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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

Adyashanti

The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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Bypass Confusion Important Nirvana Samsara Way
Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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Arise Freedom Living Love Mystery Unknown
Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Agenda Love Move Moving Natural Nature
Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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Illusion Neither OK One Someone Something Tell True
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Buddha Everything Find Going Nature Since Supreme
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
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Awake Awakening Better Dream Meant Shake Speaking
There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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Choose Moment Necessary Nothing Thinking Thought Trying Whenever Wrong
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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Armor Arrow Penetrate Truth
Enlightenment 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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Anger Crumbling Enlightenment Eradication Everything Imagined Pretence
Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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Boundaries Concept Create Ego Positive Spiritual Thinking War
Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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Almost Illusion Life Longer Magical never Take
The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Agenda Into Only Reality Run Running Thing Truth
In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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Doorway Greatest Mean Meditation Paradoxical True Yoga
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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Birthed Community Sacred Sangha World
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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Cause Come Completion Embrace Identification Up Wake
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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Absolute Complete Distance Freedom Knowing Seeking State

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

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