Learn Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan … Really? Why?

To suggest that learning Sanskrit, Pali or Tibetan will get us closer to our reality is not only idiotic, it is a misdirection.

Absolute truth did not start anywhere. It just is. In the silent stillness of the mind, the truth that we are pure consciousness can be revealed. We have always been pure consciousness, but have been led astray by imaginative elaborations.

Ultimate truth is inconceivable.
Inconceivable: incapable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable, beyond
belief.Conceivable: capable of being imagined or grasped mentally.

Pure consciousness is neither a concept nor a language in the mind; it can only be realised in pure experience, before words are created to describe it.

All interpretations are a mental construct.
Pure consciousness is beyond mental constructs.

A word or sound in a foreign language, although enthralling and fascinating, has no meaning until we read the translation into our own language. The Sanskrit term ‘shunyata’ means ’emptiness’. Using the word ‘shunyata’ doesn’t have a special power or meaning – and actually, ’emptiness’ doesn’t either, until it is experienced.

There’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo out there … be careful.

(‘Mumbo jumbo’ is something that’s meaningless or confusing, but which pretends to make sense. It’s often used to describe overly-complicated wording or ridiculous embellishments, and this causes us to be reliant on beliefs).

The words that we need to start our journey to now-here
– ultimate truth –
are within our own language.

Then we let go of understanding,
resting in inconceivability.
🙂

Chains Of Belief

For generations, we have been led to believe something or other, and this is the chain that we carry around. The hallmark of belief is refusing to admit that a belief is just a belief; it’s something we have accepted as true without proof, and we become unsettled if questioned about it, wanting others to believe what we believe.

Belief can make us do phenomenal things, but phenomena is an impermanent construct maintained by belief, and it is that which forges the links in the chain. The promotion of belief in the form of identification causes confusion, suffering and aggression.

Insecurity binds the chain. If we were confident, we would understand why others didn’t believe as we do. A belief is just a idea, and that makes us feel vulnerable.

Belief doesn’t mean we understand,
we just hope, fear and ignore.

Wisdom means we understand;
there is no need to take sides.

Evil = Misunderstanding Dharma

Dharma is the principle of the universe: attraction (desire), repulsion (aversion) and inertia (indifference). Evil knows this law, and uses it to ambush minds that are easily trapped by likes, dislikes and indifference. Evil feeds off our reaction: we can see this in the world every day, at every moment.

However, evil cannot understand emptiness, and the conduct of compassion. Evil thinks emptiness is nothingness, nihilistic and pointless as it has nothing to gain from the reality that is free of hopes and fears.

Those who misunderstand Dharma become arrogant and lack compassion, crossing over to the dark side. ReadingDharma is not the same as living Dharma. The devil’s disciples come close to realisation, but then claim it and get carried away, infecting others!

Goodness knows the complete picture as it does not see through a glass darkly, and realises that everyone, at some point, will understand the truth of our reality of pure consciousness.

Saying this, evil shows us the path through our reactions.
This is why evil/Mara can never completely succeed.

Knowing That We Don’t Know Is The Reality We Seek

Knowing that we don’t know is the reality we seek.
WHAT!?

If, in life, we try to do good and do no harm, we are training the mind.

1 Do good = see clearly.
2 Do no harm = stop seeing faults; look behind and beyond the cause.
3 Train the mind = practise 1 and 2 all the time.

It doesn’t matter whether our life is pleasant or unpleasant, the important thing is constant mindfulness that cuts through constant distractions.

Knowing that we don’t know is the path to enlightenment.
Coming to a conclusion is a mental activity, whereas consciousness is beyond the mind which assumes it knows.

In the very moment now, we do not know anything.
There is merely pure knowingness present.

A subtle scan takes place: “What is it?” “What’s needed?” “Why is it like that?”
Without this, it’s just a mundane, mechanical life.

And those questions can apply to a situation or to a person 🙂

Meditation: Spiritual Psychology

Meditation: seeing how our mind works,
and dropping all attachment.

In dropping all attachment, we see clearly.
We can do this any time, any where.

The Dharma Should Go To Our Heart, Not Our Head
😀

When we say ‘head’, we mean mind.
When we say ‘heart’, we mean consciousness.

Once our heart is in the right place,
our mind follows.

Realisation and conduct go together.
Understanding and compassion become a unity.

If something goes to our head, it makes us proud.
If something goes to the heart, we feel it.

However, the wisdom of pride is knowing that whatever you know,
everyone else will also know in their own good time.
This is the wisdom of equality.

The Moral Compass of Compassion

Our caring is either biased or unbiased. We may say that we care, but at what level? Do we care about the things we like, and not care about the things we don’t like? Do we care about the whole picture, and what led up to someone’s problem?

We have to understand in order to care;
for that, we need to have the ability to understand.

