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- WHAT THE BUDDHA DIDN’T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH June 26, 2026
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- THE BUDDHA WENT OFF SCRIPT June 25, 2026
- IT’S NOT COMPLICATED June 25, 2026
- SILENT TRANSMISSION June 24, 2026
- THE PRISON OF ENLIGHTENMENT June 23, 2026
- A FOOL TO ONESELF June 23, 2026
- IF WE DON’T REALISE THE TRUTH June 23, 2026
- THE UNITY OF EMPTINESS AND ILLUSIONS June 22, 2026
- THE TRUTH WILL HIT US HARD June 22, 2026
- MEDITATION TRANSFORMS June 21, 2026
- IS THIS A STUPID, ORGANISED OR PERFECT WORLD? June 20, 2026
- BEING KIND TO OUR SELF June 19, 2026
- WE’VE BECOME PREDICTIVE TEXT June 19, 2026
- WE ARE THE PURPOSE OF LIFE June 18, 2026
- EVOLVING INSTEAD OF REVOLVING June 18, 2026
- EVOLVING CAN FEEL VERY UNCOMFORTABLE June 18, 2026
- THIS BLOG SHOULD BE SECRET June 17, 2026
- FREEDOM FROM THE CYCLIC EXISTENCE June 17, 2026
- THE SHARED HALLUCINATION June 17, 2026
- WHY THE OBSESSION WITH THE PAST? June 16, 2026
- THE MUD IS JUST A DIRTY LENS June 16, 2026
- STARVING THE MONSTER June 15, 2026
- THE NOVELTY TRAP June 15, 2026
- NO LONGER SATISFYING June 14, 2026
- THE MORE WE REALISE June 13, 2026
- REALITY IS CONTENTMENT June 13, 2026
- THE DANGER OF ADOPTING STORIES June 13, 2026
- WHAT ARE WE A PRODUCT OF? June 13, 2026
- WHAT REINCARNATES? June 12, 2026
- THE HABITUAL LOOP June 11, 2026
- WHY DO PEOPLE ACCEPT LIES SO READILY? June 11, 2026
- THE PARADOX OF RITUALS AND WORDS June 11, 2026
- WHAT DO WE BASE OUR LIFE ON? June 10, 2026
- SPIRITUAL AUTONOMY June 10, 2026
- THINKING THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE June 9, 2026
- NOT TOO TIGHT AND NOT TOO LOOSE June 9, 2026
- OUR GREATEST PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT June 8, 2026
- PRIDE STOPS US EVOLVING June 8, 2026
- THE TINKERBELL EFFECT June 7, 2026
- EVIL IS ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE SUPERIOR June 7, 2026
- FOUR OPIUMS OF THE PEOPLE June 6, 2026
- THE CONSUMER BECOMES CONSUMED June 6, 2026
- ULTIMATE MATURITY June 6, 2026
- THE BUDDHA SAID, “I SEE YOU MARA” June 5, 2026
- THE TWO ASPECTS OF ‘HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT’ June 5, 2026
- SULKY SELF June 4, 2026
- THE COMPLETE PICTURE June 3, 2026
- GIVING UP GUILT June 2, 2026
- TESTING MARA AND GURU June 1, 2026
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LIGHT, COLOURS AND DIRECT SEEING
Lights, Colours And Direct Seeing A conclusion (so far) about Togal When we paint a picture, we start off with pure colours – red, yellow and blue – straight from the tube. Mixing these together for the first time, the … Continue reading
HOW IS EVERYTHING AN ILLUSION?
