There Is A Flaw In Me
Thinking “It’s all about me” is the imperfection.
The flaw is claiming to be a self
which is merely a ghost in the mind.
This me doesn’t actually exist.
Once we realise the flaw, the me drops away
and become flawless consciousness.
The universe is complete in opposites.
This is how realisation works;
you don’t have to be perfect to be perfect.
Never Wake A Sleeping Person
I was told years ago never to wake a sleeping person,
and I’ve wondered about this ever since.
If we talk to a sleeping person,
the response will either be blankness or hostility.
Sleeping people live in vacant or absorbed states
where no communication is possible.
The Death Of Ego
‘Ego’ is the Greek word for I.
Ego is created in every moment that consciousness clings to an idea. No clinging, no ego. This state isn’t vacant; consciousness is naturally suspended awareness, or pure consciousness. It’s what we are. The very moment consciousness recognises clinging, we are free – ergo, the death of ego.
Of course, ego will return as karmic events unfold, until the moment of complete enlightenment. Noticing the returning is our practice and our path.
The death of ego is the realisation that there is no such thing as ego.
Not Playing With A Full Deck Of Cards
‘Not playing with a full deck of cards’ means that we are not thinking clearly. We use words in a limited way, repeating them day after day like a mantra, which restricts experience.
A full deck of cards is the wholeness of clarity. Until we realise our true reality of pure consciousness, we are merely guessing which cards are missing.
Pottering And Chattering Classes
Potter: occupy oneself in a desultory but pleasant way.
Desultory: lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm: going from one subject to another in a half-hearted way.
Chatter: talk informally about unimportant matters. Also electronic or radio communication, especially between individuals being monitored by a government agency as a result of suspected involvement in terrorist activity.
How did we get this way?
Through fear, we self-censor, to show how well our programming is going.
In Pure Consciousness, Everyone Is Equal
In the eyes of pure consciousness, everyone is equal, meaning that we all have the potential for enlightenment, which is the clarity of being, our original state. As such, we are nothing special.
When consciousness becomes a mind-construct acquired from a book, we might think we’re superior because it says so in the book.
We can spend our life reading the same books, studying the same words over and over again, but never realising their true meaning. Are we reading someone’s translation? A fiction? And is there something left out? How would we know?
It’s far simpler to experience pure consciousness
than to read about it.
Pure consciousness is reading these words without comment.
The words aren’t important; that which reads is our reality.
Our assumptions about the words aren’t important
as they divide us.
That which purely perceives is the ultimate truth
within everyone.
Clearing All Doubt
We want to know about everything.
This addiction never satisfies, and life feels meaningless.
Our desire to know obscures that which already knows – that which is asking the questions. That is the ultimate answer. It doesn’t matter whatever is going on ‘over there’, it’s the effect it’s having here that matters.
“But there is so much hatred over there!” There are always influences in the world that only want to destroy, and to cause a reaction. Be clear about that.
The absolute answer to clarity is pure consciousness – our true being.
Everything else is a perpetual impermanence.
We don’t have to join or belong to anything to realise this.
Merely remain in perpetual pure awareness.
Whatever happens will happen, according to causes – individual and collective.
Spirituality Is Science
When observing anything, we need an open mind of pure consciousness. To look down any microscope, we need the clean lens of pure consciousness.
If pure consciousness isn’t present, we have a problem. There is a misunderstanding of whatever we see, hear and read.
We then realise that we are the problem and, in that moment, we’ve found the answer.
When looking for the truth of being, we realise that we are the absolute truth.
Science is observing what is beneficial for our wellbeing, and what is not. Any other science is for gain and fame.
Science is knowing what is absolutely real, and what isn’t.
What is worthwhile and what isn’t.
The Chosen Ones
The chosen ones are those
who choose to be what they are
– pure consciousness –
which is not confined to writing in a book.
This is why pure consciousness is above religions.
Religion is material experience.
Pure consciousness is ethereal experience.
Methods That Reverse Our Reality
Freedom is realising this reversal.
