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- WE ALL HAVE DARK PASTS September 12, 2026
- MOST PEOPLE LIVE IN THE PAST September 11, 2026
- PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEVER WRONG September 11, 2026
- IN EMPTINESS, WORDS ARE JUST NOISE September 11, 2026
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- THE ILLUSION OF THE BLUEPRINT August 31, 2026
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- FIXATION IS ADDICTION August 29, 2026
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Tag Archives: pure consciousness
PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEVER WRONG
Pure Consciousness Is Never Wrong Our senses maybe impaired and our mind full of concepts, but pure consciousness is still lucid and present. All we have to do is decommission the mind’s conditioning, and our assumption that its data is … Continue reading
SPIRITUAL DECONSTRUCTION
Spiritual Deconstruction The trap of believing words and celebrityover the direct clarity of experience. We can hear and read good words, and adopt them. That makes us feel special, feel initiated, feel outside the herd when, in truth, we merely … Continue reading
OUR REALITY IS BEYOND WORDS
Our Reality Beyond Words It doesn’t matter what we think or which religion we believe in, our only reality is awareness / consciousness. Once we are aware of this awareness, we then question, “What is it that is aware of … Continue reading
WHERE IT’S AT
Where It’s At … ‘it’ being the ultimate truth. We are where its at. We are what we seek. Once we realise we are the ultimate truth of pure consciousness by which everything can be known, then whatever appears is … Continue reading
THE GREATEST ACT OF COMPASSION
The Greatest Act Of Compassion The greatest act of compassion is to forgive ourself for our past actions.Once we realise the cause of our past motivations, we have no problems with others.When we don’t know what we are, however, we … Continue reading
THE HIGHEST TEACHING
The Highest Teaching (it’s not really a teaching; it’s what we are) The highest spiritual teaching is non-duality; oneness or not twoness. What else can it be? Non-duality is pure consciousness, just before we start intellectualising. It’s the perfect state … Continue reading
WHAT IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS?
What Is Pure Consciousness? It is the pure essence of mind, uncontaminated by concepts and memory-programming. It has many names: Rigpa, Zen, Tao, Turiya, Dzogchen, Self, Atman … God. The pure essence of mind isn’t something external; it is that … Continue reading
CONFUSED – SO WE JOIN A GROUP
Confused – So We Join A Group The purpose of life is to know what we are. We then know what everyone else is – pure consciousness. Now, all we need is to understand why we believe that we aren’t,and … Continue reading
WHAT IS WISDOM?
What Is Wisdom? It’s always present. Wisdom is knowing that we are, in essence, pure consciousness, while observing what obscures this essence. Once this is realised, we understand how beings ignore essence for something more juicy. The highest wisdom is … Continue reading
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WHY DO WE DOUBT?
Why Do We Doubt? We live in a battle between nature and nurture – that which we intuitively know, and that which we’re told to know. In reality, we are knowingness itself – pure perception, pure awareness, pure consciousness, enlightened … Continue reading
A LUCKY ESCAPE
A Lucky Escape Realising the essence of the Dharma– that we are pure consciousness –shows us how to utilise and transcend Samsara. Good motivation, good merit, good luck.
WHAT IS OUR ULTIMATE REALITY?
What Is Our Ultimate Reality? Knowing puts our mind at ease. Pure spontaneous consciousness is this moment now, which cannot be found. This is our ultimate reality to be realised, leading to profound peace and liberation from all conflict. Conflict … Continue reading
WHAT ARE MORALS?
