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  "description": "The starting point is always the \"as is\"—you as you are, the world as it is. It's not found through knowledge, but by admitting truth without judgment. This article explores this eternal now and letting it burn all that is imagined. By Amihai Loven.",
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  "textContent": "as-is\n\n\n\nThe starting point is always we as we are, I as I am, you as you are, she as she is, he as he is, all those. The world as it is, the question as it is, the knowledge as it is. So what is this \"as is\"? What is the nature, what is the quality of \"as is\"? Is it a changing quality? As it's growing to be, as it should be, as it shouldn't be, all that? Or is it an absolute, factual truth that may never be known yet as is?\n\nIf there is a small thing as is, it must be in a total universe and beyond which is as is. There cannot be truth within false. If you find that starting point, you as you are, you found the now, and the now is eternal, and the now is universal. And the question then is: can you stay with that and let it burn all that is not that, meaning imagination? Within your field of consciousness, can that which is burn all that is imagined?\n\nAnd the false, the failing point is that we try to get to that which is through knowledge, through recognition, which can never touch it because it's holistic. What do you need to do to meet that which is? Only to admit truth without knowing, without confirming, without validating, without approving, without judging. There you go, the starting point never stopped being a starting point. It was never out of reach. It is exactly that which you are as you are now.\n\nThe day that this will be enough for the Learning Flow is the day that all those peels, layers, fake layers, dry layers of imagined isness will start to be seen as such, and the inner seed of that which is will claim its own unfoldment, and you have no control over it, no choice, no preference. Only the quality of freedom which is not your freedom, it's the freedom which is.\n\nhttps://www.voicenotes.com/s/jgC9Ys\n\nRa`anan (Fresh) by Amihai Loven As All Is",
  "title": "The as-is starting point",
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