Being Just This Moment: My Awakening journey

The deepening of the interest in stage two becomes almost an obsession with the nature of identity. We start to pour more and more of our energy into asking, “Who am I?” or “What is consciousness?” or “What was my face before my parents were born?” or “Where does suffering end?” At some point, we become so absorbed in the inquiry that we lose the s

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I felt poverty-stricken about never having had any experiences that felt like bliss, clarity, or luminosity. I began to feel depressed that I didn’t measure up to any of these glowing words. Fortunately, I put that book down and picked up something simple about just being alive with who you are right now – nothing special, no big deal, ordinary: ju

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We had mistakenly equated ourselves with the outer phenomena of our hectic life—the body and its experiences, the obligations, the jobs, the titles, the activities, the problems, and the feelings. But now we realize that we are the timeless space in which the phenomena are happening. We are not the flickering images playing out their drama on the m

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