Sentient Beings: Judgemental
All creatures judge to survive,
but we become judgemental, and fixate when we don’t feel safe.
We get snappy, and shut the door.
Once we are confident, we feel safe,
and therefore have no need to be judgmental, or to fixate.
This type colour is white!
If you’re doubting, why are you doubting?
😀
Complicated = Easy Confusion
Realisation is being aware of awareness.
That awareness is consciousness.
We are that consciousness which, in essence, is emptiness
– uncontaminated clarity.
Now for the complicated bit …
we doubt.
A Magnanimous Being
Magnanimity is confidence that illumines
both our collective potential and our deficiencies.
How Pure Consciousness Is Natural
While just perceiving through the senses, no thought is present. We might assume that, because we are seeing objects and events, thought is present. Not so. Being aware of just seeing is pure consciousness.
No elaborations needed. Our problem is that, in just perceiving and not being aware, we fall into the state of vacancy.
By merely recognising this state of vacancy, pure consciousness shines through again, because it never went away.
No elaborations needed.
How does recognising pure consciousness make my life better?
We are pure consciousness, beyond this and that, and perfectly happy. When this uncontaminated state of purity is forgotten, we become plain animal consciousness, trying to survive.
This self-preservation is the cause of unhappiness through reactions in the mind, and we go into our usual behaviour – our karmic-load.
In just perceiving, we are not reacting, and therefore we reduce the effect of accumulated ignorance – our karmic load. Our karma is our driving force laid down by our previous actions and reactions.
All that is needed in life is time and space to reflect and contemplate on this, and realise how perfect everything is.
What about all the horror going on in the world?
It is a perfect example of the build-up of illusion creating ignorance, when the only true reality is our natural state of pure consciousness.
Mind-intellect is never happy;
it’s always looking for achievement and the right conditions.
What is absolutely natural has no elaborations.
Instead Of Reading About It, Live It
We can sound pretty clever repeating what we have read to impress others. It’s just information, and there is no real knowledge or a meeting of minds. It’s all one-sided, whereas talking about genuine experience is sharing, as long as there is some sort of acknowledgement.
Have you ever wondered why there are different spiritual traditions? It’s because someone had an experience that was different from others, and shared it. We are not all one with exterior expression, but we are one in silent, inner essence.
We don’t have to follow like sheep.
Our cake may have different ingredients
because of our different backgrounds.
In A Corrupt World, We Cannot Just Sit Back
We know that childhood traumas affect our behaviour in later life,
and condemn the next generation to more confusion, regret and depression.
In meditation, we sit and do nothing.
In life, we cannot do nothing.
Know what is real, and what is a manufactured illusion.
Conflict Comes From Opposites
As long as we take sides, we are divided, and there will be conflict.
As long as this state of affairs is fuelled, we will remain divided.
Be aware.
Be very aware.
What Is Disinformation?
To a lie, truth is disinformation.
To truth, a lie is disinformation.
Some things are created to create something else.
This how division is accomplished.
Be A Fixer; Don’t Be Fixated
A fixer solves problems.
The fixated cause them.
🙂
It’s Like We Are Broken
If we lose our purpose, it’s like we are broken.
We come into life with everything we need to know, but we don’t know how it all fits together. There are those who want us to stay broken and confused so that they can feed off our emotions.
A complete being is an enlightened being.
Incomplete beings are partial, limited, restricted, imperfect, fragmentary, unfinished and unenlightened.
Even being partly awake, we can start our path to completion, and that begins with the recognition of dissatisfaction or suffering.
A complete being is pure consciousness, and is in good working order.
An incomplete being is impure consciousness and is in good working odour. 😀
Odour: a lingering quality or impression, especially an unpleasant one, attaching to something.
Our purpose is to put ourselves together in good working order,
and then recognise the parts that form ‘me’:
only then can we take it all apart.
Pure Consciousness Isn’t An Altered State
Unfortunately, many are lead to believe that pure consciousness – our ultimate reality – is some sort of mysterious, altered state of consciousness. It isn’t.
We live in that altered state now, just following everyone else, and believing that everything we are told is real.
Belief is hocus-pocus, accepting that something exists without proof.