How Is Everything An Illusion? And why is this a problem for us? The illusion isn’t the problem: it’s believing and clinging to the illusion that binds us. We can have fun with illusion – like blowing pretty bubbles in … Continue reading
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SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS ARE TOUGH
Spiritual Teachings Are Tough They aren’t about feeling good: they are meant to open our insight. Whether pleasant or unpleasant, the eye of wisdom opens to see clearly. The magic of daily life happens through close inspection and gratitude. Compassion … Continue reading
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IF WE CAN MANAGE OUR THOUGHTS
If We Can Manage Our Thoughts If we can manage our thoughts, then we can go anywhere. If we cannot manage our thoughts, then we want to be in a nice, safe place. The Buddha’s teachings help us to realise … Continue reading
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THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NORMAL
There Is No Such Thing As Normal Normal: conforming to others’ standards. Conforming means consenting to others’ concepts and, in doing so, we give away our authority to breakout of this mayhem of strife. Unless we recognise and are obeying … Continue reading
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ONCE WE REALISE THE THREE KAYAS
Once We Realise The Three Kayas Once we realise the three Kayas, we understand everything. These three principles have a positive and negative aspect. They become negative when we ignore the positive. Positive: Dharmakaya = Emptiness Sambhogakaya = Consciousness Nirmanakaya … Continue reading
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THERE IS ONE, SIMPLE, UNIVERSAL TRUTH
There Is One, Simple, Universal Truth There is one, simple, universal truth: we are non-duality of pure conscious. Our story starts when we admit that we ignore this truth, and finishes with the realisation of this truth. Until then, we … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, Duality, EMPATHY, esoteric, exoteric, Ignorance, non-duality, Pure Consciousness., surrering, truth
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SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT SUCH THINGS?
Should We Talk About Such Things? Is our intelligence merely received information? The more we investigate, the more potent the observation. Intelligence: the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. If our intelligence is just received information, then we are programmed through … Continue reading
FINDING OUR TRUE LINEAGE
Finding Our True Lineage Returning to our inner intention. Being happy. There is a lineage calling within us all: it is our path to enlightenment. This isn’t an organisation or tradition; it’s an inner longing. It isn’t hope; it’s more … Continue reading
CLEAR IMITATION – CONFUSED IMITATION
Clear Imitation – Confused Imitation We have a choice of two paths in life: one is to follow organised confusion, and the other is to realise our original wisdom. We know what organised confusion is like as we live in … Continue reading
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SOFT AND HARD
Soft And Hard We don’t realise how hard and fixated we are about things. Anything hard snaps easily. Meditation – or remembering our true nature – brings about an unbreakable softness. We become more flexible. Wishing you many transmissions and … Continue reading
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ALWAYS RETURN TO FIRST PRINCIPLES
Always Return To First Principles Watching the breath cuts through circling thoughts. This brings us back to thought-free now. We become one with the breath. Breath is life. Life is spirit. Spirit is pure consciousness. We are this without thinking. … Continue reading
A SYSTEM IS A GOOD BEGINNING
A System Is A Good Beginning A system is a good beginning, but a system can make us passive and ‘samey’. In a system, we feel good and safe. We go through our routines and establish a basis to work … Continue reading
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REALISING EMPTINESS
Realising Emptiness It is so simple. Our eyes have tear ducts to keep them clean and clear. We are so used to this clarity that we don’t notice it, and ignore it … until the arrival of a speck of … Continue reading
BUDDHISM: LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS
Buddhism: Logical Conclusions Buddhism isn’t a religion. It is spiritual guidance for consciousness. Our salvation and sanity come through our own efforts to realise the truth about consciousness. We attain realisation through knowledge, not prayer. Through knowledge, we recognise the … Continue reading
TOO INTENSE?
Too Intense? Our ‘self’ is a construct, a programme received from our environmental conveyor belt. True spiritual teachings dismantle this self-belief. Without realising, we have had our minds numbed to our true reality. The shock of realising the confusion in … Continue reading
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HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
How To Make The World A Better Place See it differently. The world is a huge illusion built on cultural ideas and beliefs. Making an illusion better actually only makes it worse. We make the world better by seeing the … Continue reading
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THE SCALES FALL FROM OUR EYES
The Scales Fall From Our Eyes “Immediately, there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once.” Acts 9:18, New King James Version. Let the “scales fall from our eyes”. What does that really mean? How are we … Continue reading
THE MESSIAH COMPLEX
The Messiah Complex Hasn’t it caused a lot of problems in the world? Messiah: The anointed saviour who is said to bring the dead back to life, reuniting them with their souls. We know that this means different things to … Continue reading
TRUE SPIRITUALITY IS PRACTICAL
True Spirituality Is Practical True spirituality is practical because we know how to drop preconceived ideas and see directly.
