Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
ADYASHANTIThe door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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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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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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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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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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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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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 moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
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