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- THIS BLOG SHOULD BE SECRET June 17, 2026
- FREEDOM FROM THE CYCLIC EXISTENCE June 17, 2026
- THE SHARED HALLUCINATION June 17, 2026
- WHY THE OBSESSION WITH THE PAST? June 16, 2026
- THE MUD IS JUST A DIRTY LENS June 16, 2026
- STARVING THE MONSTER June 15, 2026
- THE NOVELTY TRAP June 15, 2026
- NO LONGER SATISFYING June 14, 2026
- THE MORE WE REALISE June 13, 2026
- REALITY IS CONTENTMENT June 13, 2026
- THE DANGER OF ADOPTING STORIES June 13, 2026
- WHAT ARE WE A PRODUCT OF? June 13, 2026
- WHAT REINCARNATES? June 12, 2026
- THE HABITUAL LOOP June 11, 2026
- WHY DO PEOPLE ACCEPT LIES SO READILY? June 11, 2026
- THE PARADOX OF RITUALS AND WORDS June 11, 2026
- WHAT DO WE BASE OUR LIFE ON? June 10, 2026
- SPIRITUAL AUTONOMY June 10, 2026
- THINKING THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE June 9, 2026
- NOT TOO TIGHT AND NOT TOO LOOSE June 9, 2026
- OUR GREATEST PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT June 8, 2026
- PRIDE STOPS US EVOLVING June 8, 2026
- THE TINKERBELL EFFECT June 7, 2026
- EVIL IS ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE SUPERIOR June 7, 2026
- FOUR OPIUMS OF THE PEOPLE June 6, 2026
- THE CONSUMER BECOMES CONSUMED June 6, 2026
- ULTIMATE MATURITY June 6, 2026
- THE BUDDHA SAID, “I SEE YOU MARA” June 5, 2026
- THE TWO ASPECTS OF ‘HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT’ June 5, 2026
- SULKY SELF June 4, 2026
- THE COMPLETE PICTURE June 3, 2026
- GIVING UP GUILT June 2, 2026
- TESTING MARA AND GURU June 1, 2026
- THE BUDDHA. JESUS, SOCRATES AND OTHERS WERE REBELS June 1, 2026
- ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS REALISED BY ABSOLUTE TRUTH June 1, 2026
- FINDING WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR May 31, 2026
- WE ALL LIVE IN DIFFERENT ECHO CHAMBERS May 31, 2026
- A HARD LESSON TO LEARN May 31, 2026
- BUDDHIST FORUMS CREATE CONFLICT May 31, 2026
- ONE MIND, OR MANY MINDS? May 30, 2026
- SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISM May 30, 2026
- SPONTANEITY IS THE ONLY REALITY May 29, 2026
- REALITY IS BEYOND WORDS May 28, 2026
- HUMANITY: SEEKING VALIDATION OF A SELF May 28, 2026
- DISPELLING THE GURU May 27, 2026
- EVERY DAY I THINK, “I COULD BE WRONG” May 27, 2026
- THE DARK AND UNSETTLING ASPECT OF EXISTENCE May 26, 2026
- ‘JUDGING’ FROM A DZOGCHEN POINT OF VIEW May 25, 2026
- WE BECOME THE COMPANY WE KEEP May 24, 2026
- WE ARE ALL HYPOCRITES May 24, 2026
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“HMM – PERHAPS I’M WRONG?”
“Hmm – Perhaps I’m Wrong?” I ask this question every morning, noting that awareness still remains.That cannot be wrong. Some believe this awareness is just chemicals in the brain.Some believe we are created. We each have to decide,and live by … Continue reading
SPACE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
Space, Consciousness And Time If we wave our hand around in front of us, the space doesn’t change, does it? That which perceives this unchanging space doesn’t change either, does it? Time only relates to things in space and memories … Continue reading
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WHO DO WE TRUST?
Who Do We Trust? Trust: belief in someone or something: acceptance of the truth of a statement without evidence or investigation. So trust is synonymous with belief. In this world, we accept a situation because others do, reassigning responsibility for our life to others. Even the Buddha said, … Continue reading
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AFTER REALISATION
After Realisation What should life be like after the realisation of our true being? Life is just as it is, with all its karmic load. But now, that karmic load is our undoing.😀 Our karma – our attitude – shows pure … Continue reading
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WHY KEEP GOING ON ABOUT THE MOMENT NOW?
