ADDICTION CONSUMES US

Addiction Consumes Us

When we are addicted to an idea
– our truth –
we see nothing else.

We can be addicted to anything
– political ideas, spiritual teachings, social affairs –
and see nothing else.

Addiction is being fixated in rejecting others’ views. It’s easily done; we do it all the time.

This is why we need panoramic vision, and compassionate empathy to safeguard against arrogance and narrow-mindedness.

There is always another way of looking at things. As a Buddhist, I do not believe in a God, but I do not deny God-consciousness, which is our highest part of pure consciousness.

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DON’T MAKE MEDITATION INTO AN ART FORM

Don’t Make Meditation Into An Art Form

Don’t make an art form out of spirituality.
That is religion.

Meditation is merely sitting still, quietening the mind through concentration to bring all that inner chatter and judgement to rest. Then clarity and deep peace can ensue.

But that’s not the complete picture. We have to realise what is observing who! It’s consciousness, of course, observing the mind/me.

Meditation is far simpler than we think, and it develops according to the individual’s background.

When we have had enough of misery, we look for the cause, and that is the start of our path to realisation.

Merely taking up meditation and spirituality as a scholastic art form inhibits raw, uncomfortable experience, and no empathy or true compassion will be forthcoming. We have to cut through the crap, and not many like to admit that they have crap in their mind. 😀

When I first took up ‘the spiritual thing’, I just wanted to know what it was all about, and then came the vajras, bells, protection cords, rupas, thangkas, prostrations, mandalas, guru yogas, zazens, loads of ‘advanced’ retreats and temple building … it’s a long list of art forms, and an attitude to go with it … lots of self-conscious attitude, and we’re back in religion again.

In reality, it’s about being aware of awareness, and then realising that we are pure awareness/pure consciousness. We go from duality to non-duality; make some thing into no thing. No form, just essence.

That is what we are, pure and simple.

The more academic we become,
the more we think we know,
and the more we become the form and not the essence.

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MOST PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO KNOW

Most People Do Not Want To Know

Most people do not want to know the truth of what they are as they think they know already – but we have been told whatever we think we know.

It is amazing that, when alternative facts are presented, most seem to turn the other way. Maybe they cannot see two sides at the same time? Considering why this might be, we can only assume that people fall hook, line and sinker for an easy story, an easy life, a life of dependency. For so many to fall for the same easy story shows how vulnerable we are.

Why is this? We are primed at birth to believe everything we are told. Once we learn a few songs or phrases, they stick with us!

A few obvious distractions are injected into a society by media to get reactions, but it’s all a ruse – it’s a form of trickery preventing us from looking any deeper. Having fallen for the easy route, it feels foolish to admit that we were taken in.

We are consciousness, pure and simple, and once that truly sinks in, we wonder why that fact cannot be accepted. In order to know anything, knowingness or consciousness must first be present.

Know that our foolish self is not what we are, and be free.

When we first lose our stabiliser wheels on our bicycle,
we wobble a little until we get used to free-wheeling.

When we free-wheel,
we know how to manage all the bumps on our path.
😀

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WE CAN ONLY BE HAPPY …

We Can Only Be Happy …

We can only be happy
when we know unhappiness.

The universe is complete in opposites when, in reality, opposites are one.
If we say dark, there must be light.
An object and its reflection cannot be separated.

Happiness is the release from suffering, rather than the excitement of desire. Both lead to more of the same.

If we are happy  our excess of wealth, power, fitness … this is the same as being addicted to or obsessed with alcohol, drugs, gaming, news, entertainment … and therefore being unable to appreciate what we already have. We will always want more, being intoxicated by anticipation.

There are two aspects to life: one is that we want life to be perfect, and the other is seeing that life is already perfect.

The Buddha’s first precept is the admission that we are not happy – in fact, we are suffering. Only then can we look for the cause of that suffering; the self-addiction.

Conditional happiness relies on conditions that we deem to be ‘right’:
this is why we go up and down, and round and round.

Unconditional happiness is what we naturally are:
this is happiness that does not rely on any conditions.

We have been led to believe that happiness is something ‘other’ – the unattainable.

At this present moment in human history when we are totally manipulated and upset, the Dzogchen teachings can function to their full capacity – on fast track!

