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This text presents a systematic method of perceiving the Great Awareness, of seeing reality and of freeing the Self of all limitations. It shows how your awareness works.
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May the Great Majestic Awareness open your insight into Itself.
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Even the Tirthankaras, the enlightened ones of the Jains, have not taught anything regarding this. And the vast multitude of sacred scriptures barely contains instructions how to gain access to the Great Awareness. This scripture provides the true key to these eternal teachings. It shows the effective method how to apply them in practical life. It enables you to experience this Magnificent Awareness.
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Listen blessed seekers ! - Highest wisdom is before you now. - Listen with all your being !
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The Great, Magnificent Awareness however is unknown, - or thought of erroneously, - or known only one-sidedly without consideration for the missing parts. Thus desire for these teachings is immeasurable. It attracts even those who do not know the ONE Awareness and thus do not know themselves. Such people aimlessly drift throughout all regions of the world of manifestations, continuously assume new forms and suffer and worry. As long as insight into the Great Awareness is lacking, such is the result. So impressed are they by their own suffering, so overpowered, that they lack all will to give direction to their life. And even if they long to know the Great Awareness, their lack of will to steer their life prevents this very insight.
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They allow such self-inflicted blockages to overwhelm their mind and thus are unable to even recognize a widening of their perception. The Middle Path (the simple path Buddha proclaimed) certainly describes the true mechanisms of the manifested world and even The Unmanifested, yet aimless renunciation and clinging to rigid religious ceremonies obscure all deeper insight and real comprehension. Such attitudes likewise obscure what course of action leads to enlightenment. It further prevents perception of spontaneous, intense expansions of our awareness that offer orientation how higher states of consciousness feel like, thus indicating the path leading there. (These are sudden, fleeting insights into far broader comprehension that occur in regular intervals. We all experience these insights, but as long as we don't put attention there, they remain fleeting and thus cannot assist in the expansion of our being).
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Since in reality duality does not exist, so also there exist no multiple causes.
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Seen from a worldly perspective - which everyone is free to accept
or to reject - man aimlessly drifts through innumerable material forms
and experiences.
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The Great Awareness though - though it exists - cannot be found (this way) within the manifested regions. Yet since it is the source of highest bliss, of happiness, of all enlightenment, as also of all burdens of the perishable world, it pays to know and value It, - as it pays to value all paths that lead to enlightenment.
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Some call it 'The Mental Self '. Buddhists (of the Hinayana path) call it 'The True Essence of Doctrines' Followers of Yoga call it 'Wisdom' or 'Self'. Those taking re-incarnation for non-existent, or thinking the lives of man are ruled by outside influences, call it 'The Ego', 'The I', or 'The Cumulative Experiences of Man'. Some call it 'The Means of Attaining the Other Shore of Wisdom' or 'The Vessel to Liberation'. Some call it 'The Buddha Essence'. Some call it 'The Great Symbol'. Some call it 'The Sole Seed'. Some call it 'The Potentiality of Truth'. Some call it 'The Foundation of All'. And common usage assigns a multitude of further names to the Great Awareness. Next: - The Tibetan Book Part 2 - Realization Author: Hermann Kuhn Book-Title: 'Where NOTHING Seems To Be' ISBN: 978-3-9811466-1-5 Copyright 2009 Crosswind Publishing, Wunstorf, Germany Available in pdf-format at DOWNLOADS www.where-nothing-seems-to-be.com
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