Inner Life

I used to think I was like a ‘brick shit house’, without feelings. Then, out of desperation because of the misery I was leaving in my choldren, I found the key to an amazing door. The door was opened partly through dreams, and largely by learning to be nothing and letting Life show me the way. What I found, what I have called the Inner Life, was like ‘What happened in Mexico. It picked me up and shook me. It threw me on the ground and made love to me. Then it left me alone and I cried like a child.’ It was everything, always new, always unexpected and wonderful.

Are Heaven and Enlightenment the same?

Enlightenment Part 5 Tony Crisp Many things that Jesus is reported to have said can be recognised as connecting with the state of enlightenment. For instance he said you do not have to earn heaven, […]...More

How Can I Know Enlightenment?

Enlightenment Part 6 Tony Crisp You need to be clear that you already have enlightenment, but perhaps you haven’t realised it. Maybe that is why some people are called ‘Self-realised’. If you are already enlightened, […]...More

Is enlightenment the same as awareness of God?

Enlightenment Part 7 Tony Crisp This depends upon what is meant by awareness of God. What many people call an awareness of God is really exalted emotional feelings. That emotions are wonderful does not make […]...More

Toward the Light that is Myself?

Enlightenment Part 8 Tony Crisp After his initial years of meditation, Gopi Krishna came to see that ‘Contrary to the belief which attributes spiritual growth to purely psychic causes, to extreme self denial and renunciation […]...More

Teachings of Yogi Trime Lodro

Enlightenment Part 9 Tony Crisp You who enjoy the union of bliss and emptiness seated motionless on the lunar disc Above a beautiful hundred petalled flower Radiant with white light, I pay homage to you […]...More

Some Teachings of Zen Master Dogen

Enlightenment Part 10 Tony Crisp The Way is in essence perfect and pervades everywhere. How could its realization be dependent upon practices? The Dharma-vehicle does not need us to give it a push. Do I […]...More

Suzanne Segal on the One Life

Enlightenment Part 11 Tony Crisp I had always believed that the presence of fear—which I experienced often, and for no apparent reason— meant that, despite years of practice and numerous insights into the nature of […]...More

A Dream Points the Way

Enlightenment Part 12 Tony Crisp In my dream I was in a prison cell with two other men. We ate, slept and defecated in the cell. I was standing at the bars of the cell, […]...More

What is it Like to be Enlightened?

Enlightenment – Part 13 Tony Crisp Many people have had an experience of enlightenment. It simply means they transcend the limitations of thought and conditioning for perhaps a moment in time. These moments or periods […]...More

Enlightenment Being or Becoming?

Enlightenment part 14 Tony Crisp Having walked in the High Pasture of awareness and known something beyond the opposites, beyond division, beyond thinking, I look around and still use the word I. I and not […]...More

A New Look at Enlightenment

Enlightenment Part 15 Tony Crisp What follows is part of a long interview with Tony Crisp led by Chris Campbell Chris: So what do you think of people who are considered very enlightened or who […]...More

Do You Dream

Tony Crisp Do You Dream was my first published book on dreams. I had been working with individuals on their dreams for some years, and had read and sold – through a bookshop I ran […]...More

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