True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
ADYASHANTITo remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.
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One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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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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What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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You can’t lose what you serve. That’s the secret. What you serve, you can’t lose. What you don’t serve and what you try to hold onto, you can’t hold onto. It’s always slipping out of your fingers.
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Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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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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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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