True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
ADYASHANTIWe must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Life itself is nothing but relationship.
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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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