Hocus-pocus: a sleight of hand designed to trick or conceal the truth. “Hocus Pocus” was a phrase adopted by magicians, and is believed to be a perversion of a Latin blessing from the Catholic mass in the 17th century: “Hoc est corpus meum” or “This is my body.”
By adhering to beliefs, consciousness becomes confused and deluded; it is that which is the mystery – the altered state of consciousness – and not pure consciousness.
Pure consciousness is just seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, or being without a biased memory attaching itself to the sensation.
Pure consciousness is quite ordinary and natural.
The only magic in pure consciousness is the vanishing of belief.
🙂
Ordinary: with no special or distinctive features; normal.
Don’t Cling To An Identity
Identity is our personal prison.
We are captured by capturing ourselves.
Taking the place of religion that binds us,
we’re encouraged to pray with our thumbs,
seeking our heart’s desire.
Pure consciousness has no identity.
We Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin
By virtue of the concept of darkness, light must be known.
A reflection in a mirror.
Pure consciousness that sees an adopted self.
The two sides are inseparable.
When we know the two sides, they become a unity of non-duality.
‘Buddha’ means pure consciousness, where distractions become a mirror.
Finally, we realise it is all emptiness; even the we that realises is empty.
What We Say About Ourselves…
What we say about ourselves gives us away.
Just because we think or say something about ourselves doesn’t mean it’s true. The truth within everyone is the unity of pure consciousness which doesn’t express the level of our ignorance by taking a side or an opinion.
Wanting the world to be a better place may be interfere with others’ karma. We can never make the world a better place as there are too many acting on obsessive self-interest. It is this very selfishness of demonic activity that shows us the way, our path to enlightenment.
Quoting ancient texts merely puffs us up,
while going beyond our self is the supreme magic of the ethereal world.
Wise, ancient texts are only a generalisation:
wisdom comes from genuine experience and raw exposure.
Time Is Everything
Time only exists
because all phenomena has a beginning, and middle and an end.
Thoughts have a beginning, a middle and an end
and therefore have no reality.
Space does not have a beginning, a middle and an end,
and therefore space is timeless.
Consciousness does not have a beginning, a middle and an end,
and therefore consciousness is timeless.
That which is timeless is the only reality
because it is constant, and therefore true.
Do Aliens Visit Us?
In an infinite universe, there are an infinite number of beings, so why would they bother coming all this way and not say hello, even to spiritual adepts/deep meditators who don’t panic? 🙂
It’s because the official narrative is directed by propaganda to manipulate us into believing that superior technology means superior wisdom. We should avoid taking part in this illusion.
Mathematics can create fascinating technology that excites and makes us dependent. If all we see are gadgets, we won’t see the idea behind it – addiction.
Does superior technology indicate wisdom?
Looking at people, the answer is no.
In an infinite universe, there are infinite beings
whose essence is pure consciousness,
whether they choose to look or not.
Wisdom is the compassionate understanding of our true essence,
and does not celebrate elaborate fantasies which distract.
The Magic Words That Did It For Me
“Do not take my word for it.”
The Buddha said, “Do not take my word for it: see or test it as if you would test for gold.” This was such a relief, as I didn’t have to conform or follow anyone any more.
The words broke through decades of theories and reliance on teachers. I dropped everything and everyone, and had a look – which shocked me, and opened up what is really happening in the world.
Actually, thinking about it, this was exactly what happened to Marpa Lotsāwa (the translator 1012–1097) on his return from India to Tibet. He collected many texts from Indian teachers, but his companion, being jealous, threw the texts overboard from the boat. On his return to Tibet, Marpa could only expound on what he had actually experienced … not hearsay 🙂
I’m not saying I’m Marpa. I’m just describing the way it is for me, when life became a direct shock. And it still is.
“Do not take my word for it”
is quoted all the way through this blog.
🙂
The Many Ways To Realisation
Realisation is the experience of what we actually are, and it’s never what we think or believe 😀 We are, first and foremost, pure consciousness. What else can we be? It is through this that everything can be known.
If we are fortunate, we will come across a word or phrase – or even a gesture – that will change our lives forever … that’s if we are open to change.
