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We have to do the work. Don’t place your trust in something someone has said – find it out for yourself. The teachings say that mind doesn’t exist: that is something you have to determine for yourself. One has to … Continue reading →

How Do We Know No Self? (I have no idea!)   A self creates desire, aversion and ignorance.   No self has No desire. No aversion. No ignorance.   But there is   Knowing desire. Knowing aversion. Knowing ignorance. ≈ … Continue reading →

We do not have an original thought! (part two) This is a huge and complex subject, and I will try to keep it simple. The dharma says that it is our concepts, emotions and ego clinging that are the elements … Continue reading →

No challenge, no progress. (part one) I am going to write a couple of articles to illustrate the spiritual realm working in the daily worldly realm. This may be read on many levels, but it is not for the faint … Continue reading →

Worry is turning what is into what if, anticipating something unfortunate happening in the future, as opposed to what is actually happening now. There are no advanced levels of spirituality we merely return to the beginning. Our task is deconstruction! … Continue reading →

Worry. Worry isolate us. Worry is dis-ease. If we are ill-at-ease Our minds are disturbed. Being at ease is natural. Worry…Anxiety…Fear…Depression…depleted immune system…poor physical and mental health…all these arise from dis-ease. This is our ‘lot’. This human realm is governed … Continue reading →

Love is absent minded. Love is spontaneous and carefree. It’s nothing you do, but are. Love does not seek recognition, it is absent minded. Dignity with no expectation. Repetition. Throughout life we practise our karmic behaviour. If not countered, we … Continue reading →

I like me. When I found that I didn’t have fit into others’ expectations, I was free.   Why bother? You don’t, that’s why you’re still not bothering.   Spirituality does not exist. It only exists when we are still … Continue reading →

Apathy and Empathy.  Apathy is self destroying. Empathy is destroying the self. There is a personal drama unfolding. Apathy does not understand Empathy. Empathy understands Apathy. Waking up means toughening up All we need is to lose the separation. Compassion … Continue reading →

How does one prove the existence of ‘being’?  One of the reasons I keep writing is because we have to keep looking at truth from all angles, and maybe a phrase will truly hit home. There could be an crazy … Continue reading →

What is spirituality? What isn’t spirituality?!  Sometimes we use the word spirituality in a general way, and so experience, experiencing and experiencer get a bit muddled up, and we end up just sniffing incense! But to be more specific I … Continue reading →

THE KEY IS THE REPTILIAN BRAIN.  The reptilian brain is a name for our basic primitive brain, with its basic function to survive – fight, flight or freeze. The term reptilian brain can be misleading, and can become a bogey … Continue reading →

Ego. Ego is just our mind desperately clinging to a self identity, that’s all. It shouts and screams, obscuring pure perception. Pure perception sees through ego’s games. “There I go again!” Little devil… .

Exchanging negative energy for positive energy.   To combat negative energy with more negative energy is foolish: this just makes a bad situation worse. Fighting a concept with another concept results in the the mind never breaking free. Rather, it … Continue reading →

In a funny old way, this crazy world is actually helping us To evolve in the fastest possible way  Because this crazy darkness is uncovering the darkness in our own minds.  That’s the special quality of the Kali Yuga.

  We are pure awareness. Sacred clarity. Everything arises within this, and the awareness stays pure. When fixation on appearances within this sacred clarity Obscures pure awareness, Darkness rule.     We have two potentials – light and darkness. The … Continue reading →

Satan is necessary  Mara is the Buddhist equivalent of Satan. It is also part of us, and we need it to find the Buddha (‘bud’ means awake, and ‘dha’ means pure, with all karma exhausted). The Buddha describes Mara as … Continue reading →

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody 2.   Everybody said, Nobody should meditate. Somebody asked if Everybody knew if Anybody meditated. Anybody assumed Nobody meditate. And so Nobody did.   Somebody asked did Everybody ‘know’, Everybody thought Somebody ‘knew’. Anybody could … Continue reading →

Nobody, everybody, somebody and anybody.   I am nobody, Nobody is perfect.   Everybody is perfect, But Nobody knows.   Somebody knows, That Anybody could be perfect, But Nobody was.   I am Nobody, You are too  

Stop the killing! Finding yourself, is an impossibility. Not finding a self, is possible. If you find a self, kill it. That which seeks to find, is already found, That which keeps looking will never be found. If you find … Continue reading →

Reaction and karma.  Just to clarify. If we merely react in a negative way, we deepen the imprint in the mind, and deepen our bad karma.  If we do nothing and ignore the situation, we create an imprint in the … Continue reading →

Unconditional love.  We can spend our precious life looking outside for answers about our true identity, where none will be found. Even if one goes to teachings, but still we have to do the real work ourselves. The answer is … Continue reading →

Proof that there are aliens on Earth.  …….it’s us 😉 !  If we can agree that Essence, and this temporary body, are not the same thing, and that rebirth does take place –     then we must have come … Continue reading →

Daisy posted a query about being judgemental. Being able to judge if something is correct or not is part of being sentient.  We all have a longing for things to be perfect. I know I do, for if everyone was … Continue reading →

Jesus and Buddha. It could be seen that the Buddha and Jesus say the same things. Firstly, I have to say that, as a Buddhist, I do not believe in God – but I believe in the very nature of … Continue reading →

Evil  We will all have a problem with this word “evil”, because of our background and education: it is a trick of religion to control and generate guilt. when looking at this word, we have to suspend our preconceived ideas … Continue reading →

Manipulating the population.  We all know the old ‘good cop bad cop’ routine. Well, this is exactly what is happening in the world, at both international and local levels. ‘Someone’ has their hands on a metaphorical social-political-military ‘Machine’ with knobs … Continue reading →

Karmic Recognition Sometimes we hear a name, or a sound, or read a word and it sparks something within us: we may get a tingling sensation of recognition.  It could be that we have a karmic connection from a previous … Continue reading →

Compassion in action. Compassion is a tricky subject. We start by being kind to ourselves…”There I go again! But at least I learned something.” We all assume that we are compassionate – until the moment our button gets pressed, and then … Continue reading →

Six Advanced Paramitas. There are six aspects that help us on our journey: they are called the six paramitas – generosity, discipline, patience, perseverance, meditation and transcendent knowledge. When we first look at them, they sound straightforward enough. They are practised … Continue reading →

  Mantras.  Where science meets the spiritual.  A mantra (Devanāgarī: मन्त्र; Tib.སྔགས་ ngak; Wyl. sngags) [1] is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of “creating transformation” (cf. spiritual transformation).[2] Its use and type varies … Continue reading →

Because of all our differences in understanding, and use of language, you may wish to have some expressions that I’ve used redefined, so please do feel free to question. You may want to have the distinction between “perception” and “awareness” … Continue reading →

I am a biscuit – I’ll explain. For a biscuit to exists, it needs ingredients – flour, water, sugar, butter – and cooking. Every thing is made up of ingredients, just like a biscuit, and all the components have to … Continue reading →

Jumpy people. This modern world is very alert, very cognisant, and full of jumpy people. We live on speed! This has the effect of making everything seem super real…bigger…faster. It is as if someone has turned the ‘frequency knob’ up … Continue reading →

Desire and Frustration Create Addiction  There are good and bad things happening in the universe, which we cannot know or do anything about. So there is no point worrying about them. There are good and bad things happening in our … Continue reading →

The five Skanda. In Buddhistphenomenology and soteriology, the skandhas (Sanskrit) or khandhas (Pāli, aggregates in English) are the five functions or aspects that constitute the human being. The Buddha teaches that nothing among them is really “I” or “mine”. The … Continue reading →