What Are Morals? Morality is knowing what is beneficial and what is harmful; much depends on context. In the first instant of pure consciousness, there is no idea of right and wrong; there is just pure perception before any decision … Continue reading
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WE WERE WARNED
We Were Warned The Buddha said,“Do not take my words for the truth: test them for yourself.” This was a warning, because to just believe in written or spoken words without practice and experience creates a false reality. Belief in … Continue reading
SUDDENLY, WE REALISE WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG
Suddenly, We Realise We Were Right All Along We’ve all been touched-in-the-head. Everybody wants to be a somebody, when they’re everybody, and so, a nobody. In the universe, we are specks on a speck, in a galaxy that is a … Continue reading
THE SUBTLETY OF BEING
The Subtlety Of Being This is the most refined level of absolute being, often described as extremely subtle, pure luminosity or primordial consciousness. Beyond the everyday gross mind of sensory perception and conceptual thought is subtle being where we just … Continue reading
OUR NATURAL STATE IS MEDITATIVE
Our Natural State Is Meditative It’s quite ordinary. Meditation is merely being aware of being aware,realising we are that awareness and resting there.This is what we are: pure consciousness. Our practice is to preserve this inner peace.We meditate twice a … Continue reading
WHY WE IGNORE CONSCIOUSNESS
Why We Ignore Consciousness People ignore consciousness to avoid self-examination, prioritising immediate gratification with yes/no answers, and looking no further. Taking consciousness for granted, we prefer tangible material results over subjective experience where we discover objective consciousness, which is pure … Continue reading
INNER PEACE TAKES DISCIPLINE
Inner Peace Takes Discipline There has always been unease in the world, because humans have two sides to them: reaction and inner peace. Discipline is maintaining this inner peace, which is our original state of pure consciousness. We choose sanity, … Continue reading
BUDDHISM AND THE VEDANTA SEE THE UNIVERSE AS INFINITE
Buddhism and The Vedanta See The Universe As Infinite Both are the way of seeing, rather than whatever is seen. They both consider the universe to be an infinite chain of cycles of cause and effect – an infinite timeless … Continue reading
THEY DIM OUR LIGHT
They Are Dimming Our Light Ideologies are structured systems of beliefs, values, and doctrines that explain the blueprint for future social, economic, or political organisation. They function as frameworks which – consciously or unconsciously – shape our understandings of the … Continue reading
THE FORMULA THAT ENTRAPS EVERY BEING
The Formula That Entraps Every Being This formula of desire, aversion and ignorancecontrols our every thought and action. The word ‘formula’ (from the Latin – shape or mould) refers to an established pattern used to achieve a consistent result. We’ve … Continue reading
WE ARE ALREADY IN THE AFTER-LIFE
We Are Already In The After-Life We are already in the after-life. 😀 Life is a continuity from one moment to the next, and we all carry certain traits affect the moment now. Don’t think of yourself as one, but … Continue reading
WHAT IS KARMA?
What Is Karma? Karma is not a punishment; it’s our personal algorithm, our set of rules, or programming. It’s a habitual pattern of behaviour created by the residue of acquired ideas from the past. And so, the same sort of … Continue reading
THEISTS ARGUE
Theists Argue Theists argue. Non-theists argue. Agnostics argue. Buddhists argue. 🙂 In pure consciousness, there is nothing to disagree about: we have arrived. Clarity is beyond words.
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THE POINTING OUT INSTRUCTION
The Pointing Out Instruction The pointing out instruction of the essence of our reality. In front of you is space. Whatever takes place in that space, space doesn’t change. Now look at the space in the mind; whatever takes place … Continue reading
THE UNIVERSE IS A COLLECTION OF OPPOSITES
The Universe Is A Collection Of Opposites The more we realise the purpose of life and the mind, the worse it all seems. The point is understanding that this ‘worsening’ means there are more reminders of that which is perceiving … Continue reading
IF YOU HAVE LONGING, TRY SHORTING
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
POINTING TO OUR SIMPLE REALITY
Pointing To Our Simple Reality We are aware. There’s nothing difficult about experiencing this. Just being aware. If we start to analyse awareness, such as asking where it came from, it becomes a product of mind, and we abide in … Continue reading
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
THE PROBLEM WITH RELIGION
The Problem With Religion Religion means ‘to bind’, which should mean to remember. To remember, we use words, symbols and rituals that become the form of that religion. This is where the form takes over and we forget the essence. … Continue reading
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IT STANDS TO REASON
