Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
ADYASHANTIIn 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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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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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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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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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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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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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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