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THE REALISATION OF SPIRITUALITY IS PRACTICAL
The Realisation of Spirituality Is Practical Practical Spirituality helps us to cope with life with a sensible and realistic approach to situations or problems, by means of clear observation without preconceived ideas. In the beginning was not a book: a book is someone else’s view. Never … Continue reading
ENLIGHTENMENT IS NEVER FORGETTING
Enlightenment Is Never Forgetting Once we recognise and realise that we are pure consciousness, that is the beginning of our spiritual path. Now, it is up to us to remember. The more we remember, the less we forget. It’s a … Continue reading
DREAM CATCHERS
Dream Catchers We are the dream catchers; we catch others’ dreams. Dreams are what happens in the mind when we are unaware, and we then act out the mind’s thoughts. It makes no difference whether we are conventional dreamers or … Continue reading
CONFUSION CREATES FUTILE DILIGENCE
Confusion Creates Futile Diligence Confuse: To make someone or something bewildered, more complex and less easy to understand. Confusion: The result of making someone confused. Spiritual texts suggest that we are confused because we ignore our true reality. Of course this is true, but we are … Continue reading
BEYOND EXTREMES
Beyond Extremes We are extremists if we believe anything. Holding onto ideas and beliefs denies the next moment of clear space. Without clarity, the next moment becomes smothered by the past, whereas the emptiness of clarity allows wisdom to be … Continue reading
IS THERE A UNIVERSAL, CREATIVE PRINCIPLE?
Is There A Universal, Creative Principle? If so, is that creative principle for our benefit, or is it a distraction? Is there more to our reality? We talk about God, Nature, Love, Self and Consciousness; are they all one? Do … Continue reading
WHEN THE PROGRAMME MALFUNCTIONS
When The Programme Malfunctions Whoopee! There are moments when we just don’t feel ‘right’. Unfortunately, we look for solace to get us back into the action in order to feel good. We have been bombarded from cradle to grave with … Continue reading
IT’S BEEN A CRINGEWORTHY LIFE
It’s Been A Cringeworthy Life Cringe: an inward shiver of embarrassment when thinking about our past actions. We follow others. We assumed a posture, but suddenly we don’t believe any of it any more. We remember all those things we did and … Continue reading
WHY DO WE IGNORE THE TRUTH?
Why Do We Ignore The Truth? We ignore the truth because, in knowing truth, we realise what isn’t true, and that will change our life. Because of our habitual clinging to our view on life, we choose to keep doing and … Continue reading
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Searching On This Site
There are over 2.500 posts on this site. If you do not find what you need, just write a key word in the search box at the bottom of this page, and see what comes up. If you still do … Continue reading
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IS THE VOICE OF GOD…A NYAM?
Is The Voice Of God … A Nyam? This isn’t meant to upset anyone; the intention is to clarify, and identify the mistakes that may happen when we become attached to experiences, believe in them, make rules about them and … Continue reading
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CAN INSPIRATION BECOME ENTERTAINMENT?
Can Inspiration Become Entertainment? We may get – and then seek out – nice feelings of bliss, clarity or absence of thoughts. But it’s never enough and we want more, and thus become attached to these experiences. In Tibetan, the word … Continue reading
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SPIRITUALITY IS A SCIENCE AND NOT A BELIEF
Spirituality Is A Science And Not A Belief Spirituality is a science, and not a belief. As children, are made to believe that we must believe. Spirituality is pure consciousness: we are pure consciousness and without that, we wouldn’t know … Continue reading
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TRUE HARMONY AND FALSE HARMONY
True Harmony And False Harmony Harmony: a combination that works as one. Unison: oneness. Conventional harmony and unison are temporary. Ultimate harmony and unison are our reality. True harmony comes from the realisation of inner unison. Harmony is being at one, but … Continue reading
ON FINDING NOTHING, WE HAVE ARRIVED
On Finding Nothing, We Have Arrived When we look for our mind and a self, nothing is found. All that is left is empty awareness. This is such a simple realisation that it is unbelievable! We have found what remains…pure … Continue reading
QUESTIONS OPEN THE MIND. STATEMENTS CLOSE IT.
