The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.
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The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
You aren__ actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the __hought up_ entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.
Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn__ mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.
Looking forward_ to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.
Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent _ the truth of who you are.
All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.
At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped__ody, mind, all states, all things__verything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that can become enlightened, because there is no I that can experience it.
Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.
Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.
The Divine has created this moment in time. It is a very powerful moment, where there is only one way and that way is that you completely let go. Completely let go of what is known, what is safe, and move into the space of beauty.
Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.
The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.
The practice is simple. Whatever you're doing, do that with total awareness.
I sit up and stare with eyes closed, perceiving the infinity of this dimension, so grateful to experience this, comfortable with the idea of this journey either ending shortly or continuing forever.