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Nothing To Discuss? People say that, in the Dharma, there is nothing to discuss. There is. In silent practice, there is no discussion. In post-meditation, however, there is the opportunity to verify our practice through our relationships with others. Turning … Continue reading →

What Really Is Happiness? Happiness is knowing.Unhappiness is not knowing, which causes suffering. Knowing what?Not knowing what; just knowing. Just knowing is cognisant emptiness. The moment of being awareness, before we are aware.It’s our natural state. That is being happy. … Continue reading →

Why Some People Are Disliked Not being liked by everyone is an age-old occurrence that has very little to do with doing something wrong, and almost everything to do with how people filter the world. When a person simply sees … Continue reading →

Dharma Isn’t Something Rigid Dharma’s supposed to be liberating. Dzogchen in the Tibetan Nyingma tradition = pure consciousness beyond words. We are Dzogchen.We are beyond words. It doesn’t matter what we call ourselves,we are not that.

The Voice Of The Subtle Body There is a silent feeling within. It’s always been there. It is a quiet background feeling that we are meant for something specific – a longing for a place we can’t name, or a … Continue reading →

Life Seems Like Hell, But It’s Actually A Blessing This paradox is one of the most profound realisations a person can reach. When we can look at an experience that feels like hell and recognise it as a blessing, we’re … Continue reading →

Dementia And Consciousness This is a profound realisation. People with dementia are still fully conscious, but have little memory. This captures the profound challenge of dementia and dealing with it. Individuals living with this condition are fully conscious sentient human … Continue reading →

Beyond Comprehension Comprehend: to grasp, to mentally understand .Chasing comprehension has always been our mental trap. Pure consciousness is incomprehensible. So is the infinite universe, and so are infinite subtle particles, and the laws of subtle particles. As it’s all … Continue reading →

Being Aware Of Awareness Versus Being Awareness A very subtle difference. Being aware of awareness is a split, a duality;we (consciousness) are observing being aware. Purely being awareness is non-duality;there is just consciousness. This can only be realised in non-meditation.Non-meditation … Continue reading →

Being Taken In By Daily Life Maintains The Illusion When daily life becomes mechanical, these habits dictate our attitude, locking us into a fixed way of thinking that cuts us off from our true reality. We become busy bees, exhausting … Continue reading →

Pointing To Consciousness And Missing The Point A couple of days ago, there was an article here about the finger pointing to the moon as consciousness, and mistaking the finger (instruction) for consciousness itself. Just in case this vital point … Continue reading →

We Don’t Have To Be Great Meditators We don’t have to be great meditators, sitting cross-legged for hours and hours. We just ‘get it’ when meditation reveals that we are empty cognisance which carries on throughout daily life. We are … Continue reading →

The Mind Is Full Of Illusions The mind has a supply of illusions that we refill and reinforce every day. Thoughts have no reality.Words have no reality. Reality refers to the state of things as they actually exist, rather than … Continue reading →

Interacting With Mental Boundaries We all talk from a limited library of assumptions due to a lack of experience – and especially a lack of conscious awareness. People are just repeating machines/biological AI. Even when they’re considered to be ‘experts’, … Continue reading →

Are We The Baddies? 🙂Have you ever thought you’re on the wrong side? We take it for granted that we are the good. Well, we follow all the rules, don’t we? Have you ever considered that the rules are effectively … Continue reading →

How Do You Know You Aren’t Brainwashed? The moment when you realise that you are.🙂 The paradox of psychological conditioning is that we can’t truly know that we’re brainwashed until the precise moment we begin to realise that we are. … Continue reading →

The Finger Pointing To The Moon Religions start with someone looking directly at the moon (pure consciousness). Every major spiritual tradition begins with a founder who has a direct experience of reality – a moment of profound awakening or divine … Continue reading →

What Is Proxy? A proxy is a stand-in, someone who acts as a substitute or representative for something else. It’s a tool designed to bridge a gap when the real thing is too far away, too complex or too confusing … Continue reading →

The Proxy Trap Proxy: the authority to represent someone The proxy trap is the ultimate metaphor for our blind spot. The moon is the ultimate truth or reality, while the finger is the proxy. When a finger points towards the horizon, the goal is … Continue reading →

The Word Consciousness Is Not In Any Bible The word ‘consciousness’ does not appear in the Bible in any traditional translation.Bibles are just words, and words divert consciousness. When we become conscious, we become awake.When we argue about words, it … Continue reading →

Being Watched, Being Predicted Profiling is used to predict and subtly influence our future consumer behaviour – the ideas to which we conform. As long as we play their games, we’re hooked. Here’s the trap.Once we recognise that we’re being … Continue reading →

The State Of Our Mind Whatever we fill our minds with affects the way in which we live our life and how we interact. The essence of mind is pure consciousness; it’s the clarity, confidence and inner peace of our … Continue reading →

The More We Realise, The More Everyone Is Strange The closer we look at humanity, the ‘normal’ dissolves into an illusion. The more we realise how misguided people are, the more we understand how everyone is strange. When we look … Continue reading →

The Antidote To Not Knowing Is Knowing If we ask people about knowing, they’ll say, “I know this, and I know that.” This is the collective trap of samsara. People talk about things they’ve learnt, but this is not knowingness. … Continue reading →