Questions Open The mind. Statements Close It. Statements programme the mind, while questions release us from that programming. This is how we, in actuality, realise the path to enlightenment, rather than merely acquiring answers.
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LOST. FOUND. REALISED.
Lost. Found. Realised. When we do not know our true nature, then we are lost in a world of unknowing, and so we busy ourselves in life activities. When we find out about our true nature, then we are on … Continue reading
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DO WE EXIST OR NOT?
Do We Exist Or Not? What are we and what are we not? This is the very essence of spiritual questioning about what is real, and what is seemingly real. The truth about our reality and why we came into … Continue reading
SOMEONE CREATED SATAN
Someone Created Satan Satan – ‘Le-satan’ in Hebrew – means ‘to impede’, ‘to create an obstacle’, ‘ to cause adversity’, ‘to act out of mischief’. We all can do that 😀 Satan is our own likes and dislikes, But someone … Continue reading
ANGER AND EMPATHY ARE INSEPARABLE
Anger And Empathy Are Inseparable What makes us angry? It is obsessing about others’ obsessive behaviour. What makes us compassionate? It is the ability to empathise, because we know how it feels to be obsessive. So, when we recognise our … Continue reading
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THE OBJECT OF DESIRE
The Object Of Desire The object of desire is my satisfaction. Desire fills the emptiness of consciousness with dualistic ideas, creating an “I” with likes and dislikes. This is the cause of our suffering. In the yoga of one taste, … Continue reading
HOW “BRANDING” CONTROLS US
How “Branding” Controls Us Branding: to burn with a hot iron as a mark of ownership. For ‘Branding’, read programming. We are fed information, and this information is always biased; if we are of a certain frame of mind, it builds … Continue reading
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PROOF THAT WE ARE BEING INFLUENCED AND MANIPULATED
Proof That We Are Being Influenced And Manipulated We are taught to react, and cannot stop our self. In an experiment by Bangor University Psychology Laboratory, people were asked to press a button every time they saw a branded item … Continue reading
ARE WE COMPLICIT IN OVERTHROWING TRUTH?
Are We Complicit In Overthrowing Truth … Are we complicit in overthrowing truth by adopting a culture of ideas? Absolute truth is that which is always present, and that is pure consciousness. Anything that pure consciousness observes can never be … Continue reading
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POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY AFFECT OUR MIND
Positivity and Negativity Affect Our Mind Positivity and negativity – good and evil – are what life is all about. Clarity and whatever obscures that clarity; it is that simple. Positivity is seeing clearly and understanding a situation for the … Continue reading
INFLUENZA-ERS
Influenza-ers Persuading others to catch their virus The modern, scientific world knows the DNA of everything, including the mind. Science is now the Creator and Destroyer. If we know how to create something, then it stands to reason that we … Continue reading
DON’T CONFUSE EDUCATION WITH INTELLIGENCE
Don’t Confuse Education With Intelligence Education: the process of receiving systematic instruction. Intelligence: the natural ability to acknowledge or recognise truth. Education is acquired. Intelligence is intuitive insight. We need both mind and the heart, but the mind and heart have to … Continue reading
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Tagged compassoin, education, EMPATHY, Heart and Mind, intelligence, longing to communicate
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BRAINWASHING
Brainwashing The world brainwashes us. Our practice is to wash away the brainwashing. The soap is proper meditation; pure awareness noting all intrusions and letting go. The intrusions now become our teacher, reminding us that all indoctrinations have no reality. … Continue reading
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 