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- THE MORE WE REALISE June 13, 2026
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- 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
- BECOMING A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PERSON May 24, 2026
- DEMYSTIFYING THE NATURE OF MIND May 23, 2026
- WHEN WE BELIEVE, WE WORSHIP THE DEVIL/MARA May 23, 2026
- DESTROY CLARITY, DESTROY THE WORLD May 23, 2026
- EVIL HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT May 23, 2026
- THERE ARE NO MORE WORDS TO LEARN May 22, 2026
- THE CLEVER BLIND SPOT May 21, 2026
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‘I’ BLINDNESS
‘I’ Blindness The ‘I’ is blind to reality. What we think of as our selves is blind to reality. The result: the blind leading the blind. All of us, like silly sheep, have gone astray from our true reality because … Continue reading
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SOFT, UNCONSCIOUS TOTALITARIAN COMPLIANCE
Soft, Unconscious Totalitarian Compliance Unconscious compliance through technocracy – we all encounter misleading information and accept it as reality. If we can be lured into the digital world, we will never be free to realise our true nature. Totalitarianism makes … Continue reading
WHATEVER SOMEONE SAYS DOESN’T MATTER
Whatever Someone Says Doesn’t Matter It doesn’t matter what people say; what matters is what’s happening in our mind – our reactions. Ideas placed in the mind make us think that we ‘know’, when this information is having opposite effect … Continue reading
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EARTH: BEAUTIFUL BUT BONKERS
Earth: Beautiful But Bonkers People of Earth are beautiful but bonkers. Their essence is a pure heart – the beautiful – but their minds are self-indulgent – the bonkers. When we know our true nature, all the bonker-ness makes sense. … Continue reading
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HOW WE GO ASTRAY
How We Go Astray We go astray and fall into ignorance when we fixate on or cling to any idea. Whether this fixation is adoration or dislike, we lose control of our mind. Mind is a collection of ideas to … Continue reading
ARE WE AWAKE OR ASLEEP?
Are We Awake Or Asleep? Dream: a state of mind in which someone is unaware of their immediate surroundings. Awake: to regain consciousness. Day-dream: thoughts that distract one’s attention from the present. When consciousness loses awareness of its immediate surroundings, we are in a state of sleep. We may be … Continue reading
LIFE SHOULD BE FRUSTRATING
Life Should Be Frustrating We can’t change anything. Life is frustrating because there are different views of the same subject. People cannot even agree on what is truth, or what is important in life. Frustration has many levels, from disheartenment … Continue reading
WE DON’T UNDERSTAND OUR OWN PSYCHOLOGY
We Don’t Understand Our Own Psychology If we don’t know our own psychology, we won’t know what is happening to us. We’re easily bored; that boredom is created by confusion, and sends us to sleep. We may look awake, but … Continue reading
OUR SELF IS OUR BUBBLE OF SUFFERING
Our Self Is Our Bubble Of Suffering What we call our self is merely consciousness bound in abstract concepts, existing in thought only and having no physical reality. Consciousness is unchanging, and has merely a temporary body and memory. Identifying with these abstract thoughts … Continue reading
IS IT REALLY A SCARY WORLD?
Is It Really A Scary World? In a genuinely scary situation, we have no time to be scared as we have something to deal with which overrides fear. Fear derives from rumour – every good filmmaker knows how to achieve … Continue reading
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IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE WORLD …
It Doesn’t Matter What We Know About The World … It doesn’t matter what we know about the world, things will happen anyway. They always have. Under the guise of a warning is insidious programming. We see and hear, and … Continue reading
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THE DHARMA ISN’T HOITY-TOITY
The Dharma Isn’t Hoity-Toity The Dharma isn’t haughty, snobbish and self-congratulatory. The Dharma isn’t holy or other-worldly. The Dharma is right here, right now, in all conditions; even if we get things wrong, and life is a mess, consciousness is … Continue reading
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LIFE IS KARMA
Life Is Karma Some things happen … some thing don’t happen 😀 Yet we ordinary folk are here on the same page, connected to “the Great Perfection”. Funny, that. “The Great Perfection” = Dzogchen = pure consciousness = you.
