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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.02,0:00:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deeper and closer than any image you have of yourself, or even any sense of yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deeper and closer than your gender, than your nationality, your family history,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.22,0:00:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the core of yourself there is freedom and peace and love
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.24,0:00:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting to be discovered by you in your lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.75,0:00:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before I met my teacher I had been a long-time meditator,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.78,0:00:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been twenty years on the spiritual search and I had some wonderful\Nexperiences with different traditions,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.88,0:00:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really extraordinary experiences but I found that they always had a beginning and a middle and an end,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.59,0:01:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when they ended I was left with a ground of suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.29,0:01:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if this is true for you and you have maybe a beautiful meditation practice
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.40,0:01:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there is something that has not been answered in the depth of your being,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.96,0:01:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I offer you simply what my teacher offered me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.80,0:01:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the possibility for direct inquiry\Nand not another practice, and certainly not a dogma,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.58,0:01:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but direct inquiry into who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.64,0:01:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not what you are doing or what you are practicing or what you have accomplished.\Nbut who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.09,0:01:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you? When your attention is turned into the depth of That, there is a fulfillment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.28,0:02:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not, it is not contingent on practice\Nor belief or history or past or future.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.70,0:02:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the fulfillment of self-recognition.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.50,0:02:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I am not a missionary, I don’t enroll\Npeople in this inquiry but if
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.50,0:02:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you have found that regardless of your practice there is still something missing,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.12,0:02:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I invite you to inquire in the deepest way. To ask yourself this question: Who am I?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.66,0:02:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is this? What is my life? And perhaps most essentially, with all the comings and goings in my life:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.74,0:02:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that has remained immovable, ageless, always present? It is a great discovery.