This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
ADYASHANTIAs if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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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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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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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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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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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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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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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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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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