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Jul 2021
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152 - A Liberated State Of Mind

NOAH RASHETA
About this episode
Liberation is not a destination we strive to reach, it's a state of mind that is available to us right here and right now. When we fully understand the reality of emptiness, signlessness, and aimlessness, we become liberated from the type of thinking that has us trapped in the prison of our own mind.

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