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Who are you?

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You are beyond the body,
mind and personality,

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beyond all experience.

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Be still and awaken to
the realization of who you are.

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I heard this stuff what drives me crazy,
part of me drives me crazy, because

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on the one hand something
in you recognize the truth of it,

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but there is no way I can get there.

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I have never experienced myself
as any of those things.

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So I thought in preparing this talk for me
and stand up here and give you all these

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spiritual truth about, you know:

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when we're not addicted, we're presence

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and when we're not addicted
then we're in love

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and when we're not addicted
then we're wisdom

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and we're being and we're
the universe and we're connection.

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I'm sure that stuff is true,
but I have never been there.

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How can stand and give you all that stuff?

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Out of the mouth of Adyashanti,
who said that experience

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and I genuinely sense that he has.

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Those are not cliches, those are just
the reality, that is embodying.

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But for me those words
would be absolutely a lie.

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So that what now I can tell you.
That is what I can tell you at all.

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The only clue I can give you is:
How perhaps to get there or at least

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how to get beyond this egoic mind of ours,
because I very well know

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that that little mind of mine jumps around
when Sat Dharam brings us into the presents

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and that little minor mind jumps around,
all about the self

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and it creates a film over my
experience of the world,

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it creates a barrier between
myself and the universe,

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a barrier between myself and deeper self,
a barrier between myself and other people,

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and a barrier between myself and nature.

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Carl Marx said that: "There is four alienation,
basically four aspects: we are alienated from nature,

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we are alienated from our truth self,
we are alienated from other people

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and we are alienated from our work.

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Is that what we do
does not represent who we are.

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So, the nature the society is that
it promotes those alienations

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and the mechanism of that alienation
is that very egoic mind

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that in me it is extraordinarily prominent
and is very much in charge of my mental life.

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So, in this Adyashanti poem noticed the clue,
he says:

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"Be still and awaken
to the realization of who you are!"

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Well, "be still" he says.

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The problem is really that
we don't know how to be still

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and the mind doesn't know how to be still.

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And so that, if I don't know
if I haven't experienced

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perhaps what he has experienced

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it is likely do the fact that my mind

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has not been still long enough
to experiencing that stuff

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and I do everything in
my power very often

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to keep it from being so.

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So we escape stillness.