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Finding The Right Words It’s difficult to find the right words in the right order to convey experience. One could say to be aware of awareness, but it’s subtler than that; being aware of awareness still sounds like doing something. … Continue reading →

Observer And Observation Pure observation is objective.An observer is subjective as it can be perceived. The moment an observation passes through our mind, it’s filtered through our personal history and cognitive biases. Pure observation is the what, without judgement, narrative, … Continue reading →

Not Coping, While Pretending To Cope The problem with relying on AI and ‘spiritual teachings’ is that we live a cut-and-paste life, and stop feeling our way directly in a situation. AI and texts become our go-to place, instead of … Continue reading →

We Are Inherently Divine We are inherently divine – we just need a nudge in the right direction. The ‘just a nudge’ part is important, to understand the nub, the central point that holds everything together. Instead, we seek full-blown … Continue reading →

Nothing Can Be Resolved With Others It feels frustrating, but we recognise others’ boundaries. Keeping our door open represents a mature balance between boundaries and constant availability. We recognise a person’s current inability to open up, but we don’t let … Continue reading →

What Is Devotion? Devotion is certainly not worshipping a person or a deity. This is where we become confused about deity practice, Vajrayana, Guru yoga. There are no mysterious transmissions. Such claims are unsound logic that seem convincing, but are … Continue reading →

Reverse Engineering Our Self That which we think of as ‘our self ‘ is an over-excited mind which excites consciousness. We think we are this mind, but that is actually the reverse of our reality. This is all observed by … Continue reading →

Suddenly, It Hits You There is no tomorrow.When we’re in tomorrow, it’s today.Life is only now. Of course, it’s been said before,but suddenly we realise it. Enlightened awareness is like that. If we think enlightenment is in the future, then … Continue reading →

The Antidote For A Poisoned Mind A poisoned mind is one fed information, suggestion, belief, hearsay, which creates emotions and reactions, turning a natural, open mind into an infected state. The antidote for a poisoned mind is taking everything that … Continue reading →

Imprisoned By Language The paradox of lectures on pure perceptionis that pure perception is without words.

Enlightenment Is Not Up There Compliance doesn’t come from a lack of access to information, but rather from information overload designed to capture our attention and influence behaviour. Unless we train our mind to clear the clutter, we will be … Continue reading →

Living In Complete Understanding Living in complete understandingis opposed to living in incomplete understanding. We are non-material consciousness embodied in a human form, and driven by our karmically created conceptual mind. If we ignore this truth and think we’re only … Continue reading →

The Choice To Opt Out We’re all part of the foolish game of following followers. Using huge surveillance systems to monitor our foolishness is even more foolish than the foolishness they’re tracking 🙂 as all we hear people talking about … Continue reading →

We Become Labelling Machines Our modern environment traps us in artificial loops of language and concepts rather than direct, lived experience. We become stuck in word play rather than resting in pure observation, as our brain instantly attaches labels to … Continue reading →

Beyond Meditation Meditation is the method to still the mind from circling thoughts, distractions and reactions. As we can’t be aware of two things at the same time, we focus on the breath. This simplifies attention. Meditation calms the mind … Continue reading →

Humans, AI and Dzogchen Humans and AI both undergo forms of conditioning. AI learns from a vast database of human activity, while society conditions humans through a database of culture, habit, and language. We have been living in a world … Continue reading →

The Buddha Went Off Script The Buddha is the example of someone who went off script to break out of the hive mentality. Siddhartha Gautama was handed the ultimate social script: a life of absolute luxury, political power as a … Continue reading →

The Prison Of Enlightenment Seeing this planet as a prison changes our perspective of earthly existence. Rather than a trap, however, life now provides an intense learning environment where the resistance offered by physical limitations and the suffering of mental … Continue reading →

A Fool To Oneself Being a “fool to oneself” means that consciousness is making judgements to our disadvantage by listening to the foolish self-identity in our mind. Common sense is ignored, sabotaging our own chance of success out of stubbornness, … Continue reading →

If We Don’t Realise The Truth Realisation is experiencing both what we are, and what we have become. We are the essence of consciousness – enlightenment itself – which is addicted to toys. Doesn’t that sound crazy? Originally, the word … Continue reading →

The Unity Of Emptiness And Illusions As long as we’re aware, we can discern the nuances of perception. If we look quickly to the left or right – and before identifying with whatever is seen – there is just empty … Continue reading →

The Truth Will Hit Us Hard One day, we’ll read some words, and the truth will hit us hard because the truth is uncomfortable. When the truth sets us free, it’s known in Latin as Magna Vacillatio, or in Sanskrit … Continue reading →

Being Kind To Our Self Self is a misunderstanding in the mind, something that consciousness picked up. When we think that we’re thinking, we are actually observing thinking taking place. We can see this clearly in meditation. Thinking is consciousness … Continue reading →

We Are The Purpose Of Life The purpose of life is to realise personally what we are, rather than having some philosopher tell us what we are. No book, teacher, or external authority can hand us this understanding because realisation … Continue reading →