It Stands To Reason Higher consciousness has to be pure consciousness. Lower consciousness has to be impure consciousness. Higher consciousness sees without thought. Lower consciousness sees, and creates thoughts. It’s detrimental to the realisation that we have always been pure … Continue reading
HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
Higher Consciousness We cannot read, think, believe our way to a higher consciousness-heaven. Higher consciousness is pure consciousness beyond thoughts, which are man-made interpretations. If we cannot recognise pure consciousness, how can we recognise heaven, nirvana, paradise, our ultimate reality … Continue reading
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THE HARM FROM QUOTING OTHERS
The Harm From Quoting Others The harm we do by quoting others and trying to impress is the cause of conflict. When we quote what others say or mention their names, we’re projecting, giving ourselves some sense of authority by … Continue reading
WE CANNOT MAKE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS HAPPEN
We Cannot Make Pure Consciousness Happen We cannot make pure consciousness – the reality of the infinite universe – happen. It’s already present in every sentient being. It’s not a creation, it’s what we are. All we have to do … Continue reading
YOU’VE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE
You’ve Heard It All Before You’ve heard it all before, but it never registered, and there is a reason. You’ve been guided in the other direction. You won’t find God or the Buddha ‘out there’. Any notion of that is … Continue reading
HAVING A GOOD MOAN
Having A Good Moan Having a good moan is the opposite to having a bad moan. 🙂 A bad moan is the result of misunderstanding, suffering the bad things happening in the world and being stuck in a continuum of … Continue reading
INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM
Information, Knowledge, Wisdom Information is words. Knowledge is experience of the words. Wisdom is how experience is applied. Knowledge can be used for good or evil. We have to decide which is which, and that isn’t at all easy. Evil … Continue reading
LIFE IS ABOUT REMEMBERING
Life Is About Remembering Life is about remembering what we are, which is pure consciousness, rather than a mind spending its life being entertained and forgetting its true nature. Forgetting is Mara activity. We all need something that reminds us … Continue reading
LIVING IN A SYSTEM
Living In A System We live in a systemWe believe in the system and die in the system. The set up. System: from Greek sustēma, from sun ‘with’ + histanai ‘set up’. Even if we join another group, religion or culture … Continue reading
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
Billions And Billions And Billions Billions and billions and billions of sentient beings have passed through Earth, never realising their true reality of pure consciousness. Actually, make that zillions and zillions and zillions … All these beings have done is … Continue reading
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DANCING TO SOMEONE ELSE’S TUNE
Dancing To Someone Else’s Tune Dancing to someone else’s tune:following someone else’s directions. We’ve been doing this for thousands of years. Some people think that we’re part of a universal consciousness, but what consciousness? Is it a materialistic consciousness that … Continue reading
IT’S OBVIOUS WHEN POINTED OUT
It’s Obvious When Pointed Out Clarifying a broken system. The system we all live in isn’t broken; it’s created and maintained to be that way. There aren’t different ‘political’ parties- it’s one party with opposite facets. Most people are unaware … Continue reading
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THE SADNESS OF WISDOM
The Sadness Of Wisdom Once we realise our true reality, we want to help others to realise this as well. It’s quite simple; we are the spirit of pure awareness, pure consciousness, dwelling in a temporary body. Realising this answers … Continue reading
SIMPLE EVIL – SIMPLE GOODNESS
Simple Evil – Simple Goodness When we can think for ourselves, we may come to a particular conclusion that others cannot see or don’t agree with. The realisation of our true reality of pure consciousness is simple; we just have … Continue reading
PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IS INCONCEIVABLE
Pure Consciousness Is Inconceivable Inconceivable: not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable. To conceive – to form an idea in the mind – is a process that takes time.Pure consciousness is not an intellectual exercise; it is inconceivable in … Continue reading
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DO WE HAVE TO LEARN THE DHARMA?
Do We Have To Learn ‘The Dharma’? The Dharma is all about our true reality right now; it’s not about where we came from, and it’s not someone else’s history. We merely have to recognise our true reality of pure consciousness through silent … Continue reading
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WHY THIS SITE ISN’T PUBLICISED
Why This Site Isn’t Publicised This site isn’t published or promoted as it’s not of general interest. Society is made up of individuals who are fixated on ideas, blurting them out and running away. They are wannabes – they want … Continue reading →