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.

The Great Rude Awakening

Accepting the total rawness of life
Is total relief from that suffering.
And that rawness never goes away.

Covering up the rawness with cleverness,
we become arrogant and annoying,
and cause problems for others.

When we were born we weren’t clever,
but awake and aware.
We were taught to go back to sleep.

Realisation is being reborn.
Being unattached to knowing anything,
we may appear outrageous.

In our imperfection, we can be perfect.

Rude:

• Referring to a taboo subjects.

• Having a startling abruptness.

• Lacking sophistication

• Ignorant’ and uneducated.

From Latin rudis: unwrought, uncultivated; related to rudus ‘broken stone’.

Dear Demons Of The World

Dear demons of the world;
Here is where you keep going wrong.

You constantly ignore the universal law of opposites:
good-bad, dark-light, fact-fiction, true-untrue,
attraction-repulsion, love-hate, selfless-selfish,
pure consciousness-impure consciousness …

If you push one way, the opposite will also happen.
The more you push people, the more people will pull the other way.
You may trick some, but not all.

It is suffering that turns sentient mind to enlightenment!
This is why evil has never prevailed.

Tame the mind.
Do good.
Do no harm.
– Buddha

Recognise suffering.
Come into the light.
Find peace.

After Meditation

When we finish our meditation session,
we pay close attention to our conduct.

Our conduct must be the six perfections:
generosity (of spirit), patience, knowing what is right,
discipline, concentration, and knowledge of our true essence.

These six perfections are the path to enlightenment.
In practising them, we will recognise
whatever prevents them from blossoming.

In this way, our world will change for the better.
We can’t rely on others to change the world for us;
that is what is keeping us in hell!

Intelligence and Blind Faith

The Buddha’s teaching cannot be followed
by merely having faith in the Buddha.

The teaching needs sharp intelligence and wisdom to analyse and test it.
Blind faith is not the way; it is an idea about the way.

Harmony Is Active Participation

We may assume that if we’re not in conflict, we’re in harmony,
while we may actually just be indifferent, or in a state of not knowing.

Harmony is the active participation of empathy.

If Things Are Seem To Be Worse

If the outer and the inner seem to be getting worse,
this means we are noticing more.

The more we notice, the clearer we are.
Having noticed, what do we do?

We don’t want to make things worse by reacting,
as that is part of the problem.

So, we do nothing?

We can control our own mind.
We lost control when we started to rely on
religion, industrialisation, automation, computers, AI …

We have to work within this system
but we don’t have to become part of it.

The great reset is to return to our original nature
of pure consciousness.

Seeing is not believing.

May Exploitation Be Eliminated

May exploitation be eliminated.
May there only be selfless compassion.
May negativity dawn as wisdom.

The recognition that we are unhappy
is actually the path to enlightenment if we stop and look,
rather than looking for distraction.

We misunderstand what happiness is.
Happiness is the relief from anxiety.
Happiness is well being,
rather than well excited.

May whatever happens be the source of realisation.
May we realise that we are that source.
May we not waste this precious life.

Mistaking Memory For Intelligence

Mistaking memory for intelligence.
Mistaking wealth for intelligence.
Mistaking charisma for intelligence.

Intelligence isn’t whatever is projected.
It is empathy and compassion for the projection and projector.

Personal, pure seeing is natural intelligence.
We all know, but think we don’t.

Questioning The Answers

People have two aspects; there are times when we have answers, and times when we have questions.

In the samsaric world – our vicarious life – the question should be, “Why am I doing this?”

On the path to enlightenment, questioning answers is better than having answers to questions.

It is only in non-duality that there are no more questions and answers.
The ‘I’ is full of why?
Pure awareness has no questions because it is the answer.

To see clearly, we meditate.
To see wisely, we drop the meditation

Success Is Making Others’ Lives Better

Have a successful new year.
At least, don’t make the world worse 🙂

..Self-identity groups create divisions.
Love decreases.

Divided people find fault,
feeling different and believing they are disconnected.
They are not!

Love does not find faults; it understands faults.
We are one and the same pure consciousness,
each expressing this reality differently.

True diversity is selfless love expressing itself in different ways:
listening, cooking, cleaning, gardening, writing …
studying art, music, poetry, dance, action, sport …
earning a living, contemplating, meditating …
Every human endeavour.

There is a unity in diversity.

Don’t Become ‘Spiritual’

It’s the quickest way to being the devil’s disciple 😀

How?
We turn into experts who lack empathy.

To become ‘spiritual’ is to deny that we are already – empathetic spirits.
We moved away from empathy
when we separated from others and became solids!

Acting in a ‘spiritual’ way is exactly that: it’s acting, and it’s self deception – and it shows.

Beautiful art forms, unfortunately, confuse understanding by obscuring or reversing reality into sentimentality. Spirituality isn’t about beautiful beings floating in the sky; it’s down-to-earth, dealing with raw emotions.

Every sentient beings (even demons) is spiritual in essence, because they are pure consciousness – whether they know this or not. We are all pure spirit/pure intelligence; we are kind and compassionate, without any need for self importance.

Something changed.
We became, instead of just being.

Buddhahood Is Self Assassination

If you meet yourself along the road
celebrate … and drop it.