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You are not your depression. You are not your anxiety or stress. That is but a strange kind of trick of the mind, a strange kind of illusion. You have deluded yourself into thinkingâ though you are not aware of itâthat you are your depression, that you are your anxiety, that you are the thrills that you have. You so much more than a transient emotion.
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I want to give you a taste of the difference between analysis and awareness, or information on the one hand and insight on the other. I want to show how information is not insight, analysis is not awareness, knowledge is not awareness.
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Dag Hammarskjöld, the former UN Secretary-General, put it so beautifully: âGod does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity. But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond all reason.â We donât have to quarrel about a word, because âGodâ is only a word, a concept. One never quarrels about reality; we only quarrel about opinions, about concepts, about judgments. Drop them you will the reality of God everywhere.
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When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. Desire breeds anxiety but we don't want to see it. But when youâve suffered sufficiently, then you will be ready to see it.
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If the eye is unobstructed, it results in sight; if the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing; if the nose is unobstructed, the result is a sense of smell; if the mouth is unobstructed, the result is a sense of taste; if the mind is unobstructed, the result is wisdom.
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Listening to this podcast could be the most important few minutes in your lives. If you could grasp it, youâd hit upon the secret of awakening. You would be happy forever. You would never be unhappy again. Nothing would have the power to upset you again. Nothing.
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"Silence is the great revelation, " said Lao-tse. We are accustomed to think of Scripture as the revelation of God. And so it is. I want you now to discover the revelation that silence brings. To take in the revelation that Scripture offers, you must expose yourself to Scripture. To take in the revelation that silence offers you must first attain silence. And this is not easy. Let us attempt to do this in this exercise.
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One cannot say anything about the awakened state; one can only talk about the sleeping state. One hints at the awakened state. One cannot say anything about happiness. Happiness cannot be defined. What can be defined is misery. Drop unhappiness and you will know. Love cannot be defined; un-love can. Drop un-love, drop fear, and you will know. We want to find out what the awakened person is like. But youâll know only when you get there.
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Slow down and taste and smell and hear, and let your senses come alive. That is extremely important for the process of change. If you want a royal road to mysticism, sit down quietly and listen to all the sounds around you. You do not focus on any one sound; you try to hear them all. Oh, youâll see the miracles that happen to you when your senses come back to life.
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We filter out life constantly, so much so that often we donât see the reality of what is there. Where does the filtering come from? It's our conditioning, our culture, our programming. It's the way we were taught to see things and to experience life. Even the words we choose function as filters. Thereâs another demon doing the filtering, distorting and destroying true perception, haunting us with fear. It's the one called attachment. That filter is the root of all suffering.
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The heart in love remains soft and sensitive. But when youâre hell-bent on getting this or that thing or result or person, you become ruthless, hard, and insensitive. How can you love people when you need people? You can only use them. If I need you to make me happy, Iâve got to use you, Iâve got to manipulate you, Iâve got to find ways and means of winning you. I cannot let you be free. I can only love people when I have emptied my life of the need for people.
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Suppress your desire and you are likely to be tied to it. Whereas if you look at your desire and see it for what it is really worth, and how you are preparing the grounds for misery and disappointment and depression, your desire will then be transformed into a preference. When you go through life with preferences but donât let your happiness depend on any one of them, then youâre awake. Youâre moving toward wakefulness.
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Is psychology more practical than spirituality? Nothing is more practical than spirituality. What can the poor psychologist do? He can only relieve the pressure. Iâm a psychologist myself, and I practice psychotherapy, and I have this great conflict within me when I have to choose sometimes between psychology and spirituality. I wonder if that makes sense to anybody here. It didnât make sense to me for many years until I suddenly discovered that people have to suffer enough in a relationship so that they get disillusioned with all relationships.
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I want to give you a taste of the difference between analysis and awareness, or information on the one hand and insight on the other. Information is not insight, analysis is not awareness, knowledge is not awareness.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance. The only tragedy there is in the world is un-wakefulness and unawareness. From them comes fear, and from fear comes everything else, but death is not a tragedy at all. Dying is wonderful; itâs only horrible to people who have never understood life. Itâs only when youâre afraid of life that you fear death.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding. But what does it mean to understand? How do we go about it? Consider how weâre enslaved by various attachments; weâre striving to rearrange the world so that we can keep these attachments, because the world is a constant threat to them. I fear that a friend may stop loving me; he or she may turn to somebody else. I have to keep making myself attractive because I have to get this other person. Somebody brainwashed me into thinking I need his or her love. But I really donât. I donât need anybodyâs love; I just need to get in touch with reality.
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Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, youâre living in an illusion. Thereâs something seriously wrong with you. Youâre not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? âHe is to blame, she is to blame. Sheâs got to change.â No! The worldâs all right. The one who has to change is you.
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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child. This doesnât mean you should drop your concepts totally; theyâre very precious. Though we begin without them, concepts have a very positive function. Thanks to them we develop our intelligence. Weâre invited, not to become children, but to become like children. We do have to fall from a stage of innocence and be thrown out of paradise; we do have to develop an âIâ and a âmeâ through these concepts. But then we need to return to paradise.
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Do you want to change the world? How about beginning with yourself? How about being transformed yourself first? But how do you achieve that? Through observation. Through understanding. With no interference or judgment on your part. Because what you judge you cannot understand.
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Itâs quite false to think that the way to deny the self is to cause pain to the self, to go in for abnegation, mortification, as these were traditionally understood. To deny the self, to die to it, to lose it, to drop out of the rat race world of the ego is to understand your true nature. When you do that, the self will disappear; it will vanish. To lose the self is to suddenly realize that you are something other than what you thought you were. You thought you were at the center; now you experience yourself as satellite. You thought you were the dancer; you now experience yourself as the dance.
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