[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]I now see that I need to completely drop identification with my thinking mind to reach enlightenment and practice this state until I reach enlightenment. I cannot control myself while opting to remain a person with a personality. This way my past never leaves me, I am always limited by the personality I have constructed within this lifetime. But I want to go beyond this and awaken.<\/p>\n
My digital fast failed. Because, I wasn’t yet ready to give it all up. And when I am not giving it all up, my suffering does not stop, when I don’t live as myself all the time, when I give importance to my thoughts, they take over. The ego takes over. And then the habits that I have developed to mask or forget the suffering that I feel in this limited state, or let’s say, the habits that make a limited life tolerable for a being with infinite potential kick in. Everybody has a way to escape their suffering or mask it.<\/p>\n
I want to go beyond the suffering. And for that, I will need to live as my true self, beyond thoughts. The formless awareness that is beyond the thinking mind. And I will need to completely devote myself to that. And withdraw my energies from the limited idea of a personal self. Expand this state until it becomes my default reality. Then I will be ready to come back and write more to share this state.<\/p>\n
This is the teaching I will follow: http:\/\/channelhigherself.com\/videos\/satsang-with-the-self\/mind-mastery-remove-ego-identification\/<\/a>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I now see that I need to completely drop identification with my thinking mind to reach enlightenment and practice this state until I reach enlightenment. I cannot control myself while opting to remain a person with a personality. This way my past never leaves me, I am always limited by the personality I have constructed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"I now see that I need to completely drop identification with my thinking mind to reach enlightenment and practice this state until I reach enlightenment. I cannot control myself while opting to remain a person with a personality. This way my past never leaves me, I am always limited by the personality I have constructed within this lifetime. But I want to go beyond this and awaken.\n\nMy digital fast failed. Because, I wasn't yet ready to give it all up. And when I am not giving it all up, my suffering does not stop, when I don't live as myself all the time, when I give importance to my thoughts, they take over. The ego takes over. And then the habits that I have developed to mask or forget the suffering that I feel in this limited state, or let's say, the habits that make a limited life tolerable for a being with infinite potential kick in. Everybody has a way to escape their suffering or mask it.\n\nI want to go beyond the suffering. And for that, I will need to live as my true self, beyond thoughts. The formless awareness that is beyond the thinking mind. And I will need to completely devote myself to that. And withdraw my energies from the limited idea of a personal self. Expand this state until it becomes my default reality. 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