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You and I are playing with this deliciously delicate process. If you push too hard to get free of what you’ve been trapped in, that very pushing entraps you. The avoidance of stuff becomes a trap. People would say, “I’ve gotta live in the country. I can’t stand the city. It brings me down.” They’re...
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It’s interesting to create systems in which you see others as vessels to get something, while not giving anything. What you create is a certain kind of boundary of your consciousness that is really hard to get through, and you end up being isolated by it. To examine in a business the relationship between a...
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A word, a name of God, or a spiritual phrase that is repeated over and over again is known as a mantra. The practice of mantra is an effective way to concentrate your mind. But as important as concentrating your mind is what you concentrate on. Although the mind can focus on anything, only certain...
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How can we find freedom through investing in the form? There’s a statement in the Heart Sutra that says, “Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form.” The art is not to deny form in order to grab at emptiness, but to have the emptiness and fulfill the form, and when you...
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In this talk from 1976, Ram Dass takes an honest look at the cycles of liberation experienced on the spiritual path. Show Notes Honesty About the Spiritual Path (Opening) – Every individual has a natural rate of spiritual development that progresses according to our karma and evolutionary nature. Ram Dass talks about respecting that...
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