Awake: It's Your Turn
The looking/questioning, the sense of you, the gap, and the thought-stuff, are all the same flowing substance.
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
These habituated thought patterns have life force. If you acknowledge their presence and give them permission to be what they are, they will stop being any kind of trouble for you.
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
“Whip, rope, person, and bull—all merge in No-Thing. This heaven is so vast no message can stain it. How may a snowflake exist in a raging fire? Mediocrity is gone. Mind is clear of limitation. I seek no state of enlightenment. Neither do I remain where no enlightenment exists. Since I linger in neither condition, eyes cannot see me. If hundreds of
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If you find yourself in that pure looking-seeing-being but landing nowhere specific and there are no thoughts, you are doing pure self-inquiry. Just keep at it. Stay in the gap.
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery, and omitting all compliment and com
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A thought is a thought. They come spontaneously and are produced in mass quantities on a daily basis. As was mentioned in an earlier section, no one thought is any better or worse than any other.
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
“Astride the bull, I reach home. I am serene. The bull too can rest. The dawn has come. Within my thatched dwelling I have abandoned the whip and rope. All is one law, not two. We only make the bull a temporary subject. It is as the relation of rabbit and trap, of fish and net. It is as gold and dross, or the moon emerging from a cloud. One path of
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I choose to be completely receptive to thoughts. They have all of my attention right now. I welcome them. You make the awareness of thoughts as thoughts, the most interesting thing to you in this moment.
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
We live in a world of personas constantly trying to project the image that we are stable, unafraid, and “have it together.” We share this currency of persona among one another, constantly reconvincing ourselves that it is what is real about us.