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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.

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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Actually Awareness Possess Something
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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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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Buddha Everywhere Middle Unborn
The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.

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The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
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Ash Burned Consume Realized
This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Conclusion Ego Enquire Simply Strengthens
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Against Leashes Own Running Tug
No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.

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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.

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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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Bliss Grantor Yearning
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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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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Ego Grasping Object Perception
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.

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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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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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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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