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- HAVING SOMEONE TO TALK TO October 5, 2026
- MISTAKING DISTRACTION FOR PURPOSE October 4, 2026
- WE ADOPT A STORY October 3, 2026
- SANITY IS WISDOM October 3, 2026
- SOCIOLOGY AND THE DHARMA October 3, 2026
- LIVING IN OUR BUBBLE October 3, 2026
- FEEDBACK IS VITAL FOR PROGRESS October 3, 2026
- PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS INNOCENT October 2, 2026
- THE ULTIMATE PSYOPS October 1, 2026
- WAKING UP IS DISTURBING October 1, 2026
- FROM SIGHT TO INSIGHT September 30, 2026
- WE KNOW ABOUT PLATO’S CAVE … BUT DO WE? September 30, 2026
- LOST SOUL, LOST CONSCIOUSNESS September 29, 2026
- RITUALISTIC DHARMA AND REAL DHARMA September 29, 2026
- LOVING LABELS – OTHERS’ LABELS September 28, 2026
- THERE IS NO DHARMA, NO BUDDHISM, NOTHING INTERESTING September 28, 2026
- RETREATS, AND GOING FOR A BUN September 27, 2026
- HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE DREAMING? September 27, 2026
- CLEARING AWAY THE DARK IGNORANCE OF MIND September 26, 2026
- IS THE EXOTIC ESCAPISM? September 26, 2026
- WHY DOES LIFE FEEL LIKE A SCAM? September 26, 2026
- KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT COMPASSION September 25, 2026
- BELIEVING VERSUS KNOWING September 24, 2026
- BORN INTO A WAY OF LIFE September 23, 2026
- COMPASSION ONLY FOR THOSE AFAR September 22, 2026
- ARE WE AWAKE OR DREAMING? September 22, 2026
- DID YOU GET WHAT YOU CAME FOR? September 22, 2026
- REALISING THE REAL TEACHER September 22, 2026
- BELONGING TO AN UNSTABLE TRIBE September 21, 2026
- WORDS ARE NEARLY THE TRUTH September 20, 2026
- THE LESS THE JUDGEMENT, THE MORE THE INSISIGHT September 19, 2026
- IF YOU’RE BONKERS AND YOU KNOW IT, CLAP YOUR HANDS September 19, 2026
- THE DHARMA IS IN LIFE, NOT IN A BOOK September 18, 2026
- THE IMPORTANCE OF RECOGNISING BLIND ALLEYS September 18, 2026
- SPIRITUALITY ISN’T A PERFORMANCE September 17, 2026
- WHY GO ON ABOUT HAPPINESS? September 17, 2026
- TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE? September 16, 2026
- WHY DON’T PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE? September 15, 2026
- DO YOU WANT TO BE A BODHISATTVA? September 14, 2026
- WISDOM IS USELESS UNLESS IT IS PRACTISED September 13, 2026
- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE? September 13, 2026
- THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING September 12, 2026
- WE ALL HAVE DARK PASTS September 12, 2026
- MOST PEOPLE LIVE IN THE PAST September 11, 2026
- PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEVER WRONG September 11, 2026
- IN EMPTINESS, WORDS ARE JUST NOISE September 11, 2026
- THE I GOES BACK A LONG WAY September 11, 2026
- REALISING SOMETHING IS WRONG September 10, 2026
- WORDS FILL OUR MIND September 10, 2026
- UNBLOCKING ENLIGHTENMENT September 10, 2026
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WE ARE ALL HYPOCRITES
We Are All Hypocrites The word ‘hypocrite’ originates from the Greek hypokrisis which means acting a part or playing a role. Hypocrisy is pretending to hold beliefs, virtues and moral standards that our own actions completely contradict. In simple terms, … Continue reading
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BECOMING A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PERSON
Becoming A Totally Different Person Through the realisation of our true nature of uncontaminated consciousness, we are now a different person to the one we were. There will still be a residue of awkwardness around people, due to our old … Continue reading
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DEMYSTIFYING THE NATURE OF MIND
Demystifying The Nature Of Mind The essence of mind is pure consciousness. It’s what we are – pure observation without an observer. This pure consciousness stores memories, and becomes attached to these memories, assuming that those memories are what we … Continue reading
