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- SILENT AWARENESS September 25, 2020
- LIFE IS BOTH TOTALLY INSPIRING AND TOTALLY CHALLENGING September 24, 2020
- THERE IS NOWHERE TO HIDE September 23, 2020
- SELF-CONSCIOUS September 23, 2020
- HIDING BEHIND A MASK OR LABEL September 23, 2020
- PYRAMIDS OF HUMANITY September 23, 2020
- BUDDHISM HAS NO BELIEFS September 20, 2020
- THE MIND HAS A BACK DOOR September 18, 2020
- YOUR SELF IS YOUR TEACHER September 18, 2020
- SPIRITUAL SCIENCE September 17, 2020
- ALL EFFECTS HAVE A CAUSE September 17, 2020
- SUBCONSCIOUS SUBSTITUTE DEPENDENCY September 16, 2020
- THERE IS NO NEED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS September 15, 2020
- EVERYONE IS RIGHT September 14, 2020
- WE ARE RITUALISTIC CREATURES September 14, 2020
- SHUNYATA: THE ABSENCE OF AN EDUCATED SELF September 14, 2020
- REALISATION – THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT September 14, 2020
- HOW TO SURVIVE BELIEF September 13, 2020
- THE SHOCK OF REALISATION September 12, 2020
- DEALING WITH CHANGE September 11, 2020
- Heaven And Hell Are Not Separate September 10, 2020
- INSPIRATIONAL ‘RUMOURS’ September 9, 2020
- SLAVERY AND FREEDOM September 8, 2020
- ANOTHER ROBOT GOES MISSING September 7, 2020
- FEEDBACK September 6, 2020
- RITUALISTIC CONFORMITY September 6, 2020
- STAY A LITTLE BIT LONGER September 6, 2020
- IF CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALWAYS PRESENT … September 5, 2020
- ‘THEY’ CAN INFILTRATE OUR MINDS … September 4, 2020
- TWO WAYS TO SURVIVE September 4, 2020
- CLONE OR ORIGINAL? September 1, 2020
- IT’S NOT WHAT WE KNOW THAT MATTERS August 31, 2020
- ARE WE BEING CHEMICALLY AND MENTALLY PRIMED? August 30, 2020
- LIFE IS FALLING APART August 29, 2020
- BEING GENEROUS TO OUR SELF August 27, 2020
- PLAYING A PART August 26, 2020
- WHEN WE LOSE OUR WAY August 25, 2020
- NOT TOO DRY, AND NOT TOO WET August 24, 2020
- LIFE ACCEPTANCE REDUCES KARMA August 23, 2020
- NOT FEELING GOOD ENOUGH August 23, 2020
- “IS THIS OR ISN’T THIS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS?” August 22, 2020
- LIVING WITH DEMONS August 21, 2020
- FROM DEPENDENCE TO INDEPENDENCE August 19, 2020
- IS THAT ALL THERE IS? August 18, 2020
- HAVE OR ARE? August 17, 2020
- CONFUSING CONSCIOUSNESS August 15, 2020
- DEBT August 14, 2020
- THEY KNEW THE TRUTH THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO August 13, 2020
- THE MISGUIDED TALE OF TWO EXTREMES August 12, 2020
- LIFE WITH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES August 11, 2020
Tag Archives: Pure Awareness
SILENT AWARENESS
Silent Awareness For some, the idea of emptiness or purity is obscure; it’s too far away, beyond them … which it is! 😀 ‘Silent awareness’ is just another phrase for pure consciousness, or empty cognisance. We are inner beings of … Continue reading
BEING GENEROUS TO OUR SELF
Being Generous To Our Self Our ‘self’ is consciousness’s identification with the mind’s projections or collection of ideas. This collection of ideas is not our complete picture, and so we doubt and are confused. We ignore that which is … Continue reading
WHEN WE LOSE OUR WAY
When We Lose Our Way We want to know the truth. We find the truth, and realise that it is simplicity itself. The very essence of consciousness; pure awareness. It has no need for elaborations; just recognition that leads to … Continue reading
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CUTTING THROUGH EXTREMIST VIEWS
Cutting Through Extremist Views We are all extremists when we react. The practice of Trekcho. Traditionally, this practice is the Tibetan Nyingma method of seeing the arising of thoughts (or emotions) before they are fully formed, thus cutting through them … Continue reading
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Tagged Confusion, depression, everything is real, extremism, free in the moment of seeing, get to the point, inseparability of emptiness and cognisance, life is meaningless, our view as opposed to the view, positive desperation, Pure Awareness, Pure Consciousness., reaction, REALITY, Trekcho, Tulku Urgyen
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CAPTIVATED BY PERCEPTION
Captivated By Perception Through perception, we are imprisoned by our clinging to a chain of concepts while remaining unaware of that which is aware of perception. It may sound strange, but we need to train in awareness. Why do we … Continue reading
IS THE VOICE OF GOD…A NYAM?
