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As you pass through life, what’s important is not what you experience, but how you identify with or cling to what you experience. Depending on your method, an experience may be figure or ground on your individual path. An experience may become a dominant theme, or it may be irrelevant. For example, when I was...
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All beings are involved in an evolutionary journey. In the course of history, and far into pre-recorded history, beings have been getting lost in the illusion, and awakening out of it. Some beings have finished their work and have awakened out of illusion, the illusion that is involved in birth after birth, not only on...
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I kept hoping to get esoteric teachings from Maharaji, but when I asked, “How can I become enlightened?” he said things like, “Love everybody, serve everybody, and remember God,” or “Feed people.” When I asked, “How can I know God?” Maharaji said, “The best form to worship God is in all forms. God is in everything.” These simple teachings,...
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“The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection and the water has no mind to receive their image.” That was the first message I got from the first fortune cookie I opened when I returned from India. That seems like a fitting contract for these writings, and perhaps the full implications of that...
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Zen Master Bernie Glassman was a world-renowned pioneer in the American Zen Movement. A spiritual leader, published author, accomplished academic and successful businessman with a PhD in Applied Mathematics, he founded the Zen Peacemakers and subsequently spent decades teaching Zen and working in Socially Engaged Buddhism, later concentrating on nurturing the Zen Peacemaker Order and developing...
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