WHEN WE BELIEVE, WE WORSHIP THE DEVIL/MARA
When We Believe, We Worship The Devil/Mara It’s very easily done. Belief is acceptance without knowing; it’s an imaginary projection on the walls of our mind. When we know, we realise the word ‘God’ is another name for pure consciousness, … Continue reading
EVIL HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Evil Hidden In Plain Sight Evil is ignorance and, through ignorance, we consent. Evil intent is hidden in plain sight in an attempt to side-step karma and the consequences of an action. Evil wants consent, and foolishly forgets that its … Continue reading
THERE ARE NO MORE WORDS TO LEARN
There Are No More Words To Learn There are no more words to learn. We merely have to experience them, and refine that experience through sustaining the continuity of silent cognisance beyond words. That tells us everything about the world … Continue reading
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THE CLEVER BLIND SPOT
The Clever Blind Spot A fast mind, an over-active and over-confident mind, a mind with a high cognitive ability tricks people into believing they are immune to cognitive biases, behavioural addictions and making bad choices. Relying on intellectual superiority is … Continue reading
BUDDHAS IN BANALITY
Buddhas In Banality Banality is lacking in originality or freshness. This is the human mind with no clarity, no spontaneity, and no sense of responsibility. The level of banality depends on the type of ‘company’ we keep: people, videos, words … Continue reading
TWO PATHS OF CRITICAL MASS
Two Paths Of Critical Mass Critical mass is the threshold of the number of people needed to adopt a new idea, technology, or social behaviour before it triggers rapid, widespread adoption across the rest of society. Once this group size … Continue reading
GENUINELY SEEKING TRUTH
Genuinely Seeking Truth Joining a spiritual tradition and being given pre-packaged answers is neither the path nor the truth. Genuine truth is experienced through individual questioning and dissatisfaction. We test the teaching in every encounter, seeing how our mind works … Continue reading
VALUING AWARENESS
Valuing Awareness Valuing awareness is valuing our reality. We take ever-present awareness for granted, forgetting that it’s how we know. If we are not aware of being aware, we’re still living in the collective dream. Awareness is meditation. Pure awareness … Continue reading
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THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF WORDS
The Right Combination Of Words The right combination of words unlocks our path. For me, it was the Buddha saying, “Do not take my words for the truth: test them”, and everything fell into place. Before this, I was just … Continue reading
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EMPATHY IS THE POWER OF THE SURVIVOR
Empathy Is The Power Of The Survivor Empathy is the power of the survivor. We aren’t guessing how people feel; we recognise a mind-scape we’ve already walked. Even in ‘spiritual’ group, we know how it is to sit in a … Continue reading
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EVERYONE DISPLAYS
Everyone Displays Our display is our behaviour – the face we present to the world. The ability to see this display for what it is is the unfolding of an understanding of confusion. Whether it’s a world leader’s speech or … Continue reading
GURUS ARE HUMAN
Gurus Are Human Recognising that self-proclaimed guides and gurus carry their own hidden wounds is a massive turning point. It strips away the illusion of perfection, and shifts our reliance on external healers to our own inner authority and lived … Continue reading
WHAT EXPERIENCES?
