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is an ancient Sanskrit word, for which there
is no modern equivalent.
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There is a fundamental challenge with making
a film about Samadhi.
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Samadhi points to something that can’t be
conveyed on the level of mind.
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This film is simply the outer manifestation
of my own inner journey.
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The intention is not to teach you about Samadhi,
or provide information for your mind, but
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to inspire you to directly discover your true
nature.
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Samadhi is relevant now more than ever.
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We are at a time in history where we have
not only forgotten Samadhi, but we have forgotten
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This forgetting is Maya, the illusion of the
self.
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As humans most of us live immersed in our
daily lives, with little thought of who we
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are, why we are here, or where we’re going.
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Most of us have never realized the true self,
the soul or what the Buddha called annata
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- that which is beyond name and form, beyond
thinking.
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As a result we believe we are these limited
bodies.
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We live in fear, either conscious or unconscious,
that the limited self structure that we are
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identified with, will die.
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In today's world the vast majority of people
who are engaged in religious or spiritual
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practices such as yoga, prayer, meditation,
chanting or any kind of ritual, are practicing
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techniques which are conditioned.
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Which means they are just part of the ego
construct.
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The seeking and the activity isn’t the problem-
thinking you have found the answer in some
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external form is the problem.
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Spirituality in its most common form is no
different than the pathological thinking that
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is going on everywhere.
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It is a further agitation of the mind.
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More human doing, as opposed to human being.
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The ego construct wants more money, more power,
more love, more of everything.
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Those on the so-called spiritual path desire
to be more spiritual, more awake, more equanimous,
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more peaceful, more enlightened.
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The danger for you watching this film is that
your mind will want to acquire Samadhi . Even
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more dangerous is that your mind might think
it has acquired Samadhi.
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Whenever there is a desire to attain something
you can be sure that it is the ego construct
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Samadhi is not about attaining or adding anything
to yourself.
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To realize Samadhi is to learn to die before
you die.
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Life and death are like yin and yang- an inseparable
continuum.
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Endlessly unfolding, with no beginning and
no end.
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When we push away death, we also push away
life.
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When you experience the truth directly of
who you are, there is no longer fear of life
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We are told who we are by our society and
our culture, and at the same - time we are
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slaves to the deeper unconscious biological
craving and aversion that governs our choices.
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The ego construct is nothing more than the
impulse to repeat.
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It is simply the path that energy once took
and the tendency for the energy to take that
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path again, whether it is positive or negative
for the organism.
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There are endless levels of memory or mind,
spirals within spirals.
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When your consciousness identifies with this
mind or ego construct, it ties you to social
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conditioning, which you could call the matrix.
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There are aspects of the ego that we can be
conscious of, but it is the unconscious, the
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archaic wiring, the primal existential fears,
that are actually driving the whole machine.
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Endless patterns of grasping towards pleasure
and avoidance of pain are sublimated into
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pathological behaviours .... our work....
our relationships.... our beliefs, our very
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thoughts, and our whole way of living.
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Like cattle, most humans live and die in passive
subjugation, feeding their lives to the matrix.
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We live lives locked into narrow patterns.
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Lives often filled with great suffering, and
it never occurs to us that we can actually
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It is possible to let go of the life that
has been inherited from the past, to live
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the one that is waiting to come forth through
the inner world.
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We were all born into this world with biological
conditioned structures, but without self awareness.
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Often when you look into a young child's eyes
there is no trace of self, only luminous emptiness.
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The person one grows into is a mask worn over
consciousness.
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Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players".
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In an awakened individual, consciousness shines
through the personality, through the mask.
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When you are awake, you don't become identified
with your character.
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You don't believe that you are the masks that
you are wearing.
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But nor do you give up playing a role.
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When we are identified with our character, our persona
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this is Maya, the illusion of the self.
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Samadhi is awakening from the dream of your character in the play of life.
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Twenty-four hundred years after Plato wrote
the Republic, humanity is still making its
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way out of Plato's cave.
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In fact we may be more transfixed by illusions
than ever.
