The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
ADYASHANTIInherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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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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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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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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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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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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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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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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