In 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.
ADYASHANTIReal meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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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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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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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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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 silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
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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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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Most people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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