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- PRAYER DOES NOT BRING WORLD PEACE December 19, 2025
- PEOPLE ARE OUT OF CONTROL December 18, 2025
- THERE IS FLAW IN ME December 18, 2025
- NEVER WAKE A SLEEPING PERSON December 18, 2025
- THE DEATH OF EGO December 18, 2025
- NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK OF CARDS December 17, 2025
- POTTERING AND CHATTERING CLASSES December 17, 2025
- IN PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, EVERYONE IS EQUAL December 17, 2025
- CLEARING ALL DOUBT December 17, 2025
- SPIRITUALITY IS SCIENCE December 17, 2025
- THE CHOSEN ONES December 16, 2025
- METHODS THAT REVERSE OUR REALITY December 16, 2025
- DO DHARMA PRACTITIONERS EXPERIENCE ANGER? December 15, 2025
- HOW WOULD YOU SUBJUGATE THE WORLD? December 15, 2025
- A DAILY DOSE OF DHARMA December 15, 2025
- CAUGHT IN A PARADIGM OF BELIEF December 15, 2025
- PERCEPTION COMES BEFORE DECEPTION December 15, 2025
- WAKING UP December 15, 2025
- LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT BRAIN, WHOLE BRAIN, HALF BRAIN December 14, 2025
- BREEDING EVIL December 14, 2025
- YOU ARE YOUR OWN MASTER December 13, 2025
- LIFE IS SCARY December 12, 2025
- IS GOD REAL OR A CONSTRUCT? December 11, 2025
- BEFORE OUR DEFAULT SETTING IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS December 11, 2025
- ONE DAY – WE WILL GO BEYOND WORDS December 11, 2025
- REALISATION ISN’T ABOUT LEARNING December 11, 2025
- WHY WE DON’T GET IT December 10, 2025
- EXPLAINING INFINITY – LIMITLESS SPACE December 9, 2025
- WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE? December 8, 2025
- HOW WOULD WE KNOW IF WE WERE BRAINWASHED? December 7, 2025
- WORDS ARE MASS DESTRUCTION December 6, 2025
- DO YOU CRINGE? December 5, 2025
- ARE WE JUST COMPUTERS? December 5, 2025
- WE ARE ONLY IN CONTROL WHEN … December 5, 2025
- THE UNIVERSE IS COMPLETE IN OPPOSITES December 4, 2025
- THE UNIVERSE IS BINARY – 0 AND 1 December 4, 2025
- THERE ISN’T JUST ONE WAY December 4, 2025
- THERE ISN’T JUST ONE WAY December 3, 2025
- BUDDHAS IN THE MUD December 3, 2025
- WORDS HYPNOTISE December 2, 2025
- THE UNIVERSE IS A COLLECTION OF OPPOSITES December 1, 2025
- EXPERIENCE IS OUR CURRENCY December 1, 2025
- WHAT IS HAPPINESS? November 30, 2025
- WHO’S RUNNING YOUR WORLD? November 29, 2025
- IF YOU HAVE LONGING, TRY SHORTING November 28, 2025
- CAUSING A CAUSE November 28, 2025
- LOOKING AT ALL SIDES November 28, 2025
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Tag Archives: CONSCIOUSNESS
LIFE IS SCARY
Life Is Scary Life is scary because it’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’re being fooled. People are scary, because they believe whatever they’re told or shown. This is exactly how conflict, panic and wars are … Continue reading
IS LIFE REPEATING ITSELF?
Is Life Repeating Itself? Is life repeating itself, or are we repeating ourselves? As long as we hold on to ideas, these ideas will influence whatever we do and say, and so this attitude becomes our lot in life. We … Continue reading
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REACTING ISN’T THINKING
Reacting Isn’t Thinking When we react to something, this is our habitual routine, our programming. It’s what makes us a type, and therefore predictable. This is what surveillance monitors. Are we going through our routine, or have we deviated? When … Continue reading
NOT REALISING THE TROUBLE WE ARE IN
Not Realising The Trouble We Are In Not realising the trouble we’re in, we plod along in chaos and confusion, and think it’s normal. Realisation is seeing that this ‘trouble’ has no reality and is the perfect place to be. … Continue reading
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Tagged CONSCIOUSNESS, KARMA, our future, realisation, reincarnation, TROUBLE
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WE NEED A CONSTANT REMINDER OF THE DANGER
We Need A Constant Reminder Of The Danger We need a constant reminder of what is reality, and what seems like reality. When we’re lost in either intellectualisation or vacancy, we forget our reality of pure consciousness in favour of appearances which seem to be … Continue reading
SPACE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
Space, Consciousness And Time If we wave our hand around in front of us, the space doesn’t change, does it? That which perceives this unchanging space doesn’t change either, does it? Time only relates to things in space and memories … Continue reading
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Tagged captivated by things, change, CONSCIOUSNESS, empty space, Meditation, SPACE, time
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BEING FULLY CONSCIOUS IS BEING AWAKE
Being Fully Conscious Is Being Awake This isn’t being religious, and there’s no assumption that we are awake. “I am awake!!”Yes, the I is activated. We’re talking about consciousness before we start thinking and talking. Wakefulness is awareness beyond body and mind, … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, CONSCIOUSNESS, emotions, free of self-promotion, fully conscious, the I is activated, Wakefulness
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COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT FOR THE UNIVERSE
Complaints Department For The Universe We all want someone to complain to!The complaints department is in our own mind. Any sentient beings one billion billion light years away in infinite space have the same problem as us – not knowing … Continue reading
THE SCREEN OF OUR MIND
The Screen Of Our Mind The screen of our mind holds all our history to which we constantly refer, and this is how we live in a cyclic existence. We are indoctrinated at birth to see the world in a … Continue reading
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HOW TO HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR?
