Tag Archives: relative truth

ONCE WE ARE AWAKE, WE ARE FOREVER AWAKE

Posted on March 9, 2025 by tony

Once We Are Awake, We Are Forever Awake Awake: knowing what we are before an identity.Asleep: believing we are an identity. This is what Plato’s (428–347 BC) allegory of shadow puppets in a cave is all about. This illustrates how we … Continue reading →

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IDEAS SEPARATE PEOPLE

Posted on December 2, 2024 by tony

Ideas Separate People There is relative truth – ideas about life – and there is ultimate truth – pure seeing, which is life itself before any ideas about ‘life’. We may be interested in the same subject as someone else, … Continue reading →

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DO WE VALUE TRUTH?

Posted on August 24, 2023 by tony

Do We Value Truth? Do we value truth, or do we just accept others’ versions of the truth, and then squabble over it? Truth – or absolute truth – is that which does not change. Anything that changes can only … Continue reading →

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THE WORLD’S RUN BY ‘GOOD COP, BAD COP’

Posted on August 12, 2023 by tony

The World’s Run By ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ Different personalities make opposing statements. One may appear to be for the establishment, while the other is for the people – left and right. It’s a hoax. Hoax: deception. From hocus ‘trickery’, from hocus-pocus. Meaningless talk or activity, … Continue reading →

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TRUTH IS CHALLENGING TO OUR PROGRAMMED MIND

Posted on November 18, 2020 by tony

Truth Is Challenging To Our Programmed Mind Our mind is full of ideas: we want to know the truth, but cannot find it. The problem is actually recognising it when it is presented, and we have to know the difference … Continue reading →

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WHY DO WE SAY TRUTH IS RELATIVE?

Posted on November 16, 2020 by tony

Why Do We Say Truth Is Relative? Relative truth is the doctrine that there is no absolute truth.This is where the world divides into the esoteric and the exoteric. Relative truth is consciousness relating to something other. This is a disastrous misunderstanding of … Continue reading →

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INVESTIGATING TRUTH – RECOGNISING EVIDENCE

Posted on November 7, 2020 by tony

Investigating Truth – Recognising Evidence The problem with investigating truth is knowing the difference between wanting proof (something acquired or borrowed) as opposed to proving as a personal experience. If we want proof without proving, whatever we come up with will still be a theory; it’s … Continue reading →

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WORDS ARE NOT DIRECT EXPERIENCE

Posted on July 10, 2020 by tony

Words Are Not Direct Experience To be mesmerised by words is to miss direct experience beyond words. Words are open to interpretation and commentary. Direct experience is unmistakable pure consciousness itself, expressionless as there is nothing to express. Then why … Continue reading →

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THE DUALISTS

Posted on June 10, 2018 by tony

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 →

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HOW DID I BECOME SO CONFUSED?

Posted on April 7, 2017 by tony

How Did I Become So Confused? Confused: a person unable to think clearly; bewildered, as thoughts are mingled together. If we know that we are confused, then we know something. That ‘knowing something’ is knowingness itself. The recognition of knowing … Continue reading →

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THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG IN THE WORLD

Posted on October 5, 2013 by tony

There is something wrong in the world.  We are being deceived. Once we recognise that our perception is deceiving us, we then realise that everyone else’s perception is deceiving them.  Once pure perception recognises this deception, perception is no longer … Continue reading →

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LIFE IS A MIXED BLESSING

Posted on September 14, 2013 by tony

Life is a mixed blessing.  We always have the choice ofsuffering or wisdom.  Suffering is the result of our…emotions.Wisdom is the result of our…emotions.  Before we can understandthe true nature of emotions– wisdom –we must understandthe true nature of ourselves– … Continue reading →

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DOUBT

Posted on July 20, 2013 by tony

Doubt.  I doubt.It is not the I that doubts –there is no I to doubt.Doubt reveals the confusion.Doubt is both wise and silly.  With doubt, we know that something is wrong, so that’s good. But let’s be clear here: the … Continue reading →

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NON-DUALITY

Posted on March 24, 2013 by tony

Non-duality. When appearances and emptiness are seen as arising simultaneously, that is non dual awareness. The words on this page are seen by virtue of the clear, white paper. They arise simultaneously! It’s the same with appearances in the mind. … Continue reading →

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