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Fed Up With The Feeding Frenzy? We’re deliberately fed provocative nonsense day in and day out. This feeds and turns our small desires and aversions into exaggerated ones. Those who feed us also feed off our reactions, as we feed … Continue reading →

Everything Is Overkill Everything is overkill. We have learnt how to squeeze nature. Elaboration upon elaboration. Distraction upon distraction. Confusion upon confusion. Ignorance upon ignorance. Suffering upon suffering. This is no way to live. Our origin is simply pure awareness. … Continue reading →

Transferring Consciousness Into The Future Redirecting our mind into the future becomes a substitute for dealing with whatever is happening where we are now. Transferring our attention away from the present moment to something we hope for in the future not … Continue reading →

The World Mind Maze Something is needed to wake us up. It is then our responsibility to stay awake by seeing the dilemma we are in. Eloquent commentaries may be inspiring and we become euphoric, but the reality we seek … Continue reading →

Can We Wake Others? This is a delicate matter, and one I’m still learning about. We can inform others, but ‘waking’ means going deeper, and they may not be ready for that, in the sense of not being able to … Continue reading →

Are Law and Humanity Incompatible? Law: something laid down or fixed. Humanity: the quality of being humane; benevolent and well meaning; kindness. Once we are separated from our humanity, we become reliant on laws. Enter the new world order.

Old Age, ‘New Age’ The ultimate teaching is dropping the realisation of our true nature of pure awareness. If we do not drop, we become attached.

The ‘I’ Needs To be Challenged This ‘I’ is merely consciousness clinging to ideas. The indicator of empathetic consciousness is compassion, and compassion is challenging to the ‘I’, the ego. Compassion does not accept rubbish. We Need To Exorcise Our … Continue reading →

Did We Evolved To Be Made Monkeys Out Of? Our monkey minds cannot keep still. Why is this? It is because our lives have speeded up. Monkey minds do monkey tricks to make money for monkey business. The problem is … Continue reading →

What We Don’t Know Rules Us We all want to know things that we think we don’t know, believing that this gives meaning to life! The enchantment of belief feeds our longing for purpose. This puts us in a inferior … Continue reading →

Thinking And Thoughts Thinking is the process of reasoning and questioning. Thoughts are the conclusions. Thinking is now. Thoughts are from the past. To think, we need a clear mind: in this way, we can function properly in the world. If we … Continue reading →

We Do Not Arrive At Enlightenment … … as we never left! Enlightenment here means realising or acknowledging our true nature of pure consciousness, and that which obscures it; the ideas that we create about our self. Any other definition … Continue reading →

Tsoknyi Rinpoche – The Pointing Out Instruction 2020  Pundarika UK Easter Retreat. 30th March  – 5th April. 2020 Bruton School for Girls, Bruton, Somerset. This will be an open retreat, by Tsoknyi Rinpoche on our ultimate reality, where he will point … Continue reading →

Is Our Intelligence Working Against Us? Blinkered by futile diligence, we don’t notice that we are the product. Because we rely on outer knowledge and outer conditions to enhance our lives, we find ingenious ways – with the help of … Continue reading →

Joyful Confusion?! The moment that we recognise we are confused is very significant. That which recognises is not confused. If we don’t know something, that’s okay; we can find out – or not – but, either way, we can realise … Continue reading →

Insight is Wisdom Accurate and deep understanding Insight: Awareness by a mentally ill* person that their mental experiences are not based in external reality. The term ‘mentally ill’ is often used as a spurious or false statement in the popular media, suggesting a crazy or insane person, while the dictionary reveals a … Continue reading →

Treating The Symptoms And Not The Cause If we use ‘treats’ as a treatment to make us feel better, rather than dealing with the cause of the symptom and thereby bring an end it, we will merely go round in … Continue reading →

The Four Compassionate Activities (also known as the four enlightened activities) PACIFYING, ENRICHING, MAGNETISING AND DESTROYING EGO. Pacifying: There are no problems. There is nothing for ego to fight against, which brings inner peace to ego. Enriching: Brings the light … Continue reading →

Realisation Is Hopeless! 🙂

The Show Goes On The word ‘entertainment’ originally meant ‘to maintain’; to maintain our attention. Entertainment has a long term effect on our memories and so, on consciousness, replaying in our mind and captivating us ever after. In this way, … Continue reading →

We Don’t Have To Obsess About Dzogchen I did … We seek the truth because we aren’t satisfied with the world in which we live, so we join an organisation or become attached to set of ideas. Groups use different … Continue reading →

We First Acknowledge Our Dark Side What is our dark side? It is consciousness clinging to an acquired, imagined image of a ‘me’ – and that is the cause of all our troubles. “No, no, my troubles are caused by … Continue reading →

The Effect Of Feeling Unworthy And Inadequate The effect of feeling unworthy and inadequate is that we become half hearted and disconnected, and may even give up. Many religious and spiritual set-ups are so theatrical in their appearance that students … Continue reading →

Why Are We Are So Busy? It is not difficult to reason that we have consciousness, and to reason that consciousness has to be pure consciousness in order for us to see perfectly clearly. This consciousness is, in fact, our … Continue reading →

Wanting To Be On Top Of The Pile “The pile of what?” – Sadhguru “If we want to be better than others, then we want them to be worse.” – Sadhguru “What is the most sophisticated machine on the planet? … Continue reading →

There Is No Need To Be Confused Ever Again! There is no need to be confused ever again! There are merely different names for the same non-thing. Our interpretation of how we think others think may be biased: there is … Continue reading →

If We Just Do What Is Needed If we just do what is needed rather than what we like, our problems would diminish and contentment increase. Our likes and dislikes are products of our past. Assessment of what is needed … Continue reading →

Truth: Simple To Acknowledge, Easy To Forget That which perceives through the senses is consciousness. That which perceives consciousness is consciousness itself. Finding nothing but consciousness, it is realised as being empty of other. It is pure consciousness. That is … Continue reading →

Confusion = Perfect Maths = Realisation Confusion is beautiful: the geometry of mathematical properties and relations. An ice crystal is a unique, geometric design, but if we ignore this icy condition, we will slip in a certain way and break … Continue reading →

First The Inspiration, And Then The Reality When we first seek teachings on truth, we hear positive language to inspire us, offering things we like to hear and associate with. But then, there comes a moment when we realise that … Continue reading →

What Matters Is What We Are, Not What We Know Once we know what we are, then what we know matters. Once, we had bits of information that we believed in. Now, we have bytes of information that we believe … Continue reading →