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- NO LONGER SATISFYING June 14, 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
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LEVELS OF UNDERSTANDING AND REALISATION
Levels Of Understanding And Realisation All understanding may be refined, turning realisation into … pure experience. We find the view, to lose (cease to retain) the view. We meditate, to drop the meditation. Our conduct, although mindful, ceases in unconditional love. … Continue reading
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IT’S SIMPLE, BUT NOT EASY
It’s Simple, But Not Easy The natural essence of mind is uncreated and uncultivated, and therefore plain and simple. We don’t have to be scholars to realise this. On the other hand, the contents of mind are a created and … Continue reading
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SPIRITUALITY IS HARD-NOSED REALITY
Spirituality Is Hard-Nosed Reality which is the firm foundation for compassionate, hard-nosed reality. Hard-nosed: realistic, determined, tough-minded, unsentimental, down-to-earth, no-nonsense, pragmatic, clear-thinking, realistic, practical, rational, shrewd and astute. The opposite: sentimental, superstitious: believing in lucky charms, make-believe, fantasy: making exaggerated claims. To claim that we are ’empaths here to … Continue reading
DZOGCHEN AND THE GREAT MUD
Dzogchen And The Great Mud The word ‘Dzogchen’ sounds pretty exotic, doesn’t it? I thought so when I first heard it … “Dzogchen!” If we look it up, we enter the world of the Tibetan Nyingma tradition. However, all words … Continue reading
PERCEIVING THOUGHTS
Perceiving Thoughts As with perceiving phenomena, where neither thought nor judgement is necessary (unless there is a need), so the same with thoughts in meditation. If we do have to think or reason about something, we can do that later, … Continue reading
WE DO NOT THINK AS MUCH AS WE THINK WE DO!
We Do Not Think As Much As We Think We Do! Perception isn’t thinking. The more one realises, the more one realises. One takes a step, and the next step presents itself. Most of the time, we humans are on … Continue reading
NATURAL MEANINGFUL MUDRAS
Natural Meaningful Mudra “A mudra (Sanskrit मुद्रा, “seal”, “mark”, or “gesture”; Tibetan: ཕྱག་རྒྱ་) is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism: it is a spiritual gesture and an energetic seal of authenticity employed in the iconography and spiritual practice of Indian religions. “One hundred and eight mudras are used in … Continue reading
THE ‘MANY-GO-ROUND’
The ‘Many-Go-Round’ Are there many teachings, or only one? There are many, many teachings, with long mystical names, but in essence it is all about one, and that is pure consciousness. It is pure consciousness that has many expressions. This … Continue reading
BEGUILED BY STILLNESS AND BY OCCURRENCES
Beguiled* By Stillness And By Occurrences Meditators can be blinded by stillness. Ordinary people are blinded by occurrences. In both cases, we become stuck and fixated. When lost in stillness, we become meditation gods. When lost in occurrences, we become … Continue reading
WHO PERSEVERES, ACCOMPLISHES
Who Perseveres, Accomplishes in the face of adversity. As truth-seeker house-holders, we have to be skilful in our endeavour to understand our true reality. Friends and relatives who are not so inclined will find this difficult to deal with. … Continue reading
THE POINTING OUT INSTRUCTION
The Pointing Out Instruction The pointing out of the essence of being. It’s obvious … when pointed out. It’s quite ordinary, having no special or distinctive features. It’s normal, and yet ignored at every moment, while ever-present. We all have perception, so we perceive. That … Continue reading
INTELLECT, A GOOD HEART AND COURAGE
Intellect, A Good Heart and Courage We need these three qualities to face adversity. The clarity of intellect. The clarity of a good heart. The clarity of knowing what is right. The realisation of these results in the clarity of … Continue reading
WHAT IS COMPASSION?
What Is Compassion? Compassion is having the ability to empathise, to understand how another is feeling – and why – because we have been there and done that. We have all made mistakes in the past because we are all … Continue reading
ARE CHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISM COMPATIBLE?