Every major institution has been taken over by the same ideology that now promotes and then investigates feelings. The media filters truth through selective language. Truth has become hate speech, where we have to apologise and self-censor.
This is both psychological engineering and guilt programming. Language is weaponised so we don’t say certain words; this is designed to shut down conversation, to train us through confusion.
Certain groups are cancelled to create imbalance. We’re being divide, demoralised and replaced. A morally paralysed society is easier to govern, shattering its traditions, drowning it in imported ideologies and redefining its language, turning its people against themselves.
Thus a population becomes too confused to resist, and too fragmented to unite. It’s the eternal battle between truth and programming (good and evil) – we’re being taught to forget what we are.
The longer we stay silent, the more a society becomes meaningless, and then gone. Survival is for those who can still listening, as it means the programme hasn’t fully worked … yet.
The meditation experience has no language,
and there lies the truth of what we are – pure consciousness.
Do Dharma Practitioners Experience Anger?
Do Dharma practitioners experience anger?
Yes, of course.
Seeing all the injustice and subterfuge in the world, who wouldn’t?
The very moment when anger arises, however, is the moment the mind brightens, and the wisdom of pure perception is present. We don’t react, but we remain alert to Mara’s games.
Mara uses our reactions to ensnare us. This is where a practitioner rests in silent awareness, only reacting if balance can be restored.
The recognition of Mara’s games is the cause for enlightenment, and then Mara goes and plays someone else.
As long as there are sentient beings, there is Mara … and Enlightenment.
The universe is complete in opposites.
How Would You Subjugate The World?
How would you subjugate the world?
What would you do to make everyone obey you
– or even disobey you, in order to obey you by creating conflict?
Build confusion.
Now look at the world.
What do you see?
Confusion has been being built for thousands of years.
Evil doesn’t care how long it takes.
Dharma only takes a moment to be free.
A Daily Dose Of Dharma
Religion, politics, science, social settings all have categories.
A daily dose of Dharma maintains wisdom, without borders or limits.
Caught In A Paradigm Of Belief
Once a belief is established in the mind, this infiltrates all experience. If we fight against belief, it’s therefore still governing us. It’s a conundrum that colours the language and jargon we use when we trot out the same old cliches.
Silent awareness is beyond the patterns of world views which promote division and chaos. All our pet theories are merely beliefs we’ve acquired from others.
There is nothing new under any sun.
All the while, consciousness looks on from outside the paradigm.
Perception Comes Before Deception
Before we judge anything, there has to be pure perception present first. We miss this moment of pure being. We are quick to judge because we judge from memories which obscure pure perception. These memories are a language we use that distorts pure view.
The deception occurs when the word ‘I’ is inserted. It’s claiming an action or an idea. This is the mental disorder we all suffer from when observing through prejudice.
We are pure observation, but we’re not the ‘observer’. The observer come in a moment later. Judgement is our programming to survive just enough to function and be useful, but unfortunately, we never notice that we’ve adopted subjugation to another’s system.
Life is complete in opposites.
It is both deceptive and enlightening.
If we don’t know we are deceived, we’re endarkened and emotional.
If we know we are deceived, we are enlightened, turning emotions into wisdom.
Waking Up
Waking Up To What?
Are we waking up to what is happening in the world, or waking up to what is happening in the mind, diverting conscious awareness?
It is consciousness that wakes up when it realises it has been lulled into a dream state.
Lull: Latin lallare ‘sing to sleep’.
If we are merely waking up to worldly deception and reacting, this is still the dream state, as we argue about the different sides, when it’s one huge theatrical show. Everything is being turned upside down for us to actually see deception; we’re being shown us the deceit, so that we become involved. This is not waking up.
Mara is a deceptive mind,
wanting us all to ‘sing from the same hymn sheet’.
Mara is very clever, too clever for its own boots.
We wake up when we stop believing Mara.
Left Brain, Right Brain, Whole Brain, Half Brain
Too much left-brain-academic-analysis-activity blocks right brain intuition.
Too much right-brain-intuition-insight-instinct blocks the ability to express experience.
