Why Do We Find Communication So Difficult?

Communication … “Ay, there’s the rub!” – the friction.

It is because we lack confidence in our true reality that we hibernate in a mind of dreams/memories, waiting for the awakening. We are what is called ‘consciousness’. The truth is that consciousness is always awake, but clings to ideas that isolate us. It is because of this feeling of isolation that we feel vulnerable and so we protect ourselves by avoiding communicating in a meaningful way.

We start our path – the ‘awakening’ – when we admit that we feel uncomfortable, and are suffering. I feel uncomfortable because I was always being told off, so a lack of confidence has travelled with me throughout life … until I realised that everyone else was covering up their insecurities too. That’s how empathy and confidence start.

Instead of rubbing one another up the wrong way,
we should be rubbing shoulders
– talking with someone in a meaningful way.

True communication is a transmission of consciousness;
it’s the moment when we brighten up.

Self: A Work Of Fiction

In our mind, we build up a picture of our self. This picture is usually created by a social I, a reflection of others’ responses to us – “Good boy” “Bad boy” etc. 🙂 We are only ‘good’ if we do and say what others want us to do and say to fit in with their self picture. It’s possible to fall out with others pretty quickly if we don’t go along with their views.

We (consciousness) can, however, work quite happily with this fictitious self – this obstinate programming – because it teaches us where we go wrong immediately through a feeling of being uncomfortable.

We needn’t feel guilty about this as it’s happening to everyone, including the ‘good boys’. Some people seem to have a charmed life, but look closely – it’s high maintenance.

The essence of mind is pure consciousness.
The content of mind is pure fiction.

= Heaven and Hell.
🙂

What Created Consciousness?

Some say that God created consciousness.
Some say that it comes from millions of years of evolution.
Some say consciousness just is.

The important point is that we all know we are here now. We are agreed on that?

Do you realise what you have just agreed to?
We all know.
It just is. It never changes. It’s what we are.
We aren’t different in that knowingness.

Consciousness must not be confused with thoughts, as thoughts are impermanent and changeable. Some say that consciousness enters the body at conception, commensurate with its measure of motivation.

We are universal beings with short memories, but there is an ‘atmosphere’ about us; this is clear in everyone we meet – there’s a stuffed atmosphere. 🙂

Consciousness is beyond religion and science.
This becomes clear in meditation
the moment when we drop the meditation
and realise that pure consciousness is perfect contentment.

If we don’t truly appreciate this, we will continue to argue.

Walking In Others’ Shoes

Let’s say you dislike a group of people and their way of life intensely. They, in turn, dislike you and your way of life. This situation is due to our ideas about others’ religion, culture, politics … and each side believes it’s right.

What if our mind is filled with so much dislike that, due to karma, we were then born into the very group we disliked. Wouldn’t we then be disliking the people we used to be? 🙂

Dislike is the karma we carry with us. Liking too much is also karma, which could be why we’re so easily addicted to certain things or ideas.

We live on a precarious tightrope when we ignore this, and continue in a vicious cycle of samsaric existence of me, my likes and my dislikes, all because of a self-identity that forgot it is pure consciousness.

When we identify with and obsess about others’ ideas,
we walk in others’ shoes.

Our true reality is pure consciousness,
sans likes, sans dislikes, sans everything.

We Are More Than Just Recording Machines

A recording is a repetition which is acceptance without verification.
We are more than just recording machines;
we have intuition.

Intuition: the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning, denoting spiritual insight.

We are intuition itself,
because insight is pure consciousness, which is intrinsic wisdom.

We Don’t Have To Be A Prophet To Be Prophetic

There is nothing new under any sun.

Here’s one prophecy:
Governed by their likes and dislikes, people will ignore their true reality.

Here’s another:
If we become reliant, we will adopt others’ ways of thinking.

And another:
Hell is the thoughts in our mind. Heaven is the clarity of mind.

Being a prophet is just using common sense, rather than being a good story teller. Nobody walks on water and nobody flies in the sky, but people prefer belief, rather than relying on simple reasoning.
In fact, the simpler the reasoning, the less they understand because of belief in ‘miracles’.

We go to ‘holy’ places to seek realisation, when the wholeness we are searching for is our true essence of pure consciousness, which is here, now.

If we’re looking for miracles,
we will be given with a string of stories.

When we lose our reality in the mud of concepts,
it will be found in meditation

Nitpick Yourself

Instead of finding fault with others,
first seek out your own faults.
“Seek and you shall find.”

Having identified our faults,
we can empathise with how others got theirs.
Every emotion that they’ve ever felt, we have also.

It’s not fair to nitpick others when we don’t nitpick our self.
When we have nitpicked our self,
no one can nitpick us as we’ve already done it,
and there is nothing left to defend.

Once you get a glimpse of the Great Perfection – Dzogchen –
try the Great Nitpick.

😀

Pure Awareness Can Never Be Wrong

Ideas and beliefs can be wrong,
but pure awareness is never wrong.

