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- THE WORLD IS GETTING BETTER… October 16, 2017
- HOW CAN I BE HAPPY? October 16, 2017
- THE DHARMA IS LIKE A NEW COLOUR… October 14, 2017
- BODHISATTVA October 12, 2017
- IT TAKES TIME TO REALISE OUR REALITY October 11, 2017
- GURUS AND OLD PRACTITIONERS October 10, 2017
- THE MIND REACTS; IT’S PROGRAMMED THAT WAY October 8, 2017
- WE DESPERATELY NEED TO TUNE INTO OUR CONSCIOUSNESS… October 6, 2017
- CAN WE CHANGE OUR BRAIN? October 5, 2017
- DO YOU FEEL YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH? October 4, 2017
- DHARMAKAYA, SAMBHOGAKAYA AND NIRMANAKAYA? October 2, 2017
- THE DARK AGE OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING October 1, 2017
- WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF TWO IGNORANCES October 1, 2017
- TOGAL = FIVE LIGHTS OR RAYS September 27, 2017
- BUDDHISM IS SELF INVESTIGATION September 23, 2017
- IS HUMANITY STUPID, EVIL OR JUST GULLIBLE? September 23, 2017
- SIMPLY WATCHING THE BREATH September 20, 2017
- WHATEVER PATH WE FOLLOW September 19, 2017
- OUR CONDUCT IS CONTACT… September 17, 2017
- ALPHA AND OMEGA September 16, 2017
- SEEING AND THE SEEN ARE INSEPARABLE September 14, 2017
- WHAT IS TOGAL? September 12, 2017
- REGRET, BUT DON’T KEEP REGRETTING September 9, 2017
- MIND THE CRACK! September 8, 2017
- DHARMA CHAT September 7, 2017
- LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS September 5, 2017
- WHEN A SPIRITUAL TEACHER CALLS STUDENTS LAZY September 3, 2017
- WE NEED TO KNOW September 2, 2017
- NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T September 1, 2017
- FREE SPEECH August 27, 2017
- INNER CIVIL WAR August 27, 2017
- WE NEED TO BE CERTAIN ABOUT OUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE August 24, 2017
- THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF SPIRITUAL PATHS August 24, 2017
- WE CAN ALWAYS CHANGE OUR MIND August 23, 2017
- IS EVIL THE CATALYST FOR ENLIGHTENMENT? August 21, 2017
- WHAT IF OUR SUFFERING WAS A BUSINESS MODEL? August 20, 2017
- GROSS MEDITATION, SUBTLE MEDITATION, VERY SUBTLE MEDITATION August 17, 2017
- THIS MAY SURPRISE YOU August 16, 2017
- “YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT ‘TIL IT’S GONE” August 16, 2017
- DHARMAKAYA, SAMBHOGAKAYA, NIRMANAKAYA August 16, 2017
- THE SUBTLE TRAUMA OF RELIGION August 14, 2017
- THERE IS NO SELF, THERE IS NO GOD, THERE IS NO BUDDHISM August 13, 2017
- “ORDER OUT OF CHAOS” August 13, 2017
- REALISING YOU ARE CRAP! August 11, 2017
- WHEN WE KNOW, WE CANNOT UN-KNOW August 10, 2017
- THE ANTAGONIST AND THE PROTAGONIST August 9, 2017
- WHY ARE PEOPLE SO DISAPPOINTING? August 8, 2017
- HOW MUCH CONTROL DO WE HAVE IN OUR LIVES? August 6, 2017
- TRUTH IS ALWAYS THE SAME August 5, 2017
- IT’S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY August 4, 2017
Tag Archives: Pure Consciousness.
WHATEVER PATH WE FOLLOW
Whatever Path We Follow Whatever path we follow, whatever we believe, whatever we think we know, it is essential to realise that pure perception is taking place, through the haze of the brain/mind’s chattering. We don’t have to recall special … Continue reading
INNER CIVIL WAR
Inner Civil War Dividing a community is the cause and condition to conquer that community. This starts with creating conflict in the mind – an inner civil war of confusion. If the unity of emptiness and awareness – an extremely … Continue reading
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WHAT IF OUR SUFFERING WAS A BUSINESS MODEL?
What If Our Suffering Was A Business Model? “The standard technique of privatisation: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, and you hand it over to private capital.” Noam Chomsky Today in the UK, Professor Steven Hawking criticised … Continue reading
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SWITCHING THE ‘LIGHT’ ON!