Is The Voice Of God … A Nyam? This isn’t meant to upset anyone; the intention is to clarify, and identify the mistakes that may happen when we become attached to experiences, believe in them, make rules about them and … Continue reading
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Tagged before words, God, language, non-duality, Pure Awareness, Pure Consciousness., Shiva, the voice of god, translation
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ON FINDING NOTHING, WE HAVE ARRIVED
On Finding Nothing, We Have Arrived When we look for our mind and a self, nothing is found. All that is left is empty awareness. This is such a simple realisation that it is unbelievable! We have found what remains…pure … Continue reading
BRAINWASHING
Brainwashing The world brainwashes us. Our practice is to wash away the brainwashing. The soap is proper meditation; pure awareness noting all intrusions and letting go. The intrusions now become our teacher, reminding us that all indoctrinations have no reality. … Continue reading
WE ARE PLASTIC BELIEVERS UNTIL …
We Are Plastic Believers Until … We are plastic believers until genuine pure awareness is realised, resulting in genuine empathy and genuine compassion. Practice is more than appearance. There are westerners who call themselves ‘shaman’, and who adopt indigenous cultures … Continue reading
FEELING SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR
Feeling Superior Or Inferior There are those whom we think are superior; we will one day realise what they realise. There are those whom we think are inferior; they will one day realise what we realise. It is only a … Continue reading
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KNOW ONE, KNOW ALL
Know One, Know All There are thousands of teachings about our reality; they all result in the realisation of non-dual, pure awareness. Without that, nothing would be known. Once realised, there is no further need for theories. Sin is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Confusion, EMPATHY, Knowledge, Love, non-duality, Pure Awareness, REALITY, Sin, teachings, the dream, theories
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THE INNER PICKLE
The Inner Pickle Still trying to make sense of the world? When we know that humanity is ignorant of its true nature – which is the wisdom of pure awareness – then we are never surprised that it does crazy … Continue reading
APPEARANCES AND EMPTINESS
Appearances and Emptiness This is the key to letting go, and genuine freedom All that we encounter, we make real, relating to everything, and giving our ‘value judgements’. We become attached to all these appearances, and that binds us to ideas … Continue reading
A TERRIFYING SHOCK
A Terrifying Shock Ignorance: not recognising. How is that a shock? How many people on Earth recognise their true nature of pure awareness of ultimate being? They may be aware of their job, family, interests, church or being Buddhist, but … Continue reading
WE ARE BORN MEDITATING
We Are Born Meditating Meditation is just being aware We are always meditating, but this goes unnoticed when we are distracted by events, actions or objects. Being aware is natural and ordinary, so meditation is natural and ordinary. Unfortunately, through … Continue reading
YOU DON’T HAVE TO LET GO
You Don’t Have To Let Go Letting go of emotions or ideas isn’t something we have to do: all that is necessary is to be aware. Purely aware. Pure awareness liberates thoughts and emotions naturally. Grasping does not exist in … Continue reading
ONE TASTE: IS THERE RIGHT AND WRONG?
