One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
ADYASHANTIMeditation 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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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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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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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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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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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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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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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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