BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog – a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts.

Official Disinformation

‘The elephant in the room.’

‘The elephant in the room’ is a major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion.

Censorship is a policy that divides people.
Are we enlightened beings
or just parasites of disinformation?

Disinformation is what officialdom calls the thinking of those who do not believe in the official narrative. The official story or ‘truth’ is always meant to put people into a state of unease and fear, and is the best way to control people, to penalise them for even speaking about their concerns through strategies and policies to fight against disbelief and ‘corrupted’ minds.

If so many people are questioning the status quo,
there may be a reason.

This is tantamount to the old laws of heresy, where people were condemned or even put to death for not believing what they were told. Some of us naturally cannot go along with the crowd as we see what crowds do. 🙂

Censorship affects our culture, changing the way in which we think and communicate, and officialdom is protecting this cultural change, causing chaos and confusion in the mind and disturbing consciousness.

Why?
Officialdom doesn’t like people thinking for themselves.

The Logic Beyond Logic

Ordinary logic: we think this and this and this,
because we have always thought this and this and this.

Transcendental logic is the realisation that that which observes ordinary logic
has to be present to observe all this and this and this.
Very few get this.
🙂

Realising that very few get this is compassion.
Very few get this as well!
🙂

Ordinary logic likes creating conflict.
Transcendental logic ends both creation and conflict.
Very few want this.
🙂

When We Think We Are The Mind

When we think we are the mind, which is full of ideas, we cannot stop talking. This is how we remain confused, not stopping to draw breath, and not pausing for a moment between one thought and another.

To stop this constant inner chatter, we sit in undistracted silent awareness, and let go of our undigested information, facts, and ideas which have not been properly assessed, considered or understood.

Unfortunately, if we still think we are the mind, we can’t do that, and continue chattering.

The chattering class is the missing link in evolution.
It is the silent aware who have evolved.

If we don’t practise sitting in silent, undistracted awareness, we speculate endlessly, creating more division and complication. Pure consciousness has nothing to say, only observing the reduction in reaction, and thereby remaining in undistracted, silent awareness.

We Learn From Our Mistakes

That’s if we recognise the mistake 🙂
Do not feel guilty – celebrate!

Our Reality Is Censored

Our reality is censored in favour of politics, which is governing people.

Censorship: officially examined books, films, news, etc. that are about to be published and suppresses any parts that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. To prevent certain ideas and memories from emerging into the mind.

If we aren’t talking about and engaged in our reality of consciousness, we are already living in censorship through hearsay. Every ‘thing’ is made-up, and groupthink governs people

Being conscious is being awake and open-minded
to think with clarity.

Secret: Hidden – In Plain Sight

The best sort!
Plain sight: pure consciousness.

Pure consciousness is where everything begins and ends.
It is really that simple.
The bit in between is just confusion.

What others call ‘secret’
is their hidden agenda,
maintaining mystery and confusion in plain sight.
The worst sort.
🙂

Our Leaders (Influencers) Are Not Enlightened

This is the world – and the age – in which we live.

Our leaders and their media representatives select partial truths, and never truth itself because they have an agenda which we select and believe. We either side with the limited choices presented to us, or we don’t bother. As long as we are influenced, we submit and react, and are caught up in an unenlightened narrative of confusion.

We all have agendas that we decide are true.

I am not a teacher, but I have an agenda 🙂 My agenda is that, after decades of religiousness, I’ve come to the conclusion that religion – or being bound – has nothing to do with realisation. In fact, religious stories distract from direct, raw experience of nowness, making followers into intellectual reactionaries.

Religion is said to be the door,
but how many become house-bound.

The world in which we live has a stranglehold on us
as we are led to believe the truth, rather than know the truth.

As the Buddha said, “Don’t take my word for it … ”

Testing The Dream State And Wakefulness

We are consciousness, and nothing else. Thinking we are something ‘else’ is just a confused idea of self that has an attitude. It is rare that we test our attitude-self which is, in reality, a dream state.

When we (consciousness) are either occupied or vacant, we are in an altered state of mind. The shock of knowing the difference between being awake and dreaming is enlightening.

Ordinarily, thinking is a regurgitation of memories; it’s a cyclic existence, where we are stuck in a certain frame of mind, assuming that we cannot change. And so we are destined to repeat the same words and reactions. That is ‘Living the Dream’ and, through insecurity, we maintain this state.

Having realised that we are consciousness, our thinking is now an immediate response to a momentary experience just gone. That is wakefulness that does not rely on the past memories and spurious facts that make us insecure.

We can see this clearly in meditation. It is important to be able to practise being bound by a mind projection, and then letting go:

Conjure up a thought about some thing or person. Notice the details you go into – you have just created and been lost in a dream state. Now stop and let go. Just be aware. Notice that thing or person has gone. In fact, it never existed; it was all in the dream state of your mind.

