There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
ADYASHANTIThe you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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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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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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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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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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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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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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