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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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Experiencing Offer Really Through World
The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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Anybody Compassion Enough Include Leave Perspective Until Vision
In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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Ego Liberation Lonely Stand Support
Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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Back Free Known Life Lived Ourselves Suggest
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Armor Arrow Penetrate Truth
To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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Accept Almost Experience Revelation Something Surrender
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World
You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
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Arguing Awake Control Demand Desire Happy People Simple Ultimately
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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Act Highest Knowing Meditation Naked Prayer
As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Aware Awareness Being Gently Resting Unmanifest
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
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Belief Believe Compassion Doorway Enter Freedom Illusion Running Simply
Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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Happening Involved Pain People Radical Spiritual
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
When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Death Issue Itself Now Realize Realizing Solve
What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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Important Mind Really Understand
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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Air Aquire Breathe Health Knowledge Life Love Lung Order Wisdom
One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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Expression Master Personality Reality Saying Universe Wanted Wonderful
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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Experience Fall Knowing Right Sense Simple
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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Being Joke Knowing Nature Self Stop Thinking
Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
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Beauty Illuminate Light Soul Space Stillness
Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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Anymore Grace Grief Heart Hurt Out Rip Teacher Unresisted
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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Come Gift Grace Mind Reality Realization Truth
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Belief Liberation Practice Put Something System Way
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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Die Emptiness Empty Existence Mystery Source
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Only Silence Teacher Teaching Time
Sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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Absolute Committed Illusion Sincere Uncover Willingness

We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

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