Insights 6

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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 thebelief 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 thereis a basic awareness already here. All you have to do is notice that itis 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.


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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: ourown immediate experience in the here and now, free of the belief inseparation.~~~Quando cresce a nossa compreenso da impermanncia e da qualidadeilusria da existncia, comeamos a observar os fenmenos sem projetarnossas falsas suposies; com o tempo, passamos a reconhecer asabedoria intrnseca, aberta e nua, como a nossa natureza verdadeira

e a natureza verdadeira da realidade.Para ter acesso experincia daquilo que natural, comecereconhecendo a impermanncia em cada ao do seu corpo, em cadapalavra da sua fala, em cada movimento da sua mente. Aomovimentar a mo, reconhea na mudana de posio umademonstrao de impermanncia. Primeiro, ela estava do ladoesquerdo, depois do direito. Com sua respirao, reconhea a

impermanncia, medida que ela vai e vem, vai e vem. Com aprtica, o processo intelectual deliberado de olhar para cada coisa epensar, Isto impermanente, evolui para um conhecer natural,

espontneo, da constante manifestao das mudanas. Isso amenizanossa atitude em relao realidade; comeamos a apreciar a verdadedas metforas do Buda que descrevem os fenmenos como iluses ouimagens de um sonho, como alucinaes, ecos ou arco-ris aparentes,mas no tangveis nem corpreos --, como reflexos da lua sobre agua; brilhantes, porm no slidos.~~~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, acontecedentro deste ESPAO INTERIOR.O ESPAO INTERIOR que ouve essa voz na sua cabea.~~~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?~~~

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in animaginary world of your own creation is the dawn of wisdom. To wantnothing of it, to be ready to abandon it entirely, is earnestness.~~~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

~~~With a closed mind and heart, the light cannot enter.~~~Inside of you there is an open heart. An open hearts do not judge theuniverse. When you dive into an open heart, you fall into infinity.~~~Surrender. Let silence have you. And if you find you are stillswimming on the surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depthsof love.~~~Being a seeker gives the mind something to do. Realizing there isnothing to seek and no one to seek it leaves the mind barking at themoon.~~~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, theclarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself -- withnothing to confirm or ever deny.~~~Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencingright now.~~~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.~~~

Surrender is the call from within to fully, absolutely, recognizeyourself 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, theboundless, limitless perfection of lasting peace and freedom is revealed.~~~Starting in this moment, right here and right now, watchunattachedly as your mind attempts to take you elsewhere via a

thought. Is your identification that starts the trip of hallucination.~~~The addiction to drugs, food, alcohol, etc. is nothing compared to theaddiction 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 wantpeace, but because of our conditioning many of us actually feel morecomfortable worrying. Worrying about what? Anything, the mind isnot 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 bereminded of this. On the other hand, illusion cannot be convinced forit doesn't actually exist except as a thought, belief or concept. Notice toargue with this you have to make sounds... that should be a clue.~~~All this mental running around trying to fix this or that, to becomeenlightened, to know the truth, to be realized is for WHO exactly?Other than a thought, what else do you see in the world that wouldeven care about such a thing?~~~

It was at this point in my life that I began to realize my mind wasnothing but a projection machine. More often than not, what I was

thinking had no basis in reality.~~~Ego consciousness appears as a necessary step on the road to egolessawakening, for how could ultimate absence be seen here if there wereno presence imagined there? And after all, ego consciousness is not a

mistake, for who is there separate to dream it up? Who other thanWhat You Are the Totality dreams anything up~~~Have you ever noticed that only a thought can be unhappy with a

thought?~~~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'thave to pretend that you know anything.~~~Dont hold on to any self -image, because self-image is from the past.~~~I once was a person standing in space, and now Im the space where a

per son stands. ~~~

You are already perfect. You don't have to listen to anything thatdoubts that. Inadequacy is just a thought.


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~~~There is no 'you'... there is only Life disguised as everything.~~~Since everything is constantly changing, which of these 'changes' doyou want to call 'the truth'?~~~The moment your attention is on the timeless 'now', you realize silenceand sound; the moment your attention is on purpose, reasoning andmeanings, you believe the mind.~~~And what could man control when he is unable to control his own

birth, the starting point of his life? And what could man controlwhen he is unable to control his own death, the ending point of hislife? When man is unable to control the beginning point and theending point, how could he control the in-between, illusory story?~~~Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on aknower. The knower is consciousness.

