As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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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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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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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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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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