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EVERY ENCOUNTER IS OUR TEACHER

Every Encounter Is Our Teacher

Every encounter reveals our preloaded, habitual pattern of behaviour.
This makes us feel terrible – vulnerable and, maybe, guilty.

Cheer up. When we meditate, our mind seems to get worse,
but this means we are noticing more.
Be grateful, even though it may feel uncomfortable.

Never think you don’t know enough,
or feel crap about yourself; it’s all you have.
It’s exactly what we use to evolve on the path to enlightenment.

😀

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SEEING HOW WE WORK

Seeing How We Work

There is ordinary consciousness and pure consciousness.
There is ordinary mind and pure mind.

Ordinary consciousness and ordinary mind are dualistic = ‘me’ and ‘other’, creating judgement and comment.

Pure consciousness and pure mind are non-dualistic = no ‘me’, no ‘other’; pure observation without comment.

In reality, there is pure seeing without judgement in the very first instant, and then memories and evaluations set in and we arrive at ordinary mind and ordinary consciousness.
And our purity goes unnoticed.

Ordinary mind focuses on a culture of me and mine, maintaining duality and division. It’s all about self.
Ordinary consciousness just sees, but is influenced by the ordinary mind, and so becomes a self.

Pure mind is influenced by pure consciousness, producing pure compassion.
Pure consciousness is the master.
Pure mind is the servant.

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UNDER THE COVER OF INCOMPETENCE

Under The Cover Of Incompetence

Under the cover of incompetence,
we believe what we see.

Supposed incompetence is how this world is run,
and we fall for it every time.

As long as we are identifying with incompetence,
we won’t be looking behind the scenes.

When we believe others to be incompetent, we focus on that and forget the back story of what led up to now, and what the effect is, without ever actually seeing the reality. We may recognise that things are unsatisfactory – and may even know the solution – but they will still happen because we fail to drop the elaborate illusion.

Buyer beware!

If we only take things at face value – accepting someone or something to be true without  considering whether they really are what they claim to be – we may be living in the exaggerations of others.

Buyer beware!
Know what is in your mind.

How did it get there?
Unconscious influences.

How to deal with this?
Defrag: clean your mind of bias to increase performance.

How?
Meditation.

Once we are free,
no one can pull the wool over our eyes – or consciousness – ever again.
🙂

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WHERE DID/DO WE GO ASTRAY?

Where Did/Do We Go Astray?

According to ancient teachings, we – consciousness – have been trekking through the universe, driven by habitual ignorance of our true reality beyond time, and so, every sentient being has been our mother … That is mind-boggling. Were we once enlightened, and fell into ignorance?

We can re-cognise the truth when it’s presented to us, so there may be something that we once knew but forgot. This is happening this right now, until we remember … and then forget again 🙂

Consciousness became over-excited about being and, through clinging to desires, developed a self-image to beentertained.

“Forgive them for they know not what they do” – Jesus.
What we do is merely the maintenance of this self-image.

Learning is a process of evolution.

Entertainoriginally meant ‘maintain, continue’, later ‘maintain in a certain condition, treat in a certain way’, also ‘show hospitality’ (late 15th century).

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MAKING DISTRACTIONS THE PATH

Making Distractions The Path

There is no getting away from distractions and disturbances; it’s how we deal with them that matters.

We are the silent stillness of pure consciousness that perceives through the senses in a human form; we can therefore focus on human activities and, at the same time, realise our true essence. Like a mirror and its reflection, appearances and recognition are simultaneous – without preferences.

If we choose our battles wisely, we are selective when it comes to getting involved in problems, arguments and confrontations. It is wiser to save our time and effort only for the things that matter, rather than to choose to fight every problem.

We may find ourselves engaging solely in either humanist activities or spiritual pursuits, and therefore having a preference. This is misunderstanding that seeing and the thing seen are one.

Humanism: a rationalist outlook attached to the prime importance of being human rather than divine or supernatural matters. 
Spiritual: attached to the ethereal, rather than material values or pursuits. 

Our essence is the clear light of bliss,
allowing phenomena to be appreciated as impermanent;
recognition of seeing and the thing seen are simultaneous.

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EXISTING IN A SEA OF DESPAIR/SAMSARA

Existing In A Sea Of Despair/Samsara

Samsara: the cycle of human existence motivated by hopes and fears and indifference (Sankrit).

