Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
ADYASHANTIMany spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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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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Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
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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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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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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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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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