Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
ADYASHANTIIn true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.
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Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
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We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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