Suffering happens when I take my thoughts to be real.

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It's the trying to get rid of a thought or change it that reinforces the
belief in it.

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Neither the voice in your head nor the one hearing it is YOU.

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A thought is an opinion about another thought.

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When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you
find everything in silence.

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Thoughts are not the problem its the thing that goes out and grabs
them and makes them yours thats the problem.

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Without thinking, the basic awareness simply allows:
- the wall to be as it is.
- the table to be as it is.
- the air in the room to be as it is.
It takes no effort to let everything to be as it is.
Stop thinking for long enough to get one glimpse of the fact that there
is a basic awareness already here. All you have to do is notice that it
is here.
Discover this for yourself. Stop thinking for long enough to get one
glimpse of the fact that there is a basic awareness already here.
All you have to do is notice that it is here.
Notice when a thought arises, this basic awareness allows even that
thought to be as it is.
We discover for ourselves exactly what the words acceptance, freedom,
love, peace, compassion, wisdom, and selflessness are referring to: our
own immediate experience in the here and now, free of the belief in
separation.
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Quando cresce a nossa compreenso da impermanncia e da qualidade
ilusria da existncia, comeamos a observar os fenmenos sem projetar
nossas falsas suposies; com o tempo, passamos a reconhecer a
sabedoria intrnseca, aberta e nua, como a nossa natureza verdadeira
e a natureza verdadeira da realidade.
Para ter acesso experincia daquilo que natural, comece
reconhecendo a impermanncia em cada ao do seu corpo, em cada
palavra da sua fala, em cada movimento da sua mente. Ao
movimentar a mo, reconhea na mudana de posio uma
demonstrao de impermanncia. Primeiro, ela estava do lado
esquerdo, depois do direito. Com sua respirao, reconhea a
impermanncia, medida que ela vai e vem, vai e vem. Com a
prtica, o processo intelectual deliberado de olhar para cada coisa e
pensar, Isto impermanente, evolui para um conhecer natural,
espontneo, da constante manifestao das mudanas. Isso ameniza
nossa atitude em relao realidade; comeamos a apreciar a verdade
das metforas do Buda que descrevem os fenmenos como iluses ou
imagens de um sonho, como alucinaes, ecos ou arco-ris aparentes,
mas no tangveis nem corpreos --, como reflexos da lua sobre a
gua; brilhantes, porm no slidos.
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Todos os dias voc recebe a visita de vrios pensamentos:
- Eles chegam, ficam por um tempo e depois vo embora.
- Os pensamentos no querem ser tocados ou agarrados.
- Existe o hbito de toc-los ou agarr-los, visando um
determinado fim.
No se deixe ENVOLVER pela DANA DOS PENSAMENTOS.
IGNORE OS PENSAMENTOS!!!
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A voz na sua cabea, dizendo um pensamento aps o outro, acontece
dentro deste ESPAO INTERIOR.
O ESPAO INTERIOR que ouve essa voz na sua cabea.
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O SILNCIO/A PAZ/O ESPAO esto sempre presentes,
ANTES/DURANTE/DEPOIS de cada pensamento.
Pergunte-se:
- O que faz voc acreditar que no PERFEITO, PLENO e COMPLETO?
- Que Pensamentos? Que crenas?
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To know that you are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in an
imaginary world of your own creation is the dawn of wisdom. To want
nothing of it, to be ready to abandon it entirely, is earnestness.
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If you are suffering right now because you feel that there is something
that you want that you don't have, notice that this comes from lack.
Nothing you ever know (outside) will fulfill this lack
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With a closed mind and heart, the light cannot enter.
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Inside of you there is an open heart. An open hearts do not judge the
universe. When you dive into an open heart, you fall into infinity.
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Surrender. Let silence have you. And if you find you are still
swimming on the surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depths
of love.
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Being a seeker gives the mind something to do. Realizing there is
nothing to seek and no one to seek it leaves the mind barking at the
moon.
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You are not any one single experience, but are the Source for ALL
experiences.
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Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the
clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself -- with
nothing to confirm or ever deny.
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Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing
right now.
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There is nothing wrong with concepts as long as they are seen for what
they are: the menu; but never the meal. It's when we mistake concepts
for reality that we open the door to suffering.
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Surrender is the call from within to fully, absolutely, recognize
yourself as freedom itself. The challenges are huge... they must be,
otherwise we would trivialize this experience. Just as we have
trivialized so many experiences of love. The surrender must be total.
Anything less is a form of self-torture in the name of safety. Living
fully as one, as all, is its own safety. The safety is knowing that when
this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains. All
you need is to trust the peace that has been revealed and to be willing
to discover it freshly. At the core of each form of limitation, the
boundless, limitless perfection of lasting peace and freedom is revealed.
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Starting in this moment, right here and right now, watch
unattachedly as your mind attempts to take you elsewhere via a
thought. Is your identification that starts the trip of hallucination.
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The addiction to drugs, food, alcohol, etc. is nothing compared to the
