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At this stage the student ceases to be concerned with those egoistic and dualistic ideas which form so much of the concern of orthodox religious people. For their conception of God is no longer his, their desire to perpetuate the present state of the person in some eternal post-mortem heaven fades away naturally as the illusion of the person itself fades away. Yet nobody need be alarmed at these changes of outlook. All that is true and worthy in popular religion is not discarded but kept and conserved.

-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 1 : Entering the Short Path > # 89