> I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search
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> they seek security in the company of others and cannot surrender themselves completely because they know they cannot lean on anyone sufficiently in this total aloneness. They want to be guided by someone who has come out of the same dark cave as themselves, which is impossible.
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> Why do you want to be liberated? What is it that you are seeking to be liberated from? The more you seek liberation the more you go on reinforcing the thing which is seeking liberation. You are reinforcing yourself, reinforcing the self and that is why you feel miserable
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> When you start thinking about becoming enlightened, then you're already going backwards. You're identifying with a future goal instead of allowing your life to unfold naturally
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> By now I should have discarded all my beliefs and become some kind of superbeing, a great master leading humanity out of the darkness and into the light. But instead, here I am, confused and bewildered, experiencing exactly the same thoughts and feelings as I've always had.
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> The enlightened state is an idea, an ideal, and ideas are the chains that bind you.
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> In spirituality you are equal to everyone else — even to Krishna, Buddha, Jesus or Mohammed. The idea that spiritual teachers are superior undermines all social equality and democracy; it makes people slaves to their gurus and leaders
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> Religion itself is a search for enlightenment, and all its metaphysics, theology, ritual, practices, disciplines and techniques are intended to create in man the illusion of a self-sustaining enlightenment
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> The "self" that you are seeking to transcend is that which is always seeking self-discovery. And what are you trying to do right now? You're trying to discover your true self....
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I then loop the results back through again to hopefully increase creativity and reduce it possibly just regurgitating or rewording quotes (increasing temperature & penalties as well)
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> Most people who think they are preoccupied by the question of life's meaning are actually trying to construct an image of themselves as unique individuals in an attempt to prove their significance. But it doesn't work. It only makes them feel more insecure.
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> They set out to acquire knowledge and skill in order to use the mind in some way that will make their lives worth living but in so doing simply reinforce the ego's need to see itself as a masterful self-determining entity capable of exercising free will all the time.
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> I think that the whole purpose of enlightenment is to cure us of our need for gurus. An yet people don't want to hear this teaching! All they ever want to hear is what they should do next in their spiritual development! Imagine a baby crying for its mother all the time!
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> A spiritual teacher is someone who gives you nothing but destroys all your possessions. He makes you aware of the miseries and the sufferings from which you are trying to escape, and he reveals to you that those states cannot be avoided by any means. He gives you no hope at all
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