Heavy Heart, Light Heart

Heaviness comes from the thinking mind.
Light is pure awareness.
We can’t ignore either.

A heavy heart is concerned about the world (people), while the light heart sees there is nothing that can be done about the world (people). It is for each individual to recognise that they have gone dark.

When the light sees the dark, the situation naturally modifies, softening and bringing about a balance of not too tight and not too loose.

Change can happen in an instant,
when we see what we are doing.

Light produces the energy to melt the ice.

Knowing We Are Wrong Is The Truth

What we think we know is never the truth; it is something consciousness is relating to. Remember that truth is that which can never change and is the observer, the knowing, without there being a knower and a thing known. This can sound mysterious, but it’s quite simple to realise in the clear space of meditation.

There are two aspects to our being; mind-essence and mind-memories. Mind-essence is the brilliant, empty, cognisant space of pure consciousness. It’s like the blank page on which these words are written, and is full of potential. Pure consciousness merely observes, without the need for an observer.

Mind-memories are the collections of ideas that are speckles of concepts floating and sticking in this cognisant space. Consciousness attaches to these mind-memories because it has ignored its purity, and become dull and fixated.

Purity isn’t someone holy. It is merely uncontaminated perception, as in that first moment of seeing when we open a door, before we decide whether it’s warm or cold.

It doesn’t matter what we think we know, it will always be a relative truth, something to which consciousness relates, defends, turns away from, or is indifferent.

Knowing we are wrong is the truth of the matter.
Knowing we are right is the truth of the matter.

What we do with this knowing
is down to our ability to bring harmony and balance
back to the thinking mind of memories.

Are Consciousness and Intelligence The Same Thing?

If we are talking about the ordinary consciousness of a sentient being,consciousness relates to thoughts in the mind, and so it is the same thing.

But when consciousness is realised as emptiness – uncontaminated pure consciousness – then this is not the same as intelligence. Through this realisation, insight is more forthcoming, and can express itself in a wholesome, unbiased way; without prejudice for or against, it remains impartial.

“Well, that’s a bit boring!”
Yes. A deep appreciation of beautiful boringness.

Ordinary consciousness is full of facts and opinions.
Pure consciousness has no opinions,
just a direct, deep appreciation = devotion to absolute truth.

Dzogchen: The Pointing Out Instruction Into the Nature of Mind

We cannot hear this enough.

When our mind isn’t thinking of anything, we fall into silent vacancy. This is the state of not knowing, which is also called undecided or common indifference; it’s an ordinary, mundane state.

When our mind is busy clinging to ideas, we fall into chattering occupancy. This is the state of not knowing, which is also called stubborn or common opinions; it’s an ordinary, mundane state.

Become aware of that which notices this, and which is at one with everything that appears, like a mirror and its reflections. This is non-duality; pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is the essence of mind, empty cognisance; it’s what we are – pure knowingness itself.

It is our absolute nature which is absolutely not complicated and needs no elaborations, no bells and whistles. It is the state of luminosity, the light of clarity, the divine splendour that dispels darkness.

Absolute Truth Is Absolutely Logical

Religious people say no, it’s all a mystery!
Academics say it’s in the interpretation of the words.
Experiential people simply realise that the logic that consciousness has to be present to know; it’s what we are. It’s not only simple, it’s pure.

When our mind isn’t thinking of anything, we fall into silent vacancy. This is the state of not knowing, which is also called undecided or common indifference; it’s an ordinary, mundane state.

When our mind is busy clinging to ideas, we fall into noisy occupancy. This is the state of not knowing, which is also called stubborn or common opinions; it’s an ordinary, mundane state.

Become aware of that which notices this, and which is at one with everything that appears, like a mirror and its reflections. This is non-duality; pure consciousness.

It is our absolute nature which is absolutely not complicated. It is the state of luminosity, the light of clarity that dispels darkness.

Better Understanding, Better Conviction

Analysing merits and faults creates a deeper understanding.

When we understand our self, which is a collection of mental limitations picked up from our early environments, we realise that this mental state is observable and has no reality. The fault is clinging to this mental self, while the merit is seeing the clinging. The reality is observing the illusion.

This observation should make us happy to know we are not this self image that we promote to the world. Once we are convinced that we are not this karmic comedy, we become more focused, more clear, more happy.

Until enlightenment, there will be echoes of a past self, but this now serves as a reminder not to cling.

If The Elite Are Building Bunkers

If the elite are building bunkers,
they must fear something
Probably us, when we wake, up en masse.
😀

This is why the elite fear free speech.

The Search Box

There are over 4,600 articles on this blog. Far too many!
It’s all the same theme, but with different emphases.

Just enter a word in the search box at the bottom of this page,
and suggestions will appear.

