “The organised political, social, and religious associations … Continue reading →