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- THE POINTING OUT INSTRUCTION December 20, 2025
- PRAYER DOES NOT BRING WORLD PEACE December 19, 2025
- PEOPLE ARE OUT OF CONTROL December 18, 2025
- THERE IS FLAW IN ME December 18, 2025
- NEVER WAKE A SLEEPING PERSON December 18, 2025
- THE DEATH OF EGO December 18, 2025
- NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK OF CARDS December 17, 2025
- POTTERING AND CHATTERING CLASSES December 17, 2025
- 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
- HOW WOULD YOU SUBJUGATE THE WORLD? December 15, 2025
- A DAILY DOSE OF DHARMA December 15, 2025
- CAUGHT IN A PARADIGM OF BELIEF December 15, 2025
- PERCEPTION COMES BEFORE DECEPTION December 15, 2025
- WAKING UP December 15, 2025
- LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT BRAIN, WHOLE BRAIN, HALF BRAIN December 14, 2025
- BREEDING EVIL December 14, 2025
- YOU ARE YOUR OWN MASTER December 13, 2025
- LIFE IS SCARY December 12, 2025
- IS GOD REAL OR A CONSTRUCT? December 11, 2025
- BEFORE OUR DEFAULT SETTING IS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS December 11, 2025
- ONE DAY – WE WILL GO BEYOND WORDS December 11, 2025
- REALISATION ISN’T ABOUT LEARNING December 11, 2025
- WHY WE DON’T GET IT December 10, 2025
- EXPLAINING INFINITY – LIMITLESS SPACE December 9, 2025
- WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSE? December 8, 2025
- HOW WOULD WE KNOW IF WE WERE BRAINWASHED? December 7, 2025
- WORDS ARE MASS DESTRUCTION December 6, 2025
- DO YOU CRINGE? December 5, 2025
- ARE WE JUST COMPUTERS? December 5, 2025
- WE ARE ONLY IN CONTROL WHEN … December 5, 2025
- THE UNIVERSE IS COMPLETE IN OPPOSITES December 4, 2025
- THE UNIVERSE IS BINARY – 0 AND 1 December 4, 2025
- THERE ISN’T JUST ONE WAY December 4, 2025
- THERE ISN’T JUST ONE WAY December 3, 2025
- BUDDHAS IN THE MUD December 3, 2025
- WORDS HYPNOTISE December 2, 2025
- THE UNIVERSE IS A COLLECTION OF OPPOSITES December 1, 2025
- EXPERIENCE IS OUR CURRENCY December 1, 2025
- WHAT IS HAPPINESS? November 30, 2025
- WHO’S RUNNING YOUR WORLD? November 29, 2025
- IF YOU HAVE LONGING, TRY SHORTING November 28, 2025
- CAUSING A CAUSE November 28, 2025
- LOOKING AT ALL SIDES November 28, 2025
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Tag Archives: Pure Consciousness.
SECULAR, SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF REALITY
Secular, Systematic Examination Of Reality We don’t have to be religious or spiritual to experience our primary nature of consciousness. Secular examination is based on our human faculties of logic, empathy, reason and moral intuition, none of which are derived from supernatural revelations. We see, … Continue reading
“THAT’S TOO DEEP FOR ME!”
“That’s Too Deep For Me” People are fooled into believing that they cannot see “That’s too deep for me!”This is a phrase I often hear when the subject of consciousness is brought up in conversations. I explain that consciousness is … Continue reading
THE DUALISTS
The Dualists We sentient humans live and believe in a state of duality. Duality means two. Everything is related to me. In spiritual terms, consciousness is always relating to something. Me and other. This is so ‘normal’ for humans that … Continue reading
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
Beyond Boundaries Taking time out of our programme. Programme = before written = karma Who wrote and consented to the programme? We did. When we look at our life, we find that it has a pattern to it, and so … Continue reading
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IN PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, THERE IS NO MYSTERY
In Pure Consciousness, There is No Mystery In pure consciousness, there is no mystery: It is as clear as … just seeing! Spirituality is the psychology of mind-essence. In pure consciousness, we are all connected to every spiritual tradition that … Continue reading
ATTACKED BY EVIL SPIRITS
Attacked By Evil Spirits This seems to happen to spiritual practitioners in particular: when we start to meditate, our mind seems to be getting worse. It’s not – we’re just noticing more. This is merely a conflict with old, cluttered … Continue reading
WHAT IS EVIL?
What Is Evil? When a question arises, there is always an answer, but it may a little time to find a way to express this, illustrating how deep we can go in our understanding. We normally think of ‘evil’ as … Continue reading
I AM A MIRACLE!
I Am A Miracle! Something created out of nothing. 😀 The I is a conjured-up, fictional image in the mind, recognised by the reality of pure consciousness.
THE DEVIL KNOWS WE ARE ‘FREE IN THE MOMENT OF SEEING’
The Devil Knows We Are ‘Free In the Moment Of Seeing’ That’s why we are kept busy: the devil makes work for idle hands! Of course, there is no literal ‘devil’; the devil is an expedient images for our own … Continue reading
THE ESSENCE OF DZOGCHEN
The Essence of Dzogchen Dzogchen is a Tibetan word for ‘the great perfection’, and the ‘great perfection’ is simply pure consciousness/empty awareness. In Sanskrit’ it is called Maha Ati. If any more is said about this, it will just sound … Continue reading
POTENTIAL IS EVERYTHING
Potential Is Everything All beings have the potential of enlightenment. Realising that potential is compassion. Enlightenment: never forgetting our true nature of pure consciousness. Never forgetting means that all obstacles have been cleared.
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SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE IS USELESS WITHOUT MEDITATION
Spiritual Knowledge Is Useless Without Meditation Meditation is the experience of knowledge, and experience leads to realisation. Meditation is sitting erect and relaxed, being aware of the thoughts taking place in the mind, not following or being driven by them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, dualism, Ignorance, Meditation, non-duality, Non-meditation., protection, Pure Consciousness.
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LIBERATION FROM DEPENDENCY
Liberation from Dependency To be able to ‘read between the lines’ means to perceive or deduce a meaning that is hidden or implied rather than being openly stated. ‘Independent’ is being free from outer control, not subject to another’s authority, and capable of thinking or acting for oneself. In other words, genuine liberation. We are … Continue reading
BEING SATISFIED WITH DISSATISFACTION
Being Satisfied With Dissatisfaction As we learn, we have to drop the limitations of our previous understanding. In this realisation, we can feel either uncomfortable or elated, and that determines where we go next – or whether we stay where … Continue reading
BUDDHIST ACCIDENTALLY FINDS GOD
Buddhist Accidentally Finds God God, in reality, is never what we think, as what we think is a concept, rather than the reality itself. What is reality? Reality is not unknowable: it is natural to us, and we cannot be … Continue reading
I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH
I Am Not Good Enough I’m not generous enough, patient enough, disciplined enough, or have enough concentration or knowledge. I am, in fact, defective. Should I be depressed?* The answer is NO! The point is that if we know we … Continue reading
EMOTIONS ARE OUR ULTIMATE REALITY?
Emotions Are Our Ultimate Reality? Emotions and thoughts are Dharmakaya. ‘Dharmakaya’ is Sanskrit for ’emptiness’. Emptiness is uncontaminated consciousness = pure consciousness, our ultimate reality. How are emotions our ultimate reality? Likes and dislikes, pride, jealousy, ignorance: all have one … Continue reading
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
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 