Why Keep Going On About The Moment Now? Why keep going on about the moment now?Boring! Truth is all about the spontaneous moment now. It’s true because it’s always present! Everything else is a temporary phenomenon, a trifle (from old French trufe: ‘deceit’). … Continue reading
WANTING SOMETHING WE’VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE
Wanting Something We’ve Never Heard Before Wanting to hear something we’ve never heard before means that we don’t understand what we’ve already heard. We want something exotic, something special, something that takes us away from the mundane. If we think … Continue reading
LOOK AT THE CAUSE, NOT THE EFFECT
Look At The Cause, Not The Effect Treating the effect will not change the cause. This is how we’re trapped in ignorance, and why we are in the state we’re in. We feel unhappy so we try to make ourself … Continue reading
WHY DON’T WE LIKE CERTAIN PEOPLE?
Why Don’t We Like Certain People? Why don’t we like certain people?And conversely, why don’t they like – or ignore – us? We can feel uncomfortable around them, and they us. We see a person in the street, and we … Continue reading
THE GREAT DEFAULT
The Great Default We are constantly being reset to default, our manufacturers’ preselected option. 🙂 Default: a computer programme or other mechanism reverting automatically to a preselected option. From Latin fallere ‘disappoint, deceive’. You’ve heard of Build Back Better, The Great Reset, The New World Order, Heresy Laws, Non-Crime … Continue reading
DEVIATIONISM
Deviationism The action of departing from an established course. Long ago, humans knew the absolute truth of their reality, which was – and is – pure consciousness. What has happened since then? We changed course to adopt forms, words and materialism. That was the deviation – from … Continue reading
CONFUSION RULES
Confusion Rules You can manipulate all the people some of the time,and some of the people all of the time,but you cannot manipulate all the people all of the time. We can only be released from foolishnesswhen we know we … Continue reading
ENMESHED
Enmeshed Enmeshed: in a difficult situation from which it is hard to escape. Just like the ‘news’.🙂 When we are entangled in the contents of the mind, we’re caught and held. Thoughts are like entertainers that keep us occupied to the … Continue reading
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ISN’T LIFE FRUSTRATING?
Isn’t Life Frustrating? 🙂 Life is frustrating because we all have different points of view due to our different background experiences (karma) and different levels of understanding (reduction of karma). We can only go so far in a conversation, and … Continue reading
FEEDING A.I.
Feeding A.I. The theft of the century is the relentless pursuit of personal information to feed artificial intelligence (A.I.) that will then be repurposed to gain greater wealth and power. Any bit of information can produce masses of information about an unsuspecting … Continue reading
BEING FULLY CONSCIOUS IS BEING AWAKE
Being Fully Conscious Is Being Awake This isn’t being religious, and there’s no assumption that we are awake. “I am awake!!”Yes, the I is activated. We’re talking about consciousness before we start thinking and talking. Wakefulness is awareness beyond body and mind, … Continue reading
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WE BECOME A TRANSCRIPT
We Become A Transcript We become a transcript– don’t be so sure that we don’t! When it comes to the mind, we either mimic others or we can know how our mind works on its own. Copying something isn’t the … Continue reading
ACTUATING REALISATION
Actuating Realisation When we realise our true reality, we have arrived at what we’ve been looking for all of our life. This realisation is the purpose of life. After decades of meditation which led nowhere and had become just a … Continue reading
WARPED CONSCIOUSNESS
Warped Consciousness Warp: to make or become bent or twisted out of shape, as a result of manipulation, corruption, perversion. We use the word ‘consciousness’ generically to describe perception, as in “I have perception”, or “I have consciousness”. That word have is the warp factor. There is a choice.If we have … Continue reading
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WE SEE WHEN WE ARE READY TO SEE
We See When We Are Ready To See We see when we are ready to see– and that can be at any moment, even right now. When we stop looking for something interesting and just see, we realise the clarity … Continue reading
ZERO TOLERANCE
Zero Tolerance Zero tolerance makes people’s lives intolerable. It is anti-compassion, demanding total compliance. This is what an A.I. digital world would look like. If people go along with this system, they will suffer under an artificial intelligence. The mantra … Continue reading
TOO SPEEDY TO NOTICE
