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Costa Rica Retreat
Friends, For your information, if you want to attend the Costa Rica retreat (outside of San Jose) and stay onsite, there are three rooms available. ~~ Two of the rooms have double beds and one room has a single bed. If you are interested, please let us know ASAP…
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Freedom from the illusion of separation & limitation.
Simply welcome your experience as it appears to you, letting go of, the past, just for the duration of this meeting, to simply be to be as presence, to invite the mind to rest without reference to knowledge, without reference to time, without reference to memory.
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The answer is within you
And yet we do the work of inquiry, contemplation, meditation and living the understanding. That is the preparation of the house. We keep looking at the front door, but God comes through the backdoor. And reveals to you that thou are I. I is thou.
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Living the current of love
You are drifting with a stream abandoned. But you are the stream, you see! Holds on to nothing, it is not trying to accomplish anything, and yet it is so alive, gurgling, nourishing the fields. You exist in the space between events, between thoughts, between perceptions and events; thoughts and perceptions exist within you. When…
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Fear of disappearance
Pralaya, the dissolution of the sense of me… Beyond the impression of time. Beyond birth and death. And you are that. There is no physical reality. Matter is Conceptual.
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How do I quiet the mind?
You can distinguish between a thought which is referring to a practical task, which is needed for the body-mind; and between the trickster-thought, which refers to you as somebody, as a person, as a son, a daughter.
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Undo yourself of any resistance, of any beliefs
We invite every aspect of our experience to this relaxation, to this Peace. Peace is very simple. It is what we are. Complications there arise in the mind when we identify ourself, but we don’t need to. We can simply be like the Ocean.
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No need to escape the eternal Now
The now refers to formless awareness. It does not refer to a point in time. It refers to the eternity of being.
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The mind is not you
It is quite magical to be, to be aware, to perceive, to comprehend. So magical. We perceive thoughts, we perceive the world. we perceive sensations, the body, the heartbeat. It’s so amazing. The fact of awareness, that we know that we are; whatever that is, this self knowingness. And the discovery of peace, this causeless…
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What is peace?
So the understanding about your True Nature is crucial. The understanding about totality, about the wholeness, about your universality, your reality, your transparency is essential. Which is the key to the kingdom, which is never hidden. Or one could say, it’s hidden in plain sight. You are the key and the kingdom.
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Enlightenment is the real death
The Sages speak about the real death, not as the death of a body-mind organism, but the death of identification, the death of ignorance. The absolute clarity that there is no separate consciousness anywhere, no separate entity, no separate anything anywhere.
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Practicing letting go
So whenever we are faced with an old pattern that arises within the body mind, we can explore letting go, simply being, rather than fixing.