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Meditative contemplation with the Costa Rican Sangha
And you suffer because you imagine yourself to be a limited form. Because you identify yourself with something which is impermanent. You believe yourself to be a person, to be a biocomputer. You believe yourself to be an object in time and space. But you’re not an object. You’re not in time and space. You…
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What happens to the soul when you die?
The veil is just the dance of consciousness. Consciousness veiling itself, God veiling itself from herself to herself, from itself to itself. You veil yourself from yourself. Via the belief that you are a mother or a father, a son or a daughter, a person. A veil which is unnecessary, because consciousness shines effortlessly. And…
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Listening to others and sharing our understanding
Where the optic nerve meets the eye, there is a blind spot. We understand that, we bring this understanding to the forefront. Sometimes our resistance, our habitual pattern kicks in so quickly. It’s inevitable given the profound conditioning of this body-mind. But we are interested, we are interested in seeing through this. We are interested…
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Our true nature is not a state
Everything that you attain in time, you can lose. But that which you are, you do not attain nor do you ever lose.
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How do I stop being carried away by my thoughts?
This recognition is available to us. The recognition of presence, the recognition of this formless awareness that has no personal owner. There is nobody who exists in time and space. That is simply an impression which inhabits the mind, an impression which we have believed in, and at some point we let it go.
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How do we come around to be here?
And that’s the big secret. That which never leaves us. That which is and cannot not be, this ordinary awareness, is the big secret. And it reveals itself to itself, whenever we are aware, that we are aware.