( 10:20 AM ) shut up christine
starting point.
It is a path of insight into the nature of reality, a path of truth realization.
In order to solve our problems, we have to see our situation as it really is.
We must learn to recognize superficial, apparent reality, and also to penetrate beyond appearances so as to perceive subtler truths, then ultimate truth, and finally to experience the truth of freedom from suffering.
The only way to experience truth directly is to look within, to observe oneself.
All our lives we have been accustomed to look outward.
We have always been interested in what is happening outside, what others are doing.
We have rarely if ever tried to examine ourselves, our own mental and physical structure, our own actions, our own reality.
Therefore we remain unknown to ourselves.
We do not realize how harmful this ignorance is, how much we remain slaves of forces within ourselves of which we are unaware.
By observing ourselves we become aware for the first time of the conditioned reactions, the prejudices that cloud our mental vision, that hide reality from us and produce suffering.
We recognize the accumulated inner tensions that keep us agitated, miserable,
and we realize they can be removed.
Gradually we learn how to allow them to dissolve.
-The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation
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