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"All of this is so incredibly simple. We learned that whatever happens in our minds it blocks you from going somewhere. I'm saying that awareness, the goal of all enquiry, cannot be on the other side of working through any process. Because awareness is that within which even the attempt to work through to get to something, arises and is perceived.
I want to repeat it. Usually I'm not good at repeating things, but this I'll repeat for you: We have the feeling that to get to Truth, you must work through something. Some method, some process, untangle some knots, climb some mountain, sit in some cave, something and then..Truth is the prize at the end of your striving. But awareness, which is synonymous with truth, is that already that within which the striving, the attempt and the practice arises and is perceived.
This is an atomic discovery. And this is what's called the power of maya. You think you have to go somewhere to find Truth because you think Truth is other than you, it's somewhere else, its a location. You can put it whatever image you want to give it.. maybe you may call it the Buddhaland, or heaven or sort of like the Buddha-mind or Christ consciousness or whatever. But in a subtle way, mind phenomenalizes something, like it does with enlightenment and awakening..like it's a space I'll be able to reach where I'll be able to turn water into wine and whatever it is that you feel because of the stories that we hear and so on, and these stories, I take them to be true also, that these things happen in it, but they are not a condition that needs to happen to get to somwhere. [For] this somewhere is right here. You are that. But you have not been educated to even recognize that you could be perfect from the beginning. You think that you'll be pefect at the end. And therefore a journey comes into play. The birth of all religions come out of this." Stop struggling..forget about it. It's that simple.
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