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Cutting Through the Matrix The Matrix represents the womb or that which objects originate or take form from. It can also represent a mould or cast (conditioning). The Matrix is all around you and within you. Its everything you can feel, hear, taste and touch. The Matrix is everything you believe to be real or what feels real to you. When we superimpose our limited perceptions about the nature of reality on the Matrix, our energy and attention become bound to the trappings of...

Happiness is Extremely Desirable

Happiness is extremely desirable. We often seek happiness in objects without realizing that possessing these objects won’t give us happiness. Often we have to posses what we think will make us happy in order to see that it won’t. Eventually, our search becomes clear as we come to realize that all we really ever wanted was to simply be happy. When this happens, we begin being happy for the sake of happiness itself. This is...

Everyone Needs a Friend

Everyone needs a friend to help show them the way sometimes, including myself. I have been blessed to meet many people who have helped me along the way, and I feel fortunate to be able to do the same for others by offering what I have learned. I am thankful for the support I have received through my teaching work. This has helped me to live a more fulfilling existence with greater opportunities to enjoy and communicate...

Feel Free to Ask Questions

The communication of Consciousness is not academic, or philosophical. There is a definite practical science to applying the practice of Consciousness to our daily lives. The best thing I can advise is to ask questions. Feel free to enquire into the concepts you haven’t understood yet. The ideas that we talk about here have been considered by many people on a practical level. If there is something that seems far out, or...

A Guide to Self-Enquiry

Study and consideration of the teaching is necessary before self-enquiry can truly be effective. In the beginning stages of sadhana, verbal enquiry is usually applied to the grosser forms of neurosis and anxiety. Generally, at the early stages, enquiry usually ends up being co-opted by the mind. This results in a form of selective enquiry where only the grosser forms of suffering are transcended. This kind of practice can...

Understanding the Ego

The Ego is never completely satisfied, it always needs a new distraction to escape from the subtle pain of feeling separate. Ego is contraction. It is the subtle sensation of isolation and abandonment. The Ego is an activity; it is a modification of what already is. It is something being superimposed on top of Reality. It is an obstruction, like something blocking the view of a picture. The limitation of the body-mind cannot...

Self-Knowledge Leads to Enlightenment

The action of suffering is the result of unconsciousness. We can simply begin to release ourselves from the process of suffering by studying and considering this Teaching. As we become more knowledgeable, we will automatically become more aware; we will begin to see and recognize what is happening within ourselves. We need to know how we are making these mistakes in our daily lives, and a good teacher, or life coach, can show...

Self-Awareness is Necessary for Enlightenment

Suffering has more power over us when we ignore it. If we choose to deny that we are suffering and afraid, the unconscious process of suffering is prolonged. When we have suffered enough and we have no choice but to acknowledge that we are suffering, then the process of change takes place. When we are no longer unaware of our suffering, a whole new process of development begins to take focus within our body-minds. This level...

The Dramatization of Suffering

We only have to remove the activity or action of dramatization, to penetrate to the root of the condition of suffering and unhappiness. By seeing through the tendency to reinforce the sensation of suffering, we allow ourselves to rest in the condition we are already in. We are now no longer reacting to any sensations of suffering. We are now no longer trying to do anything about any sensations of suffering. We simply choose...