"Once you become accustomed to experiencing what is here beyond your thinking, (call it presence, awareness, consciousness) then all that is left is to keep your focus here. Which is the same thing as saying... More »
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"You cannot realize the Self through the senses. You cannot taste it, see it, hear it, smell it and you cannot touch it. You have your eyes open. You see and then label what you see. ... More »
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"There is no end to trying to figure it out. The mind is an endless puzzle that has no solution. If it had a solution, that would be the end of the reign of mind, and... More »
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"The nature of awareness is freedom from identification. If you are aware of anger, then you are not identified with anger. If you are aware of a thought, you are not identified with the thought. ... More »
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"There are 3 stages of mind in meditation. The first stage is personal. The thoughts are about you, your world, what you've seen, heard, tasted, felt etc. It's experience is one of duality. There is you and everything... More »
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"The ego exists out of the experience that life is not the way it is supposed to be. It lives in a perpetual state of control in an attempt to make life the way it thinks it should... More »
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"The mind functions by defining. And through definitions boundaries are created, separation is created. There is this body that is me and everything else that is not me. So you experience something the mind defines... More »
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"If you greet someone and ask them how they are, they will refer to the last few hours, weeks or months for an answer. Thoughts of the past are constantly repeating themselves and that becomes who... More »
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"When you feel your chest contracting, when there is stress and despair, that is a good sign that you are trying to control what cannot be controlled. That is a good sign that the best... More »
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"Rather than enter meditation as a person trying to become more conscious, enter meditation with the realization that you are consciousness. Not as an affirmation, but as the truth. What you are exists beyond thoughts,... More »
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