We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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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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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment?
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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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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So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called “the peace that passes all understanding.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.
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