They need to work together, but one naturally comes before the other, depending on the type of person we are. We should note that perception (right brain) comes before judgement (left brain).
The Dharma has the same two approaches; we can either start at the beginning, or at the end.
Take the six perfections of generosity, patience, morality, discipline, meditation and transcendent wisdom: we can start with the first five and finally realise the sixth, or be introduced to and realise the sixth, and use the first five to sustain realisation.
We don’t learn from a book: we learn through experience.
Breeding Evil
Breeding evil is something that slips into our mental furniture. 🙂
The blind acceptance of ideas creates a production line of pride, producing more of the same offspring. 🙂
Evil maintains a self-image, reenacting a behaviour that causes harm through a feeling of being superior to others. Direct experience is thus obscured.
Out of our ignorance, evil maintains the wealth and power that we admire so much. There is a phrase often used – “Seeing is believing.” This is total oxymoron. To sell their books and gain admirers, the ‘magicians’ use the word ‘belief’ as if it means ‘to know’, when it is actually acceptance without proof.
How do we avoid becoming an offspring of inbreeding?
Through direct experience.
Stop repeating others’ words.
Stop admiring whatever you think you know.
Reflect on the effect of words on the mind.
Question whatever you say. Are you trying to impress or convert others, or are you genuinely empathetic?
Breed clarity.
Pure consciousness is without interference or expectations.
(Inbreeding or line breeding is a method that concentrates characteristics from a common ancestor.)
You Are Your Own Master
That’s if you want to change,
and stop relying on others.
‘Self’ or ‘I’ is a false reality in the mind maintained by social norms = collective karma. These norms create our identity, our attitude and our behaviour, which inhibits progress.
To realise enlightenment, we must understand how self is constructed.
To do this, we use reverse engineering:
the self is now our instructor.
This instructor shows us (consciousness) what we have been holding on to, obscuring pure perception. Until the moment of full enlightenment, we see that this guide has been steering us in all the wrong directions, making us dependent on social norms.
When we realise this, we are free; we recognise the set-up that up-sets us, and we become the master on the path to enlightenment.
This is the cosmic game of relative reality and ultimate reality.
Realisation is beyond words.
In this way, you can be very pleased with yourself.
😀 😀 😀
Life Is Scary
Life is scary
because it’s easier to fool people
than to convince them that they’re being fooled.
People are scary, because they believe whatever they’re told or shown. This is exactly how conflict, panic and wars are started, maintaining a vicious cycle of existence.
People are told they are their brain. The brain is a mass of ‘wiring’ developed through consciousness’s experiences, but still experts say consciousnesses comes out of the brain.
We all have a choice of how to see life, but do we actually choose? We don’t have an original thought in our minds, so we take one side, and that’s it.
Perception is governed by our environment, and we take on board whatever we’re shown. If we don’t question and investigate the quality of our perception – how clear it is – we will be deceived, and now we are guaranteed to do whatever others tell us to do.
All deception has an element of truth to be believable and acceptable, and that’s how we are fooled in perpetual cycles of tomfoolery. Be aware. Realise that we have seen it all before.
As long as people live in panic-anxiety, they will never see straight because, although they could have direct perception through uncontaminated consciousness, they see through a dark glass.
Direct experience is pure consciousness,
neither confused nor panicked.
Our right mind is a clear mind.
The truly scary people
are those who follow rules word-for-word
– the brain washed.
🙂
Is God Real Or A Construct?
This is a question a sane person should ask,
rather than asking,“Do I believe or not?”
Both answers will be a misunderstanding.
A construct changes because it is created, dwells for a while and then dissolves. No one has seen God – only representations which have no reality, and which merely represent an idea.
So is there a real God? One that is evident?
‘God’ is a word that represents pure consciousness – that which we are.
It is not the word that is our reality.
Reality is that which never changes.
A created God has many interpretations and names which causes conflict. “My word is better than your word!” Words guarantee separation and childish thinking.
As a Dharma practitioner,
I do not believe in God.
There is just pure knowingness.
Before Our Default Setting Is Pure Consciousness
Our default setting is a manufactured deception,
where we are induced to play games by others’ rules.
