{"id":1048,"date":"2020-10-07T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/?page_id=1048"},"modified":"2023-07-11T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:19:12","slug":"pointers-to-truth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/pointers-to-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphorisms, Poems and Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each of the below aphorisms point towards the dimension of Truth.
\nThe dimension of Divine Love.<\/em><\/span>
\nNow\u2026.take a deep breath!<\/em><\/span>
\nAdopt a meditative attitude!<\/em><\/span>
\nYeah?<\/em><\/span>
\nRead each one slowly. And then \u2026again.
\nLet it penetrate your consciousness.<\/em><\/span>
\nBreathe…<\/em><\/span>
\nWhen ready move to the next one!<\/em><\/span>
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How did you ever forget?<\/b><\/p>\n

Up or down
\nIn or out
\nHowever your mind may move
\nYou are the Eternal Stillness<\/p>\n

Parent or child
\nFriend or\u00a0foe
\nBoss or subordinate
\nTeacher or student
\nWhoever you may be in the moment
\nYou are always the Buddha<\/p>\n

Anxious or calm
\nAngry or kind
\nPositive or negative
\nArrogant or humble
\nHowever your heart expresses itself
\nYou are held tightly, inseparably by the God of Love<\/p>\n

No act can take your Freedom away. You are of the Great Spirit. Always have been, Always will be.<\/p>\n

Moment by moment be certain of this!<\/p>\n

You are supported by the Divine!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The State of Divine Love<\/b><\/p>\n

When the One Light of Consciousness recognises its own Nothingness, The Absolute and yet The Absolute doesn’t negate the One Light, this is the embodied state of Divine Love<\/p>\n

The Ultimate Home of all Souls<\/p>\n

The manifestation is an impulse of Consciousness and Consciousness itself an impulse of The Absolute<\/p>\n

This impulse is Divine Love<\/p>\n

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Divine Love is the ultimate non-duality, the union of the 0 and 1<\/p>\n

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Every prostration, every asana, every mantra, every breath, every inquiry, every true spiritual concept only brings us home to our Essence, Divine Love<\/p>\n

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There is no distance between teachers who recommend strenuous effort and those who say no practice is needed. They are both pointing to the paradox that is Divine Love. We need to do nothing for us to embody it, it is Who We Are!<\/p>\n

And yet in its moment by moment remembrance we are fully nourished and fulfilled by It.<\/p>\n

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Arguments about the sudden or gradual path to realisation only exists in a conflicted mind. Divinity is ever present and Absolute. Its remembrance is sudden, gradual, both and yet neither … An unconflicted reality.<\/p>\n

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To the world its a daily routine. For me it is benediction. The morning walk in the neighbourhood park. The dense foliage. The scent of the eucalyptus from the adjoining forest. Squirrels scurrying around. Mynas singing. Coucals. Parrots. Barbetts. Tiny birds of various hues jumping from flower to flower. Their long beaks luxuriating in divine nectar.<\/p>\n

My mind disintegrates.<\/p>\n

All identities with it. My body becomes another fixture in this playground of the Lord. Paradise regained. Such benediction. Such bliss.<\/p>\n

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Abundant in Divine Love<\/b>
\nIf you tell yourself that people don\u2019t care, you will put that energy into the world and then easily find evidence to back it up. If you tell yourself you will never experience love, you will create mental barriers and then subconsciously repel it.<\/p>\n

Tell yourself a different story:<\/p>\n

Divine Love is omnipresent, there’s way more than we need to go around, You deserve it, and it is coming to you every day.<\/p>\n

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The entire evolution is a manifestation of the Eternal Knower, the subject Essence Me. It exists in every life-form at varying degrees of complexity.<\/p>\n

The evolution into higher and higher species and more complex and sophisticated neurobiological systems is a function of the Knowers need for greater and greater degrees of self expression. The desire to express its perfection in ways that reflect it more wholly….<\/p>\n

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The knower is a foundational force that arose from the universal unborn, The Absolute, in order for the self expression of that unborn magnanimity.
\nAnd the neurobiological advancement through the eons is the increasing self awareness of the unborn and the spontaneous need to express that own advancement…<\/p>\n

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Stop looking for love in the future…
\nMore than what you need is right Here!
\nNo, don\u2019t move away.
\nStay!
\nIt is HERE!<\/p>\n

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There is no gap between what is called the Spiritual and the Material. For the Divine, it is ALL Divine. Only the ego segregates<\/p>\n

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Scientific principles make spirituality more robust and spiritual understanding makes science more moral and wise<\/p>\n

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The truth lies in Silence…Everything else is a step away from Truth<\/p>\n

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Humility is total inner surrender to the Divine!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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What can remove you from Grace? Every thought, emotion, sensation and experience arises from the ground of Unconditional, Divine Love. Even the critical mind that deems something to be holy or unholy arises from this very space.<\/p>\n

All you have to do, my Love, is point your mind to this understanding again and again.<\/p>\n