Are Christianity And Buddhism Compatible? Certainly, if one widens the circle of understanding. Compatible: Latin compatibilis, from compati – ‘suffer with’. Put it this way; we are all human. All humans have both awareness and beliefs, and they suffer. To have a belief, we … Continue reading
“I DON’T LIKE MY TEACHER OR TEACHERS”
“I Don’t Like My Teacher or Teachers” It happens. Actually, this feeling has its positive side, if we look closely enough. The ‘teacher’ has created a reaction in us. This is not intentional: it’s part of a process of relating … Continue reading
HOW MANY PEOPLE NEVER KNOW?
How Many People Never ‘Know’? How many people live their lives, die, and never know their true nature? 1 Billion? 2 Billion? 7 and a half billion? 7 and a half billion is the number of inhabitants on Earth to … Continue reading
IGNORANCE IS INTENTIONAL
Ignorance Is Intentional It is interesting (and, in fact, obvious when one thinks about it), that ‘ignorance’ comes from the word ‘ignore’: to ignore, to refuse to take notice of or acknowledge. To disregard intentionally. This means that we have … Continue reading
SATANIC EVIL KILLS THE INNOCENT
Satanic Evil Kills The Innocent Satanic evil kills millions of innocent people through wars. Satanic evil has the potential to kill billions of innocent people through nuclear war. It doesn’t matter what people say, it is the outcome that matters. … Continue reading
WHY ARE ‘RELIGIOUS’ PEOPLE SO CRAP AT COMPASSION?
Why Are ‘Religious’ People So Crap At Compassion? Of course, we have compassion for poor, indigenous people in far away places, but we are ‘hell beings’ to one another. Is this because of an idea about karma’s will? Or God’s will? … Continue reading
WE ARE NEVER SEPARATED
We Are Never Separated When the mind is calm, it is never separated from emptiness and the clarity of awareness. When the mind is moving, it is never separated from emptiness and the clarity of awareness. When the mind is … Continue reading
WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT EMPTINESS?
What’s So Important About Emptiness? It’s not the word ’emptiness’ that is important: it’s what it means in a spiritual context. The true nature of mind, our essential nature, our primordial nature, our first nature is pure and devoid of … Continue reading
WANDERING PRACTITIONERS
Wandering Practitioners These are spiritual practitioners who give up everything and go out into the world to meditate, accepting whatever comes their way: heat/cold, food/no food, cave/doorway… they trust whatever arises, and rely on what people give them. It is … Continue reading
SELF-EXISTING AWARENESS
Self-Existing Awareness It’s just there. ‘It’ is what we are. We don’t have to do anything. We meditate to arrive at the realisation of self-existing awareness, and rest there. When self-existing awareness is realised, stop ‘meditating’, as meditation then becomes … Continue reading
LIVE AND LET LIVE
LIVE AND LET LIVE Live your life, and let others live theirs. It all depends on what we choose as the most important reason for our existence – our raison d’etre. That’s if we can reason … ! Theism: “Belief in the existence of … Continue reading
LIGHT IN THE DARK AND DARK IN THE LIGHT
Light In The Dark and Dark In The Light What is light for some is dark for others. What is dark for some is light for others. This isn’t just playing with words; we’re talking about levels of understanding. In … Continue reading
MENTAL OVER-STIMULATION
Mental Over-Stimulation We are over-stimulated by thoughts and emotions: we are overloaded digitally, spiritually and even Dharmically! Fat brains, thin on genuine compassion. Everything is super-sized. Wherever we go, there is exaggeration, and we lose the point of how and … Continue reading
WE LIVE IN PARALLEL UNIVERSES
We Live In Parallel Universes … the physical and the ethereal which cannot be separated as, in essence, they are both empty.. Most of us see only one. “Two birds sat in the same tree; one ate the fruit and the … Continue reading
SPIRITUAL SNOWFLAKES
Spiritual Snowflakes Says it all really. An inflated sense of self righteousness, with the hallmark of fear. Easily offended and unable to deal with raw emotions. It’s an easy trap to fall into … Were the ancient, realised masters snowflakes? … Continue reading
THE TSUNAMI OF SUFFERING
The Tsunami Of Suffering created by the Tsumani of Ignorance. It’s quite simple: if we ignore whatever’s going on in our own minds and our own consciousness, then how are we ever to know what external influences are obscuring our … Continue reading
SECRETS? WHAT SECRETS?
