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- WHAT THE BUDDHA DIDN’T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH June 26, 2026
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- 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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MEDITATION DOESN’T MAKE US OBLIVIOUS
Meditation Doesn’t Make Us Oblivious Meditation is being aware all the time. Some people believe that meditation means being oblivious – being unaware of what is going on around them. Maybe there are traditions were one becomes totally absorbed, but … Continue reading
SPIRITUAL PATHS SHOULD HEAL OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL NEUROSES…
Spiritual Paths Should Heal Our Psychological Neuroses… …rather then cover them up Spirituality is the practical study of our psychological make up and beyond, to undo our neuroses rather than creating more. The essence of any teaching – rather than … Continue reading
FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART 1
Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 1 Before we start a journey, we have to know where we are going, and why we’re going there. This is especially true with our spiritual journey – the journey within consciousness – … Continue reading
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FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART 2
Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 2 The uniqueness of Dzogchen (the Tibetan word for pure awareness/pure consciousness) is the realisation of the goal without a journey. It’s not the only system: there is a plethora of spiritual traditions … Continue reading
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FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART3
Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 3 There are many spiritual paths offering vertical approaches to spirituality, where we do this and then this, and we get this – if we are lucky. The ‘lateral’ approach to spirituality is … Continue reading
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FINDING THE BUDDHA IN THE MUD PART 4
Finding The Buddha In The Mud Part 4 Ordinary words convey conventional meanings, but those very same words can also have an extraordinary meaning. This extraordinary meaning cuts through the neurolinguistics we have adopted (neurolinguistics is the study of the neural mechanisms in … Continue reading
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HOW DO WE VALUE TRUTH?
How Do We Value Truth? Even though we may recognise and acknowledge that ultimate truth is pure consciousness, it’s sometimes difficult to appreciate something so ordinary – ordinary in the sense of not being anything, without characteristics, just clear. Being clear doesn’t … Continue reading
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KARMA IS OUR UNDOING!
Karma Is Our Undoing! Karma is our fixations about whatever we think we are. It creates our moods, where we are comfortably numb to our – and others’ – reality. Noticing this illusion cuts through all that crap. Acknowledging that … Continue reading
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GOD WILL COME
God Will Come We will ultimate find God when we stop looking, and see. Silence is an eloquent teaching. In that, we ultimately find God. In silence, God comes. Words obscure. God is absolute consciousness, which is pure consciousness. But … Continue reading
BIG BANG OR BIG GOD?
Big Bang or Big God? Neither! In an infinite universe of infinite space, how could one big bang suddenly decide to happen without a cause? If there was a cause, then there was something present before. Likewise, why did a … Continue reading
MIND-FULL OF EMPTINESS
Mind-Full of Emptiness This is the path to enlightenment: the complete picture. There are two aspects to complete enlightenment: one is consciousness-awareness and the other is its purity of emptiness. There are also two ways of coming to this realisation. … Continue reading
WE ARE ALL UNIQUE
We Are All Unique We may all be pure consciousness, but we are all wired differently (due to karma) and so, we express differently. Even though we may be pure consciousness, we don’t all co-mingle into one huge mass (although … Continue reading
SEEING THE TEACHER AS THE BUDDHA
Seeing The Teacher As The Buddha … …is a cultural hot potato! It depends our aptitude: Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga or Jnana yoga? Bhakti yoga is the path of devotion – adore the guru. Karma yoga is the path of … Continue reading
THE POWER OF EMPTINESS
The Power Of Emptiness It is in the power of the realisation of emptiness that the dualistic patterns of consciousness cease to be able to function. Without the realisation of emptiness, consciousness will continue to express itself, but in a … Continue reading
I MET THE DEVIL LAST NIGHT
I Met The Devil Last Night … and the devil’s name was bureaucracy. Bureaucracy creates the word. The word becomes interpreted. Interpretation creates chaos. The devil laughs at this chaos, as we become part of his order. Order out of … Continue reading
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LED TO BELIEVE
Led To Believe Led to believe … and we believe How’s that for a magic trick? How’s that for neurolinguistic programming?! Demonic activity: “And for my next trick, you will believe that your beliefs are your own ideas”. Belief: an acceptance that something exists or is true, without proof.