And simply rest in the present moment.<\/p>\n

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The words of the greatest masters are like puddles of rain water when compared to the Oceanic Love that rests in the center your True Heart<\/p>\n

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All is forgiven. All is forgiven. All is forgiven.
\nAnd the forgiver is for given too. Truth only sees itself.
\nDivine Love dissolves all sin and all repentance.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you are a god. Sometimes a demon. Sometimes just human.
\nYou Are Always The Buddha<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The journey to spiritual completion may be long for some. But the moment we recall our Divine Essence, with the fullness of our being, we are Complete.<\/p>\n

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Traditions fight against traditions. Religions against religions. Spiritual paths against other paths. For this Nacheez, they all help him surrender to Divine Love.<\/p>\n

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There is no better or worse teachings. The teaching that brings the Seeker into Presence is the best teaching for him or her.<\/p>\n

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No mud no lotus
\nNo lotus no mud
\nHow long will you be a dependent?
\nTruth needs no pillar to support it
\nSee This and Be Free!<\/p>\n

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Spirituality is neither simple nor complex. Neither effort nor understanding. The remembrance of what IS is beyond effort, beyond process.<\/p>\n

Spirituality is the space within which Divine Love recalls it’s own Eternal Perfection<\/p>\n

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How do you know there is something called a mind?<\/p>\n

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No matter what tradition you practice in or if you have no practice at all,
\nNo matter what faith you may hold dear or if you have no faith at all,
\nNo matter what path you traverse on or if you are lost and have no path
\nYou are always coming home to Divine Love!<\/p>\n

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If we are truly honest as a race, we will deeply accept that this pandemic has thrown so much out of the window. So many things that were inalienable and essential, seem so unimportant and frivolous.<\/p>\n

May we all use these days of uncertainty to put down the baggage our over-developed, over-stimulated, over-identified egos.
\nAnd to simply acknowledge the helpless vulnerability that we so desperately avoid with the armor of our opinions, our purposes, our toys and our spiritualities.<\/p>\n

From this shared vulnerability, may great beauty and love arise.<\/p>\n

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When we stop filtering through the mind\u2019s eye…. Life is seen to be pure potentiality. An emptiness from which any attribute, any situation can arise. Non-judgmentally. This pure potentiality can definitely be called Love. No other word describes it better.<\/p>\n

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And so as we deeply touch and taste the teachings of the different masters, as the path unfolds, we really begin to understand the difference between a Rumi, a Buddha, a Shankara and a Bodhidharma for instance. They are talking of the one truth but the lens is different. And the dimensional reality they are abiding in may be different.<\/p>\n

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Love and oneness is the experience of an awakened heart…. but an awakened mind will use a different language focused around awareness and an awakened gut will talk primarily of stillness.<\/p>\n

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When integrated, Divine Love becomes a pure potentiality…. from which “manifest” differently depending on what we engage with<\/p>\n

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Dearest, slow down and start clearing your identities.
\nCome into Silence.
\nSimply meditate sequentially on the 3 stages of Divine Love, the subconscious energies will release.<\/p>\n

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The tears of emotional intensity, of spiritual understanding are of innocence. Their shadow is the manipulator, a spiritual ego. See both sides and be free… peaceful, balanced…. Quietly in Love with the Divine!<\/p>\n

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For the spiritually mature, there is no spiritual value in anything that can be articulated or outwardly expressed.
\nSilent Abidance is the beginning and end of all Sadhana.<\/p>\n

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The body of enlightenment never gets touched…. it is not affected by judgement, from self or other. Neither is it affected by extreme negativity. It rests in silence… a dispassionate, impartial and constant companion to the movement of the psyche.<\/p>\n

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Just as spirituality is needed for the soul, exercise and treatment for the body, therapy may be needed for the mind of some. This is not in conflict with the path of Divine Love.
\nOn this path, we are pragmatic about the value of different modalities. And humbly accept the healing they bring in order to deepen our experience of the Divine.<\/p>\n

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No gap between Consciousness, Energy and Matter. This is the next level of understanding. This is not theoretical. It has to become your living reality.<\/p>\n

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Abide only in your soul nature.
\nIgnore that which moves and focus on the still.<\/p>\n

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The chakras are concepts that only apply to Body-Mind. A system for the soul to work on the energetic purification of that which was born. They aren\u2019t Real in the ultimate sense.
\nHowever, our experience of ” Conscious Existence” or “Am-ness” in each of the 3 states is undeniable. These are self evident even when we are absorbed in chakra work.
\nAnd hence only these states may be called True!<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t use borrowed, mind stuff. Discover anew.
\nA lot of practice is about sitting silently and observing without jumping to conclusions. Genuine insight takes time.<\/p>\n

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So let us simply note the tendency to obsessively worry. Let us note the energy of worry. And the component parts… thoughts, emotions, energies and sensations.
\nAnd choose to step away from it.
\nInto Presence.
\nUseless worry makes us less efficient and ineffective at the time action is needed. And lets just make that choice again and again whenever we can…<\/p>\n

