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Obstacles To Awakening

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Deep Eye Is Not Related to Who You Are on the Surface Level

Every human being is a ripple, and some are waves, but it makes no difference. If you're a big human being with VIP, you're a wave, most humans are ripples. This is the surface of the ocean. So the ego can be superior morally, and you're still, you're trapped in mental concepts. It's so seductive, it's the ego. And so every time you got seduced into that sense of identity, it's never long before you encounter what the Buddha called dukkha suffering. In any egoic identity, very soon you encounter unhappiness, you encounter suffering,. You encounter a sense of lack of not enough, you become angry

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