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What am I?
Have you ever asked yourself, ‘What am I?’ Have you ever really felt the answer to this question? It is one of the most important things that we have to meditate on. In fact, I would think it is the first thing one should meditate on. Not answering it with words, but simply becoming conscious of the answer. Have you looked at your body and asked yourself whether this body is really yours? At some point in this life I have been implanted into an organic machine called ‘the body’. I never caught the moment of when it happened, but…
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The Four States of Consciousness
Today we will discuss different states of consciousness. We will see how our day-to-day way of being is in fact unconsciousness. We will conclude by saying how, through certain practices, we can enter something called the 3rd state of consciousness. Perhaps during a moment of great danger or of great importance (such as a child being born), you “zoomed out”, felt everything much more clearly, and remembered every detail. Time around you seemed to stop. What happened is that the intensity of such an experience provoked within you a heightened level of perception, where the mind ceased activity while the…
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Why should we awaken the consciousness?
When we realise something, we make something previously unreal – false – real. This is an incredible faculty. This process does not happen through the intellect (it is too fast for that). It also does not happen through any sense (touch, smell, etc.) It happens through pure consciousness.
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Why do We Need Help to Awaken?
Dear fellow soul, You may be wondering, why any technique, any resource, anything at all, is needed for us to realize our only objective – to be here and now. Supposedly nothing could be simpler than that. And yet of course, all of us know – if we ever tried to silence our mind, curb our desires, or to stop a racing heart – how little control we have over our machine, over our body. This struggle of will is perhaps the oldest and only true struggle a man has ever truly participated in. Ever since the symbolic “fall” of…
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I AM NOT THIS BODY 