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Jivas are different and have different levels of baggage. But it is wisdom to not get carried away by spiritual energies and to stay grounded.
\nNot just wise but also better appreciated by Spirit or the Divine Lover.<\/p>\n

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The life of a committed sadhaka progresses depending on the Divine Will. All control, all doership is surrendered. This is true for everyone. But for the true sadhak, this is a very visceral reality<\/p>\n

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Earth and heaven are complementary and need to be embodied fully.
\nHalf-assing it only leaves disassociated and flaky spiritualists.<\/p>\n

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Like Ramakrishna said, you have to want truth like a drowning man wants air. Thats the only way to make spiritual progress. Else it is easy to get trapped in spiritual mind games. And that is the paradox… Total Inner Silence (no thoughts and no distracting emotions) is our natural state. But to decondition the mind takes serious effort since we have been brainwashed since childhood that thinking gives us control over life.<\/p>\n

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The spiritual path brings great rest, wisdom and love into our lives. This is undeniable.<\/p>\n

What is also important is processing our pain and the eventual acceptance of life, suffering and death…in their full mystery<\/p>\n

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Dont be in a hurry to understand and express what you are going through. Human depth comes quietly from staying with experience. Not trying to be clever about it or using concepts to explain things away.<\/p>\n

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Concept cannot touch the reality of pain.
\nConcepts are nice to have but it is much better to grow beyond them.
\nTrue compassion is being able to hold space in ones own heart for life\u2019s movement. And allowing it to express as it sees fit.<\/p>\n

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Every human goes through grief, through the loss of a loved one at some stage. When we grow through it, we learn compassion. For our own frailty. And the frailty of others.
\nHowever rough and tough people seem on the outside, it is very often a self-protection mechanism.
\nSo the truly strong learn how to see the Oneness through negativity, anger and pain.<\/p>\n

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There is no concrete line between what is you and what is other!
\nTill you get this its tough to heal deeply.<\/p>\n

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But the problem with it is as long there is a strong sense of Me-ness… an ego identity… there will always remain a tendency to blame … or look for things coming from outside.<\/p>\n

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A temporary path may need to be walked upon, just to help us understand the things that don’t work.
\nTo bring us back to our true path, the Path of Divine Love!<\/p>\n

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Its a slow path. One can say going from one mistake to another…. till we stop trying and just surrender to no-concept…. empty potentiality…. The moment by moment arising of external and internal events.<\/p>\n

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Do not try to talk about it… you will get trapped.<\/p>\n

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This teaching is not coming from a position of authority…. it is coming from a place of repeated failure, deep surrender, a humble humour about the inevitability of life…. a place of Unconditional Love.
\nLike Trungpa Rinpoche said, \u201cEnlightenment is the ego\u2019s greatest disappointment!\u201d<\/p>\n

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I am not interested in spiritual ego games. Have no interest in saving the world or helping the suffering or the poor or any other messiah complex… the world is perfectly balanced as it is.
\nIf compassion arises in the moment, I am happy to serve it!<\/p>\n

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Find out. What is this “I” that is having a crisis? Not too seriously. Spend some days in meditative contemplation looking for this I.
\nThere is No hurry<\/strong> to progress i.e. answer the questions.
\nJust daily, diligent investigative practice… contemplation (eyes open) and meditation (eyes closed).
\nLike a good spiritual scientist.<\/p>\n

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Trust is established slowly
\nDevotion deepens
\nTill one day all that is left is Divine Love!<\/p>\n

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About Labels and Concepts<\/b><\/p>\n

Spiritual seeking is not a hierarchy superior action. Just recognize that, as you are today, this is something you need to do. Like some people have to butcher animals, some people have to commit crimes, some have to do puja and some have to meditate.
\nIt is neither good nor bad. Neither holy nor unholy.
\nIt is just what you need to do. Choicelessly!<\/p>\n

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Its your life\u2026got to either meditate it out of the way or live it out of the way.<\/p>\n

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We are coming home\u2026.. to silence and to rest in the noumenon…. at different speeds.<\/p>\n

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The Noumenon<\/b><\/p>\n

When we withdraw our attention from objects i.e phenomena, and rest in the space of silent detachment… we can say we have come back to the Noumenon.
\nIt needs a degree of meditative experience to “know” it. Here the knowing is not of the mind but of the soul. A different kind of knowing.
\nThe movement from Presence into Absence!
\nIt is a sign of spiritual maturity to be able to do it. Cos there is a deep understanding of who one is and where our true home is.<\/p>\n

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The Beloved are now those who walk the path. Affection remains for those we share space with, for family.
\nBut the Beloved are those who have come into true humility.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t struggle so much to understand or connect! All this effort is a mind game. Focus on the breath and focus on your yoga and focus on your job.
\nStay present and stay quiet with head bent down.
\nYou are supported and everything will come to you in time.<\/p>\n

