To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
ADYASHANTIYou think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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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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In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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