How To Have A Happy New Year? How to have a happy new year? By knowing the difference between reality and illusions, or by realising that there is no difference? When consciousness recognises it’s living in mind’s illusions … that … Continue reading
GETTING ANNOYED
Getting Annoyed Getting annoyed is an unpleasant mental pastime, characterised by irritation, grumpiness, frustration and anger. We become distracted from our natural state of inner peace, and when we become annoyed at certain stimuli habitually, it is we who become an annoyance. 🙂 Even pleasant situations can end … Continue reading
WHAT IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS?
What Is Pure Consciousness? We are consciousness; we cannot be anything else, but we’re attached to our ideas in the mind. Consciousness is the cognisant space of mind. We are not what we can see, but fall into the trap … Continue reading Continue reading
SHUNYATA, EMPTY, PURE, UNCONTAMINATED CONSCIOUSNESS
Shunyata, Emptiness, Pure, Uncontaminated Consciousness It doesn’t matter what word we use, it is direct spontaneous experience, before the mind starts identifying. We can become hung up on words, and that is precisely Mara’s trick – it’s the dark side … Continue reading
THE POINT OF LIFE IS TO KNOW WHAT LIFE IS
The Point Of Life Is To Know What Life Is What we think of as ‘life’ is actually a prison of illusions. Our temporary bodies and minds have no permanent reality, while consciousness never changes. As long as we believe … Continue reading
HOW DO WE FIND TRUTH?
How Do We Find Truth? First, we have to understand the meaning of the word ‘truth’. Truth is timeless; it is that which never changes. If something changes, it has been influenced, and so it is only a temporary event, … Continue reading
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HOW DO WE CHANGE?
How Do We Change? Not by doing anything,but by watching what we are doing. This is consciousness watching the mind at work,as in a mirror and its reflection.
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JUST SEEING
Just Seeing Outrageous things are going on; light is dark and dark is light. We swallow this hook, line and sinker, being tricked or forced into complete submission. We’re only told what others want us to hear. Our minds and … Continue reading
THE IMITATION OF KNOWING
The Imitation Of Knowing What make us feel good? It is when we reverse not knowing into knowing. The relief is the joy of knowing that we’ve solved a problem. Something that we’d always felt but have never resolved has … Continue reading
PRACTISING PRACTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Practising Practical Consciousness We don’t have to develop consciousness; it’s already present. We just have to be aware that consciousness is not only present, it’s what we are – consciousness, pure and simple. This isn’t something we can think about, … Continue reading
DEALING WITH REJECTION
Dealing With Rejection There are many reason why we are rejected, and why we reject others: aversion, fear, pride, having different responses … all these cause a disturbance in the programming. We haven’t actually done anything wrong, there is just … Continue reading
WHO IS ACTUALLY INTERESTED IN REALITY?
