When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
ADYASHANTIAwareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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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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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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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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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
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Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says “Whatever is, isn’t the way it is supposed to be.
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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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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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