To default is to fulfil an obligation to remain subservient.
The purpose of life is to nullify the obligation of deception.
If we fail to fulfil this obligation, we become ostracised.
Players do not like those who don’t validate their games.
When we consider this deviance in perception,
we are on the path back to our original state.
Once this is realised, no one can press our buttons,
arousing or provoking a reaction in our mind.
One Day, We Will Go Beyond Words
Words are our prison because we learn words – others’ words – words that others have learnt. This is a common chain reaction of thinking, with the aim of conformity.
Because we learn words, we think we’re smarter than others, but these words are merely passed down to us as a script or theory of life. This is the simulation some talk about – the matrix. It isn’t a place.
How many conversation have you had outside the habitual chatter, the verbal prison? Do you sometimes feel you’re on the wrong planet? 🙂
One day, we will go beyond words and become the aliens that we are.
Alien: from Latin alienus ‘belonging to another’ – those who return to pure consciousness leaving karma behind.
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled.
Realisation Isn’t About Learning
Realisation of our true reality isn’t achieved by learning a new language, exotic words, or mantras. It is realised through the observation of neuroses in our mind that we cling to and call me.
We are supposed to be homo sapiens (wise beings)
but we act like homo neurotics (foolish beings).
It’s easier to fool people
than to convince them they’ve been fooled.
Realisation occurs the moment this neurosis is observed. We are free in the moment of seeing. In Dharma, we don’t learn ‘this’ and then ‘that’, and achieve enlightenment. Dharma is a personal uncovering of the obsession with ideas that makes us neurotic.
Realisation is personally concluding that we are pure consciousness.
It’s neither religious nor spiritual.
It’s pure knowingness.
Why We Don’t Get It
If we only seek intellectual understanding, we will never find satisfaction. Why not? Because we lack the discipline to experience. We think reading about others’ experience is a shortcut.
It’s not. It’s plagiarism. 🙂
Plagiarism: from latin plagium ‘a kidnapping’.
We need commitment to practise.
Book learning is left brain dominance, which likes words, answers and stories.
Right brain is intuitive spatially aware, knowing without words through direct experience.
As well as mind training, we need brain training. Brain is the hard drive; mind is the software.
The truth of what we are comes before the imposition of words that are someone’s interpretation. We have to constantly remember that there are levels of understanding which have to be verified … by our experience.
The practice is meditation, and seeing how it affects our daily life, and our reactions to others. Do we remain open and kind-hearted, or are we obsessed with ideas and judgements?
When we get it – we know.
Wisdom is knowingness.
Knowingness: knowledge or awareness that is secret or known to only a few people.
What is the difference between knowledge and knowingness?
Knowledge can be acquired from reading, taking a class, or practical lessons at work. It is external. Knowingness, on the other hand, is a certainty that comes from experience, contemplation, and reflection.
Knowledge is factual, while knowingness is experiential.
This is what causes conflict in the world
– the spiritual war between belief and realisation.
Explaining Infinity – Limitless Endless Space
We can’t.
🙂
To understand infinity is to intuit infinity, rather than analyse infinity. The right brain hemisphere is intuitively spacially aware. The left brain hemisphere wants to analyse. Some people need a story to hold on to (which causes conflict), while others don’t.
Intuition is the ability to understand immediately without conscious reasoning about the ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’ of a person, a place, a situation, or an object.
Insight is the capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of a problem, and is often associated with movement beyond existing patterns.
We could say that left brain is consciousness associating with past ideas, while right brain is pure consciousness without ideas.
A chair is seen; the right brain knows without further discussion that it’s a chair. The left brain wants to name it and express its beauty (or not). The right brain just sees, while the left chatters.
Both are needed to survive and communicate as humans but, in meditation, we drop all such notions.
In meditation, there is no need for explanations.
We realise that we are infinite
In an infinite universe of emptiness,
we are a speck on a speck
– a speck which has the potential to realise the whole.
Who Created The Universe?
The question itself arises out of confusion.