Sometimes, a word or a phrase might suddenly hit the spot …

Jumping To Conclusions, Or Coming To A Conclusion

Jumping to a conclusion may be right – and then again, it may not.
Coming to a conclusion means we have looked at every possibility, analysing it and testing it – and it has tested us.

Let’s say the lights go out. Jumping to the conclusion, “It’s a fuse!”, doesn’t address why it blew, and how to trace the problem. Of course, we can call someone in to fix it, but we aren’t any the wiser, and we have to rely on what we are told by the electrician guru. ‘Gurus’ work in different ways, so how do we know who we can trust? Our lack of knowledge can be very pricey … been there, done that.

The same goes for realising our spiritual essence of pure consciousness. We can easily accept that we are pure consciousness, but acceptance is still a belief. Even if the Vedas and the Buddha say that we are pure consciousness, we have to check it out for ourselves and, in doing so, it checks us out – that is to say, we understand what, through experience, we have realised.

Analysing makes life so much more interesting when we put the conclusion to the test. What is the test? The test is in our attitude and behaviour; are we more receptive? Do we have more empathy and compassion for others, because they know not what they do?

Empathy is been there, done that, regretted it and suffered. If we haven’t been there, done that, regretted it and suffered, we are just theorists who have jumped to conclusions.

We learn by our mistakes
which clouded our experience, understanding and realisation,
and caused us to jump to conclusions.

Coming to a conclusion is clarity,
and clarity is divine splendour

Bringing Truth To Light

We can all bring the truth to light.

Truth isn’t the prerogative of a holy being from the past. It is the very nature of all sentient beings. We are personally here to bring the truth to light by realising we are the essence of consciousness.

First, we have to know what truth is, and what light is. It is the same word – clarity.
Clarity is the splendour of direct seeing without any nonsense of claiming. It is divine.

Truth has no inventor; it just is. The universe just is.

It’s infinite, full of subtle matter and consciousnesses, and driven by the gross laws of nature: attraction, repulsion and inertia.

Truth is the clarity of pure seeing. In that moment, the gross laws of attraction, repulsion and inertia become the laws of wisdom: the purity, consciousness and compassion. That is what we are, while embodied in the form and a mind of confusion. Confusion is a candle without light, knowledge is the light that gets passed on.

We don’t have to become a monk or a nun to realise this; we just have to perceive the undisguised rawness of every experience.

Ascending To Nowhere

Social class creates social climbers on a ladder to nowhere. We just join the queue by conforming. All systems have a hierocracy, ruled by priests of science, religion, politics, armed guardians, media … which control society and the workers. Sounds like a pyramid scheme!

How to drop out:
Watch the queue and see who’s in it.
That should put you off!
😀

Ascension is knowing what is within now here, rather than without. The more that we realise, the more we ascend the levels. Realisation is seeing the true meaning of life clearly – and whatever tries to obscure it.

Belief Is Dangerous

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities.”
-Voltaire

It starts with little beliefs that create little absurdities.

Throughout history, humans have been convinced to belief something and this has led to horrific attitudes and atrocities. It starts with subtle suggestions that cause inner conflict and fear, and then comes division and dislike that turns into hatred.

Whatever is projected at us is usually intended to have to the opposite effect. It makes us accept certain ideas that cause us to feel uncomfortable, such as a change in our cultural attitude. It seems that every advertisement portrays mixed race families, and there will be a reaction. One or two ads make sense, but all of them?

This means there is an agenda behind this absurdity, and we are meant to see it. We see policies of brutality being enacted in front of cameras, where officials act with immunity, impervious to others’ suffering.

We have to look behind the obvious clowns who project fear on to a society. These people are puppets for the exoteric – for the many to believe in and worry about whatever they are told to worry about. This is all a distraction, to keep minds in a stupor, barely conscious.

All one needs is an absurd suggestion for others to react to and voila! Conflict and control, divide and conquer.

We should always be fully conscious
by knowing that we are, in fact, consciousness.
Not many people want you to know this.

When we are conscious, we don’t have to believe anything!

The Simple Pointing Out Instruction

The essence of reality.

When our mind isn’t thinking of anything, we fall into silent vacancy. This is the state of not knowing, which is also called undecided or common indifference; it’s an ordinary, mundane state.

When our mind is busy clinging to ideas, we fall into noisy occupancy. This is the state of not knowing, which is also called stubborn or common opinions; it’s an ordinary, mundane state.

Become aware of that which notices this, and which is at one with everything that appears, like a mirror and its reflections. This is non-duality; pure consciousness.

It is our absolute nature which is absolutely not complicated. It is the state of luminosity, the light of clarity that dispels darkness.

