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You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.

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The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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Beyond Buddha Everywhere Invitation Middle Unborn
Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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Actually Awakening Come Truly Truth Yearning
Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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Inspirational Life Itself Nothing
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Boundaries Concept Create Ego Positive Spiritual Thinking War
It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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Authenticate Expected Longed Looked Something Sought Usually
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
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Listening Moment Place Silence Space Thought
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Believe Finger Mature Pointing Relationship Spiritual Teaching True
One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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Difficulties Giving Hide Hiding Lavishing Nirvana State
As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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Hardest Loving Often Opening Person Reserve Student Time
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Achieving Future Go Hard Honesty Letting Require Spirituality Work
True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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Desire True Freedom
My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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Experience Extraordinary Fundamental Great Infinite Intelligence Place Truth
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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Experience Go Letting Manipulating Meditation Telling
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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Death Dress Dresses Meditation Rehearsal
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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Being Common Enlightened Express Freedom Man Ordinary Seek

You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.

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You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.

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