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Beyond good and bad,
beyond right and wrong,

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beyond labels of pain and pleasure,
there is simply this field

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of changing phenomena, 
or what IS.

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Unmediated by the evaluating mind,
unmediated by the 'I' thought.

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And when we meet 
in this empty fullness,

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these words 'I' and 'you' 
no longer make sense.

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To try to hold on to stillness, or to 
push away the world of duality is futile,

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because they are both 
inseparably this One field.

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Form is exactly emptiness, 
emptiness is exactly form.

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To try to comprehend this with the limited
mind, is the greatest of mistakes.

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Let the mind be a 'don't know mind'.

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When this filter is dropped, 
we experience the field directly.

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Let the Mind relax and settle itself.

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Don't resist the mind, but yet 
don't get caught in the mind.

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Whatever you try to hold, 
slips out of your grasp.

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And whatever you resist persists.

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Therefore or to come to stillness,
let go into the moving stream.

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Then both stillness 
and movement disappear.

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Meditation is not the path 
to liberation, it IS liberation.

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True meditation is the dropping
of the doer, dropping of the meditator

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and simply abiding 
in direct presence.

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It is being here now. In a way that
is not mediated by the 'I' thought.

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The ego or the 'I' thought is 
simply resistance to what is.

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To meditate is to let go, 
or surrender that resisting ego,

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burning up all unconscious patterns
within the conditioned self.

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This form of meditation 
is not separate from your life.

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True meditation is coming into 
direct experience with life itself.

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It IS life.

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sitting in silent presence.

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See you in the Stillness.