There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
ADYASHANTIWhen you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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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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My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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