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- These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look…
- Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch…
- You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the…
- Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw…
- The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he…
- Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It…
- Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It…
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