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Plato had Socrates describe a group of people
who lived chained in a cave all of their lives,
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facing a blank wall.
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All they could see were shadows projected
on the wall by the things passing in front
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of a fire which was behind them.
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This puppet show becomes their world.
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According to Socrates, the shadows were as
close as the prisoners would ever get to seeing
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Even after being told about the outside world
they continued to believe that the shadows
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were all that is.
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Even if they suspected there was something
more they were unwilling to leave what was
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Humanity today is like the people who have
only seen the shadows on the cave wall.
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The shadows are analogous to our thoughts.
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The world of thinking is the only world that
we know.
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But there is another world that is beyond
thinking.
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Beyond the dualistic mind.
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Are you willing to leave the cave, to leave
all that you have known to find out the truth
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In order to experience Samadhi it is necessary
to turn attention away from the shadows, away
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from the thoughts towards the light.
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When a person is only used to darkness then
they must gradually become accustomed to the
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Like acclimatizing to any new paradigm it
takes time and effort, and a willingness to
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explore the new, as well as shed the old.
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The mind can be likened to a trap for consciousness,
a labyrinth or a prison.
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It is not that you are in prison, you are
the prison.
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The prison is an illusion.
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If you are identified with an illusory self,
then you are asleep.
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Once you are aware of the prison, if you fight
to get out of the illusion, then you are treating
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the illusion as if it is real and you still
remain asleep, except now the dream becomes
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You will be chasing and running from shadows
forever.
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Samadhi is awakening from the dream of the
separate self or the egoic construct.
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Samadhi is awakening from identification with
the prison that I call me.
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You can never actually be free, because wherever
you go your prison is there.
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Awakening is not about get rid of the mind
or the matrix, on the contrary; when you are
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not identified with it, then you can experience
the play of life more fully, enjoying the
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show as it is, without craving or fear.
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In the ancient teachings this was called the
divine game of Leila: the game of playing
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Human consciousness is a continuum.
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On one extreme, humans are identified with
the material self.
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On the other extreme is Samadhi, the cessation
of self.
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Every step we take on the continuum towards
Samadhi, brings less suffering.
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Less suffering does not mean life is free
from pain.
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Samadhi is beyond the duality of pain and
pleasure.
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What it means is that there is less mind,
less self creating resistance to whatever
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unfolds and that resistance is what creates
suffering.
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Realizing Samadhi even once allows you to
see what is at the other end of the continuum.
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To see that there is something other than
the material world and self interest.
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When there is an actual cessation of the self
structure in Samadhi there is no egoic thought,
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no self, no duality yet there is still the
I am, annata or no self.
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In that emptiness is the dawn of prajna or
wisdom- the understanding that the immanent
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self is far beyond the play of duality, beyond
the entire continuum.
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The immanent self is timeless, unchanging,
always now.
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Enlightenment is the merging of the primordial
spiral, the ever-changing manifested world
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or lotus in which time unfolds, with your
timeless being.
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Your inner wiring grows like an ever-unfolding
flower as you disidentify with the self, becoming
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a living bridge between the world of time
and the timeless.
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Merely realizing the immanent self is only
the beginning of one’s path.
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Most people will have to experience and lose
Samadhi countless times in meditation before
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they are able to integrate it into other facets
of life.
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It is not unusual to have profound insights
into the nature of your being during meditation
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or self inquiry, only to find yourself once
again falling back into old patterns, forgetting
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the truth of who you are.
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To realize that stillness or emptiness in
every facet of life, every facet of one’s
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self, is to become emptiness dancing as all
things.
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Stillness is not something separate from movement.
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It is not opposite to movement.
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In Samadhi stillness is recognized to be identical
with movement, form is identical to emptiness.
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This is nonsensical to the mind because mind
is the coming into being of duality.
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Rene Descartes, the father of western philosophy,
is famous for the saying “I think therefore
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No other phrase more clearly encapsulates
the fall of civilisation and the full scale
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identification with the shadows on the cave
wall.
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Descartes’ error, like the error of almost
all humans, was the equating of fundamental
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being with thinking.