One Taste: Is There Right And Wrong? How to argue, and not argue The Buddha said; “Just as the great ocean has one taste – the taste of salt – so also this teaching and discipline has one taste – … Continue reading
WHEN ARE WE AWAKE?
When Are We Awake? When we are aware. When we are solely aware! When the mind becomes attached to a thought, it goes into a day-dream state. This thought may be very profound but it is still a day-dream, and … Continue reading
CARELESS MINDS
Careless Minds Our mind wanders: it collects ideas, replays and projects. In this state, it is a mischief maker, a gossip, an intruder. It entertains … but whom? The watcher. Contagious mind distracts our enlightened nature. These ideas become a problem … Continue reading
TOGAL = FIVE LIGHTS OR RAYS
Togal = Five Lights Or Rays The light that shines These rays are the five wisdoms that are the natural display or manifestation of pure, empty awareness: “mirror-like wisdom”, “wisdom of all-encompassing space”, “wisdom of equality”, “discriminating wisdom” and “all-accomplishing … Continue reading
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO DISAPPOINTING?
Why Are People So Disappointing? If we are disappointed in others, then maybe they are also disappointed in us. We can either be disappointed that something we expected to happen didn’t, or we can be disappointed when something happens that … Continue reading
TRUTH SEEKERS AND TRUTH FINDERS
Truth Seekers And Truth Finders … and finders, keepers! As truth seekers, we look at this approach and that approach, and “Oho! What they doing over there?!” We are offered things to wear, wave and chant, with books to read … Continue reading
ARE CHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISM COMPATIBLE?
Are Christianity And Buddhism Compatible? Certainly, if one widens the circle of understanding. Compatible: Latin compatibilis, from compati – ‘suffer with’. Put it this way; we are all human. All humans have both awareness and beliefs, and they suffer. To have a belief, we … Continue reading
THE INSIDIOUS SIDE OF ONENESS
The Insidious Side Of Oneness ‘Insidious’ means to ambush, to lie in wait, to proceed cunningly in a gradual, subtle way, with harmful effects. Here, ‘oneness’ means not being different from the rest, not being an individual. Our reactions are … Continue reading
WAKING, DOZING, AND … ZZZ …
Waking, Dozing, and …zzz….. When introduced to the nature of mind, which is pure awareness, we might say, “It’s wow! This is great!” … a….n…d … back to sleep … 😀 In the Tibetan Nyingma tradition, the approach to reality … Continue reading
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TAKING THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA’S TEACHING TO HEART
Taking The Heart Of The Buddha’s Teaching To Heart It’s really very simple. The heart of the Buddha’s teaching is spontaneous presence, which is the same as non-duality, empty essence, pure consciousness, pure awareness, nowness. It could also be described … Continue reading
FAULT FINDING AND HOLDING ON
Fault Finding And Holding On… is the path to perpetual torment. As humans, there is no end to fault finding, so there is no end to suffering. We find fault with others, and they find fault with us. It’s part … Continue reading
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THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PURE AWARENESS
There Is No Substitute For Pure Awareness It’s available now for free. Just sit still without comment. Insight is available to us all. Just sit still without comment. Mahamudra and Dzogchen is now. Just sit still without comment. Nothing “fancy … Continue reading
PRACTICAL WISDOM
Practical Wisdom Wisdom has to be a practical realisation of our true self, as opposed to adherence to a mistaken self which causes our confusion, and therefore, our suffering. We are not condemning this mistaken self, this acquired ‘me’: we … Continue reading
WHAT IS ONENESS?
