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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

Do your answers about awakening push readers through the "gateless gate" the same way koans do?

It happened several times, but it doesn't really happen that often, just like it doesn't happen that often with koans. The person must be ready. When the...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

How does one avoid one's ego on the path to enlightenment?

One cannot avoid one's ego on the path to enlightenment, it's impossible. The path to enlightenment lies *through* one's ego. The dissolution of ego is the...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

UG says the mind cannot make the realization. Nisargadatta insists that witnessing one's own thought can lead the way. Which is it?

Both are true. I would not call the mind "an instrument you use". The brain is the instrument you use. The mind is the dreaming mind, and it uses itself as an...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Is liberation simply a matter of courage to believe that you are already free and act on it, as Nisargadatta says?

The key word here is "acting on it" which entails much more than people see. For most people, acting as if you're free means rule-breaking, disobedience. It's...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

When Nisargadatta says "The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive", what does he mean?

This is a beautiful saying and it comes from the place of a very deep realization.

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Are teachings on enlightenment that reduce to "You are already enlightened" of any use to anybody?

No. There's a world of difference between the separated state, the realized state and the enlightened state. The difference in how life is experienced and...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Why seek to know oneself?

What else is it worth to seek to know? What are the fruits of knowledge for one who doesn't know himself? How would you know if this other knowledge is what...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Can someone reach enlightenment while living a busy lifestyle inside society?

No. Sorry, not possible. Enlightenment is focusing inwards, you can't be both focused inwards and outwards at the same time. The busy lifestyle inside the...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

Why should anyone seek to stop seeking?

Every question answers itself, if you take the time to really look into it. If you seek to stop seeking, you will be seeking forever and you will never find...

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July 1, 2025 | Writing

You are to convince me to seek enlightenment through any method. What is your sales pitch?

If I need to convince you to be seeking enlightenment, it's not enlightenment you're seeking but something else. Whatever you hear in my words of conviction,...

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