Mystic Dance of Awakening
Number four in our things to avoid on the spiritual search is: the Jesus complex. Yeah… you are not going to become enlightened and save the world. It’s not going to happen. It’s never happened before, and you’re not going to be the first one to do it either. Nothing happens in a vacuum, nothing …
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Don’t try to imagine what enlightenment is like or believe any of the stories that you’ve heard, because if you do, you’ll have created an impossible goal for yourself, and you’ll never find it.
Why is it that people want to have free will? What’s this conversation about it even about? I think it’s because we have been told the lie that we get free will instead of safety. Man has Free Will, and that’s why we do all the terrible things that we do. It’s a cover-up for …
Sooooo… there’s this whole thing about free will going on right now. Do we have free will, or do we not have free will? It’s actually an argument that’s been going on a really long time, but lately, a professor has written a book saying that we don’t have free will, so now everybody’s all …
If nonduality is asking, “Lead us from the false to the real”, then it’s clear that pretending is not going to get us anywhere. — Working through layers of falseness — Working through layers of falseness: Your clothes aren’t you, your personality isn’t you, your emotions aren’t you, your thoughts aren’t you. Then who are …
The number three thing to avoid is: pretending. I know this is a big ask because we’re always pretending and we don’t know we’re pretending. Sometimes we do, right? If you’re in a play and you’re pretending you know that you are pretending. In a poker game you know, and the really good poker players …
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Free Will and nonduality. So, there is a big debate going on right now about whether or not people have free will, and I’d like to talk about that from the point of view of nonduality. The answer is, in short, totally irrelevant. It doesn’t matter, and let me show you maybe a little explanation …
Today’s tip: Don’t talk about nonduality unless you understand it. And you don’t understand it until you’re fully there. — Talking makes nonduality worse — Talking about nonduality when you don’t really understand it, when you’re not there, makes things worse because the point is that talking doesn’t describe it. — Don’t listen to other …
