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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 →

There are 2,681 articles on this blog. If there is something you are looking for, either scroll down to the bottom of this page and press “Older post”, or go to the search box and type in a word or phrase, … Continue reading →

Enlightenment, Constant Enlightenment And Super-duper Enlightenment Enlightenment: Realising pure consciousness and purifying karma. Constant enlightenment: Realised pure consciousness and purified karma. Super-duper enlightenment: Carrot before donkeys. Conclusion: There is no carrot. There are no donkeys.

This Is Exactly The Right Time For Spiritual Progress Like the Buddha, we see people suffering and we see that life is tenuous. In these turbulent times, the Dzogchen teachings on Rigpa (pure consciousness) are perfectly relevant to know what … Continue reading →

Inaccurate Balance In Life We have two aspects to our life: material consciousness and spiritual consciousness. Material consciousness is our ordinary thoughts, while spiritual consciousness is that which perceives ordinary thoughts. To put it simply, our reality is the knowingness … Continue reading →

Covid-19, Isolation, Unusual Times These are empathetic times: we isolate so that hospitals may cope more effectively with caring for the sick. Isolation can be seen as a retreat. It is a chance to focus on our moment-to-moment routines and, … Continue reading →

Practical, Three-Month Isolation Retreat Practical, Three-Month Focused Exercise, Educational Meditation and Fresh Air Retreat = Gardening! Or window box-ing. Maintained by focused weeding … but you can eat the nettle tops. In three months, you will have your own food, … Continue reading →

Having Our Consciousness Drained Be aware that the consciousness of others can drain us, and this is why we do not react.

Sensitivity Isn’t Irritation Becoming spiritually sensitivity, we develop insight. Becoming sensitive to our attachments, we develop irritation. Trapped by our intellect and drowning in a reservoir of ideas about our self and our world, anyone who projects their view irritates … Continue reading →

Perhaps We Should Revert To Ancient Greetings Perhaps we should revert to ancient greetings, showing recognition, appreciation, respect and reverence for life.

Understanding Fellow Beings Our relative reality is created by consciousness relating to everything. This is our dualistic existence; we believe appearances in the mind to be real. The mind is where our world takes place – but there is something … Continue reading →

A Very, Very Important Video For You By Sadhguru https://www.youtube.com/watchtime_continue=247&v=GG67ni3ADkY&feature=emb_logo  Sadhguru: “If you generate a powerful thought, you can make certain things happen. You can have a certain power over other people and situations. This will give you a high, but it … Continue reading →

Is Madness Catching? I’m afraid so 😀 … but it’s temporary. Madness: A state of having a serious mental illness – unable to control one’s mind. Extremely foolish behaviour – unable to control one’s speech. A state of wild or chaotic activity – unable to control one’s body. Remedy: … Continue reading →