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To the seeker, Tom, there is no end in sight. That’s why, in my experience, you see people turning up repeatedly to hear from their putative teacher in the hope that this time something will resonate or touch them that has previously missed the spiritual mark. It’s rare (if ever) that anyone dares to question their actual experience of “life”, minus or absent all the labels that they’ve acquired over the course of their life. In simple terms, does the thing you’re describing actually represent (i.e. is it true) the thing itself? If that was their practice, they’d soon realise that there is nothing to seek (there is no seeker) because everything is already fully cooked. But they won’t accept that and always revert to their thoughts which are a chimera and part of — only a very small part of — the inexplicable happening of the moment (words don’t really explain what can’t be known or knowable). Sorry for the longish answer but hopefully that goes a little way to answering your question. Take care, Julian PS. I still like what’s been attributed to the late Robert Adams: “You are not your body; you are not your mind; there is only love.”
Tom Das 
To the seeker, Tom, there is no end in sight. That’s why, in my experience, you see people turning up repeatedly to hear from their putative teacher in the hope that this time something will resonate or touch them that has previously missed the spiritual mark. It’s rare (if ever) that anyone dares to question their actual experience of “life”, minus or absent all the labels that they’ve acquired over the course of their life. In simple terms, does the thing you’re describing actually represent (i.e. is it true) the thing itself? If that was their practice, they’d soon realise that there is nothing to seek (there is no seeker) because everything is already fully cooked. But they won’t accept that and always revert to their thoughts which are a chimera and part of — only a very small part of — the inexplicable happening of the moment (words don’t really explain what can’t be known or knowable). Sorry for the longish answer but hopefully that goes a little way to answering your question. Take care, Julian PS. I still like what’s been attributed to the late Robert Adams: “You are not your body; you are not your mind; there is only love.”
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