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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
February 12, 2007 <br><br>
MISUNDERSTANDING AWARENESS<br><br>
Openness and awareness is a state of not manufacturing anything else; it
is just being. And there is a misunderstanding,...which regards awareness
as an enormous effort -- as if you were trying to become a certain
unusual and special species of animal. You think now you're known as a
meditator, so now you should proceed in a certain special way, and that
way you will become a full-fledged meditator. That is the wrong attitude.
One doesn't try to hold oneself in the state of meditation, the state of
awareness. One doesn't try painfully to stick to it. <br><br>
Page 118, in "From Raw Eggs to Stepping-Stones" in THE PATH IS
THE GOAL: A BASIC HANDBOOK OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION.<br><br>
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