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“THE DIFFERENCE…”

Just as there are many different paths to spiritual awakening or enlightenment, the time it takes varies from person to person.

This doesn’t mean that differences arise from, for example, one’s birth, upbringing, or personality, nor does it depend on how many years one has spent or who one’s teacher taught.

The difference lies in how inward one can turns, and whether one can engage in self-observation and self-inquiry through clarity of the innermost stillness (the innermost stillness is always one that is clear through openness and completely detached from all interpretations or knowledge by the mind (ego). In other words, one is completely surrender the mind (ego) without any effort or intention).

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For example, suppose there are two true spiritual seekers training under the same sage.

The sage tells them the same truth and treats them in the same way.

Under the sage’s guidance, one person may imitate the sage’s actions and possess such abundant spiritual knowledge that it may sometimes be said, “Perhaps he knows more than the sage?” However, they remain doer-ship state of effort and control by the mind (ego) as same as before, without realizing it, and not a little, they are also strongly attached to their sense of pride in becoming someone as the phantom “self” and to the way they think should be. Its underlying attachment to correctness leads them to easily compete with others and always reflexively fight for the dignity of the phantom personal “self.”

Furthermore, they often distort what the sage says and does, sometimes taking it as discriminatory treatment and almost always harbor complaints, resentment, or bitterness.

Meanwhile, another person surrenders all inner battles (the mind (ego)), listens careflly to the sage’s words in the purest state, and by sincerely seeing themselves deeply in the innermost stillness, they encounter a moment when they grasp the truth directly, never through intellectual or conceptual understanding.

Furthermore, the person never stops there, but rather one comes to a deeper comprehension each day of the fact that spiritual awakening is about abiding in that awareness in non-duality where there is no duality at all, such as separation, comparison, or judgement, and also the facts of the impermanence of phenomena, the non-possetion that thoughts, emotions, and even experiences that are never owned by the awareness, the need to surrender the mind (ego) (attachment) every time one becomes aware of the remnants of it, and the awareness always exists as non-self immutably, deep within.

And that person constantly comes new insight from small things without effort or intention, in every moment, always being grateful for every word and action of the sage, for everything one has been given.

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This difference can be seen in many other situations in the same way as well.

This is not a difference in the environment or the things we have been given.

Simply the difference is only a matter of whether or not we are able to observe anything and anyone including ourselves through the clarity of innermost stillness as the awareness, as non-self, without judgement. (OM 🙏)