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(*For genuinely deepening self-inquiry. As we uncover and become aware of facts through self-inquiry, such as the assumptions of baselessness or unacknowledged beliefs and what is happening through them, and from there we can go deeper and deeper into depth of self-inquiry. In this way, as we unintentionally deepen our self-inquiry, the depth of stillness we access inevitably deepens, and thereby transcendence can become more possible to occur spontaneously. Transcendence should never be the goal. Transcendence becomes impossible when it is the goal.)

Many people consider the ego a bad thing and do not also like to have their life plans disrupted.

They become so hard to stick to the life they envision as it should be, as if they can be happy by excluding anything to disrupt their life plans.

Therefore, they call ego and other things that disrupts their schedule “obstacles,” and they try to eliminate them as much as possible.

And so we struggle with these things day after day.

However.

It is only a struggle against the illusion that comes from ignorance, which occurs because we do not comprehend the true value of what we call obstacles, such as ego.

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Completely get calm your mind and try to focus only on the facts of human life as far as you can know them.

Do you really think that the absence of ego or whatever you call other obstacles will bring us happiness?

What is the basis for that?

What exactly is this “happiness”?

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If the ego were nowhere to be found, and there were no other obstacles, who among us in the universe would be able to begin to ask the profound question to ourselves, and actually become spiritually awakened and total liberation from the ego, or realize that what we call obstacles are in fact only illusions?

Who in the whole universe can do that where there is nothing?

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So what about how our manifest and subconscious minds work?

What materializes in our reality is not what is in our manifest mind, which is said to be less than 10% of our consciousness with personal level, but what we believe in our subconscious mind, which is said to be over 90% of our consciousness. These things appear before our eyes as reality.

So, for instance, if our subconscious mind believes “not enough,” then no matter how much our manifest mind keeps saying to insist “sufficient,” we will definitely find something “not enough” within our reality.

Consequently, we will be absorbed in adding something to it in order to fulfill it. And if we succeed in filling it, what happens next? We find something else that is still not enough. And then we put all our effort into filling that lack again. What happens the moment we have fulfilled it?

We will obviously find another lack.

If we replace “lack” with “evil” and “fulfill” with “good,” exactly the same thing happens.

This goes on forever, until we realize by ourselves what we are actually doing.

In the meantime, how much happiness can we find in life?

Or, for instance, if we could simply replace the subconscious “not enough” with the relative “enough,” can we see that this alone would not make its relative, “not enough,” disappear?

Or is continuing to seek the transient happiness of the moment of achievement the only way to bring us true happiness?

Is it true?

If that is true, then who on earth has ever actually been invariant happiness in this way of being?

Or has there ever actually been lasting peace anywhere in the world in that way?

Or have you yourself ever found everlasting happiness in that way?

Or do you believe that happiness and peace are not eternal?

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The mind is constantly caught up in the world it can see visually.

Even the “self” is divided, separated from its true essence, source itself, by its visual influence.

The mind is unknowingly trapped in the known as well. The mind takes things as fact, through understanding of word based on known, without investigation of it closely, or we take what we unknowingly distort the facts from mere phenomenon by interpretation of based on known.

Moreover, even known are sometimes conveniently applied, sometimes not applied by the mind.

For instance, the mind acts as if it is 100% manifest and aware of everything, even though the subconscious mind, unconscious (ego), is more than 90% of consciousness itself.

Consequently, it judges and criticizes the words and actions of others, and is completely indifferent to its own unconscious words and actions in the meantime.

These are projections of the past, interpretations of things, however, they are felt as the only reality for the mind.

Here is where limitation arises, where the way to know anything other than what is known is blocked.

And so, in a world limited to what is known, we keep to struggle against the obstacles of our own illusions (which are not facts, but illusions, as long as we are interpreting things and projecting the past).

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Paradoxically, it is precisely because we are able to be aware of existence of ego that we are able to awaken spiritually and reach ultimate liberation, and it is precisely because we repeatedly hit obstacles that we are able to begin asking ourselves profound questions for realization.

And this is the true value of what we call obstacles such as ego.

By looking at the essence of what we see as obstacles in this way, we can come to transcend the limits of the known.

In other words, it is only through acknowledgment of facts as facts and grasping things as they really are that we can truly deepen our spiritual awakening.

Thus, no matter how much knowledge we increase within the known, no matter how many choices we flatly make, such as “good or evil,” we cannot transcend the limits of the known, we cannot even transcend relative duality, and we can never reach the truth, and this is why we must become aware of the limits of the known, let go of the unnecessary from the awareness of the fact that we have unknowingly adopted them, and then, through self-inquiry, expand our world not only flatly but also vertically, as wholeness, and need to transcending the duality of the known.

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Cherish all that you are aware of now.

From there you are, actually deepen your self-inquiry one by one.

This is being present and valuing the true value of what you call obstacles, namely, you go beyond judgments such as “right and wrong.”

Therein lies happiness and peace that is unaffected by anything and unchanging.

Therefore, relax, and savor the present moment, as the essence, as only one consciousness itself that has never been separated from God. (OM 🙏)

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