FOLLOW-THE-LEADER
Follow-The-Leader Follow-The-Leader: A child’s game. The universe seems complex, but it obeys simple rules. If we know the rules, we can lead our own life, otherwise we follow others who follow others who follow others, and no one knows why. The rules of … Continue reading
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DHARMA NEEDS NO ADORNMENT
Dharma Needs No Adornment Pure consciousness needs no adornments to attract. Never allow materiality to pull the wool over your eyes. Dharma isn’t an adornment. Dharma is our realisation. Dharma is independent of structure and organisation.
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SOME DAYS ARE LIGHT, SOME HEAVY, SOME FLAT
Some Days Are Light, Some Heavy, Some Flat The condition is which we find ourselves on any particular day is the karmic display of the absolute truth of the universe uncovering our path for us. We are the absolute truth … Continue reading
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BEYOND KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING IS KNOWINGNESS
Beyond Knowing And Not Knowing Is Knowingness Thinking we know, we are in an occupied state. Thinking we don’t know, we are in a vacant state. We cannot deny that knowingness – which is synonymous with awareness or consciousness – … Continue reading
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SCIENCE AND RELIGION HAVE THE SAME EFFECT
Science And Religion Have The Same Effect In the early years, we seek the mythical, holy grail of life. It doesn’t matter whether we follow science or religion, we end up obsessed and fixated. Depending on the type of person … Continue reading
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MEDITATION ONLY SPOILS IT
Meditation Only Spoils It Meditation is a method to bring the mind to stillness for the clarity of awareness to be acknowledged though mindfulness. It is in relating to this experience, however, that we end up in a constant duality … Continue reading
THERE IS NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND
There Is Nothing To Understand There is nothing to understand; just see. Just seeing is pure consciousness. Once realised, we understand what others try to understand. This profound teaching has become far too poetic, complicated and elaborate. Realise that pure … Continue reading
WE NEED A CONSTANT REMINDER
We Need A Constant Reminder We need a constant reminder of our true reality, because of constant, misleading information. If we hang around with clowns, we become part of the circus. Recognise and gain certainty in the one principle that … Continue reading
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MAKING OUR SELF FEEL BETTER …
Making Our Self Feel Better … Making our self feel better, instead of feeling better about our self. This has always been the human dilemma – to cover our self in selfishness, or to understand this self. We spend our … Continue reading
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DOES ANYTHING EXIST?
Does Anything Exist? It’s not a question we like to ask 🙂 Existence: coming into being. If something comes into being, it didn’t exist before. Does it exist now? Is it a temporary phenomena? We think we exist, but how? … Continue reading
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CAN THE DHARMA BE USED AGAINST HUMANITY?
Can The Dharma Be Used Against Humanity? Dharma is the knowledge to enable enlightenment, pointing out whatever obscures this potential. Dharma principles are unfailing, especially regarding the obscurations of desire, aversion and ignorance that obscure our potential. If these obscurations … Continue reading
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THE MOMENT OF TOTAL CONFUSION
The Moment Of Total Confusion Sometimes, the past comes to mind with intensity. We may know that “we are free in the moment of seeing”, but the intensity is still whirling like a tornado. That is the moment of total … Continue reading
REALISING THE COMPLETE PICTURE
Realising The Complete Picture The complete picture isn’t about gaining more information;it’s a matter of eliminating it.In fact, the more we learn, the less we know. When we drop the information, we are left with nothing.That ‘nothing’ is pure consciousness.This … Continue reading
CHANGE: BECOMING DIFFERENT
Change: Becoming Different Change occurs through the realisation that we’re not what we think – and we’re not what others think of us either. As long as we fixate about ourselves, we will never change. People enter the Dharma and … Continue reading
WHAT IS SELF?
What Is Self? Self is an illusory identity adopted by consciousness. Consciousness has been convinced that as long as it believes whatever others believe, it is safe. This is exactly what Solomon Asch’s experiment on conformity was about. Self is … Continue reading
MIXING BUSINESS WITH MEDITATION
Mixing Business With Meditation Business uses the term, ‘mindfulness meditation’. It’ll make you a better corporate warrior. This is a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of meditation. It’s an oxymoron – and it’s how evil works. We gain. Others lose. … Continue reading
DZOGCHEN: THE RELIEF FROM DISAPPOINTMENT
Dzogchen: The Relief From Disappointment The disappointment is the sudden realisation that there is no more. That’s it? That is the relief – the freedom from seeking a confused seeker – because there is no seeker. Hope and fear dissolve … Continue reading
WHAT IS DZOGCHEN?
