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What we are going to describe

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has been called ‘The Secret Of Secrets’,

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the esoteric wisdom that leads to samadhi.

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Samadhi is the goal of all spirituality,

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its union with the source.

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the truth of who or what you are.

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The truth that transcends the limited mind,

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cannot be seen by means of the limited mind.

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The still point cannot be reached

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by means of movement. If you want to

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realize the still point beyond thinking,

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let go of all interest in thoughts and sensations,

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all preferences, all phenomena

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generated by the mind and senses,

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and rest in naked awareness.

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There are two fundamental dimensions

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to existence in this moment.

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There's that which is changing

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and that which is unchanging.

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Thoughts and sensations are a field

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of constantly changing phenomena.

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What is unchanging is the awareness

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of that field of change.

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We are usually so caught up in the field

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of change, fixated on its objects, that we

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ignored the dimension of awareness.

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So we start our investigation by

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becoming aware of awareness,

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conscious of Consciousness.

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The challenge with resting in awareness

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for long periods of time, is that

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most people have not cultivated

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the concentration and equanimity

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to stay in awareness.

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We are addicted to comfort

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and the limited mind will want

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to escape from this exercise,

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it will find it profoundly uncomfortable

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and will create every type of

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hindrance or distraction.

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There are two primary knots that

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bind us to ego identification.

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The body is attached to comfort

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and the mind wants to know.

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If we continue to seek the comfort

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of the body and continue to seek

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knowing with the mind,

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we will never move beyond the

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limited mind and body.

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We will remain like a herd animal,

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a creature that craves pleasure

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and avoids pain, endlessly responding

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to stimulus, endlessly doing,

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and unaware of the dimension of being.

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To be aware, to be fully attentive to

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what is happening, without the mediation

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of egoic conditioning, without concepts,

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without controlling, manipulating

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or distortion, without the filtering

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of the limited mind,

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is to be present without choosing.

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Present without choosing and therefore

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without a chooser.

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Every time the mind moves without your

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willing, even the tiniest movement,

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it is due to filtering through the

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conditioning of the self-structure.

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The path leads to cessation of

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the entire whirlpool of mind.

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To realizing all levels of self as empty.

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How do I drop all doing,

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how do I drop mind activity?

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Listen closely, this is the paradox.

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The limited egoic mind hears that

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question and wants to know how,

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but that limited mind can't do it.

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The mind will always fail in any attempt

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to realize stillness, because the mind is movement.

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The mind itself is movement,

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it is an endless process of doing.

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We have to make the shift from doing

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to BEIGN.

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The you that you think you are is a

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process a constant movement,

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a collection of patterns.

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That YOU has to die.

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The pathological pattern of you

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has to end for Samadhi to be realized.

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Let that sink in...

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Spiritual teachers have given

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the instruction to reach Samadhi.

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Be still and know.

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Be still and know the True Self.

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Primordial Awareness beyond name and form.

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Be still and know that you are God.

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What exactly do they mean?

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What is it that becomes still?

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Obviously no one's physical body can

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become absolutely still,

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existing within time and space.

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Because time-space itself is movement.

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Time-space is mind,

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the Universe is big mind or Logos.

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The first Hermetic principle is that

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The All is mind, the Universe is mental.

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If the Universe is mind and mind is movement,

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how can I be still and know?

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How can you be still on a globe spinning

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a thousand miles per hour around its axis,

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spinning 67 000 miles per hour around the Sun,

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moving 500 000 miles per hour around the Galaxy,

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and millions more through the Universe?

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Your heart is beating, cells are moving inside,

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food digesting, the brain producing brain waves.

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Your blood is pumping, energy is moving,

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how can we be still?

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when the spiritual Masters say be still

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and know

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they must be talking about something

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else

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something Beyond time and space

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something beyond the physical and mental

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what is meant by Stillness is something

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that we have no word for in our modern

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language system

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the Sanskrit language the language of

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the yogis has more precise terms which

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point to the non-dual

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the term shunyata is often translated as

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voidness

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Stillness or emptiness

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it is what is used in connection with

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anata or no self

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the realization of Buddha nature

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Stillness is maybe the closest English

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word

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but it is inadequate to describe

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something that is not of this dualistic

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world

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what is actually realized is the

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primordial Consciousness which is beyond

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Stillness and movement Beyond Time

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it is eternal the ground of your being

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the essential nature of reality that

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does not change actually it is beyond

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change and the changeless

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when our true nature is realized it

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becomes obvious that Stillness and

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movement are a duality created by the

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Mind silence and noise are a duality

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created by the mind

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everything is already inherent within

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that primordial Stillness

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the movement of the world is identical

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to Stillness

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be still and know

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be in motion and know

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it is all emptiness dancing this is not

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something philosophical but an entirely

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different way of interfacing with the

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world

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actually it's about dropping the

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interface

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dropping the reducing valve which is the

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self-structure and experiencing your

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true nature unmediated by the Limited

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mind

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the so-called outer world is transcended

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by realizing Stillness

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which when realized includes that which

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it transcends

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The Duality of Stillness and movement

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collapses

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realizing samadhi this Great Awakening

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is just the beginning of the path

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Anjali says that the entire Endeavor of

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yoga is aimed at the cessation of the

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whirlpool of the Mind

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chitta virti naroda

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you could say it is the cessation of

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karma

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the cessation of deep unconscious

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patterns on many different levels

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when we realize our true nature we

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temporarily cease our identification and

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reaction to the mind

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[Music]

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it's like pulling the plug on a fan

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when we pulled the plug on a fan the

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inertia of the Fan's blades keeps it

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going

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as long as we don't plug the fan back in

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it will eventually come to Stillness

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karma is simply the tendency for energy

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to follow established pathways

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when Consciousness slips back into

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pattern it's like plugging in the fan

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energy follows Consciousness energy goes

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back into the old patterns

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another way of describing it is through

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the law of inertia

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a mind in motion stays in motion unless

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acted upon by an outside force

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[Music]

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in The Matrix of the conditioned mind

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that we call the universe

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energy and thought cycle through fractal

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labyrinths that exist on a Continuum for

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micro to macro levels

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branching and exploring endlessly

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foreign

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practice is an intervention

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an outside force

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a Consciousness which diverts energy

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from flowing in the conditioned Pathways

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you have to be willing to change your

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life

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someone can do all the meditation in the

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world but if they go back to their same

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old patterns

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their same old routine

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then the wiring remains in place

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foreign

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conscious motivations must be excavated

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and faced

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if through great perseverance and

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determination we managed to not plug in

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the fan then there is an actual

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cessation of the brities

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profound silence that is born within the

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self-structure

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every time we identify with and react to

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some preference produced by the mind we

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plug the fan back in the longer we

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remain in awareness

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the more of the samskaras are purified

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the more the fan slows down

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and the human vessel becomes more

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permeable to awareness the more we

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become empty of self