At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
ADYASHANTIThoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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