teflon thoughts

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Dear family,

I've been away for a while, have been reading messages here on and

off, and practise The Work whenever I feel like it (definitely not

every day before breakfast), especially when I get attached to a

belief that makes me feel tense or unhappy.

I've also been looking around for people who can explain some more

about the perspective that describes as 'hers'.

Recently I stumbled across someone called Adyashanti, and I found

him very illuminating.

I like the images he uses, quite inspiring.

Below one of the things he came up with during a talk:

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What if you woke tomorrow morning and you couldn't believe in

anything that you believed in? … imagine it's these little beliefs

floating through your mind and you couldn't actually velcro on to

them? …

Like on a normal morning, as soon as you wake up this velcro thing

happens with every belief that's going through your head, right?

" I've got to get going " " I must do this " " I've got to do that " " She

likes me " " He doesn't " " I've got to make a decision " " What do I

do? " " How do I know that's right? " " Did I say the right thing? " " Did

I not say the right thing? "

Just imagine that there is no velcro.

Just make yourself a teflon thought. Ffffhhhh.

And then you'd be empty handed.

Total emptiness.

Total quietness.

And in that moment you just might realize:

Oh, this! This is it!

This is what Spirit is.

This is what Divine is, what Radiant Emptiness is. This is it.

You go: THIS is it? How could I miss this?

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You can download parts of his talks from

http://www.adyashanti.org/index.php?

file=listenonline & PHPSESSID=5d803788154439ce9662212cb3802aad

The quote is from the file called 'Identification'.

Eva