What Experiences? The closer we look, the stranger it all seems. “It’ll be all right” doesn’t cut it anymore. Life is a complex illusion, but the answer is so simple. Don’t believe anyone. Find your natural pattern through your karma. … Continue reading
WHEN DAMAGE NO LONGER CONTROLS OUR LIFE
When Damage No Longer Controls Our Life We all go through traumas, creating wounds that so-called gurus laugh at – and that, in itself, creates trauma. Been there, felt that. When we realise the way this affects us and how … Continue reading
LOVING KNIDNESS IS NOT WHAT WE THINK
Loving Kindness Is Not What We Think There are two wisdom-aspects to kindness: peaceful and wrathful. The peaceful aspect heals with clarity. The wrathful aspect protects boundaries, confronts harm, and heals with clarity. Both are forms of deep caring, but … Continue reading
SPONTANEITY IS REALITY
Spontaneity Is Reality Spontaneity is the perfect presence of pure consciousness: totally unfabricated; natural; unrehearsed; fully awake to the absolute present moment; completely free from the distractions of the past; future, or self-critical thought. It’s what we are. Spontaneity breaks … Continue reading
BEING BOUND TO WORDS
Being Bound To Words In being bound to words and ideas, we become religious about them. We fall under a specific set of rules, and are therefore predictable. There’s no spontaneity, because we’re captured by dogma. When an idea solidifies … Continue reading
WE’RE A MISMATCH
We’re A Mismatch We all have different experiences, different desires, different aversions. We see life differently, and so true communication is impossible because we assume that others are using the same dictionary of experiences, but our mental images are triggered … Continue reading
THE SECOND COMING
The Second Coming Yesterday’s post was about the coming of Buddha Maitreya, who will appear when Buddha Gautama’s teaching has deteriorated, and that the right motivation of loving kindness is already within us, meaning that we are manifesting Maitreya now. … Continue reading
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THE TENDER TRAP
The Tender Trap The most effective element of a trap is its transparency; it doesn’t look like a cage, so we think that’s the way things are supposed to be. When we look at both religious and secular systems, the … Continue reading
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SUPPRESSED KNOWLEDGE
Suppressed Knowledge As long as we adhere to words, true knowledge is suppressed because we don’t have actual experience. True knowledge is the expression of experience through pure awareness. Without that, we are merely intellectualising, which is a hamster wheel … Continue reading
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TIMELESS TIME
Timeless Time This is the ultimate realisation.The future is already here, and the past never truly left. When we see that time is timeless, the levels of realisation – the Yanas – collapse. No waiting for Maitreya, the future Buddha. … Continue reading
IS MEDITATION ENOUGH?
Is Meditation Enough? Through meditation, we (pure consciousness) clear the mind so that we can see without bias, and know what we are. Once we’re able to see with clarity, we realise what is happening in our mind, and the … Continue reading
EARTH: THE HISTORY OF EVIL
Earth: The History Of Evil Throughout history, humanity has been warned that evil is not just a concept from the past, but a recurring theme that thrives on action, inaction and indifference today. Not paying attention to the past allows … Continue reading
THE BUDDHA WAS A WEIRD ONE
The Buddha Was A Weird One The word ‘weird’ comes from the old English ‘wyrd’, which referred to fate, destiny, or the power to control the future. By that definition, the Buddha was definitely weird. 🙂 He predicted that the … Continue reading
PATHOS IS THE PATH TO ENLIGHTEMENT
Pathos Is The Path To Enlightenment Pathos (Greek): empathy for suffering, ‘what befalls one’ (ie karma). In Buddhism, the recognition that suffering and the cause of suffering is seen as a catalyst for change. This is important to understand, because if … Continue reading
IS PREDICTION POSSIBLE?
Is Prediction Possible? Can we all be weird ones?Weird: those who could influence their fate (14th century). This world is Samsara, the vicious cycle of existence, going up and down, and round and round. So yes, in fact, it is … Continue reading
WORDS CONTROL OUR MIND
Words Control Our Mind Language is the scaffold controlling consciousness, and limiting communication. Language itself is an altered state of consciousness that we’re born into; by using prefabricated phrases and social jargon, we surrender to pre-set labels. Meditation erases the … Continue reading
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THE WORD WEIRD IS WEIRD
The Word Weird Is Weird No one likes anyone who can control their own fate, and so they call them ‘weird’. 🙂 The word ‘weird’ began as a term for those who could influence their fate, and see the hidden … Continue reading
WHAT IF WE’RE ALREADY ENLIGHTENED?