In this sea of samsara, we either drift, drown or play. ‘Drifting’ is vacancy, ‘drowning’ is indifference and ‘playing’ is the desire to utilise the three poisons of hope, fear and indifference.

Playing with samsara has two aspects, while remembering that knowledge is neutral. It’s what we do with knowledge that determines the outcome – our outcome. One aspect is to gain control over others, and the other is to gain control over ourselves.

We use the oars of mindfulness to row ourselves to the shore of liberation. Once we arrive at the shore, we need to drop the oars of mindfulness, or we will just be rowing in the sands of intellectualisation, stubbornly grounding ourselves in habitual behaviour without actually knowing our true reality.

Mindfulness is remembering what we are.
Once we remember, we can let go and just be.

Spiritual teachings are like that.
:]

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CONSCIOUSNESS IS LIKE A MOUSE

Consciousness Is Like A Mouse

Consciousness is like a mouse, darting here and there and looking at this and that to find its heart’s desire – but repeatedly getting caught in the same cheesy trap. To a mouse catcher, the mouse’s habits make it easy to catch, but the catcher knows there are plenty more where that came from.

We are like mice behind a glass wall – our eyes – scrambling here and there in muddled confusion, searching non-stop and only coming to rest through exhaustion – or, more usually, in a state of vacancy, staring through a glass darkly!

When consciousness actually realises what it is doing, the busy-business and vacancy just stop, and we recognise what is called completely untainted, pure consciousness, that sees mouse droppings everywhere.😀

There is ordinary consciousness, constantly seeking happiness, and extra-ordinary consciousness which is the happiness. That (not the cheese 🙂 ) is our heart’s desire.
Extraordinary: from Latin extraordinarius,‘outside the normal course of events’.

Don’t keep getting caught by the cheesies!
Cheesy: hackneyed and obviously sentimental; an exaggerated smile, likely to be insincere.

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THIS BLOG ISN’T A PATH

This Blog Isn’t A Path

I am not a teacher; I’m just someone who shares experiences. Our path is our own confusion about what we are. Our job to be unravelled. Meanings of words change with realisations; although the dictionary can define words, that definition refines, making more sense than the author’s interpretation. Experience is alive, while words are theory, and a generalisation.

There is a danger of redefining ancient teaching but, with awareness and a good heart, we can see what they meant in this age of conflict and suffering.

Saying all this, just reading something can remind us of our path. No cultural adoption needed; no special elaborations; nothing to identify with; no money changes hands. Just consider, reflect, and see for yourself, without an interpretation.

Observe the subtle indoctrinations in the mind that we are led to believe. Where did they come from? Things are suggested to a society by those who want to influence us, and the weak-minded carry them out with enthusiasm. It has always been the case.

Our path is not following others.

We are all one in essence,
but individual in our search.

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THE FIFTH PARAMITA – CONCENTRATION

The Fifth Paramita – Concentration

The term, “the six paramitas”, is Sanskrit for the six essential abilities or perfections of generosity, patience, morality, discipline, concentration and transcendent wisdom.

Concentration is meditation;
simply being aware, being mindful without effort.

We merely drop everything,
and are no longer in a state of being either occupied or vacant
– our usual existence.

When we can concentrate and focus, we do not fall into distraction … for long 🙂 That is what this commercial world wants – a world full of zombies. Seen any bad films lately, or read the ‘news’?

When we can concentrate and focus, we can be generous, patient, moral and disciplined, and be of benefit to others, rather than merely acting the part.

Once we can concentrate,
the door of transcendent wisdom
and true compassion opens.

Meditation isn’t as difficult as you think.
Just be aware
– not aware of some thing.

We even drop the meditation
as a safeguard against doing the meditation.
In this way, we realise non-duality.

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WE RUN ON MEMORIES & INFLUENCES

We Run On Memories & Influences

We run on memories and influences;
that is our programming for life.

Subtle traumas – unpleasant and pleasant –
are landmarks in the mind that obscure/darken/cover our lens.

All the while, pure view sits and watches.

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‘OM MANI PEME HUM’ IS NOT A LUCKY CHARM

‘Om Mani Peme Hum’ Is Not A Lucky Charm

The mantra, Om mani peme hum, is not a lucky charm. It represents six essentials for a compassionate life. These are generosity, patience, morality, discipline, concentration and transcendent wisdom. Om mani peme hum is easier to chant 🙂

The first five are about being a mindful engineer preparing to realise the sixth of transcendent wisdom that realises pure consciousness. The sixth is the realisation that we are compassionate, pure consciousness, with the emphasis on ‘we’. That’s one way of approaching Om mani peme hum.

