Making Something Out Of Nothing

The essence of consciousness is emptiness
– that’s all we need to know.

By making consciousness into something,
we fall into forgetting and become divided from this reality.

Relating to some thing is duality – separatism/mixed feelings.
Before relating is pure consciousness, which is non-duality – divine splendour.

Divine: emanating from purity.
Splendour: a quality that outshines the usual.

We Do Not Have A Life

We do not have a life:
we are life!

We do not have consciousness:
we are consciousness.

As long as we believe that we have life and consciousness,
we will be confused about our reality,
and everything will remain a mystery.

Divided

Divided: separated into parts
 from Latin ‘dividere’; to force apart.

As long as we are divided, we will argue. This is precisely what evil does. It separates us from one another, and separates us from abiding in pure consciousness.

Evil divides.
Goodness unites.

Now, read the ‘news’ again.
It divides, and so conquers.

Still Looking For Something That Doesn’t Exist?

Still looking for something that doesn’t exist?
We are what we seek!
It’s that simple.

What are we?
Conscious awareness, pure and simple.

If you come up with a better answer, I’m listening 🙂

God!
Which came first; God or consciousness?

In the first moment of being aware, there is only consciousness.
This is provable.

Anything else is an act of superseding;
a replacement with something held to be superior,
therefore making consciousness (us) inferior.

Why would anyone do that?
Who determines this ‘superior’ view?

What looks?
Ego.

What sees?
Consciousness.

What drops whatever is seen?
Pure consciousness.

We are the problem – and the solution.

We Can Meditate And Still Not ‘Get It’

The purpose of this blog is to ‘get it’. Getting it, we know what it’s about, but we may need support to sustain realisation.

Unfortunately, many meditation centres look through a telescope from afar, while personal experience uses a microscope, close up, right here, right now. We can either play with a colouring book where all the lines are drawn for us and upon which we become reliant, or we can actually learn to draw.

When we become reliant on others,
we lose the ability to be independent,
and look for ourselves.
😀

Waking Up To Consciousness

Most of the time, our attention is on something out there, and we’re never aware of consciousness. Within consciousness is open space, clear and unbiased wisdom, but unfortunately, we walk around in a cluttered space, full of likes, dislikes and indifferences.

There are two views – conscious and unconscious. The unconscious affects our behaviour and emotions as we are on auto-pilot; this is just basic functioning. When we’re asked, “Are you conscious?” we will say, “Certainly!” and then we lapse back into unconsciousness.

When we are conscious, we realise that we are consciousness: that is the definition of consciousness, and we start to view things in a very different way. We become connected, but not attached. Life is meaningful and fruitful. We have confidence in abundance, and therefore, empathy. There are no more enemies – just teachers.

No more sleep walking.
No more moving around, performing actions
without interest, enthusiasm, or awareness of the possible consequences.

Know the difference between
consciousness
– staying awake –
and unconsciousness
– staying in the mind’s projections.

Choosing Our Battles

We ‘choose our battles’ and ‘keep our powder’ dry (ready for musket reloading) so as not to waste our precious time and energy. Thoughts can be a tool to solve a situation, or they can be used to aggrandise our self.

There are always distractions, so we needn’t make a meal of everything 🙂 If we carry around our loaded weapon of memories, we will be battling – finding fault both verbally and non-verbally – all the time, in every situation. After all, ’empty vessels make the most noise’.

As you can see, speech can be cliche-ridden, and full of unoriginal or overused ideas or phrases! 😀
But even in cliches, there are, in every culture, truisms that are dharma.

We Live In Levels Of Worry

Worry is being anxious, troubled and uncertain over actual or potential outcomes.

When meeting another person, we may feel nervous or uneasy, wondering if it’s safe to talk about hopes and fears. There is a moment of blankness, and then we find ourselves falling into the mundane.

It’s as if we are living on a planet where certain matters are not spoken about: not speaking about worries doesn’t mean that the worries go away.

A question is asked to elicit information.
If we have no questions,
do we think there are no questions to ask?

We live in levels of ignorance.

Fools know everything,
except their ignorance.

Pure consciousness is absent of ignorance.
😀

Looking For Something That Isn’t There?

It isn’t there –
it’s right here!

Our World Is Not The Way Others See It

Our world is not the way others see it:
if it is, we are doomed 😀

Our world is decorated by the influences of others.
When we break free of others’ influences, we see clearly.

Our real world is pure seeing, and nothing to do with fame or fortune.
A desire for fame and fortune is wanting to influence others.
This is why we are doomed to repeat whatever others say.

When we look within, we find nothing substantial.
Nothing based in reality.
Nothing with an independent existence.

Our original realm is pure consciousness.
It is not a place that can be created or destroyed.

This physical existence is our playground,
where we can either entertain our selves
or entertain the possibility of enlightenment.

Entertain: the word originally meant, ‘maintain, continue’.

Follow The Evidence

Follow the evidence, rather than what someone else says.
The Buddha would agree with this.

How do we follow the evidence?
Evidence: from Latin evidentia – ‘obvious to the eye or mind’.

Much depends on where we look, and how we look.
The more open our mind is, the more we will see.
Look at all sides before taking a side.

Our reality is beyond wishful thinking.

Proving Consciousness

Can science prove consciousness?
No.

Can we prove consciousness?
Yes.

Can the Buddha prove consciousness?
No.

Can we prove consciousness?
Yes.

Someone else’s evidence isn’t our evidence.

Cutting Through The Web Of Existence

Existence: From Latin exsistere ‘come into being’, from ex- ‘out’ + sistere ‘take a stand’.

Our true reality is constantly open, never born and never dies.
The evidence is that it never changes throughout life does it?

Therefore pure consciousness does not come into existence, it merely embodies a form commensurate (made to measure) due to our karmic propensities. This karma is a proud memory being, that continually re-enforces its web of existence, merely adding to its confusion.

Not knowing this we weave a complex web of concepts to justify our being, because this natural naked consciousness cannot be found and is indescribable, but can be realised.

Existence means come into being.
The question is what is it that comes into a being?

Gaining Confidence

Once we know the essence of a subject, we have a firm foundation to expand our view to incorporate everyone and everything. The essence of everything and everyone is emptiness – consciousness that is uncontaminated. It has no view; it is the supreme view of clarity before we start pontificating, expressing our opinions in a pompous and dogmatic way.

We are so enthralled, captured and enslaved about existence that we make our life far too complicated and elaborate. We’ve moved so far away from our simple essence that we become blind to actual reality.

As we chase after this theory and that theory,
we lose the point of life.

Once we gain confidence in being pure consciousness, however, we realise this is the very essence of all beings which have a mind. Gaining confidence is then synonymous with compassionate understanding.

Now, because of compassion,
life becomes a series of challenges that upgrade realisation.
This is how we enter the enlightened realm.

We cannot gain confidence in theories where no essential foundation has been established.
There are those who expound existentialism, for example, which is a philosophical theory frequently
used by Kierkegaard, and which emphasises the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent, determining their own development through acts of the will.

Unfortunately, this philosophical idea is flawed
as it does not explain the quality of this ‘will’.

The challenge:
the more we see stupidity,
the more confidence we gain.