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“A seeker’s inner preparation is called his capacity and receptivity. He who has capacity is ready to choose God as his very own. He feels that there is nothing on earth that he can call his own except God, so therefore he chooses God. But he who has receptivity is chosen by God Himself; he is chosen by God as God’s very own. Inside his receptivity, God is constantly playing His cosmic Game. So we can safely say that capacity is the first giant step toward God-realisation and receptivity is the second and last giant step toward God-realisation. When a seeker is on the verge of illumination, he achieves boundless bliss. At that time, bliss is not a vague idea but a living reality. Either when he is on the verge of illumination, or right after his illumination takes place, the seeker will be inundated with infinite bliss in his entire being” – Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n

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Whether it was Buddhism or Advaita or Zen or Christianity… it started with a single teaching and lasted for millenia.
\nBecause they took their time to come out in the open and express their truth.
\nLetting it slow cook inside for decades and decades….becoming more and more refined. Sublime. Effective.<\/p>\n

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Let the I disappear and just be the whole. The I is a construct. An obstruction to the total experience of empty fullness.<\/p>\n

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There is a natural progression in the 3 stages\u2026 for groundedness, safety and completion purposes. But they are all independent and a person may complete one or two but not all three.
\nIt is good to remember that 99% of the population have arrived at none of the milestones. (Pulled 99% out of thin air. But should be indicative. )<\/p>\n

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Self realisation is embodied. Enlightenment is freed from the body. To walk with enlightenment needs embodiment. Else one ends up having flighty experiences, flaky insights and delusions of grandeur!<\/p>\n

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The ones who I am close to become close not because they need me. But cos they choose this path… they see something that is worth dedicating themselves to.
\nSomething with integrity and honesty.<\/p>\n

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I would rather you be committed to your soul. Everything else will come into line. Habits and preferences and core patterns will automatically change in order to make you serve the truth.<\/p>\n

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You are held in the arms of the Absolute, Rash. Safely enclosed in the bosom of peace and restful silence.<\/p>\n

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Among all disturbances, isolate the awareness and silence and rest in them. Fall back into your central soul nature and pull attention away from the temporary. Your soul is the ground of safety from all psychological and energetic disturbances.<\/p>\n

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The student has to hold on to the personalised teachings. The guru will automatically let it go. Because the teachings come for the student. Sometimes some karma is transferred to the guru and that needs processing.<\/p>\n

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I have no doubt about to whom my allegiance is!<\/p>\n

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Dont blame it on the world. Your need for acceptance.<\/p>\n

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What remains constant is unchanged since eternity!<\/p>\n

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Dont deny your past. Move beyond it at your pace.<\/p>\n

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At the time of the realisation, the realisation is Undeniable Truth.
\nBut … There will be times when this is seen to be totally false and that there is only the universal movement in which “you” don’t exist at all … And this body-mind thingy is just moving along with this movement.
\nLike a leaf blowing in the wind!<\/p>\n

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A hedonistic mind works on fulfilling the movement of desire. An ascetic mind focuses on watching and controlling the movement of desire. The ascetic shadow comes into conflict with the hedonist and the hedonistic shadow enters into conflict with the ascetic.
\nSimilarly conflicting desires compete for fulfillment. Conflicting desires arise from a conflicted mind. Desire isn’t the problem… the inner conflict is. When we reconcile the shadows and disintegrated mind in the ground of pure consciousness, we flow with life, at peace … this is Meditation.
\nEnlightened Action happens\u2026 Non-judgmentally! Even the inner struggle has space to play itself out<\/p>\n

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Its no coincidence that non-meditators enter after a while. They reflect and trigger us in ways that show us what it is we need to work on and what we have been spiritually bypassing.
\nAlso, learning Compassion for those who don’t have the luxury of meditative respite is really difficult.<\/p>\n

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Why the fuck does anything exist at all? Why would that perfectly self-content being manifest it’s glory? It didn’t need to to, you know?!
\nOne word… LOVE !<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Forgiveness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like everything else forgiveness is a practice.
\nBy practicing forgiveness, we don’t dishonor our feelings. We acknowledge and aid them in raising their vibration.
\nWe simply choose a higher truth…. a nobler, stronger self than our past self.
\nAnd slowly the reality of who we are changes.<\/p>\n

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The pure state of awareness is everyones natural state. In me its true and in you its true.
\nWhere is the distance between you and me in the pure state? Only an idea can introduce that separation.
\nLet that idea go and be One!<\/p>\n

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What relationship do the enlightened have with their own body\/mind?
\nThe body\/mind of the realized is an object appearing in the Conscious Beingness of the Realised man!
\nHis relationship to it is one of compassion, just like his relationship to the rest of the world.
\nHe treats his body\/mind with the same respect and love he accords to any other living being. Human or otherwise.<\/p>\n