The other way is to be introduced to compassionate, pure consciousness from the beginning, and then using the other five essentials to support that realisation.

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ANIMALS AREN’T EVIL

Animals Aren’t Evil

Animals aren’t evil – only humans can be evil. All sentient beings are moved by fear, hope and indifference to survive, but it is only when we hold on to our fears, hopes and indifferences that evil arises and causes suffering. It’s because of this evil that enlightenment can occur, as suffering starts us on our journey of realising our ultimate reality.

Evil is caused by a belief in a self that wants to judge and control others. If everything is wonderful and pleasant, we may not feel the need to become enlightened, and we may even go to spiritual teachings just for information that merely adds to our karmic load. We only practise when we see a need. If we don’t see a need, we remain indifferent. In remaining indifferent, evil is bound to occur.

Fears, hopes and indifferences are attraction, repulsion and inertia – the gross laws of the universe. When these laws or principles are seen clearly, they become pure compassionate consciousness, beyond all evil. Because of these enlightened principles, evil can never succeed.

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PROPAGANDA CAN BE TEACHINGS

Propaganda Can Be Teachings

Spiritual teachings show us what is obvious and clearly seen.
When we see clearly, we see more.

There is propaganda everywhere, telling us subconsciously how to think.
These signs are teachings.

When we read the signs and watch our reactions,
they can return us to our sovereignty.

Therefore evil can never succeed.

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WE ARE THE MYSTERY

We Are The Mystery

We are the mystery
– not our reality!

In its inception, our self-image was created
by consciousness being confused about its reality.
That is the mystery.

When we realise our true reality,
there is no mystery.

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RETURN TO SENDER

Return To Sender

If we do not react to others’ abuse or emotions,
we reduce the effect of our karma,
and the abuse simply returns to the sender.

Now they have to deal with their karma.

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IF WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD

If We Do Not Believe In God

If we don’t believe in God,
why do we shout (when something goes wrong) – “Jesus!!”
or reply to something we don’t know – “God knows?!”

The words are ingrained in our subconscious
… like everything else
🙂

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THE STATE OF DENIAL

The State Of Denial

Is it possible that denial is a coping mechanism?

If we haven’t woken up to something being very wrong,
we are in a state of denial, and will fight to stay in that place.

Truth irritates ego, with the suggestion that it has no reality.

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WRONG THINK

Wrong Think

Wrong think:
A lack of trust in authority.

Is questioning a crime?

An example: being kicked out of a spiritual group for not believing.
🙂

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WE ARE NOT AS CLEVER AS WE THINK

We Are Not As Clever As We Think

We are not as clever as we think –
we are cleverer!

When we are just using our mind, we’re borrowing ideas from others,
and merely putting those ideas together in a different way to sound unique.

All problems arise perfectly from causes and conditions.

When consciousness works from essence,
it cuts to the origin of the problem,
as there was never a problem in the first place.

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WHEN WE COME TO OUR SENSES

When We Come To Our Senses

When we come to our senses, no thought is present in that moment; that is pure awareness. When thoughts arise, all we have to do is become aware of one or other of the senses and the thought fades. We don’t follow it!

The point of this is that, when we cut through our thoughts, our habitual patterning and behaviour, we reduce and even eliminate the effects of karma, which are the habitual patterning and behaviour that we cling to.

When we come to our senses, we realise freedom.
The sense commonly used in meditation is the touch of the breath.

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PLANET OF THE MIND SNATCHERS

Planet Of The Mind Snatchers

From birth, our mind is taken away, and replaced with a system. These systems are to help us fit into this world but, if we don’t know our true mind, we become a prisoner to a system. Be it political, religious, educational or entertainment, it’s all toys in the recreational yard! And all we do is walk round in circles.

To an inmate, this sounds ridiculous as the yard is everything to them but, to a practitioner of the mind, freedom from attachment to all those toys is of paramount importance.

Toy: a miniature replicate. The word originally denoted a funny story or remark, later an antic or trick, or a frivolous entertainment.

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SMALL MINDS THINK ALIKE

Small Minds Think Alike

Small minds think alike:
they are full of ‘facts’.

