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Why Stupid People Think They Are Smart “The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates. People who think they are clever, scholastic or smarter than others are merely at the top of a pile of stupidity. Just … Continue reading →

Bhakti Yoga And Social Media What do they have in common? Devotion leading to addiction. Bhakti yoga is devotion to a teacher rather than to the teaching, although the guru uses the teachings to maintain the student/teacher relationship. Guru worship … Continue reading →

Don’t Just Follow The Science … … be aware of the science being used! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4jEvuoF6I

Do We Actually Have Free Will? 2 (This is in answer to a question; incidentally, if a comment doesn’t come up immediately, it’s because I haven’t been notified to acknowledge it yet.) Free will: the ability to choose unimpededly. Firstly, … Continue reading →

Teacher Student Relationship The teacher is the mind. The student is consciousness. The mind shows us all our negative reactions, and why they come about. It can also express whatever consciousness realises; our true qualities of empathetic compassion. An outer … Continue reading →

How Was Yesterday’s Practice? “Am I awake?” Introduce a thought or, when a thought arises, or notice you are in vacancy (such as while watching a film or just sitting, staring) and ask, “Am I awake?” At that moment, you … Continue reading →

When Are We Awake? We are only awake when we’re aware of being awake. Usually, we are occupied in our mind, in a dream state. The difference between being in this dream state and being awake is such a subtle … Continue reading →

Dharma Is Beyond Boundaries One question that destroys all theories. Is the universe infinite space? The universe has to be infinite space to contain one big Bang and one big God. Experts are people, and people who adopt a concept, … Continue reading →

The Truth Cannot Be Told The absolute truth cannot be told, written about or spoken, as it can only be realised through experience. Absolute truth is beyond words. Words confuse, but confusion shows the way. Words are relative truth; it’s … Continue reading →

Don’t Join Buddhism! If we merely join something because of someone we know, we have to know what we are doing and why. It’s the reason that I started a blog. Understand the teaching of the Buddha – any Buddha. … Continue reading →

The me Behind Me Behind what we think we are is the essence of pure consciousness. We may think that thoughts are immediate, but it stands to reason that, before a thought can arise, there must be an awareness already … Continue reading →

Pride Comes Before A Fall If we’re conceited or self-important, something will happen to make us look foolish, and we realise that we are not as special as we think we are. Whatever we think we know, that in itself reveals partial understanding. We … Continue reading →

Two Systems: Two Prisons One totalitarian, and the other, living the dream. Living the dream? Whose dream? These states are both prisons. We may think we have freedom, and are awake. That is the illusion; we are living by others’ … Continue reading →

Got A Spiritual Problem? Who you gonna call? Ghost Busters? You can’t talk to your teacher, or to other students. Why not? They will merely give you doctrine from that tradition, and their background, but they won’t know your background … Continue reading →

Wanting Proof The proof of truth is a precarious objective these days. It all depends on how we personally read information. Do we work through belief or intuitive experience? I have never met anyone who proves pure consciousness to me … Continue reading →

How Much Mud Can We Take? It seems we can hold on to quite a lot of sticky matter. Everything we touch becomes contaminated. The mud is ideas that hold our persona, and is the reason why we keep returning … Continue reading →

There Is So Much Distraction In The World The fact that there is so much distraction in the world is the very reason to simplify life. You are not missing out on all the fun, the politics, the news, the … Continue reading →

How Much Truth Is There Left In The World? We are constantly being told how to think and how to obey. People are being ‘cancelled’ for what they think, and we’re all being forced into narrow parameters with the use … Continue reading →

Why Are So Many People Reactive? Actually, most of us are reactive precisely because we are unenlightened. We just function at a certain level and stop there; All sentient beings have Buddha nature, which means their essence is enlightened – totally free … Continue reading →

The Ultimate Truth Cannot Be Assimilated From A Book The ultimate truth cannot be assimilated from a book; the authors had to go through much discipline, as we must. Breaking out of the illusion of ideas that we are just … Continue reading →

Beyond Experience Is Truth Truth is beyond experience. Truth is what experiences. Truth is the seer. The seer is pure consciousness. Pure consciousness cannot see itself; it can only be realised through its reflection. Something appears in the mind, and … Continue reading →

Don’t Fight For What You Believe Don’t fight for what you believe, as it only causes division. Belief is accepting something as true without evidence. Reading something and saying it’s truth or not is only belief. Therefore belief has no … Continue reading →

Learning To Live With Crap: The Residue Of Ignorance We are definitely not going to change the people who indulge in beliefs of some sort. Every time someone talks, those beliefs reveal themselves … “Oh, I just heard on the … Continue reading →

Where Do We Get Our Information From? “If you don’t read a newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” – Mark Twain We have to read between the lines; in looking for or discovering … Continue reading →

Do Buddhists Get Offended? Do Buddhists get offended? Er … yes. Buddhists are people too. 🙂 Why would anyone be called a “precious one”? Because someone said they were? Don’t be offended at this question. To question is to want … Continue reading →

The World Used To Be Crazy … The world used to be crazy… now, it’s scary. In the past, mass behaviours were slow to develop, but nowadays, the process of mimicking others is changing fast, and causing great confusion. As … Continue reading →

The Truth Cannot Be Hidden Forever Truth cannot be hidden forever because truth is the consciousness that is always watching. When people realise that they are the truth, the way and the light, no one can ever pull the wool over … Continue reading →

Why Make What Is Natural Complicated? We are pure consciousness. Why make something so natural and beautiful into something so complicated and elitist? Even through reasoning (a rare event), we can realise that we are pure consciousness. That’s if we … Continue reading →