To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
ADYASHANTIStop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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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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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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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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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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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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