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Tea, Not The Tea Cup “When we want tea, we aren’t bothered about the cup it comes in. Likewise, the Dharma we want is the teaching on the nature of reality: the culture it comes with does not matter. We … Continue reading →

OM MANI PEME HUM is a Mnemonic Mnemonics are an aid to memory The mantra, OM MANI PEME HUM, represents compassion within wisdom. This compassionate wisdom is directed towards what is happening in our own minds, and the minds of others. … Continue reading →

How Everything is Perfect How is everything perfect, when the people are ignoring reality? If we do not sharpen our tool, the cut will not be clean. We know that a blunt tool will produce a ragged edge: this is … Continue reading →

Can’t Meditate? Simply rest in whatever takes place in the mind, in whatever happens. In the very moment of recognition of being aware lies the moment of empty cognisance, pure awareness, Rigpa. Just note and realise that is one’s true … Continue reading →

How Do We Experience Our True Nature? The reason that we do not experience our true nature is that there is so much going on our minds to distract us. Whatever we see, we immediately judge by relating to memory … Continue reading →

Upgrading Our Teacher To teach means to point out, to show: “Look! See!” But it is wewho have to look and see. And what we are seeing is that we are this seeing. The teacher can only show us generalised … Continue reading →

The Perception Trap It is through perception that we navigate the world, but it’s also easy to forget who is navigating! In the very first instant of perception, perception is non-conceptual. There is just seeing, hearing etc, so that we … Continue reading →

We Reincarnate At Every Moment As sentient beings, we become addicted to a programme that we have created and which we relive again and again, unconscious of our true potential. It is the practice of awakening to consciousness that leads … Continue reading →

The Gap Between Thoughts This is where we will find and realise emptiness – pure consciousness, the natural state of rest free of mental turbulence or dullness. We normally oscillate between thoughts and this gap of emptiness, but miss this … Continue reading →

“I Am Nothing Without My Opinions” It is our opinions and concepts that create the fixations with which we identify as a self. Because of these ideas to which we cling, we limit our true potential. “But, I need to … Continue reading →

If You Don’t Find What You’re Looking For … 😀 … just make a suggestion in the comments section and we can see what manifests. Or go privately to buddhainthemud@hotmail.com Of course, you know the answer will be, “You are … Continue reading →

Nothing Else When we hear about enlightenment/pure consciousness, we are being enlightened about our true nature. We are being made aware of the potential of our true nature. The next stage is to practise without distraction to become aware of … Continue reading →

Life Of A Thousand Traumatic Cuts Trauma is normally thought of as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that leaves a long term effect on our mind. We may think that this is a rare occurrence of those in extreme circumstances but, when we look … Continue reading →

We Really Do Need To Train Our Mind … First! If we don’t train our mind to be still and silent, it will lack the clarity needed to recognise and realise the truth of the teachings. With training, we experience … Continue reading →

Synopsis for Book Thanks to Marcel who collated some articles a year ago with the idea of producing a book, we have recently completed this process (it’s taken a year with updates and adjustments), and the project is now being … Continue reading →

If The Truth Is That We Are One With God If the truth is that we are one with God, then we have never been separated from God. It is belief that separates us. To believe is to deny oneness. … Continue reading →

Time To See Differently It’s not that pure consciousness is extremely subtle; it is that conventional consciousness is so thick with concepts. We make up, adopt, cling to and build on an illusion that creates confusion and therefore, everything seems to … Continue reading →

Catching Demons That Don’t Exist Demons are consciousness clinging to ideas that create ‘myself’; this is demonic because these ideas rob us of knowing our true reality of pure consciousness. Demons distract consciousness away from itself. That’s what demons do … Continue reading →

Release From The Collective Consciousness We can’t think ourselves outside the box because it is thinking that keeps us inside the box 😉 Outside the box, there is merely pure observation of pure consciousness. That is our reality, rather than thoughts … Continue reading →

Is Spiritual Practice Confusing? The point of spiritual practice is to come to rest in the primordial purity of the spontaneous presence of consciousness. In other words, just to be what we truly are. We can all do that, if … Continue reading →

What Is Consciousness Conscious Of? This question deals with and illustrates the type of restricted world in which we find ourselves. Most of the time, we are aware of our environment and what we are doing in it – but … Continue reading →

Difficult Students Some cannot follow blindly as they need to know why. Difficult students should make teachers better teachers. Authentic spiritual teachings are not to be merely repeated and accepted: these teachings are practical methods to investigate the nature of reality … Continue reading →

How Do I Find Truth? Truth cannot be read about or discussed: it can only be experienced through the recognition in the stillness of mind which reveals the clarity of pure being, pure consciousness. It is we who decide that … Continue reading →

‘I’ Has An Expiry Date Every thing has an expiry date. Our ‘I’ will cease to broadcast gossip when consciousness wakes up and realises that it already knows. “You will hear of wars and rumours of wars, but see to it that you are not troubled. … Continue reading →

Seeing That We See: That’s What It’s All About Being conscious of being conscious. We are here in a human form to realise our true nature of ethereal reality. The pure conscious nucleus of intelligence. To accomplish this, we need … Continue reading →

Meditation Means ‘To Measure’ To consider carefully and restrain. Meditation is a boot-camp for the mind: once trained, the mind is free from contaminates, and measures out enlightened, compassionate activity. Once the mind is under control, we drop considering and restraining in … Continue reading →

The Moment Before The Moment Now Is Now! The moment before the moment now is now. By the time now is perceived, now has already passed. Why is this important? Non-duality doesn’t lose itself in duality, and being remains in … Continue reading →