The mind wants a creator, a beginning, a story to hold on to. The awakened see no beginning and no end. The universe was never created. To realise this is to go beyond the need for any creator or story.
The answer is not in the words,
but in the space between them.
Words are our dream state.
The meaning of life is life itself.
In silence, we realise meaning.
How Would We Know If We Were Brainwashed?
Brainwashing is the systematic effort to adopt a particular deception, loyalty, instruction, or doctrine by bypassing a person’s will or awareness. It uses psychological techniques that manipulate the thoughts of a person or group by changing attitudes, frames of reference, beliefs and values.
Does this sound familiar?
Brainwashing reduces a subject’s ability to think critically or independently, in order to introduce alternative views into our minds.
Do you question your thoughts?
All human beings have been manipulated for thousands of years. That is how the deeply ingrained ideas embedded in our minds are difficult to remove.
No special effects are needed – just words that we read and hear every day. The truth is not in the words; the truth is in what is reading the words – and it is that which we are taught to ignore.
The process of de-brainwashing is meditation, but the meditation has to be dropped as well, as that too becomes a form of brainwashing – “I am meditating.”
Meditation increases clarity and genuine compassion,
thereby bypassing brainwashing.
When we meditate properly, no I is present.
Just undistracted pure consciousness.
Words Are Mass Destruction
We see the world through words.
Words brainwash.
There are weapons of mass destruction, and there is talk of mind-altering weapons that can affect the way we think. This is merely a distraction.
The actual weapon that has always been used is words. Words alter minds. While we’re engaged and fascinated by intriguing machines and suggestions that cause stress and panic, we aren’t noticing the effect of words.
You only have to make some people believe or disbelieve something, and that causes a disturbance in the mind which creates conflict.
We see someone and may hope that we can communicate, but once we start talking, differences arise because of words. We avoid each another because of the words we speak.
Before words is consciousness.
Words obscure consciousness.
“But how do we communicate?”
As little as possible.
😀
Sitting in silent awareness,
consciousness controls the words in the mind
Do You Cringe?
Cringe: experience an inward shiver of embarrassment.
Do you cringe at things you said and did in the past?
This is good news! It means you have changed. 🙂
Conversely, if you don’t cringe, no change has occurred.
What is it that cringes?
It is consciousness that remembers how the mind used to think before it woke up.
Cringing is enlightening.
😀
Are We Just Computers?
Computer: a device that can store, retrieve, and process data.
When we listen to conversations or broadcasts, this seems to be the case. People hear or read something and repeat it; modern technology just mimics the limits of human behaviour.
As long as we don’t investigate our own mind and how it works, we are no better than recording machines. Observe how we perceive something, recall to memories for reference, and habitually react to type.
Meditation breaks us out of the machine,
and we’re no longer part of the contrivance.
That’s if we drop the meditation machinery.
Machine: from Greek mēkhos ‘contrivance’.
We Are Only In Control When …
When the mind isn’t reactive, and stays at perception, we are in control. We aren’t running on autopilot, reacting to everything that comes our way.
A non-reactive mind comes from sustained meditation, where intellect isn’t clouding perception. Pure perception is the throne of wisdom.
This doesn’t mean that we don’t care, or that we’re vacant. We notice, but we keep our powder dry, remaining prepared and ready to act or speak, but we delay taking action until the right moment, with the right mindfulness, and the right attitude of compassion.
If we aren’t in control, whatever we perceive is.
Being in control means never being deceived.
The Universe Is Complete In Opposites
The universe is complete in opposites.
This is enlightening.
The question arises, “Am I this body and mind,
Some say, “Consciousness comes out of the brain.”
”Some say, “Consciousness came before the brain.”
How can opposite views be a unity?
They already are.
There is obviously consciousness present.
Where it is or where it came from doesn’t matter; it’s just there.
We can ignore this, make something out of it,
or simply appreciate its purity.
The Universe Is Binary – 0 And 1
Emptiness and materialisation.
Our natural being is empty cognisance – pure consciousness – but due to our ignorance of this absolute reality, we create karma – a mental materialisation which reincarnates to suit that attitude.
