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Deeper and closer than any image you have of yourself, or even any sense of yourself,

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deeper and closer than your gender, than your nationality, your family history,

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in the core of yourself there is freedom and peace and love

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waiting to be discovered by you in your lifetime.

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Before I met my teacher I had been a long-time meditator,

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I had been twenty years on the spiritual search and I had some wonderful
experiences with different traditions,

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really extraordinary experiences but I found that they always had a beginning and a middle and an end,

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and when they ended I was left with a ground of suffering.

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So if this is true for you and you have maybe a beautiful meditation practice

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but there is something that has not been answered in the depth of your being,

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then I offer you simply what my teacher offered me,

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which is the possibility for direct inquiry
and not another practice, and certainly not a dogma,

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but direct inquiry into who you are.

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That is not what you are doing or what you are practicing or what you have accomplished.
but who you are.

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Who are you? When your attention is turned into the depth of That, there is a fulfillment

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that is not, it is not contingent on practice
or belief or history or past or future.

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It's the fulfillment of self-recognition.

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So, I am not a missionary, I don’t enroll
people in this inquiry but if

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if you have found that regardless of your practice there is still something missing,

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then I invite you to inquire in the deepest way. To ask yourself this question: Who am I?

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What is this? What is my life? And perhaps most essentially, with all the comings and goings in my life:

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What is it that has remained immovable, ageless, always present? It is a great discovery.