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Total vulnerability is most attractive to the Divine. It allows for seeds of awakening to be sown in the psyche.
\nAnd yet, it\u2019s the one thing we shy away from. We resist surrender with all our might.
\nBut when we do choose the greater wisdom over our small mind and its preferences\u2026 Life awakens within us.
\nShowing us its full glory!<\/p>\n

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How much of our time is spent doing things that don\u2019t nourish us? That don\u2019t add the kind of value we treasure.
\nAnd we do these things because of social imperative, unknown inherited fears or some false sense of responsibility.
\nWhen we stop and carefully take stock of our lives, how we spend our time versus what we truly value, it often marks the beginning of our journey back to our selves!<\/p>\n

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What is spiritual awakening?<\/strong>
\nWhen an individual gets direct experience of the pristine space beyond mind\u2026Where a vast silence reigns\u2026It marks the birth of the Soul.
\nAwakening happens when this Soul consciousness begins to take over the mind and its understanding of the nature of reality.
\nDevotion to the path\/teacher, dedicated effort and vulnerability are prerequisites!<\/p>\n

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To become fully Available to life as it arises in the moment. This is the culmination of the path.
\nWhile this may sound easy, it is not. For our response to stimuli to be unaffected by our conditioning and our biological impulses, take a lot of practice and reorientation.
\nBut it is seen that the more Available one is, the more Alive and Spacious one is!<\/p>\n

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Children follow their heart!
\nThe mature manage their heart!
\nThe wise break open their heart\u2026Till it has no boundaries!<\/p>\n

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What remains? When all identities\u2026parent, child, student, worker, friend, lover, spouse, seeker\u2026have been seen through?
\nWhen all instincts\u2026Survival, sexual, will, passion, purpose, creativity, knowledge and growth, fame and recognition, validation and approval\u2026have been exhausted!
\nThat which remains is the Primordial Experiencer of all the above…. Your Divine Self! Why wait … Choose it now!<\/p>\n

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The more we struggle with our thoughts, emotions, anxieties, responsibilities and relationships the more entangled we get in the web of suffering!
\nTo find peace and contentment, first stop struggling. Stop feeding the debating, arguing, blaming and fault finding mind!
\nListen to it\u2026Equanimously, compassionately\u2026 Like you would to a child! Then breathe deeply\u2026 And with the exhale let go of the struggle. Repeat!<\/p>\n

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From an experiential perspective, that which gives validity to the universe, the everyday reality and the inner world of the humans is our Consciousness\/Awareness.
\nThis cannot be debated.
\nWithout It, there would be no experiential reality.
\nAnd yet, most of us rarely turn our attention back towards that which powers our life.
\nWhen we do, however, we begin to regain what has been lost.
\nOur True Self!<\/p>\n

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To find infinite beauty in every little thing is the calling of the Seeker.
\nAnd when the boundaries that cage us in shallow individuality are broken, this World of Infinite Beauty opens up to us.
\nAnd every little thing becomes fresh and alive\u2026
\nBecause we have been reborn!<\/p>\n

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Truth is who you are. The awareness upon which all this vexation, materialism and agitation arises.
\nThere is a moment by moment choice we make on what we want to focus on. That choice determines where we go in life.
\nPeace and rest come when we choose the still background awareness repeatedly. Daily.
\nBy asking oneself who one is every time agitation or ignorant thought arises and then choosing to identify with awareness as the Primordial Self\u2026
\nChoosing Universality rather than Individuality.<\/p>\n

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As I walked to the park this morning…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As I walked to the park this morning…I saw a ragpicker girl, hardly 15 with a dirty jute bag in one hand and an even dirtier, wailing 3 month old in the other.
\nI smiled with my heart and instinctively approached to acknowledge the child.
\nAnd to show the girl she was not invisible and she mattered\u2026 Very much.
\nShe returned this gesture with a look of deep suspicion, anger, and fear.
\nShe was threatened by me. I regretted my impulsiveness but also knew my gesture came from a place of wanting to touch her with kindness.
\nWhat have we done to this child? Ignored, abandoned and relegated her and her baby into an invisible sideshow of the mainstream.
\nShame on me and my insular, self-centred mind.
\nI find myself helpless again.<\/p>\n

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We all need respite sometimes.<\/strong>
\nWe all feel the need to be released from the constant pressure to be a success against performance metrics that are not our own.
\nWe all need the time to find a way of living that fulfils us and makes us happy to wake up to another day.
\nThe greatest secret shared widely since time immemorial is that infinite respite and freedom exists within you, at this very moment.<\/p>\n

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The country and culture a person is born into cannot contain the Natural Freedom that is inherent to a human being.
\nFor the essence of humanity is Freedom. Freedom of choice and freedom of expression.
\nTo try and curtail this essential freedom, is to try to hold a Dragon within a cage of dogma meant for parrots.
\nDogma might work for parrots, Dragons fly Free!\"\"<\/p>\n

