There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
ADYASHANTIReal meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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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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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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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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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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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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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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