Too Speedy To Notice We are too speedy to notice our true reality. Every moment whooshes by with something to do or talk about. Whooshing and clarity aren’t accommodating bedfellows. 🙂 The silent clarity of absolute truth goes unnoticed in … Continue reading
CONFLICT IS DHARMA
Conflict Is Dharma Dharma is looking another way. This is the age of conflict – the Kaliyuga. There are many teachings out there, but the really practical teaching is within, in our conflicts with the world and others. In practical terms, conflict … Continue reading
THE APPEARANCE OF TRUTH
The Appearance Of Truth Whatever appears to be the truth is never the truth. We live in a conflict of interests; nothing ‘out there’ or ‘in the mind’ is the truth of our reality. We make a grave mistake when … Continue reading
‘ONE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS’ – ONE RING TO BIND THEM ALL
‘One Universal Consciousness’ – One Ring To Bind Them All It’s all about control. “…One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them,One ring to bring them all,and in the darkness, bind them…”– J.R.R. Tolkien Look at the manifestation … Continue reading
HUMOUR
Humour Humour – mental disposition of appreciation – happiness.Humourless – mental disposition of being unable to appreciate – unhappiness. When we lack humour, we are homeless and uncomfortable. Conversely, in good humour, we feel at home, and are confident with whatever arises. What is being … Continue reading
IS THERE ONE MIND, OR AN INFINITE NUMBER OF MINDS?
Is There One Mind, Or An Infinite Number Of Minds? Is there one mind, or an infinite number of minds?This is for each individual mind to decide. 😀 Whichever we choose, it’s still up to the individual mind. The decision on how … Continue reading
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WE LIVE IN STORIES
We Live In Stories We live in stories, memories, mental recordings that we replay. It’s what reincarnates at every moment, and causes us to remain fixated. Everyone wants to be ‘in the loop’ – in a circle of individuals who think … Continue reading
ABSOLUTE REALITY CANNOT FEEL INSULTED
Absolute Reality Cannot Feel Insulted Absolute reality cannot feel insulted;it is only our pride that can be insulted. Pride is excessive self-esteem; it is our weakness, and eventually, our downfall. Proverbs 16:8 – “The highway of the upright leads away from … Continue reading
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INTELLECTUALISATION ISN’T OUR REALITY
Intellectualisation Isn’t Our Reality Intellectualisation isn’t our reality.Intellectualisation is the trap. The gap between our thoughts is our reality – the cognisant space of wisdom-awareness beyond words. Intellectualisation is ‘fake it till you make it’– the trap is that we enjoy … Continue reading
WE ARE THE GAP BETWEEN OUR WORDS
We Are The Gap Between Our Words Our true reality is the gap between our words – silent, pure awareness.
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CUTTING THE STRING OF OUR YO-YO
Cutting The String Of Our Yo-Yo Our life is a constant oscillation, a yo-yoing of up and down, up and down. When we seek happiness, we are seeking a condition – a temporary event of body or mind – to … Continue reading
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HEAVEN AND HELL
Heaven And Hell Heaven and hell are states of mind: wisdom and ignorance; good and evil. Heaven is the essence of mind:the clarity of pure consciousness; that which purely sees. The contents of mind, which we hold on to, create our hell. Being … Continue reading
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WHY DO WE ACT LIKE FOUR-YEAR-OLDS?
Why Do We Act Like Four-Year-Olds? Why do we act like four-year-olds in front of gurus and lamas? It doesn’t do us any good – and it doesn’t do them any good. If a teacher knows our true reality, they … Continue reading
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I IS STUPID
I Is Stupid We all identify with a script or image in the mind that forms our perception, opinions, behaviour and an I, so that when we talk, it’s from the script we have acquired. Where does this script come … Continue reading
WE DON’T HAVE TO AGREE WITH OTHERS
We Don’t Have To Agree With Others We don’t have to agree with others,but we don’t have to be disagreeable either. 🙂 Disagreement is about the use of words. We aren’t saying others are wrong, it’s just that we are on … Continue reading
BE UNDERWHELMED
Be Underwhelmed Being underwhelmed, we’re not so easily impressed. When we enter a spiritual set-up which is a mixture of the religious and the academic, it feels overwhelming with its huge amount of words, beliefs and rituals … and it’s … Continue reading
BEING THE SECRET
Being The Secret We don’t see it, because we are it. There is a secret that’s talked about – the essence of being – but it’s hardly ever recognised because our minds are hermetically sealed with words, and nothing can … Continue reading
WHAT IS BEING AWAKE?