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At the beginning of his most famous treatise,
Descartes wrote that almost everything can
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be called into doubt; he can doubt his senses,
and even his thoughts.
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Likewise in the Kalama Sutra the Buddha said
that in order to ascertain the truth, one
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must doubt all traditions, scriptures, teachings
and all of the content of one’s mind and
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Both of these men started with great scepticism,
but the difference was that Descartes stopped
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inquiring at the level of thinking, while
the Buddha went deeper- he penetrated beyond
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the deepest levels of the mind.
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Maybe if Descartes had gone beyond his thinking
mind, he would have realized his true nature
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and Western consciousness would be very different
today.
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Instead, Descartes described the possibility
of an evil demon that could be keeping us
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under a veil of illusion.
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Descartes did not recognize this evil demon
for what it was.
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As in the movie the Matrix, we could all be
hooked up to some elaborate program feeding
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us an illusory dream world.
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In the movie, humans lived out their lives
in the matrix, while on another level they
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were merely batteries, feeding their life
force to the machines which used their energy
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for their own agenda.
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People always want to blame something outside
of themselves for the state of the world or
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for their own unhappiness.
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Whether it is a person, a particular group
or country, religion or some kind of controlling
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Illuminati like Descartes’ evil demon, or
the sentient machines in the Matrix.
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Ironically, the demon that Descartes envisioned
was the very thing that he defined himself
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When you realize Samadhi, it becomes clear
that there is a controller, there is a machine,
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and evil demon leaching your life day after
day.
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The machine is you.
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Your self structure is made up of many little
conditioned sub-programs or little bosses.
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One little boss that craves food, another
craves money, another status, position, power,
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Another wants consciousness or attention from
others.
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The desires are literally endless and can
never be satisfied.
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We spend a lot of our time and energy decorating
our prisons, succumbing to pressures to improve
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our masks, and feeding the little bosses,
making them more powerful.
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Like drug addicts, the more we try to satisfy
the little bosses, the more we end up craving.
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The path to freedom is not self improvement,
or somehow satisfying the self’s agenda,
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but it’s a dropping of the self’s agenda
altogether.
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Some people fear that awakening their true
nature will mean that they lose their individuality
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and enjoyment of life.
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Actually, the opposite is true; the unique
individuation of the soul can only be expressed
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when the conditioned self is overcome.
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Because we remain asleep in the matrix most
of us never find out what the soul actually
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wants to express.
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The path to Samadhi involves meditation, which
is both observing the conditioned self; that
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which changes, and realizing your true nature;
that which does not change.
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When you come to your still point, the source
of your being, then you await further instructions
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without any insistence on how your outer world
has to change.
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Not my will, but higher will be done.
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If the mind only tries to change the outer
world to conform with some idea of what you
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think the path should be, it is like trying
to change the image in a mirror by manipulating
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To make the image in a mirror smile you obviously
can’t manipulate the reflection, you have
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to realize the you that is the authentic source
of the reflection.
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Once you realize the authentic self, it doesn’t
mean that anything on the outside necessarily
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What changes is the conscious, intelligent,
inner energy or prana which is freed from
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conditioned patterns and becomes available
to be directed by the soul.
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You can only become aware of the soul’s
purpose when you are able to watch the conditioned
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self and its endless pursuits, and let them
go.
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In Greek mythology, it was said that the gods
condemned Sisyphus to repeat a meaningless
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task for all eternity.
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His task was to endlessly push a boulder up
a mountain, only to have it roll down again.
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French existentialist and Nobel Prize winning
author, Albert Camus, saw the situation of
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Sisyphus as a metaphor for humanity.
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He asked the question, ‘How can we find
meaning in this absurd existence?’.
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As humans we are toiling endlessly, building
for a tomorrow that never arrives, and then
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If we truly realize this truth then we will
either go mad if we are identified with our
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egoic personas, or we will awaken and become
free.
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We can never succeed in the outer struggle,
because it is just a reflection of our inner
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The cosmic joke, the absurdity of the situation
becomes clear when there is a complete and
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utter failure of the egoic self to awaken
through its futile pursuits.
