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- WATERED-DOWN DHARMA October 8, 2026
- THE CONSTANTS October 8, 2026
- GURUS ARE PEOPLE, AND PEOPLE ARE GURUS October 7, 2026
- DOUBT AND CONFIDENCE October 6, 2026
- 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
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ALWAYS RETURN TO FIRST PRINCIPLES
Always Return To First Principles Watching the breath cuts through circling thoughts. This brings us back to thought-free now. We become one with the breath. Breath is life. Life is spirit. Spirit is pure consciousness. We are this without thinking. … Continue reading
A SYSTEM IS A GOOD BEGINNING
A System Is A Good Beginning A system is a good beginning, but a system can make us passive and ‘samey’. In a system, we feel good and safe. We go through our routines and establish a basis to work … Continue reading
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REALISING EMPTINESS
Realising Emptiness It is so simple. Our eyes have tear ducts to keep them clean and clear. We are so used to this clarity that we don’t notice it, and ignore it … until the arrival of a speck of … Continue reading
BUDDHISM: LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS
Buddhism: Logical Conclusions Buddhism isn’t a religion. It is spiritual guidance for consciousness. Our salvation and sanity come through our own efforts to realise the truth about consciousness. We attain realisation through knowledge, not prayer. Through knowledge, we recognise the … Continue reading
TOO INTENSE?
Too Intense? Our ‘self’ is a construct, a programme received from our environmental conveyor belt. True spiritual teachings dismantle this self-belief. Without realising, we have had our minds numbed to our true reality. The shock of realising the confusion in … Continue reading
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HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
How To Make The World A Better Place See it differently. The world is a huge illusion built on cultural ideas and beliefs. Making an illusion better actually only makes it worse. We make the world better by seeing the … Continue reading
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THE SCALES FALL FROM OUR EYES
The Scales Fall From Our Eyes “Immediately, there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once.” Acts 9:18, New King James Version. Let the “scales fall from our eyes”. What does that really mean? How are we … Continue reading
THE MESSIAH COMPLEX
The Messiah Complex Hasn’t it caused a lot of problems in the world? Messiah: The anointed saviour who is said to bring the dead back to life, reuniting them with their souls. We know that this means different things to … Continue reading
TRUE SPIRITUALITY IS PRACTICAL
True Spirituality Is Practical True spirituality is practical because we know how to drop preconceived ideas and see directly.
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THE REALISATION OF SPIRITUALITY IS PRACTICAL
The Realisation of Spirituality Is Practical Practical Spirituality helps us to cope with life with a sensible and realistic approach to situations or problems, by means of clear observation without preconceived ideas. In the beginning was not a book: a book is someone else’s view. Never … Continue reading
ENLIGHTENMENT IS NEVER FORGETTING
Enlightenment Is Never Forgetting Once we recognise and realise that we are pure consciousness, that is the beginning of our spiritual path. Now, it is up to us to remember. The more we remember, the less we forget. It’s a … Continue reading
DREAM CATCHERS
Dream Catchers We are the dream catchers; we catch others’ dreams. Dreams are what happens in the mind when we are unaware, and we then act out the mind’s thoughts. It makes no difference whether we are conventional dreamers or … Continue reading
CONFUSION CREATES FUTILE DILIGENCE
Confusion Creates Futile Diligence Confuse: To make someone or something bewildered, more complex and less easy to understand. Confusion: The result of making someone confused. Spiritual texts suggest that we are confused because we ignore our true reality. Of course this is true, but we are … Continue reading
BEYOND EXTREMES
Beyond Extremes We are extremists if we believe anything. Holding onto ideas and beliefs denies the next moment of clear space. Without clarity, the next moment becomes smothered by the past, whereas the emptiness of clarity allows wisdom to be … Continue reading
IS THERE A UNIVERSAL, CREATIVE PRINCIPLE?
Is There A Universal, Creative Principle? If so, is that creative principle for our benefit, or is it a distraction? Is there more to our reality? We talk about God, Nature, Love, Self and Consciousness; are they all one? Do … Continue reading
WHEN THE PROGRAMME MALFUNCTIONS
When The Programme Malfunctions Whoopee! There are moments when we just don’t feel ‘right’. Unfortunately, we look for solace to get us back into the action in order to feel good. We have been bombarded from cradle to grave with … Continue reading
IT’S BEEN A CRINGEWORTHY LIFE
It’s Been A Cringeworthy Life Cringe: an inward shiver of embarrassment when thinking about our past actions. We follow others. We assumed a posture, but suddenly we don’t believe any of it any more. We remember all those things we did and … Continue reading
WHY DO WE IGNORE THE TRUTH?
