"All forms of practice are learning to kill dragons." - Wei Wu Wei
Or windmills, or delusions, or whatever you want to call the false reality separating (only apparently) ourselves from our true Self. WWW is not saying that practice is unnecessary or a waste of time. Sure, there are mystic savants who "get it" intuitively and completely in one fell swoop, but most of us are ignorant grunts who will muddle on through jungles of our own creation unless something or someone intervenes with a promise of release. This pearl of truth is buried so deeply within the mire of our conditioning that it requires a practice--an earnest, diligent, relentless practice--to dig us out one shovel-full at a time. Mindfullness, jnana, self-inquiry, any and all can play a valuable role in the gradual awakening many seekers experience. Practice separates the wheat from the chaff. It slowly draws back the curtain of manufactured illusion on the empty stage of "what is."
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