~~~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.~~~Now' is just what is happening--minus everything you think.~~~I can only project what I think is happening. When I stop projecting,all that is left is Wow!~~~This moment. Without any story. The storyless now. What is your directexperience of this moment when you drop ALL stories? Life without

the commentator in the head. Pure Being resting in complete (completemeaning whole, lacking nothing) silence.~~~


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What your ego considers mine, becomes your false identity in thedream. Your ego obscures and hides your true identity, and pretends tobe you.~~~The one who observes change, can he change? Only the changeless cansee the change.~~~When you worry you are saying to god/the universe/life, "I don't trustyou."~~~Feelings are a rotten indicator of what's true.

~~~Don't let the past steal your present.~~~One is pure awareness and the mind owes its existence to thisawareness. When a seeker sees the mind and thoughts arising from themind 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 pureawareness, watching it all happen in this awareness.~~~Furthermore, the more you have the more you want, and you are stuckin a state of "wanting-ness," and there is no lasting satisfaction in thiscircular cycle. Being in a state of "wanting-ness" creates suffering. Bearin mind, having cravings or a desire for anything that belongs in thephysical world is not a source of happiness; instead these cravings area source of unhappiness. It is not the lack of something that is behindyour unhappiness; instead your craving is the root cause behind yourunhappiness.~~~Non-acceptance of change causes suffering.~~~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 lookingout your eyes.~~~The dream is so convincing that it's not until after you wake up thatyou realize just how asleep you were.~~~Appearances/Manifestations come and go. You/Awareness have NEVERmoved.~~~No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is aunified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought

implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implieslimitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least notabsolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or

thought.~~~Due to the mind's dualistic world, as soon as I label something "good,"I have simultaneously created the label "bad" for future use.

~~~Thoughts are like sunglasses; they dont alter your view until you put them on.~~~What is THIS moment like when I experience it without a story?Without checking with mind about what anything means or doesn'tmean? Without going into past or future? Without trying to understandor get anything? What is the storyless NOW like? Only one way to findout...~~~Nothing has ever upset you. No one has ever hurt you.~~~All conflict comes from attachment.~~~You can't 'figure your way out' of the conceptual prison that your

mind has created. The mind cannot 'see' outside the mind. Freedom


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can come only when you leave the entire conceptual frameworkbehind.~~~What you usually call your happiness is actually your chain: Your

job, your home, your possessions...~~~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 ourinsecurity because everything that is outside is already insecure!~~~Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can

never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.~~~If you can forget it or remember it, it is not you therefore discard it. Ifyou can experience it, it is not you therefore discard it. If you canknow it, it is not you therefore discard it. If you can be it, it is not you

therefore discard it.~~~

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 ofsolidity. All the self-definitions, identities and apparent conditioninghinge on the unexamined sense of I. ~~~Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When yourmind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have norelationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment,you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence ofbeingness with itself.~~~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


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absence. The peace's loving stillness has been obscured by the 'I's verypresence!~~~The idea that anything is meant to be taken personally is just that, anidea.~~~Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginaryphenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recogniseyour freedom.~~~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 theraw naked experience and see what happens.~~~Everything is passing enjoy its momentariness.~~~Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.~~~

Everything is simply happening. Life is simply unfolding. Thisincludes your thoughts. You do not create your thoughts; they simplyhappen. When you were 1 min. old did you create your thoughts? Ofcourse not. Then at what point along the line were you shown how tomake thoughts appear?~~~Every second you spend looking for something outside yourself isanother second you spend away from your true self.~~~You have absolutely NOTHING to give up, nothing to surrender,nothing to let go of. You are already the totally free liberated God Self.~~~There is only, ever, ONE speaker and ONE listener and they are

not two.~~~

If it moves, it's not You. What moves? The body, thoughts, sensations, feelings, imagination, people, all forms, everything! Remain still in/as


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what you already are and have never not been. It's when there ismovement away from our Self that is prior to all movement that we getinto trouble. We get swept up in thought and get lost because we arebelieving in something that is not stable, temporary. Relax into thechangelessness of your true nature, which has never, ever, not evenonce!, moved since you took your first breath.~~~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? Dobirds "know" they are flying thru the sky? Do they even "know" theyare 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 thatwater running across the ground or a stream? Concepts, upon concepts,upon concepts. What sees ALL concepts, but remains silent?~~~Judging vs Living. If I am judging this moment, I am not living it. If Iam living it, I am not judging it. Judging is head centered, living isheart 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.~~~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 a ll.

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