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[…] by a teacher or spiritual elder, you, the student, formally acknowledge that you are taking wakefulness (buddha) as your principal orientation in life. Ultimately, refuge is the direct knowing in which experience arises as movement in mind and emotional reactions and the associated struggles no longer arise. What do I take refuge in? You take […]
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[…] arise when either of those minds is operating. It gives us access to a higher level of attention, a level of attention that draws energy from the direct knowing that is mind itself. Devotion is closely related to awe, where awe is a feeling of being intimately connected to something that is infinitely greater than […]
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[…] regarded as unavoidable and deeply habituated patterns of misperception that confuse our understanding of what we experience. The fundamental block, in this model, is the lack of direct knowing of what we are. (Ask yourself, “What am I?” If you observe closely, you will see that there is first a moment of clarity in in […]
