The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
ADYASHANTIMany people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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Once again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
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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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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
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When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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