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Suffering and Awakening

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Is There Any Way to Achieve Awakened Enlightenment?

The best advice I can give you is not to look for some state to be achieved but to be focused on the present moment. The great hindrance for spiritual seeker especially is wanting to achieve some state that is described as awakened enlightened whatever it may be. Remember very how the Buddha achieved so to speak his enlightenment first of all by sitting down under a tree he was no longer looking for anything or any state whatsoever and movement to the future had come to cessation.

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