Let’s take two words; judgement and judgemental.
Understanding the difference is the complete Dharma.
Many do not see the difference = they aren’t ready.
Judgement is the ability to consider something in the immediate moment now, and then drop it.
Judgemental is being fixated about our judgement, and being stuck with it.
To do anything, we first have to weigh it up and consider, judging whether something that is applicable in one moment may not be suitable in another; because of this, our judgement stays open. This can only be truly achieved from clarity, when the mind is free of bias = pure consciousness.
If, on the other hand, we are judgemental, we fixate about someone or something and cannot adjust. Empathy tells us that we too have made mistakes. Being judgemental is our karmic prison which limits the understanding for attaining any compassion or realisation. It’s not what we see that matters; it is the clarity of wisdom that transforms the seeing itself.
There is simple teaching everywhere when we know how to look, see, and drop it.
The word ‘Buddha’ means continuous realisation of our absolute essence, free of karmic influences.
The magic words are waiting for all of us … somewhere 😀
Have Religion And Science Been Hijacked?
By whom?
By the facade of benefit.
We are lured into beliefs, and because we are lethargic (from Greek: lēthargos ‘forgetful),’ we don’t bother seeking any further than whatever we are told. That assumption is belief, and belief is acceptance without proof.
As long as there is a feeling of benefit, we will go along with an idea, but won’t see the consequences. Belief allows us to chug along in the hope of better things to come.
(chug – move slowly making regular muffled sounds, like a slow dull engine).
Religion and science are all about hopes and fears. Believing either one, we practise diligently and so we will get better at it while, in reality, our chug-boat is just chugging along, going round in circles.
If all this resulted in the realisation of enlightenment, it would all make sense. The realisation that pure consciousness is already enlightened is far from our humdrum experience.
Everything that we do we believe to be of benefit, but it soon turns out that we have merely joined the hijackers, chug chug chugging along.
To capture humanity, all that needs to be done is to enhance and elaborate materialism and etherealism.
Evil encourages futile diligence, which is pointless.
Goodness is wellbeing with whatever occurs, bringing about the dissolution of our karmic beliefs.
It’s a happy sadness.
The realisation of disappointment and relief,
resulting from the discovery that something we were lead to believe
is false.
Humanity = Monkey See, Monkey Do
‘Monkey-mind’ is a Buddhist term meaning a mind that jumps all over the place, and is restless, fanciful, inconstant, confused, uncontrollable. How did we get this way? Aristotle said, “Give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man.”
As children, we have imprints engraved on our minds that manifest in our later life. We can call these little trauma-worms. So we could say, “Give me the man, and I will show you the child at seven.” We are all victims of our childhood, whether it was pleasant or unpleasant.
This is why we have to stabilise our monkey-mind, which acquires traits, and creates our blueprint for life.
See your self for yourself.
Our true being is pure consciousness.
Our imitation is a copy of others’ delusions.
Now what?
For this lifetime, we are stuck with this imitation character, but not necessarily stuck in it. We can be realised and still have childish quirks, which are our particular idiosyncrasies. 😀
In non-dual meditation,
there is no imitation character, and no division.
Just pure awareness…
without the monkey!
Does Our Mood Affect Our DNA Blueprint?
There is much on the internet about this subject. It shows that our disposition and our arrangement of mind and character have an effect our health.
Whether it does or it doesn’t, always be in a good mood.
🙂
Good mood = wise understanding = positive outcome.
Researchers say factors such as the appreciation and love we have for someone or the anger and anxiety we feel both influence and can alter the outcomes of each individual’s DNA blueprint.
Exposure to stress can modify DNA methylation, which may alter gene expression and therefore contribute to disease phenotypes. Early-life stress, such as childhood abuse and stress-related disorders, have lasting effects on methylation that may persist into adulthood.
Researchers from the UK have found evidence that depression doesn’t just change our brains; it can also alter our DNA and the way our cells generate energy.
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Trapped By Trappings
‘Trappings’ are the outward signs of knowledge, power and wealth that symbolise status – the worthy. They are a snare; an ambush for the unaware – the unworthy. This relationship trap between the worthy and unworthy is where we know in our heart that something is not quite right, but we still continue down that path anyway, ignoring the warnings signs within the relationship.