Switching The ‘Light’ On! Turning the mundane into the supramundane … Transforming not knowing into knowing … Changing human awareness into spiritual awareness Making impure consciousness into pure consciousness … It’s all the same. The student becomes the Buddha. God … Continue reading
WE ALL PRACTISE SOMETHING
We All Practise Something We all adhere to certain ideas or beliefs about life; what we think is important to us. The questions are, “Where did these ideas come from?” and “How do we shake free of them?” Because of attachment and … Continue reading
SPIRITUALITY IS HARD-NOSED REALITY
Spirituality Is Hard-Nosed Reality which is the firm foundation for compassionate, hard-nosed reality. Hard-nosed: realistic, determined, tough-minded, unsentimental, down-to-earth, no-nonsense, pragmatic, clear-thinking, realistic, practical, rational, shrewd and astute. The opposite: sentimental, superstitious: believing in lucky charms, make-believe, fantasy: making exaggerated claims. To claim that we are ’empaths here to … Continue reading
WE DO NOT THINK AS MUCH AS WE THINK WE DO!
We Do Not Think As Much As We Think We Do! Perception isn’t thinking. The more one realises, the more one realises. One takes a step, and the next step presents itself. Most of the time, we humans are on … Continue reading
THE ‘MANY-GO-ROUND’
The ‘Many-Go-Round’ Are there many teachings, or only one? There are many, many teachings, with long mystical names, but in essence it is all about one, and that is pure consciousness. It is pure consciousness that has many expressions. This … Continue reading
HOW MANY PEOPLE NEVER KNOW?
How Many People Never ‘Know’? How many people live their lives, die, and never know their true nature? 1 Billion? 2 Billion? 7 and a half billion? 7 and a half billion is the number of inhabitants on Earth to … Continue reading
ABSOLUTE BEING OR CREATOR?
Absolute Being Or Creator? We are absolute being – pure consciousness. When pure consciousness becomes less clear, it becomes a self-creator. It’s that simple. We can be led astray because is it that simple: we love our creation – an … Continue reading
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WHO IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING?
Who Is To Blame For Everything? The answer is … empty essence! Isn’t that surprising? We may want to blame the Buddhas – or deities – for not doing more for mankind, but if they do anything, they would show … Continue reading
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
HOW DO I SEE SOMETHING GOOD IN EVERYTHING I SEE?
How Do I See Something Good In Everything I See? Easy! Goodness is exactly the seeing itself. Goodness is the quality of being good or right. What could be more good or right than the purity of that seeing? Of … Continue reading
THE OBJECT OF MEDITATION IS NOT TO MEDITATE!
The Object Of Meditation Is Not To Meditate! Meditation is just a word. The object of meditation is to become aware or conscious of our true, real, actual, non-fictional, unimagined nature. What is that? It is the awareness or consciousness … Continue reading
IT’S A RELIEF WHEN IT STOPS
It’s A Relief When We Stop In the moment when we stop and sit down, we fall naturally into a deep relaxation. When we stop working, running, talking, meditating … we arrive at non-duality in that moment, just being. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
THE TRUTH TURNS OUT TO BE YOURSELF
The Truth Turns Out To Be Yourself … and not your self. Anything that you know is the not-self, because the self is the knowingness. This self is pure consciousness. Your self is the illusion. The world is a dream. … Continue reading
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STOP PUSHING YOUR REPLAY BUTTON
Stop Pushing Your Replay Button We repeatedly replay the past in the present, which has an effect on the future, and so we worry and suffer. The replay button becomes an addiction. Could it be that, by replaying, we hope … Continue reading
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WILL MEDITATION MAKE ME HAPPY?
Will Meditation Make Me Happy? …and have a better life? No … yes … depends … yes! No … because you (pure consciousness) are already happy. Yes … because meditation is a way of recognising that which is obscuring this … Continue reading
WHEN DO WE WAKE UP?
When Do We Wake Up? The very moment we (pure awareness/pure consciousness) disengage from identifying with the dreaming of the chattering mind. When we are distracted and occupied by thinking, or spaced out and vacant, the moment ‘now’ is obscured … Continue reading
SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil Mixed understanding of this phrase can confuse. This Confucian proverb originally meant being of good mind, speech and action. In Buddhist traditions, the proverb means not dwelling on evil thoughts. In … Continue reading
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WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?
What Is The Meaning Of Life? This is really two questions: What is the meaning of life: this physical and mental existence? What is the meaning of life: this pure consciousness? Without addressing the second question, the first makes no … Continue reading
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WHAT IS REAL SELF?
What Is Real Self? The simple answer: in the stillness of mind, the real self is that which is aware of the question, “What is the real self?” This real self is not just aware; the awareness rests in its … Continue reading
RECONSIDERING WORDS
Reconsidering Words As a student of spirituality, I chose the path of Buddhism – and within that, the Nyingma Dzogchen tradition. As a student, I write a blog of experience that might help others. A path is designated or signified … Continue reading
