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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.

Adyashanti

So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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Conditioning Deep Human Most OK Underlying
The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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Having May Moment More Needing Outside Step Time Tomorrow Willing
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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Experience Manipulating Meditating Meditation Think Thinking
In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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Doorway Greatest Mean Meditation Paradoxical True Yoga
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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Awakened Buddha One Reality Somewhere Thinking Time
You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
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Assumption Based Belief Believe Everything Know Thing
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.
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Bad Bliss Experiencing Good Mean Rather Simply Sorrow Thing
There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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Absolute Freedom Normally Nothing Safely Security
Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Care Cessation Fall Falling Free Space Struggle World
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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Attachment Consciousness Elsewhere Listen Sit Something Want
When 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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Anyone Condition Discover Freedom Happy Holding Requirement Satisfied Setting Yourself
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
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Act Highest Knowing Meditation Naked Prayer
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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Imagine Moment Pause Realize Yourself
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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Burning Clothing Fire Intend Leave Mind Perfume Prefer
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Being Enlightenment Mean Truly Waking
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Growth Really Requirement Spiritual Yearning

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