That clarity of realisation awakens divine splendour.

Realisation Leads To Realisations

Realisation not a static thing.

Once we come to a realisation about the nature of reality,
all the doors that kept us locked in fly open,
and the nonsense of belief evaporates.

Evil in the world is desperate to limit the way we think;
it lies in ambush at every moment.

Realisation is the constant shock of this insidiousness.
It’s like a gut-feeling that all isn’t quite what it appears to be …

Insidious: from Latin insidiosus ‘cunning’, from insidiae ‘an ambush or trick’, from insidere ‘lie in wait for’.

We Underestimate Evil

Evil uses half-facts and omissions.

Evil causes suffering and disharmony through argument (duality), as opposed to the principle of enlightenment which brings about balance (non-duality).

A balance of the material and the ethereal makes for a happy life, while unbalance brings upset and disturbs the equilibrium of person’s state of mind.

Evil utilises three selfish emotions – desire, hatred and ignorance.  Evil obstructs the cause for  happiness, which is realisation of our complete nature.

The construct of illusions is evil’s weapon of choice. When we underestimate evil, we are definitely unenlightened. The Buddha and Christ had to come face to face with evil intent, and so do we, as desire, hatred and ignorance are constantly ready to ambush us in every situation.

Disinformation Created By Disinformation

Disinformation is false or selective information which is intended to mislead and deceive people. It happens.

Disinformation is orchestrated; actors employ strategic deceptions and media manipulation to advance political, military or commercial goals, including the use of half-truths, to exploit and amplify culture wars and other identity-driven controversies.

Institutions attack ordinary people for not believing; questioning this information constitutes disinformation in their eyes. Such is the vicious cycle of disinformation.

Fake news is not news; it’s just gossip and suggestion, created to illicit a reaction. Injustice is pushed in our faces so that we see it and are fearful. This is the constant agenda of persecuting non-believers, which goes back to what was called ‘heresy’.

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs accepted as fundamental to those who need control of the masses.

If alternative views are interpreted as beliefs or theories, this intentional misunderstanding creates an enemy of other views.

There can be no heresy in Buddhism, as it isn’t a belief or theory. The quicker people recognise this, the quicker the world will change for the betterment of all.

Why Are We Advised To Let Go?

This is a bit of a conundrum, because of all the palaver attached to spiritual understanding.

Our problems are caused because we are holding on to ideas, especially ‘spiritual’ ideas. This is why being aware of any elaborations concerning our ordinary reality of pure consciousness is really important.

In the still silence of meditation, there is nothing going on, and nothing to follow. No Dharma, no Buddha, no teaching, no ideas. The whole point is acknowledging thoughts, but not following them.

Now comes the great disappointment …
we may have been expecting wondrous, glorious, divine splendour!
But all this is, is the emptiness of clarity.

“That’s boring!”

The significance is that once we realise this natural clarity – and it’s just seeing without comment or expectation – we realise the false world we have been living in. The illusion of reality, with all its distractions of busyness, excitement and entertainment, enmeshes us in attachments and clouds the subtleties and insights of actual reality.

We start to lead a contemplative life instead of a ‘interesting’ life. We value inner peace and sanity.

We still have the daily things to do, but we become more mindful and less distracted, and know when to bring an activity to completion by dropping it.

This non-attachment to events gradually eliminates our old habits and our karma, clearing the path to enlightenment.

Feeling Guilty For No Reason

We – pure consciousness – can feel no guilt, as pure consciousness has no interpretations or opinions. It merely witnesses. Ideas are only in the mind; they are not mind-essence-pure-consciousness itself, whereas mind-memories are the source of all inner conflict.

Pure consciousness has no negative emotions. In the first instant of recognising some thing, wisdom is present, where the mind clears and brightens up, before it goes into its usual mode of ‘I think’, ‘I feel’, ‘I know’. All the while, pure consciousness merely witnesses; this is clearly acknowledged in meditation.

It is provocation that activates recognition.

Wherever we are and whatever we feel is the perfect place for realisation and eventual enlightenment. We are the conundrum to solve, and comparing ourself to others only creates conflict and delays realisation.

“Well, they don’t seem to have any problems.”
Then they have nothing to work with 🙂

Guilt is fear of not fitting in.
Fitting in to what?!
Others’ ways of thinking?
Piffle! Nonsense!

Whatever we feel our problem is could be the last straw – the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events which makes us feel that we cannot tolerate a situation any longer. So we seek change – or we put up with the usual script, and replay the whole show again.

Every cloud has a silver lining
– every sad or unpleasant situation has a positive side to it.
That silver lining is due to the presence of a sun.
Sun = pure consciousness.

Why on earth do we try to fit into others’ false reality,
and allow guilt to overshadow our true reality?