1/ As far as I can tell, what all spiritual traditions are fundamentally aiming to make you realize is this.
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10/ Attachment to thought is mistaking the part for the whole. The more you, as subject, perceive yourself as object, the more divided you will be. You will perceive yourself as impermanent object(s) rather than permanent consciousness, which by definition cannot be objectified.
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11/ This is the reason Gautama Buddha insisted that all suffering stems from attachment. Failing to find permanence in one attachment (which is invariably the case) the human who exists not as whole and ineffable consciousness, but as object, will continue to create attachment.
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12/ Once the object follows its natural trajectory and ceases to exist in its previous form, the attached consciousness experiences a death; what it took to be itself is no longer reality. This repeated cycle of attachment is what Buddhists refer to as Samsara.
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13/ The Western mind is conditioned by culture & society to objectify existence, with the underlying implication that doing so one gains more control over it. Consciousness works the opposite way : It does not function through "divide and rule". Its object can never control it.
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14/ Only an attached, divided consciousness can appear as if it is under the control of its object, as if its object assumes the position of subject. We pay the price of multiple death over a lifetime for this illusion of control and false security.
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15/ Westerners who first get exposed to this often say they cannot let go of their attachments. And that is true, as far as they can see. The truth however, is that they are holding on to nothing. They only perceive it as something by virtue of attachment, by holding on to it.
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15/ If they let go, they would see it for what is. And in that seeing lies the simple realization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative) …pic.twitter.com/P1Hr2qdRSQ
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