真正的你
在最深的層面上，當下與真正的你不可分離。
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你生命中有許多事情都很緊要，但只有一件事是絕對重要的。
無論你是成功的，還是在世人眼裡你失敗了，這件事都很重要。無論你的身體好或不好，無論你是有學問或是沒學問，它都很重要。無論你是富有還是貧窮，它都很重要。它毫無疑問將為你的生活帶來改變。
是的，相對來說，以上這些事情都重要。但是它們卻不是絕對地重要。有比這些事情中的任何一件都重要得多的事，那就是去發現你的本質是超越這短暫的身軀的，真正的你是超越這短暫的被貼上個人標籤的自我感的。
你無法通過改變你的生活情境來獲得平靜，只有當你在最深的層次上意識到你真正是誰的時候，才能感到平安。
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如果你下一世還是不知道你是誰，即使是轉世輪迴也幫不了你。
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這星球上所有的痛苦都是源於一種貼上個人標籤的我或我們的感覺。它掩蓋了你的真正本質。當你最終還是對你的內在本質一無所知時，你免不了會製造痛苦。就是這麼簡單。當你不知道你是誰，你創造出一個頭腦製造的我作為你那美麗神聖的本我的替代品，你依附於這個充滿恐懼和貪婪的自我。你不停地保護和強化它，這個錯誤的自我成了你主要的驅動力。
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很多日常的語言表達，有時甚至是語言結構本身，揭示了一個事實：人們不知道他們是誰。你說：“他失去了他的生命”，或者“我的生命”，彷彿生命是什麼你可以擁有或失去的東西似的。
真相是你並不擁有一個生命，你就是生命，這合一的生命，這合一的意識，它遍布整個宇宙，它通過短暫的有形之物來經驗它自己，比如一塊石頭、一片草葉、一隻動物、一個人、一顆星星或是整個銀河系。你能否在內在深處感到你已經知曉它？你能否感到你已經就是它？
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對生命中大多數事情來說，你需要時間：學習一項新的技能、建造一所房屋、成為一名專家、泡一杯茶。
然而，對於生命中最核心的事情來說，你並不需要時間。這件真正至關重要的事 – 自我實現 – 指的是去了悟真正的你是超越表面的小我的，它超越了你的名字、你的身體、你的歷史、你的故事。
你無法在過去或未來找到你自己。你只能在當下找到你自己。靈性追求者總是在未來尋求自我實現或是開悟。成為一個追尋者意味著你需要未來。如果這就是你以為的，它對你來說就變成了真的。你會一直需要時間來找尋，直到你發現要成為真正的你並不需要時間。
Who You Truly Are
Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely.
It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matters whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life.
Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don’t matter absolutely.
There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
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Reincarnation doesn’t help you if in your next incarnation you still don’t know who you are.
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All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of me or us. That covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end, you always create misery. It’s as simple as that. When you don’t know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.
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Many expressions that are in common usage and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don’t know who they are. You say, “He lost his life.” Or, “my life” as if life were something that you can possess or lose.
The truth is you don’t have a life, you are life, the one life, the one conscious that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that. Can you sense that you already are that?
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For most things in life, you need time: to learn a new skill, build a house, become an expert, make a cup of tea.
Time is useless, however, for the most essential thing in life, the one thing that really matters, self-realization–which means knowing who you are beyond the
surface self, beyond your name, your physical form, your history, your story.
You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself in the Now. Spiritual seekers look for self realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you. You will need time until you realize that you don’t need time to be who you are.