Why Do We Ignore The Truth? We ignore the truth because, in knowing truth, we realise what isn’t true, and that will change our life. Because of our habitual clinging to our view on life, we choose to keep doing and … Continue reading
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Searching On This Site
There are over 2.500 posts on this site. If you do not find what you need, just write a key word in the search box at the bottom of this page, and see what comes up. If you still do … Continue reading
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IS THE VOICE OF GOD…A NYAM?
Is The Voice Of God … A Nyam? This isn’t meant to upset anyone; the intention is to clarify, and identify the mistakes that may happen when we become attached to experiences, believe in them, make rules about them and … Continue reading
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Tagged before words, God, language, non-duality, Pure Awareness, Pure Consciousness., Shiva, the voice of god, translation
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CAN INSPIRATION BECOME ENTERTAINMENT?
Can Inspiration Become Entertainment? We may get – and then seek out – nice feelings of bliss, clarity or absence of thoughts. But it’s never enough and we want more, and thus become attached to these experiences. In Tibetan, the word … Continue reading
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SPIRITUALITY IS A SCIENCE AND NOT A BELIEF
Spirituality Is A Science And Not A Belief Spirituality is a science, and not a belief. As children, are made to believe that we must believe. Spirituality is pure consciousness: we are pure consciousness and without that, we wouldn’t know … Continue reading
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TRUE HARMONY AND FALSE HARMONY
True Harmony And False Harmony Harmony: a combination that works as one. Unison: oneness. Conventional harmony and unison are temporary. Ultimate harmony and unison are our reality. True harmony comes from the realisation of inner unison. Harmony is being at one, but … Continue reading
ON FINDING NOTHING, WE HAVE ARRIVED
On Finding Nothing, We Have Arrived When we look for our mind and a self, nothing is found. All that is left is empty awareness. This is such a simple realisation that it is unbelievable! We have found what remains…pure … Continue reading
QUESTIONS OPEN THE MIND. STATEMENTS CLOSE IT.
Questions Open The mind. Statements Close It. Statements programme the mind, while questions release us from that programming. This is how we, in actuality, realise the path to enlightenment, rather than merely acquiring answers.
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LOST. FOUND. REALISED.
Lost. Found. Realised. When we do not know our true nature, then we are lost in a world of unknowing, and so we busy ourselves in life activities. When we find out about our true nature, then we are on … Continue reading
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DO WE EXIST OR NOT?
Do We Exist Or Not? What are we and what are we not? This is the very essence of spiritual questioning about what is real, and what is seemingly real. The truth about our reality and why we came into … Continue reading
SOMEONE CREATED SATAN
Someone Created Satan Satan – ‘Le-satan’ in Hebrew – means ‘to impede’, ‘to create an obstacle’, ‘ to cause adversity’, ‘to act out of mischief’. We all can do that 😀 Satan is our own likes and dislikes, But someone … Continue reading
ANGER AND EMPATHY ARE INSEPARABLE
Anger And Empathy Are Inseparable What makes us angry? It is obsessing about others’ obsessive behaviour. What makes us compassionate? It is the ability to empathise, because we know how it feels to be obsessive. So, when we recognise our … Continue reading
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THE OBJECT OF DESIRE
The Object Of Desire The object of desire is my satisfaction. Desire fills the emptiness of consciousness with dualistic ideas, creating an “I” with likes and dislikes. This is the cause of our suffering. In the yoga of one taste, … Continue reading
HOW “BRANDING” CONTROLS US
How “Branding” Controls Us Branding: to burn with a hot iron as a mark of ownership. For ‘Branding’, read programming. We are fed information, and this information is always biased; if we are of a certain frame of mind, it builds … Continue reading
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PROOF THAT WE ARE BEING INFLUENCED AND MANIPULATED
Proof That We Are Being Influenced And Manipulated We are taught to react, and cannot stop our self. In an experiment by Bangor University Psychology Laboratory, people were asked to press a button every time they saw a branded item … Continue reading
ARE WE COMPLICIT IN OVERTHROWING TRUTH?
