The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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