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Our Master in this message reaffirms the ancient wisdom that “If the element of the truth seeker did not exist in everyone, there would be no turning away from craving, nor could there be a longing for nirvana, nor a seeking for it, nor a resolve to find it.” Lord Buddha is supposed to have said, all experience is viewed from ego as a point of reference, and as a result the world of thought and form becomes a maze of illusions serving an identity that seems more real regardless of the outcome of events. This is done by emotionally relating to the meaning that thought induces; it is not living but is arbitrarily relating to thoughts “about living.” How can there be any experience in any realm of nature including the so-called spiritual that exists to serve the ego (sense of self)? Does nature exist to serve the ego? This question points to an obvious answer.
Identification with experience and circumstance is not proper since circumstances are always in flux. When we existed before an event, thought, or feeling, can any experience be our
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