Hierarchical status symbols may be fascinating, but they can obscure and delay progress, and we forget what we actually came for; the wisdom of inner peace.
I’m All Puffed-up, Ah Ha Ha 🙂
The journey to enlightenment starts
with a single step of acknowledging dissatisfaction.
Dissatisfaction can either make us desire more, which only leads to more desire, or look for the cause of this dissatisfaction, and the need for satisfaction.
When we are genuinely fed up and depressed, we may feel that life is fruitless, and what we desired no longer appeals to us. Life does becomes fruitful, however, and isn’t a waste of time when we realise that our true nature – pure consciousness – no longer relies on external sources.
As long as there is a puffed-up self, there is
no love,
no path,
no enlightenment.
When we recognise our true potential,
we know love,
we know path,
we know that enlightenment is possible.
Spontaneous Consciousness
Spontaneous consciousness:
no time to refer to memory; open, natural, and uninhibited.
Coming to our senses without identifying; just spontaneously present.
That is what we are.
Once we are controlled by memories,
we go into our habitual patterning.
That is what we are not.
Spontaneous consciousness is never unhappy.
Unhappiness comes with memories!
🙂
Everything That Scientists Do Is Natural?
Scientists believe that everything they do is part of nature.
If we push here, however, we take something away from there.
There are always consequences to our actions;
it’s the law of attraction and repulsion – cause and effect.
Science is knowledge, and knowledge is neutral – until someone decides what to do with that knowledge.
Scientists may think that they can control nature, but this is outer nature.
The more powerful nature is inner nature;
the inner laws of wisdom.
Our Memory Is Our Bias
When we impose our bias – our mind-worms – on to the present moment, we continually live in the past as, the moment we see or hear anything, that perception goes straight to our memory-worm for our confirmation.
When we actually realise what happens in the present moment,
we can suspend our bias-worm
and see consequences and possibilities afresh, through pure consciousness.
Evil Improves My Intelligence
Every time I hear an ‘expert’ speak, it’s a warning sign.
🙂
Power stays in power by changing its name.
Knowledge is neutral;
it’s what ‘experts’ do with that knowledge that’s terrifying.
The Show Must Go On
For the show to go on, you need money.
For money, you need an audience…
… a captive audience.
A captive audience is continual power.
Upon entering the theatre of the collective, we conform to indoctrination, with the intention of attracting attention to ourself. We too want to capture an audience – just look at social media, and our personal relationships.
Power corrupts through neurolinguistic programming.
Neurolinguistic programming: a effective system of communication intended to change people’s patterns of mental and emotional behaviour.
How do we find the exit to this theatre of operation?
The moment when we find clarity in meditation, we are out!
The show – or the meditation – no longer captures us.
😀 😀 😀
There Is No Guru-Student Relationship
There is no guru-student relationship:
it’s all in our head.
Gurus acquire a lot of students because people are desperate to find something else in life to attach to. If we are too dependent on a guru, we become religious and elitist, and dismissive of others. Find what you need to progress, which is a method of meditation that leads to dropping the meditation – going beyond.
If we become stuck in ritual of meditation,
we become stuck in the ritual of duality.
Non-duality is touch-and-go.
Don’t become stuck in the mud.
🙂
A guru or deity is a reminder:
once we remember, we drop the reminder.
A Lack Of Clarity Creates Demons
A lack of clarity causes distractions and fixations, which are the demons in the mind.
If we think that we know, we become full of ourselves.
That self is the demon.
😀
As long as we are slaves to our likes and dislikes, we will never be free of demonic activity.
We usually think of demons as something other worldly, and nothing to do with us. Not so. If demons were diabolically strange, we’d all see them easily, and be on the look-out, wouldn’t we? Have you ever seen one? No. Why? They work internally, sneaking around the mind just under the radar, charming and manipulating us. At the moment of enlightenment, the Buddha was attacked by such demons. Jesus in the wilderness was tempted by the same demons. In other words, power corrupts … !
When we actually know the truth of our actual reality, that realisation results in wisdom, and those same demons make us feel uncomfortable. This is the catalyst for enlightenment.
