What I encourage is a moving toward simplicity, rather than complexity. We’re already complicated personalities. Our cultural and social conditioning is usually very complicated. We’re educated and literate, which means that we know a lot and have a lot of experience. This means that we are no longer simple. We’ve lost the simplicity that we had as children and have become rather complicated characters….What is most simple is to wake up – it’s as simple as that. The most profound teaching is the phrase “wake up”. Hearing this, one then asks, “what am I supposed to do next?” We complicate it again because we’re not used to being really awake and fully present. We’re used to thinking about things and analyzing them; trying to get something or get rid of something; achieving and attaining.
Ajahn Sumedho, Intuitive Awareness
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Love this post. Muktananda wrote a book many years ago……….’Getting Rid of what you Haven’t Got.’ I love that description. We are so invested in complicated and we hang onto our concepts because we don’t want to lose who we think we are. Such a dilemma.
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