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.(It also dispels all exotic words!)
😀

Looking Up Exotic Words

Looking up exotic words is like children looking up ‘dirty’ words in a dictionary 🙂
The idea of the exotic is for the exoteric, with intoxicating mysteries for the many.

Rest in the esoteric.
The emptiness of consciousness.
The completion of what we are – pure consciousness.

The exotic is attraction, for the many.
The esoteric is completion, for the few.

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There is and there isn’t a shortcut.
Looking for a shortcut – there is no shortcut.
Stop looking for the shortcut – there is the shortcut.

When we are looking, our attention is on appearances.
When we just see, our attention is the appearance of presence.

That’s how Togyal works.

Think Enlightenment Is Not Possible?

Do we think enlightenment is not possible? That it’s only for ‘holy’ people? In that case, our life is meaningless and of little importance, being unduly concerned with trivial matters in the same way as those who ignore their true reality of pure consciousness.

The idea of enlightenment takes us away from the truth that our natural state is already enlightened. It is seeing clearly – not seeing some thing clearly, and giving it our interpretation. Just pure awareness, sans comment.

That is not only amazing, but also boring. Why? Is it because we think enlightenment is something holy and far away from us? Why? Because it has been made to appear that way. Why? Because it has been attached to an ism.

Enlightenment isn’t an ism; it is the birthright of every sentient being, to know what they truly are. When we are caught up in familism, which is an ideology that identifies and prioritises family, group, culture, tradition, we limit our potential.

Enlightenment is eternal, intuitive insight without distraction.
It is reading these word right now, without confusion.

It all depends on what world we chose to live in,
and what sort of life we chose to live.

The Important Point About Knowledge

The most important point about knowledge is that knowledge brings peace of mind, understanding and empathy for others. This is opposed to ‘information’, which is merely a collection of facts provided by others.

Knowledge isn’t something new.
It is something we re-cognise,
but forgot.

Attracted To A Certain Frequency

Certain people will be attracted to a certain frequency of intelligence.
Frequency: originally denoting a gathering of people. From Latin frequent – ‘crowded, frequent’.

When someone tries to defame another by spreading evil reports, look closely at the attitude, the words used, the sound of the voice, and their followers.

Hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is
the case. From Greek hupokrisis ‘acting of a theatrical part’, from hupokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend’, from hupo ‘under’ + krinein ‘decide, judge’.

“Let those who are without misdeeds cast the first stone.”

We Are Constantly Being Lied To

We are constantly being lied to through incomplete information. Selected information creates beliefs, assumptions and opinions that, when accepted as truth, means we live in a falsehood.

If this is maintained by those who do not question their own motivations, and use these false statements founded on a mistaken view, then the lie is compounded and becomes established. We are living a lie for convenience – to be agreeable to others’ misunderstandings.

Nature goes through natural changes;
this is not a reason to initiate fear.

We live in sophistry: the use of clever but false arguments, with the intention of deceiving. Once we believe and agree to a biased argument, and invest time and our ‘wellbeing’ on it then, out of pride, we will rarely want to change our mind. We have actually signed a contract to defend a lie, and it is we who therefore live in anxiety.

Until we realise our true reality, we will live in untruths.
Truth can never change; it has to be constant.
No thing is constant.
In pure observation, there is no time to relate to an observer, which we call ‘self’.

Having To Toe The Line

We self-censor, so as not to cause dissent. Why? People do not want to lose confidence in what they are told. Why? Fear.

So, we don’t say what we need to say, as people don’t want to listen to another view – they can’t take it in. When we feel that others aren’t listening, this makes us even more suspicious. 🙂

Within any organised group, be it political, social, or religious, we do not have free speech. We have to toe the line and not question, as this is seen as criticism. It’s only outside the groupthink that we can talk freely – but to whom? Religious groups are especially reluctant to self-question.

When people take a side, all meaningful communication ceases. There are things that have happened in the past few years that we are not allowed to talk about, and there are certain words that have to be avoided.

Toe the line: accept the authority, policies, or principles of a particular group, especially unwillingly or under pressure. To do what you are expected to do without causing trouble for anyone.

While all this goes on unaffected pure consciousness
watches on with compassionate understanding.

Catching The Moment Of Reality

Everyone is normal in the very first instant of meeting, a casual encounter where pure consciousness is spontaneously present. It’s just there. We are just there, open to the moment.

As a conversation progresses, however, we enter mind’s territory of ideas, prejudice, partiality, favouritism, unfairness, one-sidedness, bigotry, intolerance … judgements … unfriendliness … shunning … the unreal, the imaginary, the illusion. It’s very complicated! 🙂

That first moment, impossible to deny, is spirituality. It is that simple – the first moment is always the spontaneously present wakefulness of pure consciousness.

