What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
ADYASHANTIWhen you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
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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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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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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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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 Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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