Get Past The Stupid And Arrive At The Truth
😀
We all do and say stupid things; it’s being human.
Knowing that we do and say stupid things, we can arrive at the truth.
That very knowing is consciousness.
Now, we have to get past the knowing consciousness,
to arrive at pure consciousness.
It’s just sitting there.
Easy-peasy!
Pure Consciousness Is Never Obscured
Pure consciousness has to be realised,
rather than thinking, “I get it”.
Pure consciousness is consciousness that has realised it is empty of contamination. It is always present; it is what we are. That’s why I cannot find it! 🙂
It can only be realised through meditation, and dropping the meditation. That which is called mindfulness meditation is just taking care, and remembering what we are. Being stuck in mindfulness is an intellectual trap. Once we remember what we are intellectually, we drop mindfulness for actually resting in pure consciousness.
Pure consciousness is so simple that it gets dismissed as ordinary or boring because of the sort of life we lead, always looking for something more interesting to do. Desire is what this crazy world is all about!
It is because of these desires that the mind becomes filled with ideas and concepts which divide us, and it is this filter that distracts pure consciousness – hence the expression, “seeing through a glass darkly”.
Pure consciousness is like space:
whatever happens,
pure consciousness and space never change or become obscured.
Ham People
🙂
If we do not know what we truly are,
we become unskilful, ham* actors.
We all ham it up. We are ham-fisted; we act out theatrics, scripted by adopting excessively emotional and dramatic behaviour. Religious theatrics display this quite accurately.
If we are unaware, we become a predictable performer, unable to fit into ever-changing scenes. We feel like a fish out of water – a person who feels awkward or unhappy because they are in a situation that is not familiar, or because they are different from the people around them.
When we stop acting out our staged persona,
we start to wake up, and become the audience.
We can then smile at the antics that we take so seriously.
*The term “ham” was first a pejorative term used in professional wired telegraphy during the 19th century, to mock operators with poor Morse code-sending skills (“ham-fisted”). This term continued to be used after the invention of radio and the proliferation of amateur radio operators, and these “ham” amateurs were considered a nuisance. The use of “ham” meaning “amateurish or unskilled” is still used today e.g. “ham actor”.
How Are You?
“How are you?” is a common, yet profound enquiry.
As well as asking politely after someone’s health, we are looking at their demeanour, their attitude. It’s not what someone thinks or knows or says that matters; it’s how they are that is significant.
Can I trust this person?
Can they trust me?
Can I trust me?
🙂
Alone In Solitude
Alone isn’t lonely if we have meaningful relationships with everything and everyone, when they occur. Not needing to be among people, the benefit of solitude is freedom from the constraints and opinions of others.
Inner inspiration takes place in solitude by direct realisation of our true reality without any outside distractions. Solitude provides time to contemplate, review how things come about, how consciousness becomes spiritual, and where self is in all this.
Alone is a meaningful, instructive experience with everything and everyone.
If it’s there, all well and good.
If it’s not, all well and good.
To Be Taken With A Pinch Of Salt
Practically everything that people say should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Why? Because generally, whatever people say is just hearsay, rather than direct experience.
According to Pliny the Elder (AD24 – 79), a pinch of salt was taken as an antidote to poison, to lessen its effect. Thus, “to be taken with a pinch of salt” now means not to take things too seriously.
Is what people say ‘poison’? If it is based on desire (like), aversion (dislike), or ignorance (indifference), that is poison to the mind. The antidote is understanding how these poisons come about, and their true reality, which is wisdom. Wisdom is in the moment when we are alerted to the negative emotions.
Everyone Has An Assignment
Everyone has an assignment
… if we choose to accept it.
Everyone has a divine (not religious) mission in life, an assignment to realise what we ultimately are, which is pure consciousness, rather than the mundane achievements of which we are so proud.
The assignment is written in our karma, the story of how we got to where we are now. Who wrote it? We did, by accepting the status quo as reality.
If we are not living by absolute truth that never changes, we are living by conventional standards of vulnerable impermanence that always lead to misery of some sort.