My mind cannot comprehend what I truly am. It borrows language to name this experience of silent consciousness.
\nBrahman, Shiva, Christ Consciousness, Krishna Consciousness, Tathagatha, Nirodha Sampatti, Nibbana, Buddha Mind, Universal Consciousness, Divine Love\u2026
\nso on and so forth.
\nAnd yet none of these can touch the Truth and Immediacy of the Nameless Omnipresence!<\/p>\n

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Please take time everyday, just for a few minutes<\/strong>\u2026
\nTo step outside of yourself and the world you have created.
\nYour family, job, lifestyle, habits, diet, self image, relationships, fears and desires, deeply embedded ideas about who you are\u2026
\nTake time to step outside of these. And look at this world of yours!
\nDoes it nourish you? Are there things you wish to change?
\nYou are free to change that which isn\u2019t working. This is your fundamental right.<\/p>\n

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Close your eyes, and just notice.<\/strong>
\nQuickly, before your mind starts to move.
\nThere is a dark silent awareness here. It existed before you became an Ego with a name and opinions.
\nThis Silence has answers your mind does not.
\nStay there and rest for a while. Maybe it will grace you with its favour!<\/p>\n

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As I let go of the body and enter deep samadhi,
\nAll there is, is the light of the beloved.
\nAm I this light or am I just a me?<\/p>\n

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To be fully and effortlessly aware of that which is in front of us, eyes closed, or open, this is mediation!
\nWithout recoursing to concept or fantasy, without getting lost in thinking and with an attitude of open, gentle curiosity\u2026
\nJust be aware. Sit without agenda and without a clock.
\nThis is how we transform from being an ego mind into Primordial Awareness!<\/p>\n

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May St.Valentine make this, the truest of all loves manifest widely and touch all those who need it, crave it.
\nLet those who are in deep despair of the meaningless of this world and the cruelty of humans become aware of the endless source of Love, the essence of life.
\nMay this Essence Love bring respite, light and joy to these souls. May this be so.<\/p>\n

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Draw attention back to its source.
\nAnd there You are!<\/p>\n

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Can you see, my love, that this urge to just act, to prove yourself, to become something other than who you already are,
\nto possess, to dominate, to command respect\u2026all of this\u2026comes from a place of deep conditioned insecurity?
\nYou are Perfect! Know this without doubt. And then move from this place.
\nYou will no longer need validation from any source!<\/p>\n

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If one arrives at Inner Peace, and yet does not share its luxury with another, then this Peace is misused.
\nWithout Love, Inner Peace is meaningless.<\/p>\n

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The approach to life of a mind that is immersed in its own unbound universality is very different from that of a mind that believes itself to be physically, culturally and ideologically bound.
\nThe latter makes decisions within a smaller framework and arrives at solutions that solve the immediate needs of It and what it considers to be Its own.
\nThe former thinks for All because it has no boundary between itself and the other.<\/p>\n

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In your Silent Presence,
\nI rest in awe of your magnificence,
\nTill I Am dissolves, and all is You.
\nAs it always has been, is and will be!<\/p>\n

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I sit. I notice. Breath. Sensations. Thoughts. Juicy. Inviting. Triggering emotion.
\nI smile. I relax. Maybe I get lost.
\nMaybe I am focused. It’s okay.
\nI am beyond lost and focused.
\nI smile.<\/p>\n

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If you believe that you are the box, how will you ever get outside of it?!
\nOld Roshi has only one agenda. To remind you\u2026
\nYou are Not the Box
\nYou are Not the Box
\nYou are Not the Box!
\nCome Home, Darling, to Original Good!<\/p>\n

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Every true spiritual school needs to be Seeker-centric.
\nThe culture of Guru\/teacher-centric schools takes away from the primary focus of spirituality\u2026Your inner journey!
\nHaving an ideal or a role model is always helpful. But devotion should not become blind.
\nThe teacher is simply a reminder of one’s own true potential. Your Divinity!
\nNothing more, nothing less!<\/p>\n

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To free our world, from the tyranny of its own making\u2026
\nfrom the tyranny of inner conflict that gets manifested as outer chaos\u2026
\nThis is the calling of the Seeker.
\nTo call it noble would be to marginalise its urgency.
\nIt may determine our very sanity, our very survival.<\/p>\n

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To know precisely when, how and why attention lost its ground and escaped into object identification is the mark of an expert meditator.
\nHe knows how to bring it back to its home in Presence, even during intense interaction.
\nThe sage can do this too but often does not care because he is totally assured…that every form of attention is an expression of the Divine Self!<\/p>\n

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The transition from a child into an adult individual necessitates the understanding, accepting and letting go of the impact of the parent, society and the teacher!
\nSimilarly, the transition into Truth necessitates understanding, accepting and letting go of our own self!
\nThis is the path to freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For decades now, I have struggled with various autoimmune and inflammatory disorders that used to control the quality of my life. These still appear and influence my lifestyle.
\nHowever, ever since the Eternal graced this unworthy fool with its presence, these issues simply don’t have the strength to pull me into suffering.
\nEven intense physical sensations cannot distract for too long from the Eternal Perfection!
\nThat which is of the body stays with the body and does not create a sense of separate self.<\/p>\n

