You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
ADYASHANTIMost people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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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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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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