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“THE LIE BY DOERSHIP”

Humility is not expressed through the “personal self”’s efforts to control, such as suppressing the ego, but rather emerges spontaneously from within by surrendering the mind (ego).

Similarly, one does not mature as a person by improving or disciplining one’s “personal self,” nor does one liberate oneself from ignorance, enlightened, or self-realized by increasing one’s knowledge and experience.

Knowledge or experience are merely the illusion of personal possession by the mind (ego); they are interpretations far removed from reality, and just an insubstantial doership.

On the other hand, the wisdom that truly liberates us from ignorance is realized through the clarity of the innermost stillness.

It is always present in the “now,” with the dynamism of being.

In other words, it is only when we surrender all of the mind (ego) – personal self-awareness (identification with the mind (ego)), effort, and intention – that the selfless and egoless clarity that guides us allows us to see through the essence and we become aware of the impersonal self, The Self.

This does not mean that when we completely surrender our false self, the mind (ego), nothing remains behind, but rather, this means that we become aware that the essence that we thought was lost has never been separated from us for even a moment, but has always been there, observing everything, and of the inpersonality as the Self that is omnipresent in the spaciousness, timeless and spaceless space of silence.

In that moment, there is no separate “I” or “you” anywhere, and neither illusion nor suffering exists.

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Thoughts that represent the mind’s (ego’s) doership—that we need to accomplish something or change ourselves—are illusions conceived by the illusory self, the mind (ego), and are ego traps that only lead us astray into further loops of mazes—deceptions and manipulations for the survival of the “personal self.”

However, all of these experiences exist for the moment when we ourselves question the mind’s (ego’s) lies and ultimately realize the essence.

As a matter of fact, just because we have correct knowledge does not mean that we can live as the Self or understand unfathomable profundity of truth.

Spiritual awakening, which sometimes takes many lifetimes, is never the result of increasing knowledge or performing spiritual doings.

Conversely, if spiritual awakening could be achieved through the acquisition of such knowledge, then who and why needs to experience suffering, sadness, attachment, or resistance to reality?

How could it be possible that such an ineffable, unfathomed truth is hidden in such shallowness?

Rather, it is through everything that the mind (ego) deems “mistakes” or “failures” that we can reach awareness of the Self as the consciusness itself, that is, the ocean rather than as waves. And at the same time, the Self is always savoring these diverse ways of being without any judgement and condition.

There can be no waste or mistake there.

In fact, there is no such thing as a personal experience; there is only the experience of the one consciousness.

Therefore, what is truly required in order for us to become aware of The Self is the courage and patience to carefully face with the deceptions of the mind (ego), and the deep sadness, pain, that we may not want to remember or retouch, and attachments that we may want to escape from but at the same time do not want to let go, one by one, and to discern their nature.

In that way, as the nature of things and the mind (ego) becomes clear through the clarity of innermost stillness, we become aware that they are illusion, and at last we are able to let go of illusion as ourselves, that free ourselves from the cage, the maze of the mind (ego), that has imprisoned .

In other words, when we first embrace all of our experiences as something we have brought about ourselves, and then sincerely learn from them, it will inevitably open up the path, through that selflessness and egolessness.

In this way, the path to the truth, like the truth itself, is paradoxical, and it is impossible to be understood by the mind (ego) that always seeks rationality and logic.

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In truth, there are no shortcuts to realizing the Self. (OM 🙏)