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Heartfelt insights and reflections, shared directly from my heart to yours. These musings are meant to inspire, uplift, and connect us on a deeper level, fostering a sense of understanding and unity as we navigate this journey together.

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

After awakening has anyone been able to feel great pain and sorrow radiating from nearly everyone?

Yes, it is very normal. You are seeing the reflection of your own pain in other people. Stay with that pain, allow yourself to experience it fully. Through...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Do you ever enjoy the experience of emotional pain?

If, in your spiritual practice, you reached the stage where you are able to somewhat enjoy your emotional pain, this is very big progress, and I congratulate...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Why is it so difficult to remember exactly how physical pain feels?

Great question!

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Are defilements abandoned by recognition of the mental pain causing them?

Both necessary and sufficient, people just greatly underestimate the amount of mental pain they carry, even "enlightened" people.

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Is it true that emotional pain can be just as destructive to your body as physical pain?

No, absolutely not. The more you resist the experience of emotional pain, the more you turn away from it, try to suppress it, the more the emotional pain that...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Do people need to feel pain to truly achieve happiness or enlightenment?

You don't have to feel pain to be happy. But enlightenment is not happiness, it's truth. So if it's authentic enlightenment you're seeking, then the answer...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Why is spiritual awakening so painful?

Because truth is the only thing that can possibly hurt you.

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

If Buddha tried to teach that to desire is to suffer, why do people desire to be enlightened?

The desire to become enlightened is the desire to end all desires. It is, by definition, the last desire. It can only happen when all other desires have been...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Are all doings the work of ego?

No, not at all.

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

What is the difference between wanting and craving?

Craving is wanting the impossible, that's why it's painful. A typical example of craving is heartbreak after a romantic breakup. A more subtle example of...

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