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Tiny Revolutions №76: Poking Holes in Our Stories
There is the image of the man who imagines himself to be a prisoner in a cell.12 He stands at one end of this small, dark, barren room, on his toes, with arms stretched upward, hands grasping for support onto a small, barred window, the room’s only apparent source of light. If he holds on tight, straining toward the window, turning his head just so
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So it’s not so much that we need to change ourselves, but rather it is our relationship with our experience that needs to shift, where our perception of conflict can naturally fall away on its own. It’s the only thing that actually opens us to peace, to reality, to seeing clearly. In the end, that’s all spiritual freedom is: a simple seeing of self
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To liberate yourself from craving, you have to try something different: resist the impulse to escape and simply look, calmly, into the void. You really don’t know anything about it (having avoided it your entire life), so be neutral about it. It may surprise you. In fact, when you stare patiently into the inner abyss, you begin to sense something y
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I asked her once again, “Experience the same memory, but withhold your story, withhold the conclusions your mind has made. Don’t judge yourself for making them; just see if you can experience the story without them.” Once again, she closed her eyes and imagined what had happened, and then she opened her eyes, and I said, “Before you tell yourself a
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We all come to practice with questions, perhaps the most basic of which is “Why am I suffering?” We also come to practice with our private answers to that question, answers that involve blaming ourselves or others, or which catch us in endless cycles of hope and disappointment. These answers lie buried within our minds as grim unconscious beliefs,
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The whole of the ancient, master teachings on suffering come down to this: Suffering is the notion “This isn’t it,” and it’s variants such as, “I can’t bear this, it shouldn’t be happening,” and “I have to know how this will turn out” and “What if it gets worse?”
Freedom, waking up and fearlessness come down to the simplicity of, “Wait a minute, wha
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