The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
ADYASHANTIFeel 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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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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When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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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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Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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In 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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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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