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 Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s Easter Retreat 2020 THE TENDERNESS OF TRUE COMPASSION Bookings have now opened for this year’s UK retreat led by Tsoknyi Rinpoche It will run from 30th March – 5th April. at Bruton School for Girls, Somerset, UK Book … Continue reading →

I Can’t Stop Thinking It’s what an “I” does. The mind thinks thoughts. It’s what is does. To ask it to stop thinking would be like asking the eyes to stop seeing. Thinking and seeing are natural. The deception is … Continue reading →

Fish Out Of Water Trying to conforming to others’ standards, we may feel alone. Once we feel alone, we become detached, and recognise our unique path to enlightenment. When we feel that we are not just a human (or fish … Continue reading →

Nobody Is Ordinary We are all enlightened essence, unique in discovering that our path to this realisation is the recognition of our own confusion. Thinking we are special, while conforming to others’ confusion, Enlightenment is nothing special, as cognisant emptiness … Continue reading →

Enlightenment Is A Series Of Realisations A series of releases. A series of diminishing fixations. A series of emotions transforming into wisdoms. Emotions flare up, and their brilliance is seen as the spontaneous light of pure consciousness. Emotions and recognition … Continue reading →

How Is Everything An Illusion? And why is this a problem for us? The illusion isn’t the problem: it’s believing and clinging to the illusion that binds us. We can have fun with illusion – like blowing pretty bubbles in … Continue reading →

If We Can Manage Our Thoughts If we can manage our thoughts, then we can go anywhere. If we cannot manage our thoughts, then we want to be in a nice, safe place. The Buddha’s teachings help us to realise … Continue reading →

There Is No Such Thing As Normal Normal: conforming to others’ standards. Conforming means consenting to others’ concepts and, in doing so, we give away our authority to breakout of this mayhem of strife. Unless we recognise and are obeying … Continue reading →

Too Intense? Our ‘self’ is a construct, a programme received from our environmental conveyor belt. True spiritual teachings dismantle this self-belief. Without realising, we have had our minds numbed to our true reality. The shock of realising the confusion in … Continue reading →

How To Make The World A Better Place See it differently. The world is a huge illusion built on cultural ideas and beliefs. Making an illusion better actually only makes it worse. We make the world better by seeing the … Continue reading →

True Spirituality Is Practical  True spirituality is practical because we know how to drop preconceived ideas and see directly.

There are over 2.500 posts on this site. If you do not find what you need, just write a key word in the search box at the bottom of this page, and see what comes up. If you still do … Continue reading →

Can Inspiration Become Entertainment? We may get – and then seek out – nice feelings of bliss, clarity or absence of thoughts. But it’s never enough and we want more, and thus become attached to these experiences. In Tibetan, the word … Continue reading →

Spirituality Is A Science And Not A Belief Spirituality is a science, and not a belief. As children, are made to believe that we must believe. Spirituality is pure consciousness: we are pure consciousness and without that, we wouldn’t know … Continue reading →

Questions Open The mind. Statements Close It. Statements programme the mind, while questions release us from that programming. This is how we, in actuality, realise the path to enlightenment, rather than merely acquiring answers.