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The Backward Step

18 min • 19 oktober 2024

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The Backward Step

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The Heart of Compassion

Avoiding the Void

Trying to Let Go of Attachments

The Wisdom of Uncertainty

You Are Your Only Obstacle

You Are Not Your Thoughts

Chasing Bliss

A Curious Absence

Devotion

How We Un-Enlighten Ourselves

Duality and Me

Finding Peace in a Chaotic World

Going All In

Tryiing to Control the Mind

Always Being, Always Becoming

The Eight Stages of Human Maturity

Basic Goodness

Overcoming the Fear of Ego Death

How to Let Go

Where Are You Going?

Emptiness & Unity

The Backward Step

Longing and Hesitation

How to Loosen Ego's Grip

The Wisdom of Uncertainty

Faith and Doubt

Why Does Enlightenment Seem Difficult

How to Meditate

True Freedom

The Price of Freedom

Why Wait?

Top Ten Ways to Make Yourself Unhappy

Who Is Seeking?

Over=Thinking and Other Mental Detours

The Illusion of Time

Mind Tantrums and How to Deal with Them

What Does No-Self really Mean?

Heaven and Earth

Embodimentt

Waking Up from the Dream State

Spiritual Pursuit

Being Surrendered

A Direct Pointing to Your True Nature

Just One Thing

The Most Real "Me"

The Cult of Materialism

Three Simple Awareness Practices

Your Truest Self

This Sensing Organism - A Guided Meditation

Trying to Let Go

Avoiding the Void

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Loving Oneself

How We Un-Enlighten Ourselves

Waiting for Tomorrow

A Direct Path Meditation

The Simplest Thing

The Inevitability of Enlightenment

Discover Your Most Authentic Self

The Direct Path

Further!

When Ego Gets Threatened

Sports and Spirituality

The Paradox of Unity

Closing the Gap

Freedom from Ego

Am I This Body?

Already Enlightened?

Absence and Presence

That Which Is Beyond Concepts

No Need to Fight with the Mind

From Seeking to Finding

Living Authentically

Watching the "Me"

It's Not Personal

The Greater Intelligence

Introduction to a Weekend Retreat

Where Is This Ego? Exactly?