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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Absolutely Emptiness Everything Nothing Radiantly Zero
Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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Concentration Control Directing Experience Guiding Meditation Way
Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.
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Doctrine Housed Religious Secret Truth View
If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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Image Immediately Truth Worth
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Away Ego Giving Grasping Mind Object Perception
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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Come Impulse Insecure Internet Mind Moving Outside Spiritual
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Awake Awakening Better Dream Meant Shake Speaking
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Anything Consciousness Light Mind Running Start
As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Follow Job Od Suffer Surely Yourself
Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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Bird Decide Different Outside Really Sound Thought
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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Alignment Interesting Lot Manifest Support Trying
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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Awareness Knowing Listening Meditate Meditation Object Primordial Resting
If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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Actually Anger Certain Confusion Resist Think Whatever
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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Awakening End Life Seek Seeker Thinking

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