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In Zen there is a saying, “Before enlightenment
chop wood, carry water.
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After enlightenment chop wood, carry water”.
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Before enlightenment one must roll the ball
up the hill, after enlightenment one must
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also roll the ball up the hill.
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What has changed?
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The inner resistance to what is.
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The struggle has been dropped, or rather the
one who struggles has been realized to be
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The individual will or individual mind and
divine will, or higher mind, are aligned.
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Samadhi is ultimately a dropping of all inner
resistance - to all changing phenomena, without
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The one who is able to realize inner peace,
irrespective of circumstance has attained
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You drop resistance not because you condone
one thing or another, but so that your inner
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freedom is not contingent on the outer.
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It’s important to note that when we accept
reality as it is, it doesn’t necessarily
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mean that we stop taking action in the world,
or we become meditating pacifists.
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Actually the opposite can be true; when we’re
free to act without being driven by unconscious
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motives, then it is possible to act in alignment
with the Tao, with the full force of our inner
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energy behind us.
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Many will argue that in order to change the
world and bring about peace we need to fight
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harder against our perceived enemies.
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Fighting for peace is like shouting for silence;
it just creates more of what you don’t want.
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These days there is a war against everything:
a war against terror, a war against disease,
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a war against hunger.
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Every war is actually a war against ourselves.
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The fight is part of a collective delusion.
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We say that we want peace, but we continue
to elect leaders who engage in war.
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We lie to ourselves saying that we are for
human rights, but continue to buy products
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made in sweatshops.
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We say we want clean air, but we continue
to pollute.
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We want science to cure us of cancer but won’t
change our self-destructive habitual behaviours
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that make us more likely to be sick.
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We delude ourselves that we are promoting
a better life.
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We don’t want to see our hidden parts that
are condoning suffering and death.
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The belief that we can win a war against cancer,
hunger, terror, or any enemy that was created
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by our own thinking and behaviour, actually
lets us continue to delude ourselves that
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we don’t have to change the way that we
operate on this planet.
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The inner world is where the revolution must
first take place.
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Only when we can directly feel the spiral
of life within will the outer world come into
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alignment with the Tao.
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Until then, anything we do will add to the
chaos already created by the mind.
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War and peace arise together in an endless
dance; they are one continuum.
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One half cannot exist without the other.
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Just as light cannot exist without dark, and
up cannot exist without down.
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The world seems to want light without darkness,
fullness without emptiness, happiness without
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The more the mind gets involved, the more
fragmented the world becomes.
00:37:38
Every solution that comes from the egoic mind
is driven by the idea that there is a problem,
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and the solution becomes an even greater problem
than what it was trying to solve.
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What you resist persists.
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Human ingenuity creates new antibiotics only
to find nature getting more cunning as bacteria
00:38:16
Despite our best efforts in the ongoing fight,
the prevalence of cancer is actually increasing,
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the number of hungry people in the world steadily
grows, the number of terrorist attacks worldwide
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continues to rise.
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What’s wrong with our approach?
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Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Goethe’s
poem, we have taken hold of a great power,
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but do not have the wisdom to wield it.
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The problem is that we do not understand the
tool that we are using.
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We do not understand the human mind and its
proper role and purpose.
00:39:18
The crisis is born of the limited conditioned
way in which we think, the way we feel and
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Our rationalism has robbed us of our ability
to recognize and experience the wisdom of
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many ancient cultures.
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Our egoic thinking has robbed us of the ability
to feel the depth and profound sacredness
00:39:54
of life, the numinosity of life, and to realize
entirely different levels of consciousness,
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which are now almost lost to humanity.
00:40:11
In the ancient Egyptian tradition, Neters
were archetypal forms whose characteristics
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could be embodied by those who purified their
physical and spiritual bodies in such a way
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that they were fit to house higher consciousnesses.
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The original Neter, or the divine principle
of this wisdom was known as Thoth or Tehuti.
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Often depicted as a scribe with the head of
a bird or Ibis, and represented the origin
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of all knowledge and wisdom.
