Pointers

Earnestness means full-speed ahead to a destination at which you have already arrived.

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You are completely wasting your time if you are attempting to end or to dissolve the ego. That is simply one thought or concept trying to negate another. And the harder and longer you try, the more frustrating it will become. Is that any way to live your life, especially a so-called spiritual one?

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The issue with recognizing presence is not so much its subtlety (though that is certainly a factor), but its immediacy. Even before you begin to sit in meditation or pick up a spiritual book or read the next word in this very sentence, your natural state is brilliantly present.

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True awakening doesn't cause "disorientation." Indeed, you are suddenly centered in ways that you could not imagine. And it's little wonder, given that you are then centeredness, i.e., awareness proper. You were that even before your awakening, of course; but now you know it to be actual.

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There is no need for you to "reexamine certain patterns of thinking" or create some sort of "energetic unfolding." Those are conceptual activities that never go beyond their self-perpetuating little loops.

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Awakening ends the process of seeking. If you're still meditating and going to your teacher for counsel, you have not recognized anything.

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There is no separation between you and awareness. Ponder this, naturally and earnestly. Truly let it sink in. Again, there is absolutely no separation between you and awareness. If there is any grand or root precept to nonduality, that's the one. You are this knowing, unblinking spaciousness that is within and before your so-called body and mind. Indeed, there is no way out, really. So why not stop all the struggling and take a non-moment to recognize this unabashed refulgence that you have continually been overlooking?

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News & Info

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