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.
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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.

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

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.

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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