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True Awakening

True Awakening

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Mar 17, 2023
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Art: Caitlyn Grabenstein

Allegiance to any spiritual teaching or teacher—any outside authority—is the most treacherous beast in the jungle.

The power of our devotion to teachers and teachings is not a reflection of their value, but of ego’s will to survive. It’s ego—the false self—that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true…

The misconception about enlightenment stems from, or is at least compounded by, the fact that most of the world’s recognized experts on the subject of enlightenment are not enlightened. Some are great mystics, some are great scholars, some are both, and most are neither, but very few are awake…

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