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- 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
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- A DAILY DOSE OF DHARMA December 15, 2025
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- IS GOD REAL OR A CONSTRUCT? December 11, 2025
- BEFORE OUR DEFAULT SETTING IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS December 11, 2025
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- REALISATION ISN’T ABOUT LEARNING December 11, 2025
- WHY WE DON’T GET IT December 10, 2025
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- WORDS ARE MASS DESTRUCTION December 6, 2025
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- WORDS HYPNOTISE December 2, 2025
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Tag Archives: just seeing
RELIGION ASKS NO QUESTIONS
Religion Asks No Questions Religion is a place where we don’t ask questions. If we do question, the reply comes only from a set text. If we ask, “Why should I believe that text?” the answer should be, “Don’t. Test … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, just seeing, no words are necessary, questioning, quoting text, religion
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WHAT WE DON’T NOTICE
What We Don’t Notice We don’t notice being taken over by ideas, losing the ability to see clearly. When we hear or see something, we go to memory for reference, and then react. This is a learnt pattern of behaviour … Continue reading
LETTING GO OF DOUBT
Letting Go Of Doubt The light that dispels darkness. Whenever we doubt – “Do I know enough?” “Is that it?” “I’m not sure of this” – these are all judgements in the mind observed by consciousness. Whenever there’s doubt, never … Continue reading
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Tagged clarity, consiousness, corruption and distress, Doubt, indecisive and needy, just seeing, pure consciousness, the bigger picture, the essence of mind, transcending basic principles of desire and aversion, Trauma, vulnerable, we're not good enough, wisdom
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COVERED BY INVENTIONS
Covered By Inventions A concept is a device, an invention in the mind formed by belief, from being told something and accepting it as ‘authority’. Humanity had been covered in concepts; ‘disguising the truth’ is a variant of the word ‘covert’, … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, concepts, evil intent, ideas, just seeing, Pure Awareness, pure consciousness, we are simply pure being, wirds
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WHAT IS RIGHT?
What Is Right? ‘Right’ comes from the word for straight line, not crooked. In other words, direct, without deviating. Right: Old English, related to Latin rectus ‘ruled’, from an Indo-European root denoting movement in a straight line. Once we know what is right or direct, we know when a … Continue reading
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Tagged beliefs and ideas, confidence, direct, direct seeing, just seeing, pure consciousnes, right, without devation
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SEEING FAULT AND LOOKING FOR FAULT
Seeing Fault And Looking For Fault Seeing fault and looking for fault: There is a world of difference. This is such a subtle area of our psyche, where we can switch from rightness to mistakenness = good and evil. ‘Seeing’ … Continue reading
BUYER BEWARE
Buyer Beware Buyer, beware of concepts accepted as true. If we go through life just accepting and copying others’ behaviour, we relinquish responsibility for our true nature. Because of this, we have to take the consequences of whatever we have … Continue reading
CONSCIOUS BIAS CREATES THE BIASED UNCONSCIOUS
Conscious Bias Creates The Biased Unconscious We follow too easily like sheep, and take for granted that whatever we are told is true. Acquiring partial information, we misunderstand and assume that this partial information is right. The result is that … Continue reading
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Tagged complete truth, conscious bias, Gautama Buddha, incomplete information, it's a tough world, just seeing, losing a sense of right and wrong, open-minded, partial information, pure consciousness, put it into practice, test the truth for yourself, truth, unbiased
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JUST SEEING IS OUR GREATEST PROBLEM
Just Seeing Is Our Greatest Problem Just seeing is our greatest problem: we don’t just see. First, we must realise that the senses – seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching – are non-conceptual. When the eyes see, there is no … Continue reading
THERE IS NOTHING TO UNDERSTAND
There Is Nothing To Understand There is nothing to understand; just see. Just seeing is pure consciousness. Once realised, we understand what others try to understand. This profound teaching has become far too poetic, complicated and elaborate. Realise that pure … Continue reading
ONE WORD THAT DESCRIBES TWO WORLDS
One Word That Describes Two Worlds ‘Ornament‘ 1. Ornament: Serving to look more attractive, while having no practical purpose. Ordinary human beings project their ideas and opinions as useless ornaments. 2. Ornament: A quality of grace. A quality of inner … Continue reading
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Tagged divine, divine qualities, divine seeing, emanating joy, enlightened being, gain confidence, inner purity, just seeing, ornament, our inner reality, our true inner being, Pure Awareness, selfish delusion, the quality of grace, uncontaminated clarity of consciousness
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BEGINNER MIND, DZOGCHEN MIND
Beginner Mind, Dzogchen Mind It’s being ‘ordinary’. Don’t be confused about the word ‘Dzogchen’; it’s a Tibetan word for Zen, which is a Chinese word for our original essence, which is pure consciousness, which is just seeing. The problem with … Continue reading
THE BACKBONE OF THE BUDDHA’S TEACHING
The Backbone Of The Buddha’s Teaching Seeing and the seen are inseparable. Whatever is seen is only seen by virtue of just seeing. Just seeing is pure consciousness; it’s our original reality. Once realised, whatever is seen is a spontaneous … Continue reading
ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH YOU?
Are You Satisfied With You? Any dissatisfaction can be the beginning of enlightenment. If we aren’t dissatisfied, we stay as we are – unenlightened. Dissatisfaction could be about our self, or the world in which we live. Can we change … Continue reading
DZOGCHEN, MAHAMUDRA, RIGPA, TREKCHO, TOGYAL, ZEN, MAHA ATI, TAO, GOD CONSCIOUSNESS …
Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Rigpa, Trekcho, Togyal, Zen, Maha Ati, Tao, God consciousness … If we are still chasing after words, we are branding ourselves with yet more concepts that separate us. These terms all mean direct seeing of pure consciousness. There is … Continue reading
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Tagged branding, concepts, direct seeing, Dzogchen, just seeing, MAHA ATI, Mahamudra, pure consciousness, Rigpa, separation, Togyal, Trekcho
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KNOWING THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH
Knowing The Truth About Truth Knowing about truth isn’t the same as knowing truth. One is speculation, and the other is direct, scientific experience. One is exoteric, and the other esoteric. One is relative, and the other absolute. Here is … Continue reading
CLARITY AND CLEVERNESS
Clarity And Cleverness Clarity is esoteric. Cleverness is exoteric.Clarity is just seeing. Cleverness is what we do with that seeing. Esoteric: intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialised knowledge or interest. Exoteric: intended for or likely to be understood by the general public. Our … Continue reading
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Tagged clarity, esoteric, exoteric, just seeing, our motivation, pure seeing, silent stillness, simplicity of being, sleverness, uniqueness
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SEEING THAT WE DON’T SEE
Seeing That We Don’t See When we do see that we don’t see, then actual seeing is taking place.This is the entire teaching of the Buddha. Trusting in this moment of just seeing,the truth unfolds by itself. What is stopping us seeing?That which … Continue reading
I CAN’T FIND CONSCIOUSNESS!
I Can’t Find Consciousness! Are you saying that you are not conscious? Of course not. Are you saying you are not conscious of your thoughts? Of course not. Consciousness is naturally what we are, first and foremost. We don’t need … Continue reading
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