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that it becomes awareness

it is the same energy: you can use it as thought

you can use it as awareness

we don't have many energies

we have only one energy

but there are different manifestations

of the same energy

meditation is not using your energy as thinking

but using your energy as awareness

just being silent -- watching, waiting, seeing

the more you become a seer, the less a thinker

the closer you are to the truth, to the light

the moment your seeing is absolute

you have arrived home

meditation is an inward journey

on the outside there are challenges

there are adventures

but they are nothing compared to the

inner challenges and inner adventures

there are enemies on the outside

but the inner enemies are far bigger

only one thing is different, and that is that

the inner enemies are our own creation

so the moment we decide to destroy them

in that very moment they can be destroyed

they are our make-believe

mind, ego, greed, anger, jealousy, possessiveness

all these enemies are there

but we have been feeding them, nourishing them

we can chop off their heads in a single blow

a whole army can be uprooted

in a single moment of insight

and that's what meditation is

a moment of insight in which you can see

how you have been creating your own enemies

and that very seeing

becomes the death of all your enemies

one reaches to the ultimate truth

by using these inner enemies as stepping stones

of course only their corpses

can be used as stepping stones

while they are alive they will create trouble

they will pull your legs in every direction

they will not easily give way

hence just fighting won't help

understanding is the key

try to understand the inner enemies

and a miracle happens

any enemy totally understood

evaporates in that very understanding

try to understand jealousy and it is no more

try to understand the ego and it

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