To change our story and behaviour, we have to change our karma from pointless to mediocre, from mediocre to good, from good to to superior, from superior to none at all. That is the assignment, like it or not.
Where is the evidence of this karmic story?
How happy and understanding are we?
If we do not change our concepts about life
and see the urgency for change,
our assignment will merely last forever.
We can trace our story back
if we see all the connections.
When we break all connections and attachments,
the story ends for a enlightening beginning.
Consider:
What did you talk about today?
🙂
The Less We Know, The More We Are Offended
When we don’t know the truth of our natural reality,
we lack confidence and become hostile.
When we do know the truth of our natural reality,
we cannot be offended;
we have compassionate understanding
which gives rise to unshakeable confidence.
Science Doesn’t Understand Pure Consciousness
Science sees consciousness as a perception-memory device, and that’s why some scientists think that consciousness can be put into a clone. The abusers of science consider humans as devices to be manipulated.
Our gross idea is that consciousness is a principle to survive in a human form.
Our original reality is pure consciousness, the enlightened being that we are.
Self-Indoctrination
Indoctrinate: to teach a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
Once people accept a belief – which is anything that is unproven – they maintain this mindset themselves.
Indoctrination starts when we’re very young, and infiltrates everything that we later encounter in life. We adopt a self image, known as a social I, created by feedback from those around us, and this develops into a big ego. Ego is consciousness clinging to ideas it has gathered, and can be seen walking around everywhere 🙂
At school, we are presented with hymns, Christmas carols and angels: in later life, there are beautiful stained glass windows, churches, paintings, statues, cathedrals, temples, synagogues, monasteries, rituals, robes, bible translations, stories and miracles, histories of wars, special places, otherworldliness, induced visions, voices of God and interpretations … as humans, we are very clever and skilful at beautiful elaborations.
Philosophers, intellectuals and theorists then take up the cudgel (cudgel: a thick stick to defend or attack strongly-held views) entertaining us with yet more stories, and more indoctrination. Whether we believe in all this or not, it has an effect on our lives. It divides people, whether they are believers or not.
If we do not know our true essence,
we will borrow the self-indoctrination of others;
ego is consciousness identifying with a dressed-up image.
Know thyself,
and cut through all the crap of indoctrination.
Thoughts & Pure Consciousness
When thoughts are present in the mind, so is pure consciousness, because consciousness is the very essence of mind. The moment when pure consciousness is recognised, thoughts are obliterated. What usually happens, however, is that the thoughts take over, and consciousness follows them. Hint: acknowledge thoughts but don’t become mesmerised by them.
Thoughts are not the same as thinking. Thoughts are from memories, while thinking is observing in the moment now, and seeing possibilities.
It’s Not What People Say That’s Matters
It’s not what people say that matters … it’s why they say it.
What we say is an expression of our level of understanding, and whatever we want to project. We have to be aware of ulterior motives, which are are intentionally hidden, and beyond what is obvious or admitted.
There are sweet talkers and stir-uppers, both of whom elicit a response and affect our behaviour. A steady diet of global distraction and word associations weaves a confused web in our minds. Context is all important.
Context: from Latin contextus, from con-‘together’ + texere‘to weave’.
When we actually know our original essence of uncontaminated consciousness, anything that then disturbs this should be questioned. How often are we drawn into staring at an internet site and scrolling down hypnotically? As long as we are gazing mindlessly, we forget our original essence; we lose consciousness in favour of the next excitement, and remain gormless.
Gormless: From gaum (heed, attention) + -less (without)
Why do people say what they say?
They want us to enter and be enchanted by their world.
Our Mind Is Our Prison
Our mind is our prison; the guards are our thoughts, which become beliefs. Thoughts placed in the mind limit our perception, experiences and understanding, and it is because of these beliefs that we do not see accurately.
Believing does not mean that we know. Something may have happened in the past, and we formed preconceived ideas or opinions before having direct evidence of truth now, gained through experience. From the ultimate view, truth is only now.
We can cut through the bars of these preordained thoughts by catching them as they arise, and before they fully activate the prison walls.
When we know our original essence of pure clarity, which is pure consciousness, we no longer re-enact our imprisoned regime.
In meditation, we see the bars = duality.
