The answer to that answers the question of "Am I liberated?" as if you can see that in losing everything, you'd have lost nothing and that you have never had anything, you are everything, then liberation is yours.
Bodhidharma, the startling awakening
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*"If you want to abandon the unreal and turn to the real, sit steadily and
gaze at a wall. Self and other, ordinary people and enlightened ones, are
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4 years ago
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Most people are scared to be liberated.
Just like long-caged wild animals are hesitant to go out when the cage is finally open wide.
So scared--then liberated.
Or dead :p
Yes, we are scared to lose what we've worked for, I think.
But the reality is there is little that we actually have, and nothing we can ultimately take with us.
The hard thing is you lose it, and it finds you again, though. ;^)
As Peter Gabriel says, "And liberty she pirouette, when I think that I am free..."
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