FINDING THE NOT LOST<\/h1>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 All the errant notions of the past are rooted in the dysfunctional discriminative capacity of the mind. \u00a0 The dichotomous view is an errant view; duality is a seeming appearance. \u00a0 The nondual, non-dichotomous view is the right view, the pure view; nonduality is the actuality, the vast, the true. \u00a0 To spontaneously abandon and relinquish the untrue dualistic view is possible through understanding only, yet this understanding remains stable only through practice of remembering, through continuous apperception. \u00a0 This is not going to be easy, obviously, because of such powerful habits of the conditioned mind. Getting to the point of awake awareness where arising thoughts do not distract us so much anymore, our mindful state of contemplation becomes more and more stable and we are able to observe and witness everything with a knowing understanding without falling into a superimposed bias of preference and prejudice that encumbers our perceptions.<\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 Inherent clarity is without distraction or dream, and when we look deep inside ourselves we find our true being, our inherent lucid clarity. \u00a0We don\u2019t need to modify or change or attain anything, because when we \u201cfind\u201d our real Self we recognize we were never \u201clost\u201d. \u00a0It is impossible that we could ever lose or leave our real center. \u00a0 Enlightenment and non-enlightenment are only aspects of the existential flow of the Tao, aspects of the same womb of Becoming, and all beings already abide in the eternity of the now moment and are already at the center, at nirvana. \u00a0Our conditionings and our presuppositions make it seem not so. \u00a0 The state of enlightenment, liberation, and spiritual freedom is not something attainable by motivational practices per se, because motivational practices are based in the delusive ego, which is pseudo-identity. Nor can these ultimate states be created simply because of the fact that they are already present. \u00a0Enlightenment and liberation have no corporeal or objective aspects that can be perceived; there are no characteristic marks that can be identified by the mentality or senses of persons who are habituated in the ego-based dualistic view. Differences in the states of enlightenment and non-enlightenment do seemingly exist to a discriminatively dysfunctional perceiver attached to predispositions and karmic thoughts, but it is only this attachment that creates the distinctions, nothing else.<\/h2>\n

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