We may find that we are born into ‘unfavourable’ conditions; this should not be judged as bad, as it may be just the incarnation we need to accelerate realisation of our original state, as 1 returns to 0.
Throughout our lives, we oscillate between 0 and 1,
but we miss the recognition of 0 because of wanting to be 1.
The universe is complete in opposites.
There Isn’t Just One Way
Each teacher, each guru, each lama emphasises reality in their own way. Every student understands in their own way. Never think that any individual’s teaching is the only way (even though they might think that. :-)) We aren’t all going to become enlightened together – that just doesn’t happen.
It’s important not to feel guilty, and like an outsider because we don’t experience in the same way as others. Unfortunately, most people think their way is the only way. This is what Mara-mind wants us to think. Some teachings may satisfy for a while, and then they become mechanical, and the students become protective, obsessive and closed-in.
Once we get the gist of a teaching, we merely have to test it to see if it works (just like plumbing :-)), which means we are confident and generous of heart. We don’t have to join in with group-adoration.
We haven’t gone off doing our own thing.
We’re not perverting the teaching.
We simply realise what unites everything, and what divides everyone.
There Isn’t Just One Way
Each teacher, each guru, each lama emphasises reality in their own way. Every student understands in their own way. Never think that any individual’s teaching is the only way – even though they might think that. 🙂 We aren’t all going to become enlightened together – that doesn’t happen.
It’s important not to feel guilty or like an outsider because we don’t experience in the same way as others. Unfortunately, most people think their way is the only way. This is what Mara-minds want us to think. Some teachings may satisfy for a while, and then they become mechanical, and the students become protective, obsessive and closed in.
Once we get the gist of a teaching, we merely have to test it to see if it works, which means we become confident and generous of heart.
We haven’t gone off doing our own thing, or perverting the teaching. We just become sky dancers – the joy of emptiness – although, of course, this may be irritating to others who have their own ways. 😀
Buddhas In The Mud
We are all Buddhas, but we are stuck in the mud of concepts – words that muddy perception and obscure the enlightened essence within. This essence isn’t something supernatural as we are led to believe; it is simply natural pure awareness, pure consciousness, pure perception, without the usual commentaries.
Essence isn’t something we learn. It’s what we personally uncover – it’s what we are. Our only problem is that we keep forgetting by being distracted, and organised religions don’t help. In fact, they add to the confusion.
If we focus on others’ interpretations/words about this reality, a form is created, and we then find that we’re following the form/religion instead of realising an open mind of enlightenment.
Actual enlightenment
is constant realisation without distraction.
We are what we are searching for.
Someone said, “Seek, and you will find.”
Once we find, we can stop looking, and just see
… and then drop any claiming.
Words Hypnotise
Never believe words, or the person saying them.
Belief in their words is a form of hypnotism that keeps us contained. A person says something wise, and we assume it’s clever, and we feel good. That is just the effect of hypnosis – programming.
Words are suggestions that we take on board without questioning them. People talk, and we’re drawn into their world – we’re spellbound. Very few of us question the words that create our hypnotic prison.
The truth is before words. It makes one wonder why so many people adhere to certain books full of historical instructions. We watch videos of people telling us the ‘truth’ and comment with emoticons, proving that we’ve been sucked in.
The Buddha’s instruction was not to believe in words, but to question them.
See, listen, smell, taste, touch, enjoy, let go. Our reality is in the letting go, remaining in silent awareness. It takes just a moment to return to uncontaminated inner peace – disenchanted, disillusioned, disengaged … not caught and held. 🙂
The Universe Is A Collection Of Opposites
The more we realise the purpose of life and the mind, the worse it all seems. The point is understanding that this ‘worsening’ means there are more reminders of that which is perceiving – pure consciousness.
We are free in the moment of seeing.
This is why evil – or rather, stupidity – can never totally succeed, and is actually beneficial to our practice.
Joy brings sadness; sadness brings joy.
The universe is a collection of opposites.
