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Smart Meters, Smart Phones, Smart Money, Smart Cars, Smart Roads … Do you get the feeling we are being smarted? 🙂 Smart: a  programmed device, capable of some independent action. Also means a sharp pain. Ever feel that the walls are closing in … Continue reading →

What Causes Our Reactions? Reaction: done again. If we do not understand the cause of our doing-it-again, we become fixed in our ways of thinking. Why is this so important to understand? Even if we do not know what causes … Continue reading →

Misunderstanding Leads To Speculation An unenlightened society is, by definition, corrupt. Misunderstanding leads to speculation and, unfortunately, on to arrogance and narcissism. This is what narcissists do: they constantly move the goalposts and nitpick, maintaining a lack of empathy to … Continue reading →

The Radicalisation Of the Mind Radical: change relating to the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough. The mind is a faculty which perceives through the senses and store information, observed by unadulterated consciousness. That is what we are – pure consciousness. This is our normality. Through persistent misinformation about … Continue reading →

Always Consider The Opposite Consider: there is no such thing as pure consciousness. What are we left with? Impure consciousness or impure awareness. In that case, we would perceive everything as confused or muddled. If we see the world as … Continue reading →

The Dharma Is Not In The Words … it’s definitely not in the words.

Once Dependent, We Stay Dependent Dependent: late Middle English from Old French, literally ‘hanging down from’. Dependency creates a world of servitude, be it social or religious, where we hang down as trophies. This dependency started thousands of years ago with the introduction of the idea … Continue reading →

The One Thing To Remember The one thing to remember; it’s not an enlightened world. We may be accused of having an ego, of having a self to improve, but we thought that was normal because of the way we … Continue reading →

We Don’t Realise How Ordinary Realisation Is Non-duality is nothing but pure awareness. There is nothing present to be special. If we take time to appreciate non-dual awareness, it’s already a duality. That was – and is – the very … Continue reading →

We Naturally Know The Dharma – The Teaching Once realisation into the nature of reality is established, all that glitters no longer attracts – but each distraction is a teaching. We can pay a lot of money for lamas or … Continue reading →

A Sense Of Proportion There are stages or levels to realisation. To simplify, let’s say there are three: Conventional reality. Theory/doubt. Realisation of our true reality. Usually, we just live in conventional reality. We think like everyone else, with a … Continue reading →

There Is No Magic In Spiritual Awareness There is no magic in spiritual awareness. The magic has already been applied. Magic is deception; it is believing something is real when it’s not. For thousands of years, humanity has been led … Continue reading →

It’s Okay To Disagree It’s okay to disagree, but we don’t have to argue. We just see things differently, and have different abilities to express our understanding. That’s why there are many traditions. One person’s nourishment is another’s poison, and … Continue reading →