Are We Complicit In Overthrowing Truth … Are we complicit in overthrowing truth by adopting a culture of ideas? Absolute truth is that which is always present, and that is pure consciousness. Anything that pure consciousness observes can never be … Continue reading
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POSITIVITY AND NEGATIVITY AFFECT OUR MIND
Positivity and Negativity Affect Our Mind Positivity and negativity – good and evil – are what life is all about. Clarity and whatever obscures that clarity; it is that simple. Positivity is seeing clearly and understanding a situation for the … Continue reading
INFLUENZA-ERS
Influenza-ers Persuading others to catch their virus The modern, scientific world knows the DNA of everything, including the mind. Science is now the Creator and Destroyer. If we know how to create something, then it stands to reason that we … Continue reading
DON’T CONFUSE EDUCATION WITH INTELLIGENCE
Don’t Confuse Education With Intelligence Education: the process of receiving systematic instruction. Intelligence: the natural ability to acknowledge or recognise truth. Education is acquired. Intelligence is intuitive insight. We need both mind and the heart, but the mind and heart have to … Continue reading
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BRAINWASHING
Brainwashing The world brainwashes us. Our practice is to wash away the brainwashing. The soap is proper meditation; pure awareness noting all intrusions and letting go. The intrusions now become our teacher, reminding us that all indoctrinations have no reality. … Continue reading
THE REASON WHY WE HAVE LONGING
The Reason Why We Have Longing We have never been separate from the enlightened state. Not having recognised this, we were led astray, looking elsewhere for this ultimate truth. Whether we are happy or unhappy, this state is neither improved … Continue reading
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FED UP WITH THE FEEDING FRENZY?
Fed Up With The Feeding Frenzy? We’re deliberately fed provocative nonsense day in and day out. This feeds and turns our small desires and aversions into exaggerated ones. Those who feed us also feed off our reactions, as we feed … Continue reading
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EVERYTHING IS OVERKILL
Everything Is Overkill Everything is overkill. We have learnt how to squeeze nature. Elaboration upon elaboration. Distraction upon distraction. Confusion upon confusion. Ignorance upon ignorance. Suffering upon suffering. This is no way to live. Our origin is simply pure awareness. … Continue reading
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TRANSFERRING CONSCIOUSNESS INTO THE FUTURE
Transferring Consciousness Into The Future Redirecting our mind into the future becomes a substitute for dealing with whatever is happening where we are now. Transferring our attention away from the present moment to something we hope for in the future not … Continue reading
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THE WORLD MIND MAZE
The World Mind Maze Something is needed to wake us up. It is then our responsibility to stay awake by seeing the dilemma we are in. Eloquent commentaries may be inspiring and we become euphoric, but the reality we seek … Continue reading
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HOW TO REALISE HOW HAPPY WE ARE
How To Realise How Happy We Are The more we meditate, the more we are consciously aware of being aware of where we are, and the more we realise that we are happy. Everything drops away, except the task in … Continue reading
CAN WE WAKE OTHERS?
Can We Wake Others? This is a delicate matter, and one I’m still learning about. We can inform others, but ‘waking’ means going deeper, and they may not be ready for that, in the sense of not being able to … Continue reading
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WE ARE PLASTIC BELIEVERS UNTIL …
We Are Plastic Believers Until … We are plastic believers until genuine pure awareness is realised, resulting in genuine empathy and genuine compassion. Practice is more than appearance. There are westerners who call themselves ‘shaman’, and who adopt indigenous cultures … Continue reading
ARE LAW AND HUMANITY INCOMPATIBLE?
Are Law and Humanity Incompatible? Law: something laid down or fixed. Humanity: the quality of being humane; benevolent and well meaning; kindness. Once we are separated from our humanity, we become reliant on laws. Enter the new world order.
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OLD AGE, ‘NEW AGE’
Old Age, ‘New Age’ The ultimate teaching is dropping the realisation of our true nature of pure awareness. If we do not drop, we become attached.
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OUR PROBLEM IS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CONSCIOUSNESS
Our Problem Is Our Relationship With Consciousness Our true, essential nature is pure being that is conscious; these two cannot be separated, like light and its luminosity. But when this luminosity plays on something and becomes attracted to it, we … Continue reading
IT’S ALL ABOUT ME-ME!
It’s All About Me-me! A meme (pronounced meem) is that which is imitated. Are we just a copy of others’ ideas? We may take a side because of a condition brought about by others. Is this not divide and conquer? What if memes are … Continue reading
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