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Consciousness Embodied In A Biological Apparatus We don’t experience anything external directly; things are experienced through the senses and into our mind, and phenomena is labelled. These labels become our thoughts which we use to navigate life. But what if … Continue reading →

The Illusion Of The Blueprint To build anything, the ground has to be cleared first. We have an elite in the world whose aim is to ‘build back better’ in their image, for material gain. This better is not what … Continue reading →

Do We Feel Safe In A Group? A group may be family, friends, political associates, work colleagues, spiritual members, or just people with the same interests as us, where we use the same language. We feel safe in a group … Continue reading →

Fixation Is Addiction Fixations limit our potential, and that programmes our life. Spiritual paths are no different as we all acquire certain ways. To become unfixed, we need to be dedicated to letting go. Dedication is a healthy, purpose-driven commitment.A … Continue reading →

How We Improved Our Understanding How do we know we’re a better person than we were before?We are more confident, accommodating and compassionate. We don’t take ourselves seriously, as our self is just an old idea that has very strong … Continue reading →

An Unusual Pointing Out Instruction This unusual pointing out instruction into the essence of mind is as follows:Sit with eyes open, without straining.Allow the whole scene to enter the eye as if everything is looking in.That’s it. There’s no time … Continue reading →

The Nature Of Mind And The Essence Of Mind This can be confusing. The essence of mind is ethereal pure consciousness; it’s what we are.The nature of mind is the construct of thoughts held within essence. It’s like this empty, … Continue reading →

Self-Aware Or Self-Conscious? Dropping the judgement or creating it? Being self-aware means that we can step back and observe ourself like an objective outsider. Being self-conscious means that we are painfully aware of being evaluated. That creates a loud inner … Continue reading →

Interrupting The Dream Waking up to our reality is the purpose of life. Most of us think we are awake, but in fact we’re only functioning in a dream state, a programmed pattern, a routine. When we’re fixated on ideas, … Continue reading →

Pure Consciousness Is Neither Right Nor Wrong Realisation is wordless. Trying to express this wordless consciousness is absurd. We live in a paradox – we are wordless consciousness, but we’re talking all the time (or hearing words in our head). … Continue reading →

Analysing Our Life On analysing our life, the decisions we made, and the outcomes – is it a life of realisation or confusion?Either way, we shouldn’t be smug or depressed.It’s our personal lesson. For a practitioner, bad news is good … Continue reading →

Why Talk About The Negative Side Of Life? There is nothing to say about pure consciousness as it is the wordless realisation of our ultimate reality. There is, however, much to say about whatever obscures this reality, causing suffering. Everything … Continue reading →

We Are Incomprehensible The moment now is incomprehensible.The infinite universe is incomprehensible.Pure consciousness which observes the incomprehensible is incomprehensible. The origin is before words. Any discussion about that which is beyond the mind is incomprehensible.Unfortunately, people discuss the incomprehensible because … Continue reading →

Too Much Formality Formality: rigid adherence to established rules, customs, etiquette. When formality takes over from essence, we are back in the vicious cycle of existence and competitiveness, and have become seduced by display, which is our history of illusion. … Continue reading →

The Buddha Didn’t Tell Us What To Be, But How To Be What to be is following others.How to be is being what we are. The Buddha didn’t offer a rigid blueprint for what to be, but rather a practical … Continue reading →

When We Think, We Are Dreaming When we think we know, we’re dreaming.Our waking reality is the knowingness before we think we know. True wakefulness is pure consciousness – that gap between thoughts.We miss it every time because we’re so … Continue reading →

Guru Means Teacher But what is the teacher? The process. If consciousness is unaware that it is governed by memories in the mind, this causes an emotional reaction. That reaction is our teacher, showing consciousness what it is holding onto, … Continue reading →

The Right Delivery System – A Buddha There are so many people talking about our reality of pure consciousness (including yours truly), but it takes a specific person to actually convey the message at the right time to the right … Continue reading →

Too Much Formality Formality: from the Latin word forma, which means shape, mould or structure. When we slip into the mould of conformity, we become too serious, too righteous, too dark.The essence of teaching is light, clarity, emptiness, rather than … Continue reading →

Not Trusting Anyone? It’s understandable. How many people genuinely experience the truth of pure consciousness? We can all talk about ‘the truth’ – even AI can do that – but no one can actually show us the truth. Never be … Continue reading →