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What Is Spiritual Practice? It is remembering and resting in pure awareness. We remember not to forget our true nature, which is pure awareness, and to be aware of the slightest distraction. That’s all. The more we remember, the less … Continue reading →

The Fine Golden Thread Of Inspiration We all need confidence to stay on the path as there are many levels of enlightenment. Through authentic inspiration, we evolve in steps along our path of confusion. That comes from genuine, raw, personal … Continue reading →

To Want To Be Enlightened Is CRAZY TALK! It’s crazy because wanting to be enlightened is the very reason we do not recognise that the essential nature of mind is already enlightened. In becoming a seeker, we are not seeing and … Continue reading →

Can We Trust Anyone? And … … can they trust us? We live in a make-believe world of mental ideas upon which we fixate, and we defend that vigourously. The point is that everyonelives in a make-believe world, and that … Continue reading →

Dropping The Past The past is only in our mind, and so is the future. This is such a simple truth that we miss it at every moment, and this is why we live in a painful fantasy of illusions. … Continue reading →

Believing In Lies Their lies; our problem Pure consciousness is the truth. Pure consciousness/knowingness is our absolute reality; the only truth. Without that, nothing would be known. Anything we ‘know’ is a relative truth; something pure consciousness relates to. All the things … Continue reading →

Realisation Comes From Resting In Stillness Realisation comes from resting in stillness: then the ‘cat’ stays put!

When Pure Consciousness Became A Consumer… ….it became indebted That is the definition of karma: We consume ideas and obscure our true nature. We bind ourselves to the religion of conceptual consumerism. That binding is the acquisition of ideas, and … Continue reading →

Do We Experience Life Through Computers? How many times have you had a one-to-one, a heart-to-heart, a mind-to-mind, a consciousness-to- consciousness experience? Perhaps only when you patted the dog or stroked the cat? And if you don’t have a dog … Continue reading →

Recognise That You Recognise Recognise and become You are the hero you seek. The Buddha, our teachers, books may all say wonderfully profound things, but what is important is that you‘get it’. You ‘get it’ because you recognise the truth. … Continue reading →

Happiness = Healthy Immune System “Anger and fear eat our immune system. Compassion keeps the immune system healthy. This is why peace of mind is so important through mind training to reduce anxiety.” The Dalai Lama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn2q8l3NJNc Don’t take his … Continue reading →

How Do We Know We Are Evolving? We are happier. We are happy for no reason. Why is that? No idea! Pure consciousness does nothing, as it is purely aware. Just sit and see. Physically and mentally, we have to … Continue reading →

What is being sociable? Society is an interesting phenomenon; it ‘self’-regulates. Being sociable sounds like a nice thing, doesn’t it? It’s being friendly, getting on with other one another, fitting in to the way of things … we are part … Continue reading →

You See Carrying on from yesterday about expansive view being the clear view of pure consciousness, the recognition of this is the moment you see, you see. There is no meditation present, as meditation is doingsomething, whereas the clear view … Continue reading →

Why Is Emptiness So Important? Emptiness is just a word: there are many words for the nature of spirit or mind, the nature of our being: rigpa, mahamudra, sunyata, maha ati, dharmakaya, luminous awareness … but they all mean the … Continue reading →

As Long As We Are Looking, We Will Fail To See Although we are ultimate reality, we still look for ultimate reality. What a joke! How can I be the ultimate reality? What we think of as ‘me’ is not … Continue reading →

The Practicality Of Negative Emotions Being Wisdom … really! Q. How is this practical? A. It brings a situation back to sound health, rather than making it worse. This question was asked: “How do we recognise the unity of negative … Continue reading →

Neither God Nor The Buddha Can Forgive Us This is not in their power. Forgiveness comes from our own realisation through grace. Grace is being pleased, thankful and grateful for realising that the past was the past, and now is … Continue reading →

Worried About Ego? If we observe something, share an experience or have a poo, none of these are ego-orientated. Ego is the fixations that govern our entire life. On meeting someone, there is an impression, a momentary view. We may … Continue reading →

In Rigpa, Nothing Sticks Rigpa, in the Tibetan Nyingma tradition, is the word for pure awareness: it is pure, empty conscious space, the very nature of mind. It’s what we are – we are pure mind essence. When we wake … Continue reading →

Old Mind, New Mind “Why do I see things differently to the way I previously saw them?” “Why isn’t anyone seeing what I’m seeing?” Carrying on from the box analogy, the stuffinsidethe box is our old ideas, traumas and collective … Continue reading →

Thinking Outside The Box Has Its Problems A moment outside the box could lead to a sense of superiority and narcissism, and we are back in the box of self gain. Outside the box is but a stepping stone to … Continue reading →

Thinking Is Only Outside The Box whereas thoughts are inside. Imagine a box full thoughts that we carry around with us; it’s our ‘workings’. Heavy, isn’t it? Thinking is whatever is relevant to us right now and comes to the … Continue reading →

We Have To Comprehend Before We Can See … … only then we can recognise. In order to come to any kind of decision about what is taking place in our mind, we need to have already comprehended the nature … Continue reading →

It’s All We Know – So We Think We live in a collective consciousness, wound up like clockwork toys. It’s all we know. We don’t actually think; we repeat. If something comes along outside our repetitious life, either it doesn’t … Continue reading →