The First Tenet: Clarity of Intention
“The first tenet is the foundation of the spiritual life. In order to succeed in liberating yourself from ignorance and self-deception, you have to have no doubt whatsoever that you want to be free more than anything.”
The Second Tenet: The Law of Volitionality
“Most of us like to see ourselves as unconscious victims. But in fact, we all know exactly what we are doing.”
“The third tenet is the ultimate form of spiritual practice. It asks: how awake are you to what is motivating you to make the choices that you make? Because only if you're paying close attention are you going to be able to bring the light of awareness into the darkest corners of your own psyche.”
The Fourth Tenet: The Truth of Impersonality
“The fourth tenet states that every aspect of the human experience is a completely impersonal affair. It tells us that the illusion of uniqueness, the narcissistic self-sense that is ego, is created moment by moment through the compulsive and mechanical personalization of almost every thought, feeling, and experience we have.”
The Fifth Tenet: For the Sake of the Whole
“The pursuit of enlightenment is for the transformation of the whole world, the enlightenment of the whole universe. It's ultimately for the evolution of consciousness itself.”
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