... in the end we have to integrate spiritual practice with everyday life where awareness and mindfulness bless our activities and interactions in each and every moment. When we live with awareness, our delusions and suffering begin to wither away.
Actually in the beginning we may have to struggle. If we are getting on the path of nonattachment in a serious way for the first time, there will be some struggle. There will be moments when we notice that we have failed time after time. Sometimes we feel that we have failed so much on this path of nonattachment that we think we should give up completely. Actually failing is absolutely fine because we have already completely and utterly failed. Why are we afraid of failing agin? We have failed so completely that we have lost the sense of who we are. We have lost our unity with our true nature. We have lost the realization of who we are and that is the greatest failure there is. Nothing else is really a tragedy or a real serious failure in comparison with the failure of losing our unity with out true nature. This has already happened to all of us from the very beginning and that is why it is impossible to really fail again. Any subsequent failure is just an idea. "Oh, I am losing my job. I failed. I didn't pass my test. I failed again. My relationship is falling apart. I failed again. My meditation is filled with turbulence. I failed. I wasn't able to live the life that I fantasized. I am not able to live according to my ideal standards. I failed."
These are all concepts.
The true failure is that we have lost our unity with our true nature. Beyond that there is no failure. Everything else is simply a perception, an idea....
The fundamental premise of all mystical teachings is that there is a divine nature in all of us. In Buddhism we call this Buddha Nature. When we no longer identify with external conditions we are in the realm of equanimity. We are one with our true nature, which is completely indestructible, perfect and sublime as it is, forever.... In the same way our true essence is indestructible. It can never be injured by anything. In every moment we are absolutely perfect because our true nature is indestructible. Our true nature can not be conditioned by anything.
Our true essence is perfectly sublime and divine. It is the highest thing in this universe. It is the most sacred entity. The true nature that we all share is more sacred than anything else. So if we are able to simply identify with our true nature, our pure consciousness, then all of our suffering is gone. That's liberation. That's it. There is nothing more than that. That's it. Once we identify with our pure consciousness, that's enlightenment. That's liberation. That's moksha. There nothing more than that. Then fulfillment is always there without needing anything from the outside.
To freedom!
Let's do this.
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