Great minds think alike;
they are empty of ‘facts’.

The full quotation is, “Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ” (from the 16th century).

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LOCKED IN PRECONCEIVED IDEAS

Locked In Preconceived Ideas

Preconceived: an idea or opinion formed before having the evidence for its truth or usefulness.

When our thoughts are predetermined, we fall into prejudgement and become prejudiced, which leads to a very narrow way of life.

To get through life, we have to have thoughts and skills, but underlying these thoughts are preconceived prejudices that affect our expression in life.

Being able to drop those preconceived ideas is the way of growing up the evolutionary scale. Understanding all this, empathy will arise, bringing about clarity and freedom.

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BECOMING FASCINATED

Becoming Fascinated

Fascinated: attracting the strong attention and interest of someone.
A snake deprives a prey of the ability to resist or escape by the power of a gaze: the serpent fascinates its prey.
ORIGIN: late 16th century from Latin fascinat- ‘bewitched’, from fascinum ‘spell, witchcraft’.

As we can see, being fascinated by a subject, although interesting, blinds us to direct experience. We put a veneer, a decorative layer, on to whatever we see, and become proud of our appreciation, and … Zap! The serpent has us 😀

Emotions are like that!

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STILL LOOKING FOR THAT ‘WOW’ EXPERIENCE IN SPIRITUALITY?

Still Looking For That ‘Wow’ Experience In Spirituality?

That’s the big problem.
Because of indoctrination and elaborate rituals, we’ve come to think that ‘spiritual’ experience is something special.

That’s the big problem.
We are expecting something. That is the narrative we have been led to hope for. Spirituality is merely the pure, unelaborated state of consciousness.

The actual ‘wow’ factor is finally dropping the indoctrination. Thank goodness! What a relief! I no longer have to believe what others believe!

What others say is merely an indication or direction; it is we who have to become familiar with the raw, cool, boring experience … Wow!

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WE CANNOT DOUBT CONSCIOUSNESS

We Cannot Doubt Consciousness

We may doubt ourselves, but we cannot doubt consciousness.

Our self is a build-up of dogma – a set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. We are all indoctrinated from childhood, and thus we give our sovereignty away to an authority to rule our life, and those principles becomes our new normal.

It’s done through religion.

There is a reason for all our dilemmas and doubts, and that is religious indoctrination from childhood. Whether we believe in God or not, we are subjected to beautiful Christmas carols, stories, churches, cathedrals, monasteries, hymns, architecture, statues, art, rituals, obedience, ‘good’ and ‘evil’, debate, counter-debate, taking sides, hatred, wars, politics, philosophies – all of which influence our lives by limiting our understanding, and binding us. But we are still charmed by all the complexities that actually cause confusion.

Our self is a build-up of dogma – a set of principles = beliefs. We are all indoctrinated, and thus consciousness only sees through a glass darkly; that becomes our normal.

We wake up when we stop believing in ourselves, or anyone else.
We can doubt ourselves,
but we cannot doubt consciousness.

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SENTIENT BEINGS: JUDGEMENTAL

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?
😀

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COMPLICATED = EASY CONFUSION

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.

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A MAGNANIMOUS BEING

A Magnanimous Being 

Magnanimity is confidence that illumines
both our collective potential and our deficiencies.

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HOW PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NATURAL

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.

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INSTEAD OF READING ABOUT IT, LIVE IT

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.

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IN A CORRUPT WORLD, WE CANNOT JUST SIT BACK

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.

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CONFLICT COMES FROM OPPOSITES

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.

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WHAT IS DISINFORMATION?

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.

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BE A FIXER; DON’T BE FIXATED

Be A Fixer; Don’t Be Fixated

A fixer solves problems.
The fixated cause them.
🙂

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IT’S LIKE WE ARE BROKEN

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.

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PURE CONSCIOUSNESS ISN’T AN ALTERED STATE

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.

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DON’T CLING TO AN IDENTITY

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.

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WE ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN

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.

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WHAT WE SAY ABOUT OURSELVES…

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.

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TIME IS EVERYTHING

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.

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DO ALIENS VISIT US?

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.

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THE MAGIC WORDS THAT DID IT FOR ME

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.
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THE MANY WAYS TO REALISATION

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 😀

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HAVE RELIGION AND SCIENCE BEEN HIJACKED?

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.

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HUMANITY = MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO

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!

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