We don’t go anywhere without it – it’s what we are,
and we don’t have to do anything weird or intellectual
😀

The World Is Not What It Seems

The universe is infinite and timeless, with infinite sentient beings crisscrossing back and forth repeatedly, seeking peace and rest but not finding it due to their karma – the results of mistaken views about reality.

Sentience: being capable of sensing or feeling; and thereby judging, thinking, collecting and reacting.

Sentience is consciousness.
That is what we are – seekers.

The peace and rest we seek is nowhere but consciousness itself, when we finally realise we are pure consciousness, rather than this body and tormented mind. In thinking that the life we lead is normal, we are deluded.

If there is evil in the universe, it is the denial that we are pure consciousness.What else can evil be? Evil wants us to believe anything but our true reality. That is how it has infiltrated our minds.

Evil wants to gain our trust, thus maintaining a grip on humanity through deception, making us do and think things that are against our wellbeing. We read about this every day and it goes unnoticed because we ignore and so remain indifferent as it make no difference to us. When we no longer just believe or accept whatever we are told, we are free.

Once we realise that we are pure consciousness, we are finders.
Finders keepers!

That relief of arriving is happiness.
Being compos mentis
is consciousness having complete control of our mind.

Difficulty With Devotion?

They say that devotion is the fastest path, but what does that mean? Devotion to what? In the way this display is handed down to us? Although we’d like to feel devoted, there comes a time when, for some of us, this becomes an obstacle.

When I was younger, I was in awe of teachers because they seemed to know so much, but when I came to realise what was said, I wasn’t so dependent. It’s the same with any subject.

Still, saying this, the path (the elimination of confusion) to enlightenment is precious.

Devotion means to consecrate – dedicated, devoted as sacred.
Are we devoted to the teacher or the teaching? To form or essence?

There comes a time when we have to let go of duality.

Know Meditation, Know Inner Peace

Know meditation, know inner peace.
No meditation, no inner peace.

There is always something to worry about or be irritated by. This is why sitting in silent inner awareness is so necessary. We can do it at any time, any where. It unwinds us and recharges our subtle energy – we feel brighter and ready!

In this obviously confused world, inner peace stops us becoming irritable and angry at what others say or do.

Meditation un-confuses us, as we become familiar with looking behind the scene that caused confusion in our own mind. What is behind our confusion is also behind everyone else’s and limits our view of life. This confusion is consciousness identifying with an imitation-self imprinted in the mind.

Inner peace is clarity,
and clarity is divine splendour.

We Have To Wake Up And Realise

We can only address a problem when we wake up to it and realise that it’s there, and what it’s doing to us. We cannot become a recovering alcoholic until we realise that we are an alcoholic, and then we can do something about it.

We have to wake up and understand that we are walking around in a hoax, an illusion of what life is about. Life is about waking up to our true reality, which is pure consciousness, and the ramifications of this are enormous – enlightening, in fact. ? It is only then that everything about the hoax makes sense, and we see that it is constantly being adapted to confuse people.

As long as we only believe,
we will remain confused. 

Belief is not knowing.
Knowing is waking up.

Words Are Only An Account Of The Truth

Words are only an account of the truth;
they are not the truth itself. 

If we become hung up on words, we sound empty of empathy.  
Words are a reflection in the mind-mirror of pure perception. 
The truth is an individual’s realisation of pure perception. 

The understanding of words differs, and that is why there are many traditions – and many conflicts.

If the Buddha said, “Do not take my word for the truth; test it for yourself”, he knew that, in clinging to words, we obscure direct experience, and repeating learnt words is just an imitation, a self-aggrandisement to enhance reputation. 

Words need verifying and putting into context eg taking into account another’s background, otherwise we merely become literalists without empathy. Words have levels of meaning due to actual experience, and this why it’s easy for us to talk at cross purposes, and unfortunately, become enemies. 

It is so sad that words divide us. In the end, we can only generalise, and purify our motivations.

Why Don’t We Get On With Certain People?

Get on with: have a harmonious or friendly relationship.

When we sit with others we don’t know, we neither like or dislike them. It’s when we start to speak that memories and emotions come to the surface, causing immediate judgements and reactions that we obsess upon, fixing our bias.

This bias comes from our personal background, our programming. If our experience is limited, we are quick to judge. If our experiences are more expansive, we hold back to look behind whatever is being said.

This is where empathy and wisdom have to come to the fore, calling on a place that is beyond the usual constructs of the human mind, and where there are no expectations. We sometimes call this the ‘heart’, but it is, of course, pure consciousness.

Talking beyond the usual chit chat
is talking heart to heart, being honest about our feelings.

Mind to mind is intellectual.
Body to body is extra friendly, but can take an ugly turn.
😀

Silence to silence is the best,
it’s perfectly harmonious.