Avatar - Season 3, Episode 21

Scenes from Sozin's Comet, Part Four: Avatar Aang

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The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light....

In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves. To bend another's energy, your own spirit must be unbendable or you will be corrupted and destroyed. - Lion Turtle

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Emanate Presence means tending the inner landscape (the energy within ourselves) with total responsibility, honesty and accountability. Its main work is letting go of everything from the conditioned mind so the liberated mind can shine. Presence is the creation force. In the liberated mind, past and future run together to create an opportunity for creation from the zero point.

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Undifferentiated presence,
  spontaneously arising
  before heaven and earth,
  still and silent, infinite, virtual,
  eternally present
  through interminable cycles.
It gives birth to the Cosmos,
It is impossible to name,
  so I call it pure boundless immensity.

- Lao Zi, Dao De Jing, #25

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These columns are not meant for comparison but as an aid to distinguish between qualities. In actuality, nothing is fixed or linear. 'Liberated' is realized by letting go of conditioning and making choices to be free from within.
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 Conditioned
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• Identified with roles, culture, traditions, techniques, standards which suppress awakening and fulfillment and separate from each other
• Conditionally giving
• Controlling
• In the system
• Suppressed / rigid
• Hateful, angry
• Blaming
• Habitual
• Limited as set by fear
• Living in past and future
• Projecting
• Reactive
• Resisting, judging, righteous
• Anxious
• Wanting
• Separated and dividing
• Arrogant
• self-centered
• Lives from 'low' partial frequency

Liberated
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• Identified with roles, etc. which are progressing towards the authenticity of the True Self and oneness
• Unconditionally giving
• Surrendered
• In the flow
• Fluid
• Resolute
• Self responsible
• Mindful
• Unlimited creative potential
• Living in present moment
• Aware
• Responsive
• Open, accepting and neutral
• Trusting
• Serving
• Undifferentiated
• Authentically humble
• True Self -centered
• Lives from 'high' whole frequency

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Ask

What is?
What's important?
How can I bring balance?
​What is True Self / Tao / O.B. saying to me?
How can I give?
Where is my ground?

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