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Rodney Smith
Stepping Out of Self-Deception

October 31, 2025 4:20 pm

Source: Stepping Out of Self-Deception

If the freedom of the Buddha is the intention of our spiritual practice, that freedom is dependent upon whether we are in alignment with the truth of our nature in body, speech, and mind at every step along the way. As Nisargadatta Maharaj said to me in 1980, “If you keep trying to find the Buddha through your individual effort, he will recede further and further away.”