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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
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The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to…
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Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.…
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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives…
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy…
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Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is…
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Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what…
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.…
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Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in…
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Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in…
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The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually…
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How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
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Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
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I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
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