What If We’re Already Enlightened? What if we’re already enlightened, and nothing special? It would put a lot of gurus out of work, which is the aim of gurus. 🙂 What if our thoughts were obscuring this enlightened state, keeping … Continue reading
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THE MEANING OF LIFE
The Meaning Of Life A meaningful life has a goal, a point to it. It’s up to each individual to decide what that is, and the level which satisfies. We have to decide what is unnecessary – and whatever we … Continue reading
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WHAT ARE WE PURIFYING?
What Are We Purifying? We’re purifying the mind.This is our purpose in life. Our mind is cluttered with ideas which contaminate perception. We see through a dark lens. Purifying is letting go of acquired thoughts, and just being. For most … Continue reading
THE MIRROR, MIND ESSENCE, PURE CONSCIOUSNESS
The Mirror, Mind Essence, Pure Consciousness It’s all the same. We are the pure essence of consciousness which acts like a mirror to all phenomena, both internal and external. Pure consciousness reflects everything, and holds on to nothing. When we … Continue reading
THE TRAP OF DISPLAY IN DZOCHEN AND KABBALAH
The Trap Of Display In Dzogchen And Kabbalah Display may attract, but it’s all about letting go. The display is just the wrapping; it’s all about opening the package, and then eventually throwing it away. In both Dzogchen and Kabbalah … Continue reading
WE LIVE IN AN UNENLIGHTENED WORLD
We Live In An Unenlightened World We live in an unenlightened world; lacking wisdom of pure awareness, of course there are problems. This isn’t just due to a lack of facts, but a misunderstanding of reality – the illusion of … Continue reading
GO FORTH AND SPARKLE
Go Forth And Sparkle 😀 This sparkle encourages positivity, confidence, responsibility, contentment … and anger. Anger?? In the very first instant of seeing that something is amiss, consciousness brightens, and becomes alert. That moment is pure consciousness, before we start … Continue reading
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EVERYONE KNOWS SOMETHING IS WRONG
Everyone Knows Something Is Wrong There is deliberate misguidance in all walks of life. Why? Culturally induced ignorance. Any sense of wrongness we feel isn’t an accident, but a feature of systems designed to keep people distracted, divided, or misinformed. … Continue reading
ORDINARY REALISATION FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE
Ordinary Realisation For Ordinary People Realisation is being aware of being the consciousness that is always present, with nothing added. This is the essence – the essential nature – of all sentient beings. It’s what we are. We don’t have … Continue reading
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THE TWO STUPIDITIES
The Two Stupidities The two stupidities: being made to be stupid, and self-maintaining stupidity. There’s a reason why people are stupid – belief. There’s nothing we can do about others’ stupidity as that’s been around for a very long time, … Continue reading
WHAT KNOWS?
What Knows? Once we see that ‘personal’ and ‘universal’ are just conceptual bookend labels created by the mind to try and package the un-packageable, they fall away. They are understood to be objects of knowledge, whereas what we are pointing … Continue reading
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WHAT TO DO AFTER REALISATION
What To Do After Realisation Realisation is an enlightened attitude towards everything, because we actually experience the only reality of pure consciousness. It’s quite simple; it’s that which is reading these words right now, without reacting (reactions come along a … Continue reading
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OUR LIFE IS A PREDICTIVE SCRIPT
Our Life Is A Predictive Script Most people don’t question the script, because they are proud of their ‘learning’. Once we see the hold that our script has on us, we cannot un-see it. The system isn’t going to hand … Continue reading
ALIENATION
Alienation Coming to a definitive conclusion can alienate or antagonise people who react defensively when their beliefs and opinions aren’t acknowledged. Reliance on belief makes the human mind vulnerable, because belief is not absolute truth. Belief is holding anything we … Continue reading
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WE GET OLD BECAUSE WE STOP PLAYING
We Get Old Because We Stop Playing When we ‘grow up’, we take ourselves seriously.We lose the present moment, and obsess about the past. When we stop being playful, we stop learning and experimenting,no longer finding joy in the small … Continue reading
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