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A silent stream of blissful light runs through my center, and sweeps away all traces of this world.
\nNothing remains anymore, not even the label Divine.
\nFor that which makes the most natural into something extraordinary…special…is no longer in this house!
\nNo more waves, only the The Ocean is!<\/p>\n

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Good morning! It’s the beginning of a lovely day…notice!
\nBreath is even and calm…notice!
\nYou are here…words are presenting themselves in awareness and your mind is interpreting them…notice!
\nIt feels really okay to just be here with these words…notice!
\nMind may or may not have another agenda…notice!
\nThat’s okay…can’t take away the fact that it’s a lovely day and you are here…notice!<\/p>\n

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So let us simply note the tendency to obsessively worry. Let us note the energy of worry.
\nAnd the component parts\u2026 thoughts, emotions, energies and sensations.
\nAnd choose to step away from it. Into Presence.
\nUseless worry makes us less efficient and ineffective at the time action is needed.
\nAnd lets just make that choice again and again whenever we can.<\/p>\n

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Every master since the beginning of time has known beyond doubt that their Essence is your Essence! No separation.
\nOnly as long as we doubt do we need a path and practice.
\nWhen the Essence is seen to have always been the Primary Self, that which upon doubt appears, paths and practices are seen for what they are\u2026
\nJust the bridge that brought us back to the place we never left!<\/p>\n

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A gentle causeless joy permeates my being! A silly smile adorns my face!
\nLife falling in love with itself all over again!
\nUnearned blessings arise when total devotion is uncomplainingly sustained through difficult external circumstances!
\nAnd even that is only a lesson for children! For without an Other, devotion is nothing but an uncompromising love for my highest Self!<\/p>\n

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Master – Boy, do you know what wisdom is?
\nBoy – No master, I do not!
\nMaster – Wise Answer!!!
\n– from “The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao”<\/em><\/p>\n

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There is only One thing you have ever experienced in all of your life and only one thing you will ever experience in the rest of your life…
\nYour own mind!
\nThose who truly understand the import of this will achieve Buddha-hood in a flash!
\nNo other mahavakya needed!<\/p>\n

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On the journey to Realisation, the component of mind easiest to work with is thought. As it is constantly visible and available for analysis and re-framing.
\nThings get tougher when it comes to emotional attachments. They are more integral to the psyche and tougher to unroot.
\nAnd it becomes significantly tougher when it comes to behaviours and neurological patterns that we have learned to associate with Primal Instincts… Survival of the Ego.
\nThis is where the Teacher becomes invaluable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I sit here waiting for something that’s important to me. I feel a mild palpitation in my chest.
\nI want to label it. Mild nervous anxiety.
\nBut instead I close my eyes and breath into that area.
\nIt’s pressure in the center of my chest. Waves rising up into the headspace like a gentle invite to wallow in it.
\nI smile at my nervous system and direct my mind back to breathing and feeling sensations.
\nI am fully available to life as this happens.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Materialists of various hues search for that elusive “zone” of peak performance sometimes going to extreme lengths to get there.
\nThat place where the mind is silent… quiescent… and there is perfect unity with the object of attention… that place where “flow” is optimal.
\nSportspersons, artists, chefs\/bakers, scientists, trekkers etc etc.
\nThe Realized never leave the zone. Even in their darkest moments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The True Self hides itself within the Silly!
\nIn this Eternal game of Hide and Seek… the master, he who has sought and found, can only introduce you to your Highest!
\nBut it is You, that has to cut through the Camouflage of Silliness!<\/p>\n

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Find your center. And you will find the center of the world and every other being!
\nBarriers erased. Integrity restored. Balance Reestablished!<\/p>\n

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To seek perfection in the external is a fool’s errand.
\nTo know perfection by embodying the Eternal.
\nThis is the way of the Wise!<\/p>\n

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Under the angry wound of disappointment, there is always sad vulnerability.
\nAnd beneath this is Love!<\/p>\n

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If your spirituality doesn’t destroy your spirituality, then your spirituality isn’t spirituality.
\nIts just another ego trip!
\nChoose to be Free!<\/p>\n

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To step outside the box of ones life, even for a moment, is to step into one’s unbound nature.
\nWhen we step back and look at ourself and our life as an object in our own consciousness,
\nwe are unwittingly making the entirety of existence into just another object in Consciousness.
\nIn that one moment…You and I are Free!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When we look at the increasingly hostile environment around us today,
\nwe realise that a lot of the disenfranchised are being made to believe that to be born in a particular nation or into a particular
\nreligion makes one superior to another born into different conditions and that the other is an intruder upon “my land” and “my way of life”.
\nThis kind of Tribal ideology panders to the lowest in the human.
\nSpirituality talks to the highest in us and gives birth to the noblest of qualities, Universality!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Taking a position in and as Primal Awareness from relatively early in the journey, allows the seeker to lessen the impact of these fundamental changes and transitions upon the psyche.
\nThe ground of Awareness is always available and provides a safe landing pad to the psyche when core changes occur.
\nThe help of a community, a higher conceptual system and\/or a teacher can be quite useful during these times. (Dhamma, Sangha, Buddha)<\/p>\n

