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renunciation of the corporeal

Abandon the body and its cravings if you truly wish to glimpse the nature of what is beyond it. Once cannot simply touch, taste or smell spiritual things, but true spirituality is an understanding of all phenomena, the source of all phenomena.

We must find God. I do not mean we must believe. I mean that we must not relinquish in our quest to know the source of all. Therefore we must really find it. To go into it as if the doorway within our own selves finally opened up and there was God sitting inside awaiting you to just step though. We must find God.

And we must know where to look. The secret of the matter is that you will never find it looking outside, for the looking isn't to be done with the eyes. It is a deeper looking, an inner looking. Forget about the body and its cravings, its aches and sufferings. Pierce deeper and touch the heart of the matter.

From where is this experience arising RIGHT NOW? Find that source and the power of it all and touch that. Forget about the rest.

Find this power, this depth, this source. Find it within, and know it to be what you are.

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thought illuminates mind

Thoughts and sensations illuminate the presence of mind. In one sense, they can seem to be a distraction. In another, they are the referential objects which imply the sense of a subject perceiving them.

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perception v projection

We don't really know the objects of our perception. All we can infer is that the objects hint that there is someone over here perceiving the objects over there. Thus begins the mind's inquiry into its own nature. It senses its own presence via the inference based on the externalized perception, then gradually begins to wonder about the nature of the thinker/the seer/the witness. But to know the thinker/the seer/the witness, it is helpful to know the nature of thought/the seen/the witnessed...

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a common misconception

We don't have to stop our thoughts or stop our thinking. This is a common misconception for novices. This would be the equivalent of stopping waves from arising on the surface of the ocean -- it is a fool's errand. We don't have to stop our thoughts, not to mention that we couldn't even do it if we tried. In fact, the harder we do try, often the more chaotic and frantic the thinking becomes. So, not to stop them, but to see what substance the thoughts are made of -- that is the next stage in the mind's inquiry: to ask of oneself if the thoughts have color or shape or mass or a location or a density. We take the thoughts and use them as the substance and objects of our inquiry before turning to the mind which perceives them to continue in the same fashion.

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To Know the False as False

If we truly wish to know, not just intellectually but to penetrate through direct immersive apperception of that which is -- namely truth -- then we must first investigate and identify what is false, or what is not true. 

We must identify all of our assumptions, all of our boundaries and definitions and concepts regarding who we are, what life is, what reality is, what existence is. We must identify whatever assumptions we hold regarding what appears. If we truly wish to know, we must first cut through what is false, for what is true simply is; what is false, isn't, nor was it ever, nor will it ever be. 

If we wish to know, we must commit ourselves, not to a dogma or a religion or a person or a perceived authority or other -- we must commit ourselves to a radical inquiry, permanently perceiving the false as false. We must be ready to let go of all these chains which appear to bind us to "who we think ourselves to be," in order to truly see -- as it is, as it was, as it always will be.