How do we understand?
Well, we can’t just say, “I understand”.

For compassion – for that is what caring is – we need a moral compass, a sense of the right direction. We need to know what goodness is. Goodness is clear seeing, without judgemental bias. Only then do we have the inner knowledge of what is needed, as opposed to what we want.

Caring: of Germanic origin; chara ‘grief, lament’, charon ‘grieve’,

We Belong To The Devil

Every time we give in to desire, aversion or indifference,
we enable the devil’s work.

The moment we realise this,
we are released –
kicked out, in case we contaminate the others.
😀

Dharma Is Impossible To Discuss
🙂

Our path is realising
our individual confusion about self that never existed.

Discussion about the Dharma isn’t Dharma.

Real Dharma (pure consciousness) is that which experiences whatever is experienced,
and leaves it alone. 🙂

The only way I can think of is to write words
that you already know.

Positivity Is Mental Resilience

Negativity is an inability to adapt.

In this age of being bombarded with negativity,
we need resilience to see through the justifications

How do we become resilient?
Train the mind to stop reacting.

This is done through the practice of meditation.
In fact, when we stop reacting, we’re already meditating.

Good, eh?

The Inability To Understand

Knowing ‘about’ a subject doesn’t mean we understand it. We just have an attitude towards it, such as like, dislike or dismiss. We can only understand something when we engage with it wholeheartedly. Like a spiritual surgeon, it’s not a matter of liking or disliking, but of dealing with whatever arises with a positive attitude. In this way, we can have empathy for those who have a problem with the topic.

Following a spiritual path isn’t without its problems and hypocrisies, but we engage because we actually want to know the absolute truth and whatever inhibits this. It’s not a matter of like or dislike.

An inability to understand arises because we have come to a conclusion too soon.
In absolute terms, there is no conclusion.

Paranoia – Irregular Mind

Paranoia: Greek, from paranoos ‘distracted’, from para ‘irregular’ + noos ‘mind’. A mental condition characterised by exaggerated self-importance, or a serious condition in which the person loses touch with reality. 

Narcissism: selfishness, a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration. Failure to distinguish the self from external objects.

If you no longer need a boost of self-importance, are in touch with reality, have empathy, aren’t interested in being admired and are detached from external objects … think yourself regular 🙂

Regular Mind:
Arranged with the same space between individual instances.
:D:D:D

We Are All A Type

We fall into categories of ability, behaviour and gullibility. Certain types identify with certain jobs influencing certain other types by having particular shared characteristics, which helps to promote selective information. Different conveyor belts form a society; some go left and some go right, not realising it’s all part of social conformity.

What to do?
Recognise how we justify our existence all the time. Having to admit when we feel slightly uncomfortable, we dig our heels in, stubbornly resisting something or refusing to change. That is fixation.

We can get off our conveyor belt of destiny by questioning why we are the way we are; we then realise that consciousness has been deceived – and the entire mechanism is brought to a halt. This can annoy those who are enjoying the ride. 😀

The jolt to a stop is a temporary moment of uncertainty or confusion. Here, we can either jump back on the eternal conveyor belt of constant movement, or experience the realisation of eternal stillness and clarity free from anxiety, by acknowledging that we are, in fact, pure consciousness, which never was on the conveyor belt.

To convey is to communicate – with either more of the same ‘answers’, or the uniqueness of spiritual insight into how everything is connected.

We are all a type!
Enlightened beings.

Realisation Is About Awakening, Right Now

Whether we reincarnate or not,
we are not awakening to some future event.

Realisation is about our sanity – right here, right now.
Sanity: no longer living under others’ delusional illusions.

When we awaken to our reality, everything changes,
and we see the continuous circus of events.

There isn’t anything we can do about this individually
as it is the result of mass belief and sentimentality.

All we can do is see distractions as obstacles to inner peace.
And there we are – right here, right now.
🙂

The more we recognise, the more stable the realisation.
Thank the delusional for their teaching.
😀

Our Reality Isn’t Buried Under Layers of Illusion

Our reality isn’t buried under layers of illusion:
it’s right here, right now.

The illusion in which we live
has to constantly distract us precisely because
our reality is right here, right now.

We can awaken at any moment.
🙂

“But I am awake!”

Lost In Space

This space is the infinite expanse of consciousness.

When we fill our mind with ideas and fixations, consciousness becomes lost in the excitement of emotions, totally forgetting that we are consciousness.

Feeling lost, we cling to any identification for a feeling of safety. In this way, we become lost in space when we hold on to details, and thus ignore the complete picture that everything takes place within the pure space of consciousness.

How do we know self is present? Chattering-noise! And when people come together, there’s even more noise in the silence of space 🙂

When we lose self in the space of meditation,
consciousness regains its natural presence.

