Author Archives: tony

How We Realise Ultimate Truth Look into the one who is looking. Look into the one who is questioning. Look into the one who is hearing thoughts. “Surely it cannot be that simple!” Who says? Study and ritual are symbolic … Continue reading →

Inspiration From An Insidious Source Insidious: mid 16th century from Latin insidiosus ‘cunning’, from insidiae ‘an ambush or trick’, from insidere ‘to lie in wait for’. Deliberate memes create our norm. Meme: an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means. We meditate … Continue reading →

Emptiness Is All You Need, To Know When the mind is free of bias, the view is clear. In emptiness, my likes, my dislikes, my carelessness are clearly recognised. We can also recognise when others’ are imposing their likes, dislikes … Continue reading →

This Person Isn’t Me Person: from Old French persone, from Latin persona; ‘actor’s mask, character in a play’ Later- human being. So what am I? We are not exactly that which is aware of this persona, this mask: that is ordinary consciousness. On a subtler … Continue reading →

The Two Aspects of Our Being The pure, empty spirit of cognisant consciousness, and reflections of thoughts and images. Our absolute being is like an clear mirror that reflects everything without comment. When this pure consciousness (absolute truth) attaches itself … Continue reading →

Dealing With An Agitated Mind Simply be aware of that which is aware of the agitation, and rest that clarity. The same goes for all emotions. Knowing that the Sanskrit word for ‘suffering’ is ‘duhkha’ doesn’t help, does it? There … Continue reading →

Adaptability is the Definition of Intelligence If we are not adaptable, then we are fixated. Whatever appears in a fixated mind is a threat. Whatever appears in an open mind is wisdom. Ultimately, an open mind is pure consciousness, empty … Continue reading →

Spiritually Empty? Well, you can’t get better than that! Em Ah Ho! (how wonderful) …what were you expecting?! 😀

Is There a Universal Creator? How did it all begin? We have a distortion in our perception that creates an illusion. Realising this illusion is the path to enlightened wisdom. Most of us don’t bother with the question, “Is there … Continue reading →

Practice Is More Important Than Knowledge Through practice, we realise the wisdom-knowledge within. Outer knowledge is theory. Inner realisation born of wisdom manifests as genuine empathetic compassion. That is the spiritual litmus test. When stillness walks into a room, we know … Continue reading →

The Name Of This Blog I wanted to call the blog, “Buddhas In The Mud”, in the sense that we are all Buddhas dwelling in the mud of concepts. But when spoken, that could sound like, “Buddha’s In The Mud”, … Continue reading →

Robot To Preach At Buddhist Temple “Kannon” is designed to attract young people to a Kyoto temple. The question is, “Why?” Is the path of believing a machine the path to believing any machine? And who writes the data? And at what … Continue reading →

The Very Delicate Matter of Inspiration Inspiration is connection: “Eureka! I found it!” We recognise. The moment we connect, we have arrived, and there is no longer a need to hold on to whatever or whoever inspired us. We are … Continue reading →

Realising Spirit Our problem is not, not connecting to spirit. Our problem is spirit attaching itself to mental activity. Some call our essential nature ‘spirit’, higher self, pure consciousness or God. This not only implies that there is something to … Continue reading →

It Is Imperative That We Wake Up… and recognise the illusions The DNA of the mind; the genetic information and characteristics – physical or mental – that are passed from one generation to another. How easily we conform to being manipulated, and then pass this behaviour on … Continue reading →

When We Know, Then We Cannot Not Know If we think that things just happen, then we will remain deluded. When we know that there is a cause for everything, then we will recognise and be prepared.

When Simplicity Becomes Complexity Ultimately, truth is incomprehensible because it is non-dual experience. Comprehension comes afterwards, when truth is realised. Words are then sought to describe the inexpressible. Ultimate truth is simplicity itself. To the uninitiated, this seems incomprehensible, and … Continue reading →

The Two Features of Thoughts Most people identify with their thoughts to such an extent that they believe they are the accumulation of all their thoughts, and are proud of this. In reality, thoughts are merely mental programming that has … Continue reading →

Unity Does Not Mean Uniformity We can have unity in diversity. We are all one common element – and that is pure consciousness – but we are unique in methods of realisation and expression. There is oneness in realisation, but … Continue reading →

The Weakness Of Evil Is Arrogance It speaks for its self.