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"Not ever could you have actually suffered for a reason that was true --only through an imagination, good, bad, indifferent.
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"...we really shouldn't forget that we are pretending, that we are making up the content of our experience; we are making up the little dramas of our lives. We are making up whether we need to hold on or surrender or have karma cleansed --it's all a thought. We just collude in this ridiculous charade of an illusion pretending that it's real, only to reveal that it's not. There is no karma. There is nothing really to purify. There's no problem. There is only what you create and believe to be so. And if you like it that way, have at it!
"But we cannot continue this absolute farce indefinitely. We cannot continue to pretend this game we play, indefinitely. It's impossible. Everything comes back to nothing.
"And then it's a bit harder to hold a straight face consistently for the rest of your life."

Adyashanti
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