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Life Hasn’t Turned Out As I’d Hoped It’s turned out better. Life felt wrong … people felt wrong … I hoped that there was something more than this. I’ve been through many ‘spiritual’ groups throughout my life, all of which … Continue reading →

How Do You Know You Aren’t Mad? How do you know you aren’t mad? By recognising your madness. This is the unity of the two truths. The dark is only known by the presence of light.

Life/Incarnation Is Just One Day – Today Life/incarnation is just one day – today. Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow hasn’t happened. Don’t think, “I want a happy life”. Just have a happy day. Then, perhaps, you will have a happy life. … Continue reading →

How Does Reincarnation Work? Firstly, we have to get our head around the truth that we are eternal consciousness. One simple example is that, since our birth, consciousness has never changed. This is very significant, but due to our desires … Continue reading →

Meditation Is Natural Awareness Meditation is being naturally aware that we are this awareness. What could be more natural than that? Just b e i n g  a w a r e. Noting that there is nothing else in the … Continue reading →

Our Self Is Fooling Us We don’t fool ourselves; our self is fooling us. What we claim to be ‘me’ is a construction of ideas and thoughts in the mind. When consciousness recognises this foolery of imagination, all mind activity … Continue reading →

Waking Up To What’s Actually Happening Waking up to what is happening in the world is not enough. That isn’t actually waking up – it’s still the dream. We have to wake up to what’s happening in our mind that … Continue reading →

There’s much confusion and speculation when the words ‘dimension’ and ‘realm’ are used to refer to spiritual development. These words suggest ‘place’, with length, breadth and height as if there is another reality – somewhere to go to. All the … Continue reading →

The More We Realise The more we realise, the simpler it all gets. Is Buddhahood something miraculous, or something ordinary? Perhaps everything we’re told is actually the opposite …

Artificial Intelligence Deceives Us Artificial intelligence deceives us so that we don’t know what’s real. Words are artificial intelligence that deceives us so that we don’t know what’s real. Words are information that creates an intellectual understanding, but not the … Continue reading →

Looking Within? … Look Out! Twisting truth. We are told to look within to ‘find ourselves’, either as an introspection or to discover our true reality. This is a misguided misunderstanding of the process. That which is within is looking … Continue reading →

Deliberately Misleading Life on Earth is deliberately misleading. Things are meant to go wrong or be delayed so that we can proudly point this out and argue. And things still go wrong all the same; it will never be put … Continue reading →

Becoming Individuated We think we’re individuals but, in practice, we all respond in a similar fashion. We only become individuated when we no longer think and see in the same way as others. Individuated: distinguished from others of the same kind; … Continue reading →

Never-Ending Deception We live in a world of never-ending deception, due to those who want more than others. We actually wish/vote for deception. Vote: from Latin votum ‘a vow, a wish’. Humans are unenlightened beings precisely because of this never-ending plan of deception. The … Continue reading →

Still Looking For The Supernatural? We’ve noticed that if terms such as Dzogchen, Trekcho, Togal, Dharmakaya come up on the blog there’s much interest, as if these are somehow thought to be supernatural. The same thing happens with the word … Continue reading →

There Is Always Something To Complain About There will always be something to complain about in an unenlightened world. When we recognise this complaining, we start our path to enlightenment, gradually understanding why we are suffering. We’re bound to an … Continue reading →

Words Are Artificial Intelligence Humans think that we’re superior because we have language, but we usually only speak to pass on programming, talking about what we or others have done or said, when the look or sound of a person … Continue reading →

The Word Of God … ? Does God still speak? In pure consciousness, there are no words, just empty cognisance – an atmosphere of purity. We are that pure consciousness. To say that, in the beginning, was ‘the word’ blinds … Continue reading →

Why We Switch Off From Reality The quest to understand our true reality – the purpose of life – has been turned off in favour of intellectual consumerism in science, philosophy and religion. And most people don’t even get that … Continue reading →

The Level Of Confidence The level of confidence is equal to the level of compassion. When we are confident, we have no need to be competitive.

The Purpose Of Life The purpose of life is to realise what we are, rather than what we can do. What is are is pure cognisance beyond the functioning of body and mind. What we do is a pastime for … Continue reading →

How Is Consciousness Happiness? How is consciousness happiness? Happiness is realising the answer to our reality. Whatever appears, physically or in the mind, is observed by consciousness. No consciousness; no point to anything. When pure observation is taking place – … Continue reading →

Becoming Annoyed We become annoyed, upset or anxious when something happens which we feel isn’t ‘right’, and we might be able to do something about it. If, however, we see that every thing isn’t right, we can’t do anything about … Continue reading →

Reality Beyond Words Our reality of pure consciousness is beyond words and names. To experience this reality, we meditate, which is a method to come to mental stillness. Once still, we drop the method, and rest in pure consciousness, pure … Continue reading →

Hell And Paradise Hell and Paradise are in the same place – the mind – right here, right now, and nowhere else. Paradise is the pure space of cognisance. Hell is whatever we put into that space. If we are … Continue reading →