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The word "Being" and the word "God" !!

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The Buddha is silent on that, and his silence implies that you'll have to find out for yourself. He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in or into a superhuman accomplishment, a group, a goal that is impossible for you to attain. Despite this precaution, the majority of people still believe that enlightenment is for the Buddha, not for them, atleast not in this lifetime. The word "being" Being is the eternal, ever present one life beyond the myriads forms of life that are subject to birth and death. However, being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. this means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the now, being can be f

THE TRUTH THAT IS WITHIN YOU "ENLIGHTENMENT"

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A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" Mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out of his baseball cap. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "what's that you are sitting on?" "Nothing" replied the beggar. "Just an old box. I have been sitting on it  for as long as I remembered." "Ever looked inside?" Asked the stranger. "No" said the beggar. "What's the point? There is nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the stranger. the beggar managed to  try open the lead. With astonished, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold. I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside.  Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer inside yourself. "But I ain't a Beggar," I can hea