Compassion Is The Ability To Understand

If we cannot understand others, we can have no compassion.

Sticking only to our view limits our understanding. We have to see all sides in order to comprehend a situation and how it came about.

If we are not bothered about understanding, we will never know, and this lack of motivation will haunt us in the form of karma = the repetition of cyclic existence.

Details Are Meant To Obscure The Complete Picture

The whole is greater than its parts.

Obsessing about the details – bits of information – causes denial, disagreement and refusal to listen. In being negative, we misunderstand the positive aspects contained in knowing the entirety.

When we become involved in the details, we lose sight of the whole. We see this regularly in the ‘officialdom’ of all walks of life, where they can only quote dogma, like four-years-olds at odds with reality. The dogmatic try to censor anyone who’s having trouble believing. 🙂

How are we deluded?

Weak power has to show strength by a display of righteous posturing. Real power is hidden through distraction, by using weak power to create excitement. We’re deluded if we believe in the weak display of pompous self-importance. Again, lots of detail is learnt and presented, but this is only a ruse; it’s trickery, encouraging the weak-minded to follow the band.

If the Buddha said,
“Do not take my word for the truth; test it for yourself”,

Absolute truth is only a mystery hidden to informers, as they have not realised that that which witnesses absolute, complete truth is beyond information. We are that absolute truth.

As long as people nit-pick on the details, they will argue ad infinitum. This very activity distracts us from realising the power of our reality … empathetic love. Evil hates unity, and eternally tries to divide, and break into pieces. We all fall into this category, unless we notice it.

The complete picture is that we are and always have been pure consciousness that expresses itself as empathetic compassion. Any details about the true love that is beyond words merely obscure it. A lack of love is the hallmark of negative enmity.

Myths and stories keep us occupied in the denial and disagreement of relative truth; fixating on details, we become confused. There’s something for us to relate to, resulting in duality, and a feeling of separation and loneliness.

Take the word, ‘capitalism’. We may think of capitalism as private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit – the right to earn a living.

The actual definition of capitalism is; an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

We think it is the government (that’s one of those ‘bits of information’) that we voted for in a ‘democracy’ that rules, when the complete picture is that we are controlled by private owners whom we didn’t vote for.

If we only look at parts of economics, politics and religion, we will never ever look at the history of the world! These are merely different aspects of the subjugation of humanity, which has been brought under a yoke.

Complete meditation frees us to see clearly,
and break free of this yoke.

Complete meditation is dropping the meditation,
as meditation can become a yoke in itself.

The True Currency Of Life

The true currency of life is not wealth; it is compassion for all.
Wealth is for the poor-minded.

Gaining wealth, others go without.
Gaining compassion, no one loses.

Why make 10 commandments, when one will do?
1. We are pure compassionate consciousness;
put nothing before that.

Can Consciousness Suffer?

Consciousness is not a thing; it is not created, destroyed or hurt. Consciousness is the silent witness of mind. When we say ‘mind’, we mean the contents comprising thoughts and memories. The experience of suffering is due to consciousness attaching itself to memories and fixating on them, defending this attachment and believing it is suffering. Attachment causes the illusion of suffering.

Proper meditation not only cuts through and silences mind chatter, it can also reveal that we are pure consciousness. Pure perception cannot suffer; it is mental interpretation that causes the illusion of suffering.

Our Brain Is Our Jailer

Our brain is our jailer;
it keeps us in our groove,
and that’s why it’s difficult – if not impossible – to communicate with others.

Through early experiences, the brain forms in a particular way, creating pathways or patterns. These experiences hold our feelings and memories that are maintained by the mind. The brain is our hard-drive, while the software is our thoughts about this hard-drive.

It doesn’t matter what we do in later life,
our early brain experiences create our illusory limitations.

When we try to reason with someone, we often find it impossible to do so. It’s not in their spectrum of experience. This is why we find we have to generalise, so not to upset others.

The Buddha said:
“Do no harm.
Do good.
Train the mind.”

Meditation helps us know how our brain and mind works. The only way to help others is to be kind. This is how we train. If we could all communicate, the world would be the better for it.

Magic – Or Magick – Is Just Belief

Belief is, however, a powerful spell on the unwitting; a person unaware of the full facts.

The unwitting are also known as useful idiots. In political jargon, a useful idiot is a term used to reference a person perceived as propagandising for a cause originating from a devious, ruthless source without fully comprehending the cause’s goals, and who is being used cynically by the cause’s leaders.

If you get enough people to ‘believe’ in something, they can be used to rebut evidence, that is to say create conflict and confusion. If we cannot see this happening, it’s working.

Waking up to a lifetime of beliefs is a huge shock.
The mind and consciousness brighten up.

To the initiated, this is the lamp that di-spells darkness.
To the uninitiated, the lamp is left lying on the floor.