True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind’s judgments and defensiveness.
ADYASHANTIImagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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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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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It’s not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
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Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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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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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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