The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
ADYASHANTIAt first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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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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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
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This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
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You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
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