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This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.

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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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Born Escaping Eternal Human Humanity Love Meet
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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Courage Great Identity Mask Matter Old Script Step
Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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Care Ego Itself Letting Go Life Sustain
This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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Anyone Available Awake Look Mind Silence Stop Using
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
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
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
Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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Exist Hidden Lacking Literally Only Present Quite Truth
The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Balance Buddha Convention Extreme Insight Middle Mind Missing Simply Understand Understanding
Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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Experience Manipulating Meditating Meditation Think Thinking
There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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Literally Nothing Quite Understand
Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.
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Arise Experienced Love Mind Notices Quality True
When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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exchange Go Letting Self Universe Whole
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Beckon Being Heart Powerful Real Reality Response Retreat Toward Truth
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Abstractness Heart Instead Isolated Opportunity Real Serving Spirituality
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Awakening Barrier Belief Biggest Rare Something

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