My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTIIn 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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Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?
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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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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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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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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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