Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
ADYASHANTIThere is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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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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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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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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