‘I’ AND EGO
‘I’ and Ego These are not separate entities. The word ‘I’ comes from the Greek ‘ego’. Ego is a self-identification to which consciousness clings. A lie must have an element of truth in it to be believed. We are led to … Continue reading
TOGAL IS AS NATURAL AS WE CAN BE
Togal Is As Natural As We Can Be What is Togal? First, we are introduced to the essence of mind, which is emptiness. Then, we are introduced to cutting through thoughts arising in emptiness. Finally, the qualities of the view … Continue reading
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IF PHENOMENA WERE REAL
If Phenomena Were Real It takes time to get one’s head around this! If all phenomena were real, then phenomena would be permanent, andnever change. Everything would be frozen. If phenomena changes, then phenomena has no permanent reality and so, … Continue reading
TURNING CONCEPTS ON THEIR HEAD
Turning Concepts On Their Head From the ordinary, relative point of view, the enlightened attitude is extraordinary. From the enlightened point of view, the relative attitude is extraordinary. From the enlightened point of view enlightened view is being ordinary. From … Continue reading
WHAT IS THIS EVIL IN OUR WORLD?
What Is This Evil In Our World? What is this evil in our world? It’s us! What is this goodness in our world? It’s us! We have two potentials: enlightenment and endarkenment. Simply put, we all have a dark side … Continue reading
BUYING INTO THE PACKAGE
Buying Into The Package – Materially And Spiritually “The package: to accept that an idea is right and allow it to influence you.” The Buddha’s main point was not to take his word that you are pure consciousness; see for yourself! This is why … Continue reading
THERE’S NO I?
There’s No I? That’s confusing – and little upsetting – isn’t it? Here, we have to tread the path of the middle way – not too tight and not too loose. Saying there is no I does not mean that … Continue reading
DO WE HAVE TO BE SPECIAL TO BE SPIRITUAL?
Do We Have To Be Special To be Spiritual? The Buddha saw that everyone has Buddha nature, but we’re asleep. The word ‘Buddha’ merely means awake and pure, so from that point of view, no one is special … equally, … Continue reading
NO ONE BECAME ENLIGHTENED BY MEDITATING
No One Became Enlightened By Meditating “No one became enlightened by meditating: they became enlightened by dropping the meditation.” Meditation is the method to come to stillness in the mind, to arrive at empty essence, to realise the non-duality that … Continue reading
WE BECAME BEWILDERED …
We Became Bewildered … and lost track of ourselves, our true nature. We are extremely subtle, pure consciousness that became bewildered about itself and so we downgraded into gross consciousness. This is how sentient beings take on a form to … Continue reading
EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS OUR TEACHER
Everyone and Everything is Our Teacher And this is how life becomes worthwhile and delightful! This not about having a worthwhile and delightful life in the physical material world. It is about being able to see and recognise that pure … Continue reading
THE TRUTH IS NOTHING NEW
The Truth Is Nothing New The truth is as old as the infinite universe, in any dimension. What is this truth that is as old as the infinite universe, in any dimension? It is that which perceives this infinite universe, … Continue reading
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THE STRONG SERVE THE WEAK
The Strong Serve The Weak In a good world, the strong serve the weak: confident compassion. In a bad world, the weak serve the strong: insecure subservience. In a good world, the weak can realise their potential. In a bad … Continue reading
EVIL IS SUBTLE
Evil is Subtle Evil creates and reconditions our karma. We all have the potential for enlightenment, but there is a darker part of the human condition, which we could call selfishness, or ‘evil’. Evil needs a cause in order to … Continue reading
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SECULAR, SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF REALITY
Secular, Systematic Examination Of Reality We don’t have to be religious or spiritual to experience our primary nature of consciousness. Secular examination is based on our human faculties of logic, empathy, reason and moral intuition, none of which are derived from supernatural revelations. We see, … Continue reading
“THAT’S TOO DEEP FOR ME!”
