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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 →

The Illusion is Real.  Anything constructed in the universe is not of a permanent state. At some time every thing breaks down into its subtle elements. So, every thing only has the illusion of reality.  The very nature of everything … Continue reading →

“There are no Absolutes!” “Are you Absolutely sure about that?” It’s an absolute win win situation. If one says, “It is absolutely true that there are no absolutes,” then that is an absolute. If one is not sure that there … Continue reading →

We have spoken about the Tibetan Buddhism six psychological realms. These are the god realm, the jealous god realm, the human realm, the animal realm, the hungry ghosts and the hell realms.  I just happened to come across Chogyam Trungpa’s … Continue reading →

War is unnatural. It is an invention of politics, and does not care who wins or loses. “Naturally, the common people don’t want war. Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor America. Nor for that matter, Germany. That is understood. But … Continue reading →

What do you trust? The usual reply is, “I trust myself!” If we look closely, that actually says, “I…trust…myself!” “Is that wise?” Which of these two is doing the trusting? Which one is you? There is awareness, and that of … Continue reading →

The Buddha and mental health.. The Buddha’s teachings are all about dealing with mental illness – with a disturbed mind. Here are some statistics FROM THE MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION. The facts and figures around Mental Health in the UK are alarming. … Continue reading →

Are you alone? Are we awake, or still living in a dream? Upon being asked that question, we will assume we are awake! We may even awake at that moment, but quickly fall into the dream again. Being awake is … Continue reading →

Dealing with negative people.  Empathetic skills come from experiencing personal suffering, and then one knows how someone else is feeling. So suffering is of value – it can benefit others when relating to them.  Dealing with other’s negativity will depend … Continue reading →

How to suffer and be happy.  Suffering does not last. *Unconditional happiness does. (OK, but it doesn’t seem that way!) The condition of living in this body and mind (software on a hardrive) – in this avatar – is constant … Continue reading →

Being over positive.  Treading the spiritual path, isn’t all flowers and “namastes”. Being over-positive can be stressful, covering up reality warts and all, this can turn life into something which it is not. It is misleading, as it is trying … Continue reading →

CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM. Chogyam Trungpa.   To the conventional way of thinking, compassion simply means being kind and warm. This sort of compassion is described as ‘grandmother’s’ love. You would expect the practitioner of this type of compassion to … Continue reading →