Author Archives: tony

Just How Gullible Are People? Gullible: easily persuaded to believe. How does this happen?We are led to believe from birth, and we go on believing.

Let’s Start From The Beginning … Again It’s the place to be! We want to be happy, but we aren’t. We seek something better, but we can’t find it. We know there is more to us, but we can’t verbalise … Continue reading →

Consciousness Gives Purpose To Life It is essential to recognise consciousness which gives purpose to life. Otherwise, we are just being entertained/distracted by those who don’t want us to recognise our true reality. Why not? Because they would have no … Continue reading →

The Power Of Entertainment/Education Entertainment is the ancient craft of communicating by telling stories, be they in images or words. It is the means by which people pass on their cultural values, The entertainment industry – which has been adapted to suit any … Continue reading →

The Difference Between Mimicry And Understanding Mimicry: quoting and acting like others. Understanding: direct, raw experience. Raw: strong and undisguised, frank and realistic.

Meditation In Action When we hear or read information but don’t have actual experience, we become talkative to compensate for our lack of understanding. We guess, believe, assume, have opinions – all of which are acceptance without experience that leads … Continue reading →

Wearing Our Self Out There comes a time when we’re fed up with the way we all react. It’s like everyone is addicted to a tradition of some sort to all think the same way. They may seem happy enough … Continue reading →

Don’t Make It Academic Or Religious Don’t make it academic or religious – ‘it’ being our natural state of pure consciousness. If we make this into something, we turn off the light of clarity, and become heavy and serious.

Sanitising Informatiion Sanitising information is removing data from the mind, and replacing it with another version to make something acceptable/believable. Euphemisms are used to play down information likely to disturb people. No! Wake them up to the reality! A lie … Continue reading →

What Gives Me Sorrow? What gives me sorrow? What gives me joy? What gives me sorry is the tap leaking and I don’t know why, and I can’t afford a plumber. What gives me joy is understanding, on investigation, why … Continue reading →

The Unprofitable Workings Of This World How weary and unprofitable are the workings of this world. In an unweeded garden, gross things grow.  (sort of borrowed from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.) This sentiment turns our mind to deeper things.

Different People Say Different Things We hear a lot different things, so we have to choose what makes sense to us. The important thing is not to criticise others because that comes from a reaction in our mind, and we … Continue reading →

Not Believing Can Get You Arrested The power of belief is to make people stupid. There are those who believe the world is flat. To say otherwise is said to cause them harassment, alarm and distress – which in itself … Continue reading →

Fool Me Twice Fool me once, shame on them. Fool me twice, shame on me. After being tricked once, we should learn from our mistakes and avoid being tricked in the same way again. But we’re fooled into reacting, time and time again. It is our reactions that … Continue reading →

Our Intelligence Reveals Our Stupidity We may know about this and that, and even be experts about this and that, but how much wisdom is there? How much E.Q. = emotional quotient = control of our mind? We learn to … Continue reading →

What Is the Point Of Miracles? What’s the point of a rainbow body (where the physical body transmutes into light), walking on water, leaving footprints in rocks … ? When miracles are hearsay, they are pointless. They may be real, … Continue reading →

The Wrong Shopping List Realising our enlightened essence isn’t out of reach; it’s already present. But this essence is piled high with concepts in the mind. Our problem is eliminating the heap of ideas we’ve borrowed from others’ ‘shopping lists’. … Continue reading →

What Adam And Eve Were Told When Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, this meant that our pure state of consciousness is beyond good and evil. Good and evil … Continue reading →

We All Suffer From Exaggeration Exaggeration creates more exaggeration and sentimentality to bolster self-esteem, the building blocks of a demonic mind. Exaggeration: from Latin exaggerat- ‘heaped up’. Originally meant ‘pile up, accumulate’ – later, ‘intensify praise or blame’. Exaggeration is the representation of something as … Continue reading →

Diversity Diversity: from Latin divertere ‘turn aside’. To divert. Diversity: different beliefs create a culture of a country. It is obvious that trade between cultures is the story of enriching world history, but promoting diversity over the host population creates tension and doubt, causing people … Continue reading →

Created Or Just Is? In an infinite universe, there can be no creator, as there can be no beginning to start from. This is difficult for a materialistic mind to comprehend as creation / creating is the only thing in … Continue reading →

Realisation Is A Private Matter Private: from Latin privatus‘withdrawn from public life’. This private matter then extends to public life: we remember the silent withdrawal, and engage with others from there.

Realisation Is A Private Matter Private: from Latin privatus‘withdrawn from public life’. This private matter then extends to public life: we remember the silent withdrawal, and engage with others from there.

How To Meditate We can become caught up in ideas about meditation: sitting in a special posture on a special cushion in a special room, burning special incense … Meditation is remembering to be aware. We can do this anywhere, … Continue reading →

We Can Learn Everything From Everyone We can learn from everyone, including our self, because, within every sentient being, there is both goodness and pride. Pride is our downfall. Humility is our safety net. The term ‘humility’ comes from the Latin word humilitas, translated as … Continue reading →

Opposites Are A Unity Mara activity wants us to think there are two sides which divide us. You can fool most of the people most of the time, but not all the people all the time. Left/right, up/down, light/dark, heaven/hell, … Continue reading →

Our Eyes Do Not Lie ! Our eyes do not lie. Neither do our ears, tongue, nose, skin. It’s our interpretation and bias that changes what we see. Our reality is pure perception, but our perception can become skew-whiff (not … Continue reading →

Interested But Not Attached With the realisation of our true reality of pure awareness, we see directly, but respond differently from the way we responded before. We now see the cause behind the cause, and don’t become excited, hyped-up or … Continue reading →