It is this that people cannot understand.
Prove pure awareness wrong …

We Are Coaxed Into Ignoring

We are coaxed into ignoring that we are, in reality, the essence of pure consciousness.

Why are we coaxed? In favour of a belief system. Why? Partiality controls people with an incomplete picture that stimulates our imagination. This is the reason that the world is in the state it’s in; we try to influence one another to take a side, and condemn those on the other side. Separation is the madness in this world.

Over-reaction turns people against one another, transforming opposition into dislike, and dislike into hatred, which is intense dislike – all because of beliefs that we unload onto others.

Like and dislike are ideas we carry around as banners of righteousness; they aren’t the same as knowing what is beneficial and what is harmful to the mind and body in the moment now.

The only sanity is what we all have in common, and that is consciousness, the pure view in the moment now of just seeing without judgments, sides or colours. In pure consciousness, no beliefs are present. It’s the moment of unconditional oneness, which we lose the instant we fire up our likes or dislikes, and forget our commonality.

A strong mind is an empty, cognisant mind
– not predictable, and full of potential.

Empty cognisance (open space) is filled with possibilities, and is the opposite to holding the preconceived ideas which make us disagreeable and predictable. When we become worked-up about other people, it is we who are a danger to others.

The thing that is o
f utmost importanceis recognising what we all have in common
– rather than our different beliefs.

Deliberate Avoidance

Deliberate avoidance is shunning a fact as being an enemy.
This is just another name for ignorance.

Avoidance is the result of our fear of not knowing, when we pretend that the other side of a narrative doesn’t exist for fear of being influenced. If we ‘bury our head in the sand’, we give out a signal of a lack of perception or awareness, which is ignorance.

The ultimate fact or truth doesn’t lie in one side or another;
it is in unbiased, panoramic vision – just seeing.

Ultimately, panoramic vision of pure consciousness is our starting point, rather than relying on a preconceived an idea or opinion formed before having the evidence for its truth or usefulness.

Basically, avoid ignorance
😀

All You Need To Know

You are all you need to know.
You are the pure knowingness of consciousness,
which is mind essence.

We have all ignored this
in favour of ideas programmed in our mind.

With realisation, we see the world differently,
free of speculation, mysteries and devilment.

Follow The Science? Follow The Teaching?

This an extract from yesterday’s UK Covid enquiry:
‘Professor Vallance (top scientific advisor) admitted there is “no such thing as ‘the science’”. “Science, by its definition, is a moving body of knowledge that tries to overturn things by testing the whole time,” he said.’ The Government said it was about a consensus that supported its political agenda!

The very same can be said of the Buddha’s teachings.
There is no such thing as ‘the teaching’. Spirituality, by its definition, is a moving body of knowledge that tries to overturn things by testing the whole time. If we think we are supporting a consensus – Buddhism – we will forget the Buddha’s words, “Do not take my word for the truth; test it for yourself…”

This is why we use analytical meditation.

Does the Buddha’s teaching work?
What do the words mean?
How do emotions obscure clarity?
Am I controlled by pride …?

What is enlightenment?
What is self?

What is the reason humans just accept what they are told?
What is asking these questions?

… silent reflection …

Only you can answer these questions.
Once you get an answer, ask again … and again …

(and then write a blog! :D)

Can You Laugh At Your Self?

Does your old self make you feel ‘icky’ … unpleasantly sticky?

We all do and say daft things that we picked up from others. It’s not our fault – unless we keep doing and saying the same daft things.

There are two ignorances: one where we ignore our true reality, and the other where we maintain this ignorance.

When we are honest, we can laugh at ourselves, and when we do this, the world laughs with us.
If we take our self seriously, we isolate our selves.

Just Functioning

Most humans function on a limited level of existence. In fact, we are malfunctioning. If our only concerns are family, career, entertainment (which include politics, technology and religion), we are merely going round in circles, repeating the same experiences. We live on memories – the nostalgic programming of the familiar – and the way in which we relate to things shows our history of relative reality.

The problem is that we are unable to break out of this cycle of existence until we recognise that it is causing us anxiety and suffering. We do not realise our full potential of being enlightened – Buddha-like – and live dream-like instead.

To function properly to our full potential, we need to be open-minded, moment by moment, rather than merely claiming, “Oh, I’m open-minded.” That’s easy to say. Being open-minded in every moment is fresh, and means not relying on assumptions … ever.

This is the difference between vertical thinking, which uses conventional logic, and lateral thinking, which is viewing in a new and unusual light.

In other words,
we live either within the dim light of ego
or the brilliant splendour of pure consciousness.

The path to enlightenment is the discipline of detachment
in the moment when we recognise attachment.

All encounters on our path are relative situations, revealing how we relate. We can either relate by becoming caught and held, or the situation can become our teacher as a reminder of our reaction which is observed by pure consciousness.

Pure consciousness is fully functioning: full of compassion, full of understanding, full of gentle empathy for others’ predicament.

Malfunctioning: a failure to function normally; being abnormal; deviating from what is normal typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying. Abnormal: from Latin, abnormis ‘monstrous’ 😀