Experience Is Our Currency
Our ‘currency’ – our jewel of wisdom – is experience. If we don’t have the same experiences as other people, there is little or no communication. If we can only judge from our previous experiences, this influences the experience we’re having right now.
When we have the same currency as others, we only validate one another, and stay within our circle. Even if we’re attending the same retreat as others, we will all experience the lectures differently. Some people are religious and some are academic; very few are experiential, and actually meet minds. This is why retreats are held in silence – there’s less conflict.
This currency is the levels of understanding, or yanas.
https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Nine_yanas.
How do we upgrade experience?
There are many reasons why we want to upgrade experience: wearing the present position out; noticing obsessions and hostility; sentimentality; that blank look; a lack of communication …
Dissatisfacton can either bless us with another addiction, or bless us with an open door because there is something missing. That something missing is genuine experience, without reliance on the words of others.
Jesus said,
“Woe to you lawyers!
For you have taken away the key of knowledge;
you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”
This is a reference to the writers who give human ‘interpretation’ to the scriptures, often in contradiction to them.
The less we project, the more we see, and the more our wealth grows.
Who’s Running Your Life?
Who’s running your life?
Or rather, what’s running your life?
We may think it’s governments, corporations, secret societies … but what’s running them?
They may think that they are the rulers of the galaxy – but it couldn’t be further from the truth. 🙂
The simple gross laws of the infinite universe (attraction, repulsion and inertia) aren’t a joke or a simulation being played; it’s just how things are in an infinite universe. All we have to do is observe.
It’s likes, dislikes and indifferences that are running our life. We think this is natural and that it’s always been this way. It isn’t and it hasn’t. This belief is bound to the physical and mental world by stories that twist the truth to confuse conscious beings and promote the creation of a self identity. Stories are our programming.
The solution is to realise that that which notes this illusion is consciousness: pure, compassionate consciousness. This is our reality. ‘Pure’ may be called emptiness, shunyata, God, dzogchen, tao, zen, mahamudra, turiya, or uncontaminated awareness …
Here’s the twist in the story:
Consciousness is the natural state of mind – emptiness – but we fill it with attraction, desire, memories and stories.
Being full of concepts, we start judging: this creates our dislikes, repulsions and fears.
Because of dislikes, we forfeit compassion, ignoring our and others’ true reality of pure consciousness.
This gross relative reality of ignoring our true reality creates a separate self, which is the cause of suffering.
Those who think that they run the world suffer from intense likes and dislikes, and see to it that the rest of us stay locked in obsessions, while they believe they’re immune. These beings are the ‘gods’ who deliberately misinform so that we stay as semi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell beings.
All the while we have been enlightened beings
who learnt to forget what we are.
The ‘six realms’ refers to the six realms of existence in Buddhist cosmology, into which beings can be reborn, based on their karma.
Cosmology: from Greek kosmos ‘order’ or ‘world’.
God realm (Deva): beings who experience temporary pleasure which breeds arrogance.
Semi-god realm (Asura): also known as the jealous god realm, these beings are powerful but constantly engage in conflict due to jealousy.
Human realm (Manusha): a realm with a balance of pleasure and pain, considered a unique opportunity for enlightenment because it is a middle ground between the extreme suffering of the lower realms and the extreme pleasure of the higher realms.
Animal realm (Tiryak): this realm is characterised by a lack of humour.
Hungry Ghost realm (Preta): beings in this realm suffer from insatiable hunger and thirst due to greed.
Hell realm (Naraka): the realm of extreme suffering caused by hatred and negative actions.
Our problem is that we become so involved with knowing about the six realms (as we do with all information) that we don’t actually experience them – they merely become yet another kind of programming.
We experience them when emotions arise and we see what we’ve been doing and living by. That first instant of recognition is wisdom – that’s if we let go of our pride.
This is the practice of eliminating karma, and the path to realising enlightenment.
If You Have Longing, Try Shorting
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‘Longing’ is wishful thinking and belief – the machinations of religion, philosophy, and opinions that are long and winding roads.
‘Shorting’ is direct experience of the realisation of pure consciousness: our original being, right now.