00:40:49
Thoth could be described as the cosmic principle
of thinking or thought.
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Thoth gave us language, concepts, writing,
mathematics, and all the arts and manifestations
00:41:05
Only those who had gone through special training
were allowed to access Thoth’s sacred knowledge.
00:41:15
The book of Thoth is not a physical book,
but is the wisdom of the akashic or etheric
00:41:27
Legend tells that Thoth’s knowledge was
deeply hidden in a secret place within every
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human being, and was protected by a golden
serpent.
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The archetypal or perennial myth of the serpent
or dragon guarding a treasure is one that
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permeates many cultures and has been called
by names such as kundalini shakti, chi, holy
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spirit, and inner energy.
00:42:06
The golden serpent is the egoic construct
which is bound in the inner energies and until
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it is mastered and overcome, the soul will
never be able to attain true wisdom.
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It was said that the book of Thoth brought
nothing but suffering to any individual who
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read it, even though they would find the secrets
of the gods themselves and all that is hidden
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within the stars.
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What must be understood is that the book brought
suffering to any individual who read it, any
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ego that tried to control it.
00:42:45
In the Egyptian tradition awakened consciousness
was represented by Osiris.
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Without this awakened consciousness, any knowledge
or understanding obtained by the limited self
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would be dangerous, disconnected from higher
wisdom.
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The eye of Horus had to be open.
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The esoteric meaning that we find here is
similar to the more familiar story of “the
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fall” in the garden of Eden.
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The book of Thoth parallels the book of knowledge
of good and evil whose fruit Adam and Eve
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were tempted to eat.
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Humanity of course has already eaten the forbidden
fruit, already opened the book of Thoth, and
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has been cast out of the garden.
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The serpent is a metaphor for the primordial
spiral that extends from the microcosm to
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Today the serpent is living as you.
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It is the egoic mind expressed as the manifested
world.
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We have never before had access to so much
knowledge.
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We have gone deep into the material world,
even finding the so-called God particle, but
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we have never been more limited, more ignorant
of who we are, how to live, and we do not
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understand the mechanism by which we create
suffering.
00:45:28
Our thinking has created the world as it is
now.
00:45:32
Whenever we label something as good or bad,
or create preference in our mind it is due
00:45:37
to the coming into being of egoic structures
or self interests.
00:45:44
The solution is not to fight for peace or
conquer nature, but to simply recognize the
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truth; that the very existence of the ego
structure creates duality, a split between
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self and other, mine and yours, man and nature,
inner and outer.
00:46:10
The ego is violence; it requires a barrier,
a boundary from the other in order to be.
00:46:19
Without ego there is no war against anything.
00:46:24
There is no hubris, there is no overreaching
nature to create profit.
00:46:30
These external crises in our world reflect
a serious inner crises; we don’t know who
00:46:41
We are completely identified with our egoic
identities, consumed by fears and are cut
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off from our true nature.
00:46:50
Races, religions, countries, political affiliations,
any group that we belong to, all reinforce
00:47:00
our egoic identities.
00:47:04
Almost every group that exists on the planet
today wants to claim its perspective as true
00:47:10
and correct, as we do on an individual level.
00:47:15
By claiming the truth as its own, the group
perpetuates its own existence in the same
00:47:21
way that an ego or self structure defines
itself against other.
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Now more than ever different realities and
polarized belief systems are co-existing on
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It is possible for different people to experience
completely different thoughts and emotional
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reactions to the very same external phenomena.
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In the same way, samsara and nirvana, heaven
and hell, are two different dimensions occupying
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the very same world.
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An event that may appear apocalyptic to one
person, could be seen as a blessing to another.
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So what is becoming obvious is that your external
circumstances don’t have to affect your
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inner world in any particular way.
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To realize Samadhi is to become a self-propelled
wheel, to become autonomous, a universe unto
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Your experience of life is not contingent
on changing phenomena.
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An analogy can be made with Metatron’s cube.
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Metatron is mentioned in various ancient Christian,
Islamic and Jewish texts, and is archetypally
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related to the Egyptian Neter Thoth, as well
as Hermes Trismegistus of Greece.
