A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
ADYASHANTIThe 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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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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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 beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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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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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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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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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. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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