addiction we humans have to thinking. Sitting quietly in silence is so
foreign to most of us that the mind quickly starts thinking of its
"problems" simply because it feels more "natural." We say we want
peace, but because of our conditioning many of us actually feel more
comfortable worrying. Worrying about what? Anything, the mind is
not picky.
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Why is silence the greatest teacher? Because real truth never speaks.
What would be the point? Truth simply is and so does not need to be
reminded of this. On the other hand, illusion cannot be convinced for
it doesn't actually exist except as a thought, belief or concept. Notice to
argue with this you have to make sounds... that should be a clue.
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All this mental running around trying to fix this or that, to become
enlightened, to know the truth, to be realized is for WHO exactly?
Other than a thought, what else do you see in the world that would
even care about such a thing?
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It was at this point in my life that I began to realize my mind was
nothing but a projection machine. More often than not, what I was
thinking had no basis in reality.
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Ego consciousness appears as a necessary step on the road to egoless
awakening, for how could ultimate absence be seen here if there were
no presence imagined there? And after all, ego consciousness is not a
mistake, for who is there separate to dream it up? Who other than
What You Arethe Totalitydreams anything up
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Have you ever noticed that only a thought can be unhappy with a
thought?
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You don't have to think in order to be okay. We're not doing the
thinking; we're being thought. There's nothing to know, so you don't
have to pretend that you know anything.
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Dont hold on to any self-image, because self-image is from the past.
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I once was a person standing in space, and now Im the space where a
person stands.
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You are already perfect. You don't have to listen to anything that
doubts that. Inadequacy is just a thought.
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There is no 'you'... there is only Life disguised as everything.
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Since everything is constantly changing, which of these 'changes' do
you want to call 'the truth'?
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The moment your attention is on the timeless 'now', you realize silence
and sound; the moment your attention is on purpose, reasoning and
meanings, you believe the mind.
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And what could man control when he is unable to control his own
birth, the starting point of his life? And what could man control
when he is unable to control his own death, the ending point of his
life? When man is unable to control the beginning point and the
ending point, how could he control the in-between, illusory story?
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Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a
knower. The knower is consciousness.
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It is not possible for life to meet the mind and the mind to meet life,
for life is a timeless and thoughtless state, whereas the mind is time-
orientated and thought -filled.
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Now' is just what is happening--minus everything you think.
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I can only project what I think is happening. When I stop projecting,
all that is left is Wow!
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This moment. Without any story. The storyless now. What is your direct
experience of this moment when you drop ALL stories? Life without
the commentator in the head. Pure Being resting in complete (complete
meaning whole, lacking nothing) silence.
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What your ego considers mine, becomes your false identity in the
dream. Your ego obscures and hides your true identity, and pretends to
be you.
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The one who observes change, can he change? Only the changeless can
see the change.
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When you worry you are saying to god/the universe/life, "I don't trust
you."
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Feelings are a rotten indicator of what's true.
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Don't let the past steal your present.
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One is pure awareness and the mind owes its existence to this
awareness. When a seeker sees the mind and thoughts arising from the
mind separate from himself, he knows that he has nothing to do with
the mind. The mind does not bother him any more. He does not spend
his time and effort in silencing the mind. He just remains as pure
awareness, watching it all happen in this awareness.
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Furthermore, the more you have the more you want, and you are stuck
in a state of "wanting-ness," and there is no lasting satisfaction in this
circular cycle. Being in a state of "wanting-ness" creates suffering. Bear
in mind, having cravings or a desire for anything that belongs in the
physical world is not a source of happiness; instead these cravings are
a source of unhappiness. It is not the lack of something that is behind
your unhappiness; instead your craving is the root cause behind your
unhappiness.
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Non-acceptance of change causes suffering.
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Interpretations strain the mind because it tries to fit the dead past into
the live present.
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The peace you are looking for is not outside you... it's what is looking
out your eyes.
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The dream is so convincing that it's not until after you wake up that
you realize just how asleep you were.
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Appearances/Manifestations come and go. You/Awareness have NEVER
moved.
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No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a
unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought
implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies
limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not
absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or
thought.
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Due to the mind's dualistic world, as soon as I label something "good,"
I have simultaneously created the label "bad" for future use.
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Thoughts are like sunglasses; they dont alter your view until you put
them on.
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What is THIS moment like when I experience it without a story?
Without checking with mind about what anything means or doesn't
mean? Without going into past or future? Without trying to understand
or get anything? What is the storyless NOW like? Only one way to find
out...
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Nothing has ever upset you. No one has ever hurt you.
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All conflict comes from attachment.
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You can't 'figure your way out' of the conceptual prison that your
mind has created. The mind cannot 'see' outside the mind. Freedom
can come only when you leave the entire conceptual framework
behind.
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What you usually call your happiness is actually your chain: Your
job, your home, your possessions...
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To seek security outside to fill the void of insecurity inside is like
trying to cure a wound by putting dirt on it. It only redoubles our
insecurity because everything that is outside is already insecure!
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Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can
never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
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If you can forget it or remember it, it is not you therefore discard it. If
you can experience it, it is not you therefore discard it. If you can
know it, it is not you therefore discard it. If you can be it, it is not you
therefore discard it.
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The imagined sense of being a separate I is the source of all problems.
Because the I as a thought is really very intangible, all types of other
ideas get wrapped around it, in order to give it some semblance of
solidity. All the self-definitions, identities and apparent conditioning
hinge on the unexamined sense of I.
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Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your
mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no
relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment,
you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of
beingness with itself.
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When we think, "I just want peace of mind above all else," we overlook
the fact that the very first word in the sentence is an 'I' that is trying
to get something for itself. It's desire is noble, but it's still a desire for
the mind made self-image. True peace can only exist in the 'I's
absence. The peace's loving stillness has been obscured by the 'I's very
presence!
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The idea that anything is meant to be taken personally is just that, an
idea.
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Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary
phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise
your freedom.
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A sense of "I" gets created whether you take credit for a good thing or a
bad thing. Forget the "I" and forget the credit or blame... just BE the
raw naked experience and see what happens.
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Everything is passing enjoy its momentariness.
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Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.
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Everything is simply happening. Life is simply unfolding. This
includes your thoughts. You do not create your thoughts; they simply
happen. When you were 1 min. old did you create your thoughts? Of
course not. Then at what point along the line were you shown how to
make thoughts appear?
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Every second you spend looking for something outside yourself is
another second you spend away from your true self.
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You have absolutely NOTHING to give up, nothing to surrender,
nothing to let go of. You are already the totally free liberated God Self.
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There is only, ever, ONE speaker and ONE listener and they are
not two.
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If it moves, it's not You. What moves? The body, thoughts, sensations,
feelings, imagination, people, all forms, everything! Remain still in/as
what you already are and have never not been. It's when there is
movement away from our Self that is prior to all movement that we get
into trouble. We get swept up in thought and get lost because we are
believing in something that is not stable, temporary. Relax into the
changelessness of your true nature, which has never, ever, not even
once!, moved since you took your first breath.
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Everything you "know" is a concept. The idea that you live on "Earth"
is a concept. Does a blade of grass "know" this? Or your cat or dog? Do
birds "know" they are flying thru the sky? Do they even "know" they
are birds? Does water "know" it's water? And even what something "IS"
is a concept. Is that a fallen tree branch on the ground or a log? Is that
water running across the ground or a stream? Concepts, upon concepts,
upon concepts. What sees ALL concepts, but remains silent?
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Judging vs Living. If I am judging this moment, I am not living it. If I
am living it, I am not judging it. Judging is head centered, living is
heart centered. Judging springs from doubt and insecurity. Living
springs from love and contentment. And each moment I choose again,
as my choice a moment ago is no longer relevant.
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The ego is merely a reference point for me. If I dont have the ego I will
fall apart, I wont know who I am. The ego is simply holding me
together as a reference point for communication with each other, a
tool thats all.