Shorting is the low resistance of clarity, bypassing the route we’re supposed to take through a short cut or direct flow.
All book learning is the long and winding road leading us no-where, while experience is now-here.
Religion, philosophy and opinions fill up time.
Direct experience is timeless.
When we’re caught up in others’ ideas, we are relating, which is a duality.
Direct seeing – pure consciousness – is non-duality.
Causing A Cause
A ‘feint’ is pretending to go in one direction, with the intention of going the other way. The purpose is to cause a reaction. Conflicts and wars start in this way; they are intentional and people are provoked into reacting.
This is why it’s important to remain detached, and stay in control. Narcissistic minds want a reaction – this is Mara at work. Out of kindness, we don’t react, releasing the provocateur from accumulating bad karma.
Think of provocateurs as hungry ghosts who never have enough attention. When we remain clear and kind, they have nothing to fight against except their our mind.
Every dark emotion is within the minds of all sentient beings.
Recognising this is the path to enlightenment.
Looking At All Sides
To be open-minded, we need to look at all sides, all views. Are the people who hold these views open or closed? Can they communicate, or do they just talk?
To know the truth of our reality, we must first be decent human beings with genuinely open hearts.
The essence of all beings is compassionate pure consciousness, but if we turn away from those who see differently, we are contaminated with self-importance. Once we understand our true reality, we start to see how and why we were led astray, sidetracked by illusions of separateness while, in reality, our essence is uncontaminated consciousness.
We’re not going to experience our reality
just by chanting mantras and words.
To know the truth of our reality,
we must first be decent human beings with genuine, open hearts.
Recognising the illusion we’re under is the authenticity of pure awareness.
– and the path to enlightenment.
What If Reincarnation Is A Reality?
If reincarnation is a reality,
does that change our attitude?
In an infinite universe, there is an infinite number of beings in an infinite number of places suitable for life to exist. We cannot assume that we will reincarnate on Earth, and therefore beings from other places can reincarnate here. This could be the reason why we’re born with certain tendencies, which are totally different from others. Some people are very aggressive while others show inclinations of wisdom. It may also account for some feeling that they are in the wrong body, the wrong gender.
We may not reincarnate with two legs; four-legged creatures who’ve had close contact with kind two-legged creatures may reincarnate having two legs. We could be surrounded by beings looking for a home, looking for kindness, goodness and stability.
We can all make mistakes. Wherever we land up, we have to deal with life as it is now, created by karma – our past tendencies.
Life is a rehearsal – from Old French: a repeating, from rehercier, ‘to go over again’.
As we ascend the levels of realisation, we play new parts.
No change, no ascension.
Know change, know ascension.
What The Media Never Talks About
The media – or rather, what’s behind the media – will never talk about that which we have in common: pure consciousness.
Once we realise we are pure consciousness, then we know what isn’t pure.
Pure means uncontaminated.
Beliefism
We all fall for it:-) We look at a video or blog and think “That’s interesting” or “That’s true”, and we assume we know it, when we’ve only collected information. This is just a belief, which is acceptance without experience; to know, we have to put it into practice, and then we have evidence as to whether it’s true or not. Only then, our attitude and behaviour in life changes.
There are a lot of clever people out there, taking bits of information and presenting them as the picture. Religions, science, politics, social justice all do the same thing. It may or may not be intentional, but we all get hooked – addicted – in one way or another.
We may know how to make beautiful art, fascinating structures and clever inventions, all of which capture our imagination … but make us dependent.
Belief can never be wisdom.
Belief is multifarious,
having many aspects which causes conflict.
Wisdom is that which sees this silly behaviour,
and knows why this behaviour is silly.
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Understanding Is Happiness
Understanding is direct experience of how something works. Even better understanding lies in knowing how it all works.
Everything is created by attraction and repulsion. Our lives are held together by our likes and dislikes which have no reality are just reactions of body and mind. All the while, we ignore the presence of conscious awareness – our actual reality.
When we don’t understand something, we dither and become indecisive. This isn’t happiness. Belief is merely addiction. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge for a happy ending – a problem solved.
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. 