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most of us want to feel better we don't

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actually want to see that we're miss
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perceiving things but that's the core of
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spirituality and then the only way to
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really wake up is to realize that the
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way you perceive yourself may not be
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true and all the little garden-variety
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ways that people suffer their little
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anxieties their depressions their fears
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their guilts their shames all of that
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that there is somewhat aeneas lee with a
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more relative way of working with that
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with theirs which is there is a time and
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a place to do that but there is a more
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core way of looking at any of those
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issues what's the truth how am i causing
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my own suffering through my own
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misperceptions if suffering does arise
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through misperceiving
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through perceiving things not as they
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actually are then exactly how am i
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perceiving anything that's causing me
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pain or fear or anything how am i miss
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perceiving reality it's very different
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isn't it if you find out if it corrects
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itself the result will be you'll feel a
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lot better but the motivation is how am
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i miss perceiving of course in
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teachings of waking up in teachings
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about spiritual awakening enlightenment
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we go to the primary misperception which
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is misperception of self it's not the
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only misperception there's a whole host
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of other misperceptions about the world
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about others about well you know just
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about anything you or I believe in our
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hotheads is a misperception that's a
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shocker when you realize that one
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everything you believe you know those
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things called beliefs that we have in
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our and hold very valuable to us a
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belief tells you exactly one of the ways
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in which your misperceiving there's no
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beliefs in reality reality doesn't need
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a belief reality is just the way things
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are you don't have to believe in thing
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and the way things are for them to be
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the way things are you have to believe
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that things are not the way they are in
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order to perceive things other than they
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actually are
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so we are constantly are taught also
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that if we just change what we believe
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that's the salvation for us there are
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some beliefs that are less destructive
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another certainly some beliefs are more
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in harmony with reality than others but
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there's no such thing as one of them
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that are actually true and when we
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really wake up you can't miss that
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when awakening to reality really happens
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you can't actually miss my god there's
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no such thing as a true belief reality
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itself is simple clear and unitary
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there's nothing mysterious about it the
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mystery all has to do with misperception
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boy when we start miss perceiving things
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are very mysterious very murky lots of
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shades of grey you know but when we
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really start to wake up from our
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misperceptions we realize reality isn't
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mysterious life isn't a big mystery it's
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not it's not really a overly complex
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thing freedom isn't complex
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enlightenment isn't complex it's
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actually the opposite is the most simple
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thing it is the most simple perception
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right
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so I'm I want to help people not only to
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see spiritual inquiry which I talked
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about inquiry about what am i but the
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the the the viewpoint of inquiry is
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what's really important it's really
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looking at what is true in anything true
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about you true about your perception of
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another true about the world true about
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God true about any moment that caused
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the suffering once you get the notion or
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start to work with the notion that's
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suffering in any form is caused by
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misperception and a misperception is
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caused by a belief an idea that's
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grabbed that's belief a conclusion once
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you get that very very simple idea the
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whole way you look at things starts to
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shift because no longer when you get
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uncomfortable are you asking yourself
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how do I feel more comfortable although
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of course you want to everybody does but
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you're not necessarily asking yourself
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how do I'm it feel more comfortable
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you're asking myself how do I perceive
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more clearly what's the truth here do
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you see how radical this actually is
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usually when we suffer we want to change
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everything except the way we're
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perceiving right but you change you
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change this change this change that the
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world changes that change you know and
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even if we change our perceiving we want
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to perceive from one phony belief to
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another phony belief but that's not the
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kind of change of perception I'm talking
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about I'm talking about something very
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similar to what the Buddha was talking
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about when he said the cause of
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suffering is ignorance
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it's a innocent misunderstanding about
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the nature of reality
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that's the cause it has nothing to do
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with what is happening it has nothing to
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do with what happened and it has nothing
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to do with what might happen it has to
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do with what we tell ourselves and told
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ourselves about what is happening what
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did happen or what may happen it's about
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what we believe about the various events
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in our lives and again for most people
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their primary belief is with their own
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existence there it's like they're born
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and as soon as they get language they
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form a belief about their birth I am
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this little person which becomes a big
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person but as soon as you perceive not
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through belief not through the mind not
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through the story all of a sudden it's
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simple it's not so you or you and I
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we're not limited to a particular person
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no individual thing defines who and what
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we are we're not actually perceiving
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from a particular body but what we are
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is much more like the consciousness of
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the totality the consciousness of
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existence itself