Author Archives: tony

Dear Oh Dear, Don’t They Make It Complicated? Complication can hide the simple truth that we are pure consciousness; the truth that we seek. It is from that, that everything flows. There is nothing in inner peace but inner peace.

From Absurdities To Atrocities To Realisation It is truly amazing that we can all see things differently while ‘clear seeing’ itself remains the same. We are all the same Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, original consciousness of purity. Ignoring this pure … Continue reading →

Where Do Our Thoughts Come From? Or rather, where does our programming come from? When we perceive anything, this perception takes place in the mind, and we end up with a reservoir of information, causing the brain to wire in … Continue reading →

Ultimate Nostalgia Nostalgic for what? We all have this longing to be in the right place. But what is this right place? If we look, we will realise that the right place is in that recognition. The right place is not about a place … Continue reading →

How We Sentence Ourselves Whatever views, thoughts, concepts, opinions and fixations we hold on to at this moment will be the basis of our next moment and, for most of us, our entire lives, unfortunately. Holding on to thoughts that … Continue reading →

Seeing, and Then I See Seeing, and then I see. Perception, and then I perceive. There is an extremely subtle difference here. When consciousness does not realise its own nature of purity and instead perceives something, consciousness starts to narrate about whatever … Continue reading →

Tea, Not The Tea Cup “When we want tea, we aren’t bothered about the cup it comes in. Likewise, the Dharma we want is the teaching on the nature of reality: the culture it comes with does not matter. We … Continue reading →

OM MANI PEME HUM is a Mnemonic Mnemonics are an aid to memory The mantra, OM MANI PEME HUM, represents compassion within wisdom. This compassionate wisdom is directed towards what is happening in our own minds, and the minds of others. … Continue reading →

How Everything is Perfect How is everything perfect, when the people are ignoring reality? If we do not sharpen our tool, the cut will not be clean. We know that a blunt tool will produce a ragged edge: this is … Continue reading →

Can’t Meditate? Simply rest in whatever takes place in the mind, in whatever happens. In the very moment of recognition of being aware lies the moment of empty cognisance, pure awareness, Rigpa. Just note and realise that is one’s true … Continue reading →

How Do We Experience Our True Nature? The reason that we do not experience our true nature is that there is so much going on our minds to distract us. Whatever we see, we immediately judge by relating to memory … Continue reading →

Upgrading Our Teacher To teach means to point out, to show: “Look! See!” But it is wewho have to look and see. And what we are seeing is that we are this seeing. The teacher can only show us generalised … Continue reading →

The Perception Trap It is through perception that we navigate the world, but it’s also easy to forget who is navigating! In the very first instant of perception, perception is non-conceptual. There is just seeing, hearing etc, so that we … Continue reading →

We Reincarnate At Every Moment As sentient beings, we become addicted to a programme that we have created and which we relive again and again, unconscious of our true potential. It is the practice of awakening to consciousness that leads … Continue reading →

The Gap Between Thoughts This is where we will find and realise emptiness – pure consciousness, the natural state of rest free of mental turbulence or dullness. We normally oscillate between thoughts and this gap of emptiness, but miss this … Continue reading →

“I Am Nothing Without My Opinions” It is our opinions and concepts that create the fixations with which we identify as a self. Because of these ideas to which we cling, we limit our true potential. “But, I need to … Continue reading →

If You Don’t Find What You’re Looking For … 😀 … just make a suggestion in the comments section and we can see what manifests. Or go privately to buddhainthemud@hotmail.com Of course, you know the answer will be, “You are … Continue reading →

Nothing Else When we hear about enlightenment/pure consciousness, we are being enlightened about our true nature. We are being made aware of the potential of our true nature. The next stage is to practise without distraction to become aware of … Continue reading →

Life Of A Thousand Traumatic Cuts Trauma is normally thought of as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that leaves a long term effect on our mind. We may think that this is a rare occurrence of those in extreme circumstances but, when we look … Continue reading →

We Really Do Need To Train Our Mind … First! If we don’t train our mind to be still and silent, it will lack the clarity needed to recognise and realise the truth of the teachings. With training, we experience … Continue reading →

Synopsis for Book Thanks to Marcel who collated some articles a year ago with the idea of producing a book, we have recently completed this process (it’s taken a year with updates and adjustments), and the project is now being … Continue reading →

If The Truth Is That We Are One With God If the truth is that we are one with God, then we have never been separated from God. It is belief that separates us. To believe is to deny oneness. … Continue reading →

Time To See Differently It’s not that pure consciousness is extremely subtle; it is that conventional consciousness is so thick with concepts. We make up, adopt, cling to and build on an illusion that creates confusion and therefore, everything seems to … Continue reading →

Catching Demons That Don’t Exist Demons are consciousness clinging to ideas that create ‘myself’; this is demonic because these ideas rob us of knowing our true reality of pure consciousness. Demons distract consciousness away from itself. That’s what demons do … Continue reading →

Release From The Collective Consciousness We can’t think ourselves outside the box because it is thinking that keeps us inside the box 😉 Outside the box, there is merely pure observation of pure consciousness. That is our reality, rather than thoughts … Continue reading →

Is Spiritual Practice Confusing? The point of spiritual practice is to come to rest in the primordial purity of the spontaneous presence of consciousness. In other words, just to be what we truly are. We can all do that, if … Continue reading →