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.

Where Does Evil Come From?

To own, or to hack into another’s mind is what evil does.

Any being able to think is sentient and conscious – in essence, pure consciousness. In an infinite universe, there are infinite beings who do not know what they are, and so they are easy subjects for being ‘owned’ *.

Through ignorance, we identify with being ‘something’. This identification is a feeling of being a body and mind that we call self, but our uncertainty about this means that our true being remains a mystery. 🙂 Evil like mysteries.

A self identity breeds selfishness, controlled by desire, fear and ignorance. This self can be extremely clever and skilled to get its own way, and can turn a good idea into a idea into self-aggrandisement. This is a feeling of superiority which feeds off others’ insecurity. Evil likes to be adored under a disguise, so that we do not recognise what we, in fact, worship. We are influenced to worship outer appearances.

These controlling urges want to dominate and feed off others’ reactions, and this creates and recreates a chain reaction of oneupmanship. That is the evil element within all of us – and it’s never too far away. Wealth is merely a tool to maintain power, which is seductive to the uninitiated.

The Buddha was an influencer,
but he said,
“Do not take my word for the truth; test it for yourself.”

Clarity allows us to realise the degree to which we are being owned and hacked.
🙂

* The term ‘to own’ originated in hacker culture, and referred to compromising and gaining control of a computer system, effectively enslaving it.

Essence And Form, Truth And Fiction

Essence is pure cognition; the truth of an uncontaminated mind.
Form is a projection, an illusion, a fiction which contaminates the mind.

Consciousness perceives through the senses, and it is in that very instant of pure perception that we see clearly without interpretation and interruption. This is the essence or truth of that moment.

When we miss this moment of perfection through being over-excited, perception is diverted directly to our mind as we refer to memories, clouding judgements and reactions. This is the form we take on, which is the fiction.

Our fictional persona projects our judgements on to everything we see, and so we become predictable. In this way, our words and actions say more about us than whatever we are judging.

In the moment of pure perception, there are no judgements.
It takes discipline and integrity to see how our mind reacts,
deflecting perception and distorting what is seen.

Form is an illusion.
Essence is pure cognition.

Testing The Mind

Think of infinity.
It’s not possible;
consciousness just has to accept it.

Consciousness is infinite;
the mind just has to accept it.

Lost In Thought?

The moment we notice we are lost in thought, we aren’t!
That moment is pure consciousness.

All we need to do is value it; it’s what we are
– totally objective –
and not dependent on the mind for existence.

Objective: free, not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

Brain Stop?

“How did the universe start?”
A pointless question, as our usual brain cannot go that far.

What we hear is “Big Bang!” or “God!”
What did the Big Bang bang in?
What is God doing now, in an infinite universe?

Officials tell us:
“There was a Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago (in infinite space) where the universe just occurred, but what caused this explosion in the first place is still a mystery.”

The other officials tell us:
“The universe was created by God.” But in an infinite universe, why did God just create Earth for humans, and planets circling a sun? Why did his creation cause so much division?

Both these versions start a chain reaction,
without any absolute conclusion.

The universe can have no beginning, but our brains cannot take this in because we’ve been influenced by conjecture. Matter isn’t created out of nothing; it already exists in some form in space.

The same can be said for consciousness; it has no beginning as it is also infinite. How do we know this? Consciousness has never changed throughout our life, but everything else has. For some, this is meaningful, whereas for others, it’s meaningless.

Once we free our minds and let go of fantasies, we realise the truth about consciousness.

How the universe started is a pointless question;
what we do now is meaningful.

We cannot think about infinity – we just have to accept it.

Pride And Humility – continued

Pride constantly has to prove and justify itself.
Humility has nothing to prove or justify.

Heard Anything New?

We go round in circles, not realising that we’ve been here before and heard it all before. Same theme of deception, with different packaging. Illusionists fool humanity into believing in a selected reality that has been pumped out daily throughout the centuries – from hearsay, to town cryer, to books, to electronic devices … and eventually, direct via a chip in the brain! Someone wants to control us; they don’t want us to know what we are, making us believe we are just a body and mind.

When we are tired of this charade,
we look for something new
in the hope of finding what’s behind it all.
Unfortunately, there are upgraded diversions at every twist and turn.
🙂

We miss the vital point of what is searching for the truth. The absolute truth is what we are – pure consciousness – and never something out there.

‘Seeking’ the truth is the age-old trick of keeping people looking away from the truth.
There is nothing new under any sun, throughout the infinite universe.

All unenlightened beings (anything that can move, and decide to change direction) are driven by attraction, aversion and ignorance, not knowing why they do what they do.

For millennia, evil minds have fed off our confusion, using intermediaries who have a ‘suitable’ level of information to carry out suppression. We can see this today, as they make up stuff ’till the cows come home.

A considerable amount of effort is made to sell ideas
that are detrimental to human well-being.

We are the answer we seek.
We are unconfined pure consciousness.
They never talk about that, do they?
🙂

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’.