What Is Being Awake? Waking up is awareness; that which is always present before thoughts in our mind. It is a fully aware and non-reactive state. Living in thoughts and emotions is our dream state, where demons can enter.Every time we … Continue reading
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GOOD AND EVIL = WISDOM AND IGNORANCE
Good And Evil = Wisdom And Ignorance It’s that simple. The essence of all sentient beings is pure consciousness: we’re naturally wise, but ignorant of this fact. At any moment, ignorance can dawn as wisdom, depending on the thickness of … Continue reading
INSIDE OUT OR OUTSIDE IN
Inside Out Or Outside In There are two approaches to realising our reality; learn about it from a book – outside in or through experience – inside out. Reading and collecting others’ words is interesting,and we become repeaters. Experiencing without words is … Continue reading
WHAT DECIDES?
What Decides? What decides?Or rather, what forms judgements: what likes and dislikes? Pure consciousness (which is what we are) is the cognisant empty essence of mind (our being) that does not judge – it observes. It must be obvious that … Continue reading
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GENUINE SEEKERS ARE NON-CONFORMISTS
Genuine Seekers Are Non-Conformists We have to be! Genuine seekers of ultimate truth find that they are non-conformists. They don’t choose to be so, but find conforming to social mores limiting (as any sane person would 🙂 ). Mores: manners, customs, … Continue reading
THAT FARAWAY LOOK
That Faraway Look If someone has a faraway look, it’s as if they are not with us, or aware of what’s happening around them. They are distant, remote, dreamy, absent-minded, living through their memories. This faraway look has ramifications. When we … Continue reading
IS RELIGION THE OPPOSITE TO TRUTH?
Is Religion The Opposite To Truth? Without knowing it, is religion the antithesis of what it purports to be – the arbiter of truth? Thinking the unthinkable … A person may have realised the absolute truth, but the words that person … Continue reading
WHO KNOWS THE ULTIMATE TRUTH?
Who Knows The Ultimate Truth? The Buddha! Jesus! Plato! Confucius! My Guru! My Lama!How do you know they know the truth? The only person who can know the truth is you.You authenticate whether their words are the truth.Don’t rely on them.🙂 If … Continue reading
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THINKING WE KNOW THE TRUTH IS CORRUPTION
Thinking We Know the Truth Is Corruption The ultimate truth cannot be comprehended or grasped mentally. Whenever we do this, we corrupt the pure experience. Comprehend: Latin comprehendere, from com- ‘together’ + prehendere ‘grasp’.Corrupt: Latin corrumpere ‘to mar, bribe, destroy’, from cor-‘altogether’ + rumpere ‘to break’. Pure consciousness is beyond words, definitions, and long, … Continue reading
TEACHINGS ARE EVERYWHERE
Teachings Are Everywhere Inner peace in contrast to inner reaction. Every time anyone speaks, it’s a teaching.How?People reflect the misinformation taught to them. Every time we react to someone speaking, it’s a teaching.How?We lose our inner peace. Everywhere, we see … Continue reading
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WHAT’S THE BEST FEELING?
What’s The Best Feeling? Finding out! … Realisation! … Clarification! … Validation! … Verification!😀 It’s not about being told something, it’s about realising it. That is totally satisfying. Finding out doesn’t mean we have to then do something with it by adorning … Continue reading
OUR PROBLEM: SEEKING VALIDATION
Our Problem: Seeking Validation Validation: recognition or affirmation that our feelings or opinions are valid. This state of mind keeps us needy, insecure, defensive and aggressive. It’s our Achilles Heel, our weak spot. In the ordinary run of things, this is the way in which we conform. Someone says, … Continue reading
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 