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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Differently Freedom Given Think Whole
Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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Concept Enlightenment Fascinated God Looking Rather Self
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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Emptiness Eternity Love Move Moving Still
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Arise Conclusion Faith Holding Withholding
If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Filter Liberating Lying Mind Missing Saying Tradition Truth
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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Awareness Knowing Listening Meditate Meditation Object Primordial Resting
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Challenge Most Seeker Spiritual Struggle Struggling
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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Bad Bliss Experiencing Good Mean Rather Simply Sorrow Thing
If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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Around Conditioned Deeply Listen Listening Look 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
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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Consciousness Egoic Meditation Offer Possibility Realization Teaching
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
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
What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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Actually Choice Exactly Exterior Love Notice Ourselves Wanted
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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Feeling Look Mind Start Think Thinking Thought Various

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