What Is Oneness? Wikipedia has a brilliant overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism Ultimate, oneness is not two parts. Oneness is pure awareness. Pure awareness is not aware of other – or itself. Pure empty awareness is nondualism. Whatever we then call this is … Continue reading
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ULTIMATELY, TEACHING IS ABOUT JUST ONE POINT
Ultimately, Teaching Is About Just One Point Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche said … “When I give teachings, I speak about just this point and when I give another teaching, I speak about just this point. “It is like the chirp of … Continue reading
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MEDITATION HASN’T MADE MY LIFE BETTER…”
“Meditation Hasn’t Made My Life Better …” …nothing has changed It is possible that we feel this way. We are still feeding the beast – those concepts about ourself, and how we think we ‘should’ be. There are two aspects … Continue reading
“I CANNOT FIND PURE AWARENESS”
“I Cannot Find Pure Awareness” “I cannot find myself” Pure awareness is that which is aware of thoughts, without comment. No comment means no contamination. It is therefore pure emptiness: our empty essence. The idea that pure awareness cannot be … Continue reading
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THE HEART OF DZOGCHEN
The Heart of Dzogchen The pointing out instruction is letting go. Awareness looks, sees and drops. Traditionally, the gesture (non-verbal) for the pointing out instruction is: the teacher holds his/her palms up to show looking out. They then turn the … Continue reading
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SPECULATION IS TIRING
Speculation Is Tiring Speculation, concepts and philosophies are tiring: they are the cause of inner and outer conflicts. But true experience of awareness – or rather, ‘pure awareness’ – is energising, and is the source of inner joy, as contaminations … Continue reading
HOW DO WE LET GO?
How Do We Let Go? It is arrogant to think one could answer such an important question, but if an answer arises, why not share it? 😉 How do we let go? This is dependent upon the level of understanding … Continue reading
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THE INNER VOICE OF SILENCE
The Inner Voice Of Silence Pure awareness . . . . . . . .NB. This phrase came to mind yesterday in a reply. Interestingly, I just looked to see if anyone had used this phrase before, and someone had … Continue reading
DEBUNK YOUR SELF
Debunk Your Self Deflate a puffed up image. Debunk: exposing false or hollow ideas or beliefs, reducing an inflated reputation. We all have inflated ideas about ourselves: we have hopes, we have fears and we are choosy. There is something … Continue reading
BE HAPPY WITH YOUR SELF
Being Happy With Your Self This is so important! We are pure awareness. Your self is ordinary awareness’s confused projection. It is by virtue of this confused projection that pure awareness is realised. Gradually, confusion refines and dawns as wisdom. … Continue reading
NOT FORGETTING OUR TRUE NATURE
Not Forgetting Our True Nature When pure awareness is forgotten, we are like ordinary people. We forget when awareness relates to ‘something’. When awareness is captured by ‘something’, this is a relating reality; absolute reality relating to something outside itself. … Continue reading
WHY DO WE MEDITATE?
Why Do We Meditate? Meditation is becoming familiar with our true nature. Techniques clear the mental distractions that obscure this pure nature. Meditation is not something we do; it is recognising what we are. Pure awareness. Humans are excellent at … Continue reading
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DESIRE IS NOT ALL BAD
Desire is not all bad The more we want, the more we want The more we eat – the more we want to eat The more we sleep – the more we want to sleep The more we drink – … Continue reading
UNCERTAINTY IS THE KEY TO RECOGNISING PURE AWARENESS
Uncertainty is the Key to Recognising Pure Awareness If we think we are pure awareness, we have just come out of pure awareness. If there is uncertainty about pure awareness, merely be aware of that which is aware of that … Continue reading
UNDERSTANDING THE FORMULA
Understanding the Formula To understand the answer we have to understand the formula (the process), or the outcome is meaningless. In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the ultimate answer is 42, which doesn’t make sense without the correct question.It’s … Continue reading
BEING SKILFUL
Being skilful Being skilful has many levels: whatever we think we understand can always be refined.As well as being compassionate to others, being skilful is protecting one’s own mind from pride. As we advance through the levels of perception, we … Continue reading
YOU HAVE TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION
You have to ask the right question The right questionis that which hits the heart of our problem. However,asking the right question should come with a warning.You will get the answer.Once you have the answer,life will never be the same. … Continue reading
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