As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
ADYASHANTIThe unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.
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Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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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.
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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