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Old 09-08-2011, 07:16 AM   #7
Gudronich

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Hi Traveller,

It is great to know that you have found useful and insightful the book recommendation. It helped me a lot to have a more direct insight into the teachings of Buddha and it meant a step forward into them. Being a book which is "plain and simple" it was not so easy. But slowly it made the work.

Non self is a very difficult aspect. At times can result quite threatening because the sense of selfhood is one of the most hardest delusions to give up. The realization of non self is an act of absolut intimacy. It is realized through meditative and contemplative works and practices observing deeply the phenomenological reality in and outside. Indeed non self is spoken loudly by nature in front of us every day but happens that we do not want to see it.

In daily life people sees "Traveller" but Traveller now knows that it is just a needed convention. Now knows that labels bring suffering, whatever the label is; that "me" and "mine" are because greediness, craving, clinging and this, at the end, will just bring us the bunch of sufferings we have been experiencing.

A quite mind, a still mind, a mindful mind is the mean to awake to this fact without feeling threatened.

The quotations of Element are just beautiful. Are beautiful objects of contemplation...

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