“That’s Too Deep For Me” People are fooled into believing that they cannot see “That’s too deep for me!”This is a phrase I often hear when the subject of consciousness is brought up in conversations. I explain that consciousness is … Continue reading
WHY I STOPPED WORRYING ABOUT TOGAL
Why I Stopped Worrying About Togal I gave up on Togal – the great mystery of gazes and visions – to just concentrate on seeing clearly … it’s far simpler! Better the devil you know, than the devil you don’t! … Continue reading
THE DUALISTS
The Dualists We sentient humans live and believe in a state of duality. Duality means two. Everything is related to me. In spiritual terms, consciousness is always relating to something. Me and other. This is so ‘normal’ for humans that … Continue reading
DOUBT
Doubt A feeling of uncertainty. Doubt everything. Gain confidence in the doubt. Until the moment of enlightenment, we will have doubt. 😀 It is in the awareness of the doubt that we can trust. We cannot doubt awareness. . .
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WHY DON’T WE WAKE UP?
Why Don’t We Wake Up? “I am awake!” We only think we are awake. We are as awake as in a dream. Being awake is being awake to reality, rather than a seeming reality. All perception takes place in the brain among … Continue reading
CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE GO-BETWEEN
Consciousness is the Go-Between … the messenger Consciousness goes between that which is perceived and the realisation of pure, inner essence. If the messenger gets distracted by outer phenomena, it loses contact with the pure, inner, absolute sovereign and becomes … Continue reading
HUMANITY’S MENTAL HEALTH
Humanity’s Mental Health A war on humanity Good mental health is the number one priority for humanity: with this we can cope with anything. But when we look around, we see that our minds are constantly being bombarded to create … Continue reading
OUR MENTAL HEALTH
Our Mental Heath Life is all about good mental health. With a healthy, peaceful mind, we can cope with anything. How do we get started on our quest? First, we need a question. When we’re young, we are attacked by … Continue reading
TREKCHO
Trekcho Can we liberate our thoughts? Can we stop being controlled by thoughts? Can we stop our habitual tendencies? Can we stop being ‘us’? Yes. But it’s not so easy to stay liberated 🙂 This is because we identify with the … Continue reading
LIVING NATURALLY IS A THREAT…
Living Naturally Is A Threat … … to a busy life. We have totally lost the plot when we are fed on strife and stress, and arrive, exhausted, at death. Modern life destroys a sense of season. Live with the … Continue reading
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“I FORGOT”
“I Forgot” Knowing that we forgot, we remember. No need to feel bad. No need for low self esteem. We are free in the moment that we see we are not free. In a single moment, we fall into dreaming. … Continue reading
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COMMUNION
Communion Communion is that which we have in common. Communion is in silence, not in expression. And silence is pure consciousness, empty of self. Empty of self and other, there is no me, and no God. This what the mystics … Continue reading
THE REALITY and THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
The Reality and The Merry-Go-Round We desire to be enlightened, and/or we are averse to suffering. These two emotions – desire and aversion – derive from ignorance; ignorance of our true reality, which is pure consciousness, pure being. These emotions … Continue reading
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TRIVIA IN OUR MIND
Trivia in Our Mind Engaging in trivia fills our mind with trivia. This imprisons us with irrelevancies, and so our minds become a product of our environment. While we are so engaged, machinations are at work to imprison us further. … Continue reading
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YOUR MIND IS NOT YOUR CHOICE
The Content of Your Mind Is Not Your Choice A student asks about going through mental anguish, and Sadhguru explains that“the content of your mind is not your choice.” Our mind is the product of our environment, and goes everywhere … Continue reading
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DOES ENLIGHTENMENT HAPPEN GRADUALLY, OR WITH A BIG BANG?
Does Enlightenment Happen Gradually, Or With A Big Bang? Sadhguru “When the season is right the flowers will bloom, and mangoes will come!” “If you do the right things, the right things will happen to you.” “Enlightenment does not suddenly … Continue reading
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THE CONSEQUENCE OF HAVING NO GOAL TO REACH
The Consequence Of Having No Goal To Reach This puts us at odds with 6,020,000,000 billion peoplewho believe that there isa goal; who were told about a heaven and believe in that. If others believe something we do not, then … 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. 