Secrets? What Secrets? Secret: separate, set apart, not meant to be known or seen by others. The question is, why? There is only one secret worth knowing and that is our true nature, which is pure conscious awareness. It is covered up by our … Continue reading
HUMOUR IS SO IMPORTANT
Humour Is So Important We may find that those six perfections are not what we experience. We don’t have generosity, patience, perseverance, discipline, meditation or insight: in fact we are more expert in grumpiness. Just admitting that is seeing the … Continue reading
THE ADVANCEMENT OF INEQUALITY
The Advancement Of Inequality Our view only has to change a little to see things differently. Are we here in a human body to realise that we are ‘precious ones’ … jewels in the mud … light in the dark … Continue reading
“IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE”
“It Takes One To Know One” If there is a deity – or someone more profound than ourselves – how would we know? How would we recognise it? If a Buddha stood next to us, would we recognise them as … Continue reading
SPIRITUAL AMNESIA
Spiritual Amnesia We forget. We forget what we are and what we are about. We need constant reminding. If we never think about something because we believe it will stay exactly the same, or will always be available, we may lose it. True knowledge may not always be … Continue reading
THE BIG PICTURE
The Big Picture If we could scan the entire, infinite universe (which is impossible because it’s infinite 🙂 ), we would not find any more profound wisdom than our own awareness. We would also not find anything more frivolous and … Continue reading
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HOW AM I EMPTINESS?
How Am I Emptiness? How is everything emptiness? Emptiness doesn’t mean having no qualities, for the reason that awareness simply has to be present to acknowledge emptiness. It’s like this. Before a thing is identified as a thing, and we … Continue reading
DON’T BELIEVE THE DHARMA
Don’t Believe The Dharma Don’t believe in emptiness Don’t believe in reincarnation And don’t be confused! 😀 If we merely hear teachings and accept them, then we are no better than anyone else at being persuaded to believe without evidence. … Continue reading
THE RECIPE TO END KARMA
The Recipe To End Karma These are the ingredients to end suffering and reach enlightenment: generosity, patience, perseverance, discipline, meditation, and insight wisdom. These ‘perfections’ reduce and bring to an end the self-programming that inhibits our spiritual progress and holds … Continue reading
WHEN THE LIGHT’S ON, WE CAN SEE
When The Light’s On, We Can See This sounds so stupidly obvious but here, the light means clarity – clear seeing. “The clear light of bliss.” When I first took to the spiritual path, a tutor just happened to mention … Continue reading
WE ARE TIMELESS BEINGS
We Are Timeless Beings It just takes time to realise this! True consciousness doesn’t change, or do anything. It is timeless, ergo we are timeless. We mistakenly believe that what we do is important, witty, entertaining, superior… but in fact, … Continue reading
WE ARE NEVER SEPARATE FROM THE TRUTH
We Are Never Separate From The Truth We are never separate from the truth. Few realise this. All we have to do is rest at ease in whatever happens. We are pure awareness: this is the enlightened truth. Without pure … Continue reading
CRESTED DUCK (ROB)
Crested Duck (Rob) Rob, a long time contributor to this blog, is going into hospital today. It will do us all some good to make the positive action of wishing him well, praying that his immune system and good inner … Continue reading
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THE RIGHT SIDE OF MADNESS
The Right Side Of Madness Is there a right side? Oh, yes! Here, we are talking from a spiritual point of view about whether or not we have lost our understanding of reality (Reality is a state of constancy, and … Continue reading
THE INSIDIOUS SIDE OF ONENESS
The Insidious Side Of Oneness ‘Insidious’ means to ambush, to lie in wait, to proceed cunningly in a gradual, subtle way, with harmful effects. Here, ‘oneness’ means not being different from the rest, not being an individual. Our reactions are … Continue reading
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