Who Is Actually Interested In Reality? How many people do you know who are interested in reality? They may be interested in philosophy, in words, in rituals, but that isn’t reality; these are things to do, to pass the time. … Continue reading
NEVER BLAME YOUR SELF
Never Blame Your Self Self is just a product of a mistaken reality which is conjured up by the mistaken reality of others, and which occupies the mind. 🙂 It’s a collective illusion, and we can’t blame ourselves as we … Continue reading
REVERSING DEMONIC CAPTIVITY
Reversing Demonic Captivity Being captivated by demonic activity should be the incentive to seek freedom.Sentimentality won’t do this.Protesting won’t do this.We have to recognise the state of fearing words. It is this demonic activity that either awakens consciousness, or sends … Continue reading
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WHAT IS STOPPING US KNOWING? IT IS BELIEF
What Is Stopping Us Knowing? It Is Belief. Belief is second-hand information – hearsay rather than direct observation or experience. Belief is thinking that we know. This causes insecurity, defensiveness, and aggression. Belief is a con trick, destroying confidence and the ability … Continue reading
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Tagged a centric, aggression, Belief, Confusion, CONSCIOUSNESS, controol, ideas, insecurity, knowing, we think we know
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THE ARAB SPRING, OPEN BORDERS, AND MASS MIGRATION
The Arab Spring, Open Borders, And Mass Migration I’m not a political person, but politics – the governing of people – affects our minds and distracts consciousness. Things do not just happen; there are causes, when the ‘right’ conditions are … Continue reading
OUR PROBLEM IS EXAGGERATION
Our Problem Is Exaggeration We exaggerate our self by identifying with something other than what we are. The human body and mind are capable of great feats and creativity, and that’s how we’re taken over, mesmerised by the exotic, and … Continue reading
TRUTH NEVER CHANGES
Truth Never Changes Material reality changes as all things are impermanent. Thoughts are also impermanent and changeable. Neither can be said to be true, as that which is true can never not be true, and is therefore unchanging. If we … Continue reading
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THE ONLY WAY OUT IS IN
The Only Way Out Is In Buddhism is the psychology and study of the mind and its effects on consciousness, our true reality; understand your mind, understand your self, understand your illusion, understand your reality. Modern psychology is concerned with … Continue reading
BEING TAKEN IN
Being Taken In We are all taken in by appearanceswhen, in actuality, appearances are taken in by consciousness.That is the secret conundrum. This world of deception is also our path to enlightenment.The real teaching takes us beyond any appearances.Don’t be … Continue reading
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GOING BEYOND RATIONAL THINKING
Going Beyond Rational Thinking Rational thinking is conventional thinking; we do this and this, because we always do this and this. It makes sense, to a certain level. Rational thinking is vertical programming; it’s colouring in between the … Continue reading
THE BASIS OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
The Basis Of Negative Emotions The basis of negative emotions is an illusory self relating to illusory appearances. ‘Self’ is an accumulation of ideas in the mind that consciousness mistakenly believes itself to be. This phantom is empty of reality. … Continue reading
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OUR THOUGHTS ARE SAMSARA
Our Thoughts Are Samsara Samsara: a Sanskrit word for the vicious cycle of existence, in which we chase our tails to find happiness. All our thoughts are an expression of Samsara. To understand Samsara, we first have to see that … Continue reading
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DEALING WITH A CRAZY MIND
Dealing With A Crazy Mind The mind isn’t crazy; it is just full of memories that consciousness clings to. These memories cloud direct perception because consciousness is always referring to these memories. It is that which is driving us crazy. … Continue reading
SELF = HABIT = TEACHER
Self = Habit = Teacher What we call ‘self’ / ‘me’ / ‘I’ is merely an habitual identity made up of thoughts which consciousness adheres to. It’s like putting on a familiar coat and a calling that ‘me’. 🙂 Thought: … Continue reading
WHAT IS LIFE, AND WHAT IS LIVING?
What Is Life, And What Is Living? Life is consciousness. Living is what we do as consciousness. What we do usually masks what we are, getting over-excited about everything that agitates our mind. We are consciousness, and all we have … Continue reading
ONE CONSCIOUSNESS OR INDIVIDUAL CONSCIOUSNESSES?
One Consciousness Or Individual Consciousnesses? Are we only one pure consciousness? Or are we individual pure consciousnesses? We all express experiences differently, but in the essence of silent, pure, non-dual consciousness, there is only unity. There isn’t even the words … Continue reading
WHAT’S THE POINT OF SPIRITUAL PRACTICE?
What’s The Point Of Spiritual Practice? What’s the point of spiritual practice if we only have one life? There isn’t, unless we come, through practice, to realise the possibility that consciousness is beyond everyday human experience. There are two types … Continue reading
THE TERM ‘HIGHER SELF’ IS A MISNOMER
The Term ‘Higher Self’ Is A Misnomer There is no ‘higher self’, but there is a lower self – the one we walk around with. The term ‘higher self’ is used by those who think our true reality is a … Continue reading
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
The Purpose Of Life There’s a purpose? 🙂 Those who say, “There is no purpose to life” are usually people who hold negative views, and who see those who think there is a purpose as making that purpose up. Are … Continue reading
THE ON SWITCH IS RECOGNITION
The On Switch Is Recognition Any emotion switches on the clear light in the mind. We are aware, but feel uncomfortable.:-) Inner peace is a mind free of anxiety, irritation confusion … The moment when an emotion is recognised, the … Continue reading
FIXATION DIVIDES PEOPLE
Fixation Divides People Religion divides people. Politics divides people. Thinking divides people. Self divides people. So what unites people? Unity is what we are – when we let go of our fixations. The mind cannot unite people as we all … Continue reading
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. 