The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
ADYASHANTIIt is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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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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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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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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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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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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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.
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