Tag Archives: direct experience

LIFE IS SCARY

Posted on December 12, 2025 by tony

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 →

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IF YOU HAVE LONGING, TRY SHORTING

Posted on November 28, 2025 by tony

If You Have Longing, Try Shorting 🙂 ‘Longing’ is wishful thinking and belief – the machinations of religion, philosophy, and opinions that are long and winding roads. ‘Shorting’ is direct experience of the realisation of pure consciousness: our original being, … Continue reading →

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BEING BOUND TO A TEACHER

Posted on March 10, 2025 by tony

Being Bound To A Teacher Being bound to a teacher not only creates and maintains a duality, a dependency, it is not the way or culture of modern life. The point of having a teacher is to show the student … Continue reading →

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IS THERE ONE MIND, OR AN INFINITE NUMBER OF MINDS?

Posted on February 15, 2025 by tony

Is There One Mind, Or An Infinite Number Of Minds? Is there one mind, or an infinite number of minds?This is for each individual mind to decide. 😀 Whichever we choose, it’s still up to the individual mind. The decision on how … Continue reading →

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DON’T BELIEVE A WORD – THE BUDDHA SAID

Posted on November 20, 2024 by tony

Don’t Believe A Word – The Buddha Said Don’t believe a word – the Buddha said.Realise the words through direct experience.

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TREKCHO AND TOGYAL

Posted on September 22, 2024 by tony

Trekcho and Togyal These are two Tibetan words: Trekcho = cutting through concepts, and Togyal = leaping over concepts. There are many long and elaborate commentaries on these words, but we have to come to understand them through our own … Continue reading →

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OUR ENEMY IS NOT OUR ENEMY

Posted on March 23, 2023 by tony

Our Enemy Is Not Our Enemy In the material world, an enemy is not a friend. The world will always be full of ‘wrongness’. In the world of pure consciousness, however, an enemy is our reaction and, in recognising this, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged demonic self, direct experience, Mara, our enemy becomes our teacher, Our natural state, our spiritual psychology, perfect inner peace, pure consciousness, the material world, wrongness | 2 Comments

TRUTH BEYOND BELIEF

Posted on March 7, 2023 by tony

Truth Beyond Belief I keep on about belief because it is not direct experience; it’s borrowed, it’s second-hand. We only know when we have direct experience of a subject for ourselves. This world bombards us with ‘information’ – so much … Continue reading →

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LISTENING TO OTHERS AND LISTENING TO OURSELF

Posted on February 1, 2023 by tony

Listening To Others And Listening To Ourself Many people speak about truth, more or less, and we may be fortunate to find someone whose words echo the way we feel. What is important is observing our self at play rather … Continue reading →

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WHAT IF OUR ‘NORMAL’ IS MADNESS?

Posted on January 28, 2023 by tony

What If Our ‘Normal’ Is Madness? Madness: The state of having a serious mental illness … we don’t know what we are. Extremely foolish behaviour … we think we know. A state of wild or chaotic activity … we follow the crowd. We are brain-washed to function at a very basic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged a conscious-mess, black-and-white attitude, brain-washing, conscious awareness, direct experience, ENLIGHTENMENT, Madness, our normal, pure consciousness, The Buddha, the first noble truth | 2 Comments

BECOMING FASCINATED

Posted on November 1, 2022 by tony

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 … Continue reading →

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HOW TO PROVE DIRECT EXPERIENCE

Posted on September 14, 2022 by tony

How To Prove Direct Experience The problem is in the question. Who are we proving this to? Without practice, we (consciousness) don’t notice that pure perception or direct experience has jumped to the mind for a reference by which to … Continue reading →

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ALIEN TERMINOLOGY DISTANCES US FROM RAW EXPERIENCE

Posted on June 23, 2022 by tony

Alien Terminology Distances Us From Raw Experience Dukkha, Shunyata, Metta, Dzogchen, Sambhogakaya … all these sound so exotic. Take ‘dukkha’; it means simply ‘suffering’. If we wonder what what ‘dukkha’ is, this removes us from the direct experience itself. We … Continue reading →

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TRUTH IS NOT A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION

Posted on December 2, 2021 by tony

TRUTH IS NOT A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION Truth is not a philosophical discussion. Philosophy is for those who don’t know or don’t want to know, as knowing means our view of life will totally change. In discovering absolute truth, we realise … Continue reading →

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EVIL IS BANAL

Posted on February 2, 2021 by tony

Evil Is Banal We may think of evil as something terrible, but that extreme vision starts with a lack of understanding of our original nature. Evil lacks originality: it is banal and obvious, and obeys its programming without question. Our original … Continue reading →

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FAKE: AN IMITATION – AN ILLUSION OF REALITY

Posted on December 11, 2020 by tony

Fake: An Imitation – An Illusion Of Reality An illusion distorts our perception of reality. News is not reality; it’s someone’s account. The Buddha’s teachings are like that;an imitation for us to prove. Reality is whatever is actually taking place now. It is direct experience.

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WORDS ARE NOT DIRECT EXPERIENCE

Posted on July 10, 2020 by tony

Words Are Not Direct Experience To be mesmerised by words is to miss direct experience beyond words. Words are open to interpretation and commentary. Direct experience is unmistakable pure consciousness itself, expressionless as there is nothing to express. Then why … Continue reading →

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WHEN DO OUR PROBLEMS START?

Posted on June 23, 2020 by tony

When Do Our Problems Start? Our problems start the moment consciousness becomes attached to an idea. That first idea was ‘my self’. Why is attachment a problem? If we (consciousness) hold on to an idea, then we lose the clarity … Continue reading →

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