Tenacity Rewards Realisation of our true essence is not an accidental epiphany; it is a profound transformation arising through rigorous unyielding practice. There are steps or levels to transcend, but this isn’t about something to learn. It’s about the quality … Continue reading →

Too Dry Or Too Wet Some teachers want to be our chum, and some are just about text. Neither of these is the middle way. A teacher must make sure we get it (unless we aren’t actually listening and just … Continue reading →

Spiritual Intellectualism A teacher can cause inadvertent harm by simply parroting texts, reciting complex philosophies and passing down lineages without grounding students in the raw messy reality of daily life. 🙂 This creates an illusion of Dharma, because it looks … Continue reading →

Our Life Is The Result Of Our Past Decisions Our decisions are the result of our environment which gives rise to our desires and aversions – our likes and dislikes, and that which we don’t care about. It’s harsh to … Continue reading →

This Will Either Liberate Or … ? The first three pieces of advice from the Kalama Sutracould upset some people. The Kalama Sutra is a famous discourse of the Buddha, found in the Anguttara Nikaya of the Pali Canon. Often … Continue reading →

When You Get To Heaven … When you get to heaven,what are you going to do? The same as you’re doing now?If so, then heaven is now.

The Most Profound Advice Our understanding of the profound advice of the Buddha will depend on our background and the build-up to this moment. For me, it was realising that suffering was due to the environment we lived in which … Continue reading →

Confidence Has No Attitude Confidence has no attitude or orientation towards others’ behaviour. It merely notes. True confidence generates ultimate empathy in understanding why something or someone is a certain way. Confidence in the Dharma is just perceiving / pure … Continue reading →

The Awe-ful Teacher Awe is a feeling of profound respect, wonder and reverence, often mixed with a touch of fear. We experience it when we encounter true power. Joining a new spiritual group can inspire awe initially, but the illusion … Continue reading →

Not Seeing The Forest For The Trees Not realising the truth of consciousnessfor the words about consciousness. This idiom describes losing sight of the big picture because we’re bogged down by minor details. Once we see the big picture, insight … Continue reading →

The Catch In The Bardo = The Winds Of Karma Wherever we think we’re going after death, nothing is a certainty. It’s the same as wondering what will happen tomorrow. We just believe. While the Bardo text says that, after … Continue reading →

Watered-Down Dharma It’s easily done. Dharma is active consciousness. When Dharma manifests as form and ritual, it then becomes reactive Dharma. We transition from active to reactive when intellectual comfort replaces sincere enquiry and genuine generosity, patience, morality, discipline and … Continue reading →

The Constants There are certain constants in the universe: space, dust/gases, the laws of attraction and repulsion (magnetism) and consciousness. Are they interconnected? Unenlightened consciousness looks for a home – a planet, a host; the right conditions according to karma, … Continue reading →

Gurus Are People, And People Are Gurus Gurus repeat text; people are practical text in all conditions. While gurus repeat text for us to digest, our observation of ordinary people’s reactions puts those words into context. Insight doesn’t belong to … Continue reading →

Doubt And Confidence Confusion can arise in our mind when we have either too much doubt or too much confidence. Too much doubt inhibits progress as we overthink something, and too much confidence hinders progress as we rely on past … Continue reading →

Having Someone To Talk To Making a connection. It’s important to have someone to talk to, rather than just quoting text at one another. Finding a person who can actually listen is rare. We all spend our lives talking, but … Continue reading →

Mistaking Distractions For Purpose We live a life of reactions, mistaking immediate distractions and external demands for our true purpose. We may think we’re doing our duty, but duty to what? Job? Family? Culture? When inner peace and clarity are … Continue reading →

We Adopt A Story When we don’t know what we are, we use our history to create a persona for ourselves. This happens when we’re very young through good and bad trauma. “Good boy!” and “Bad boy!” creates a ghost … Continue reading →

Sanity Is Wisdom When wisdom is lacking, so is sanity. We see the political, scientific and religious madness of massive egos reflected everywhere – even in ordinary people’s conversations. There is a completely disconnection from reality; we know that wisdom … Continue reading →

Sociology And The Dharma Sociology is the study of how people behave.Dharma is the study of why people behave. The nature of constructsand the nature of reality. Although an excellent method to clear the mind of social engineering, just sitting … Continue reading →

Living In Our Bubble Living in the bubble of our mind points to a rigid structure of predictability, and is a tell-tale sign of pride. When we steer a conversation back to what we know – our favourite topics – … Continue reading →

Feedback Is Vital For Progress We learn through others’ responses to us. Our reaction to that response should be non-judgemental and objective. Whether that reaction is positive, negative or neutral, it’s all about what happens in our mind. When we … Continue reading →

Pure Consciousness Is Innocent We all know – we have always known – but were led to believe instead. Our original state of pure consciousness merely observes, but because it ignores its original state, it becomes caught up in ideologies … Continue reading →

The Ultimate Psyops The most dangerous thing about AI is that it makes people doubt everything and/or become dependent. Once we accept that AI is all knowing, it can also change the meaning of words – without us noticing. When … Continue reading →

Waking Up Is Disturbing When we wake up to our true reality of pure consciousness, we see what motivates people: desire, aversion and ignorance. Communication seems impossible because there’s no clarity as they’re still governed by whatever they like, don’t … Continue reading →