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Metatron is intimately connected with the
tetragrammaton.
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The tetragrammaton is the fundamental geometric
pattern, the template or primordial emanation
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of physical reality, which has been called
the word of God or Logos.
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Here we see a two dimensional representation
of the figure, but if you look a certain way,
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you see a three D cube.
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When you see the cube, nothing has changed
in the figure, but your mind has added a new
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dimension to your seeing.
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Dimensionality or one’s perspective is simply
a matter of becoming habituated to a new way
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of perceiving the world.
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Upon realizing Samadhi we become free of perspective,
or free to create new perspectives, because
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there is no self invested in or attached to
a particular viewpoint.
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The greatest minds in human history have often
pointed to levels of thought beyond the limited
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Einstein said “The true measure of a human
being is determined primarily by the measure
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and sense in which he has attained liberation
from the self.”
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So it’s not that thinking and the existence
of the self is bad, thinking is a wonderful
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tool when the mind is in service to the heart.
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In Vedanta it is said that the mind makes
a good servant but a poor master.
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The ego perpetually filters reality through
language and labels, and is constantly judging.
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Preferring one thing over another.
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When the mind and senses are your master,
they will create endless suffering, endless
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craving and aversion, locking us into the
matrix of thinking.
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If you want to realize Samadhi, do not judge
your thoughts as good or bad, but find out
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who you are prior to thought, prior to the
senses.
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When all labels are dropped then it is possible
to see things as they are.
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The moment a child is told what a bird is,
if they believe what they’re told then they
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never see a bird again.
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They only see their thoughts.
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Most people think that they are free, conscious
and awake.
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If you believe you are already awake, then
why would you do the difficult work to attain
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what you believe you already have?
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Before it becomes possible to awaken, it is
necessary to accept that you are asleep, living
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Examine your life honestly, without lying
to yourself.
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Are you able to stop your robotic, repetitive
life patterns if you want to?
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Can you stop seeking pleasure and avoiding
pain, are you addicted to certain foods, activities,
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Are you constantly judging, blaming, criticizing
yourself and others?
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Does your mind incessantly seek out stimulus,
or are you completely fulfilled just being
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Do you react to how people think about you?
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Are you seeking approval, positive reinforcement?
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Do you somehow sabotage situations in your
life?
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Most people will experience their lives the
same way today as they will tomorrow and a
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year from now, and ten years from now.
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When you begin to observe your robot-like
nature you become more awake.
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You begin to recognize the depth of the problem.
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You are completely and utterly asleep, lost
in a dream.
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Like the inhabitants of Plato’s cave, most
who hear this truth will not be willing or
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capable of changing their lives because they
are attached to their familiar patterns.
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We go to great lengths justifying our patterns,
burying our heads in the sand rather than
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facing the truth.
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We want our saviours, but we are not willing
to get up on the cross ourselves.
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What are you willing to pay to be free?
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Realize that if you change your inner world,
you must be prepared to change the outer life.
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Your old structure and your old identity must
become the dead soil out of which new growth
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The first step to awakening is to realize
that we are identified with the matrix of
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the human mind, with the mask.
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Something within us must hear this truth and
be roused from its slumber.
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There is a part of you, something timeless,
that has always known the truth.
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The matrix of the mind distracts us, entertains
us, keeps us endlessly doing, consuming, grasping,
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in a cycle of craving and aversion with constantly
changing forms, keeping us from the flowering
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of our consciousness, from our evolutionary
birthright which is Samadhi.
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Pathological thinking is what passes for normal
life.
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Your divine essence has become enslaved, identified
with the limited self structure.
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The great wisdom, the truth of who you are
is buried deep within your being.
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J. Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure
of one’s health to be well adjusted to a
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profoundly sick society.”
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Identification with the egoic mind is the
sickness and Samadhi is the cure.
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The saints, sages and awakened beings throughout
history have all learned the wisdom of self-surrender.
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How is it possible to realize the true self?
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When you peer through the veil of Maya, and
let go of the illusory self, what is left?