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    It’s the holding on that hurts, not the letting go.

    It’s the holding on that hurts, not the letting go.

    Beware spiritual materialism. The subtle, seductive tendency to turn the formless, not only into form, but to elevate and separate that form above and from other forms.

    Beware spiritual materialism. The subtle, seductive tendency to turn the formless, not only into form, but to elevate and separate that form above and from other forms.

    It is what we do when we don’t know, don’t understand what we are doing.

    It is what we do when we don’t know, don’t understand what we are doing.

    We deceive ourselves by thinking it can’t be this obvious, this simple, this effortless. It is our thoughts, not our raw awareness, that create confusion, complexity and fantasies of difficulty and sophistication. The delusion that this can’t be it when in reality, it always is.

    We deceive ourselves by thinking it can’t be this obvious, this simple, this effortless. It is our thoughts, not our raw awareness, that create confusion, complexity and fantasies of difficulty and sophistication. The delusion that this can’t be it when in reality, it always is.

    The eternal unfolding of the infinite everything includes the arising of the futile attempts to describe it. A ruler trying to measure itself.

    The eternal unfolding of the infinite everything includes the arising of the futile attempts to describe it. A ruler trying to measure itself.

    Can we be still and attend to this open awareness without describing or narrating?

    Can we be still and attend to this open awareness without describing or narrating?

    We don’t experience things in the present. We are experience and presence simultaneously without separation.

    We don’t experience things in the present. We are experience and presence simultaneously without separation.

    When we truly and honestly inquire into the present moment with open awareness, without concepts or definitions, we paradoxically find the inseparability of emptiness and abundance inextricably interwoven, undeniably present yet undefinable.

    When we truly and honestly inquire into the present moment with open awareness, without concepts or definitions, we paradoxically find the inseparability of emptiness and abundance inextricably interwoven, undeniably present yet undefinable.

    Notice how we don’t experience time in the same way as we experience bodily sensations. When we really look for the experience of time, there’s nothing to be found in the same way as we come up empty handed when really look for the self we think is so central to our experience.

    Notice how we don’t experience time in the same way as we experience bodily sensations. When we really look for the experience of time, there’s nothing to be found in the same way as we come up empty handed when really look for the self we think is so central to our experience.

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