What Is Dzogchen? ‘Dzogchen’ is a Tibetan word for natural, pure consciousness. What is the practice of Dzogchen? To realise it. How? Drop any meditation. Why? Dzogchen is what we already are. And it isn’t a practice. We are Dzogchen. … Continue reading
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WHERE ARE WE AT?
Where Are We At? ‘Direct recognition’ describes the moment when something is presented to us and we ‘get it’. Certain texts are like that – from personal experience,“The Lamp That Dispels Darkness” comes to mind. Because of direct recognition, practitioners … Continue reading
SOMETHING NOT RIGHT?
Something Not Right? Something not right? How do we know that? There is only one reason: perfect consciousness is the ever-present, innate blueprint of life. When we ignore this for something more interesting, we wander off-plan. The plan is that … Continue reading
AND THE TRUTH IS UPSETTING
And The Truth Is Upsetting The truth will set us free – but not everyone at the same time. When we realise our true nature, it’s such a relief from all the elaborate nonsense going on in the world. Not … Continue reading
FIND YOUR ONE POINT IN LIFE
Find Your One Point In Life Gain confidence and freedom. Garab Dorje: Recognise your essence. Decide on this one point. Gain confidence and freedom. First, recognise your true essence. Without that, you cannot decide or gain confidence beyond doubt. Decide … Continue reading
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REFERENCE AND PREFERENCE
Reference And Preference Our memory, our prejudice, our programming, is our way of life.Did you come from a questioning background, or from one with all the ‘answers’? This is how we conduct ourselves: we perceive something, and that perception is … Continue reading
WE ARE MORE POWERFUL WHEN WE KNOW
We Are More Powerful When We Know We are more powerful when we know than when we do not know. Every time we ignore, we lose. This isn’t about knowing one thing as opposed to another thing, judging everything by … Continue reading
JUDGING OTHERS BY WHAT’S IN OUR MIND
Judging Others By What’s In Our Mind Being caught up in hand-me-down thoughts, nothing in our minds is original. As our minds have been contaminated through misunderstandings, traumas occur, leading to long-term neuroses. Thus, we are all wounded in some way – and … Continue reading
CHAOTIC SPACE
Chaotic Space Chaotic space refers to complete disorder and confusion. This can seem either random or enlightening. In human terms, chaotic space is disorder, but it’s predictable, as we are actually governed by desires, judgements and ignorance. “Order Out Of … Continue reading
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THE ONE PURPOSE OF LIFE
The One Purpose Of Life The one purpose of life is to realise the undeniable one truth; to be able to know, there has to be consciousness present, and that consciousness is pure in essence. That is our primary reality. … Continue reading
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BREAD AND CIRCUSES
Bread And Circuses Bread and circuses: deliberate political distraction of consciousness. “Bread and circuses” was a phrase used by the satirical Roman poet, Juvenal, and refers to superficial appeasement, commonly used in cultural and political contexts. An idea – which … Continue reading
INTERFERING WITH NATURE
Interfering With Nature Nature is highly adaptable. We are nature and, as such, are highly adaptable, with innate qualities of purity*, consciousness** and compassion***. This is our essential nature. When – through ignorance – we interfere with these three qualities, they … Continue reading
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NICE, OR REALISTIC?
Nice, Or Realistic? Some words have a surprising meaning. Nice: origin – Middle English, from Latin nescius ‘ignorant’, from nescire ‘not know’. Realistic: Representing things in a way that is accurate and true to life. Being ‘nice’ to one another maintains the status quo of current social values. It’s nice to be nice, … Continue reading
ACTUAL MEDITATION IS NON-MEDITATION
Actual Meditation Is Non-Meditation The Buddha said, “Not too tight and not too loose.” What did he mean by that? We neither cling to the method nor become distracted. Meditation is just a reminder. Once we remember or realise our … Continue reading
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THE CURE BECOMES THE DISEASE
The Cure Becomes The Disease Whatever we are attracted to solve our problems – be it knowledge of science, religion, politics, literature, music, medicine, drugs, sex, conspiracies or just the latest ideas – ends up causing us dis-ease if we … Continue reading
THE SHOCK OF REALISATION IS ALMOST UNBEARABLE
The Shock Of Realisation Is Almost Unbearable Nine and a half billion people on this planet are unaware of their true reality, and so they’re not free. We just accept the status quo of following everyone else in our particular … Continue reading