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Every person we have ever come across in our lives becomes an image in our mind. A projection. The longer the association, the stronger the image.
\nWhen we attain freedom for and from our mind, we release not only ourselves but also every single person we have ever met from the cage of our projections too.
\nEnlightenment may be realised Individually but it is our World that is Freed.<\/p>\n

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The ability of any one person to conceptualise and objectify their own life, their world is directly proportional to their self-awareness.
\nThe more we practice looking at ourselves, the more is extricated from the subconscious and into the conscious mind.
\nThis form of practice is called Effortless Effort! Since force won’t get you there.
\nIt needs the right guidance, the right technique and compassion.<\/p>\n

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It is only in Stillness can we “begin” to understand the experiential difference between embodied presence (i.e, the self) and Pure awareness!
\nIn the former, the individual is seen as real or existent.
\nWhereas in the latter, the individual is seen to be a composite of ever morphing, transient emotions, thoughts and sensations.
\nNothing real!<\/p>\n

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This morning I woke up to thoughts carrying old resentment, ill- will, misplaced anger for being wronged and a tendency to only look at the negative aspects of certain people.
\nThings I thought I had long let go off. Maybe the health retreat and water fast have brought up deeply held insecurities.
\nI will work on this. What would you like to work on?<\/p>\n

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Negative or positive thoughts in themselves don’t make a difference.
\nThey are an appearance that flash across the mindscape and disappear if we don’t engage with them.
\nHowever, if they point to deeply held wounds that influence our view of life and our behaviour, then they control us.
\nI choose to be led by Universal Love, rather than be controlled by old wounds.
\nAnd so I investigate, uncover and heal them!<\/p>\n

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The Individual and the Universal are not two.
\nWhen we deeply understand our self, we understand the world.
\nWhen we truly accept our self as is, we accept the world as is!
\nWhen we start to see Love as the Essence of our being, we realise that Love is at the core of the Universe.
\nDivine Love – a nameless driver behind existence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I sometimes really wonder, how many of you already have the earned + inherited financial stability needed to do only what you really want to do and nothing else?
\nHow many of you already have all the support you need from spouse and parents? But never entered that discussion because of misplaced sense of individuality and\/or insecurity?
\nI truly wonder… how much comfort will be enough? Before you give your everything for that which matters!<\/p>\n

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The cascading effect of a single bad decision should not ever be underestimated by a seeker.
\nEspecially, when we are fluctuating between abiding in our higher self and being pulled back into old patterns.
\nA single compromise with the mind can take months to get clear of and to come back to the bliss of pure abidance.
\nThis is why the path can be very challenging.<\/p>\n

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To be free from things, one must be free from the value one places upon things. To be good is not better than being bad.
\nTo be healthy is not better than being unhealthy. To be healthy is a thing. To be unhealthy is a thing. A good thought is a thing. A bad thought is also a thing.
\nA thing is a thing. One thing is no better than another thing.
\nTo move between things without judgement and craving, this is Freedom!<\/p>\n

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For a lot of us there is a constant “what next” running subconsciously. This constant call to action takes away from our ability to truly experience the present moment, the current action.
\nThe sympathetic nervous system remains activated and geared for the next thing. Splitting us between the present and the future.
\nTo simply bring attention to this spoken or unspoken voice, is the first step to Self Acceptance.
\nSelf acceptance is total acceptance of the moment and of ourselves as we are now.
\nAcknowledgment that this self is perfect!<\/p>\n

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Grounded spirituality rarely recommends the giving up of relations and possessions except to the rarest of souls! And even to such souls, only as an interim measure.
\nBut it instead recommends the giving up of Your Attachment to them! That is, the ego identification with them. By deeply seeing their transient and superficial value!<\/p>\n

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A body, by nature, has its boundaries!
\nA mind, by nature, has none!
\nWhat artificial boundaries have you imposed on this naturally free, space like mind?<\/p>\n

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Attachment to gender, race, nationality, culture, religion, education, knowledge, profession, wealth, possession, relations, intelligence, personality, achievement, purpose, ideology, spirituality… only makes you smaller!
\nThey only compromise your borderless spaciousness! Your unlimited potential!
\nLET GO!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Intimacy\u2026<\/strong>
\nBeyond Religion.
\nBeyond Nationality.
\nBeyond Gender.
\nBeyond Profession.
\nBeyond Social Status.
\nBeyond Species.
\nIt\u2019s all that matters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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