Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
ADYASHANTIHow do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.
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If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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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.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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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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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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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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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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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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