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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.

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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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Awakening Deep Experience Feeling Listening Truth
Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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Adolescence Behind Childhood Inner Ourselves People Real Thread
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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Anything Door Grace Insecurity Knowing Spiritual Uncertainty Wisdom
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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Beautiful Mean Seeing Suffer Suffering Truth Valuable
Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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Consciousness Deam False Imprisoned Perception Really State
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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Behind Collection End Entire Inner Ourselves Path Silence
You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Everything Realize True Willing
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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Attitude Fundamentally Meditation Restricted Something Tune
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
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
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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Emptiness Intricacies Love Most Spiritual Theologies Thing Truth
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
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
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Demand Dream Go Happy Letting Secret Simple Time
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Cannot Conspiracy Helping Misery Need Resistance Survive
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Disappearance Freedom Searching Soul

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