In non-meditation, the bars do not exist = non-duality.
Non-duality is dropping the method, once clarity is realised.
Don’t be wound-up by the media wind-up:
that is the prison’s re-creation yard!
😀
Knowingness Is Always Present
Knowingness is always present – always has been.
Whatever we do, knowingness is “at hand”.
Knowingness is nothing other than consciousness.
Sitting in silence, doing nothing without an inner voice chattering, just being aware, we realise that this observation is nothing other than consciousness, that silent knowingness, spontaneously present and never changing.
Remaining in this silent stillness without looking for anything other, consciousness simply returns to its natural, pure state of oneness with whatever appears; this is non-duality. Not two. Appearances and awareness are simultaneous.
These are just words.
We have to figure it out –
a significant part of the process.
🙂
The Lamp That Dispels Darkness
The moment of recognition of being vacant or preoccupied is the pure light of consciousness, the pure light of knowing. Acknowledging and resting in this clarity of pure light, darkness of not knowing is dispelled, and self-obsession, fears and hopes are vanquished.
It is here when we can either, through habit, return into the darkness of fantasy, or realise that this pure light of consciousness is what we are.
There is no true happiness in self-obsession.
There is no self-obsession in the clarity of pure light.
Even a moment of light
is a relief from suffering.
Realisation Makes The Most Out Of Life
Realisation is resolving the truth about our reality,
and whatever illusion obscures this.
Even though we may never attain enlightenment,
we can still lead a happy and fulfilling life
by knowing both unshakeable truth and what is presented as truth.
Through understanding ultimate reality, life becomes our teacher,
reminding us of the transparency of whatever appears to our mind.
By recognising mental distractions,
we become free of deceptions and misinterpreted perceptions.
Understanding wisdom and compassion makes life worthwhile;
if enlightenment does occur, it’s a bonus 🙂
It’s A Subliminal Life
A subliminal life is
whatever is going on in our mind-scape.
Subliminal: a stimulus or mental process below the threshold of sensation or consciousness; perceived by or affecting someone’s mind without their being aware of it.
It’s part of neurolinguistic programming. NLP modifies unconscious biases, and operates through the conscious use of language to bring about changes in someone’s thoughts and behaviour.
Why do we do and say what we do and say? Said anything original recently? Our compliance and reactions control us. Always ask, “Why am I feeling or thinking this?”
Our mind-scape is overseen by consciousness, the arbiter of decisions in our subliminal life, where we are infiltrated by spurious information which is apparently – but not actually – valid. That is how we are controlled.
The ultimate arbiter is pure consciousness that just sees without taking sides,
or before taking sides.
Truth Isn’t Exotic … Never Was
Too often, we are so dissatisfied with our life that we turn to something ‘other’. That something ‘other’ can look very exotic, but the problem is falling for the form – the entertainment – rather than realising the essence. The truth can be found or realised within our own culture, within our own mind.
The word ‘guru’ comes from Sanskrit, and means “weighty and serious; demanding careful consideration or application”. It’s not entertaining at all.
We have to face the life that we are in now. That is where the truth lies, being fully conscious of whatever is taking place in our own mind.
The absolute truth is that we are pure consciousness. It is so plain, it is called ’emptiness’ and is completely ordinary 🙂
Ordinary: with no special or distinctive features; normal, not interesting or exceptional; commonplace.
Why commonplace?
Pure consciousness is walking around everywhere.
Goodness Is Clarity
If we aren’t clear, we aren’t so good.
We are speaking of the psychology of spiritual pure consciousness which is the spontaneous presence of pure being. It’s not what we think about consciousness intellectually that matters; it’s what is actually experienced. When recognised, this clarity clears the mind of bias, that prejudging of everything that causes stress and upset. When the mind is full of intellectual judgments, it does not see clearly – it only thinks it does.
Clarity of mind comes from the clarity of consciousness.
That is the happiness we need to seek,
rather than the ‘happiness’ we want.
Desire breeds confusion, and confusion breeds discontent.
Demonic minds know that.
Clarity breeds contentment.
Pure consciousness knows that.
What is the purpose of life?
Goodness knows.
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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. 