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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

Adyashanti

You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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Awaken Boundaries Dream Everything Life Lose Seeker Separateness Spiritual
Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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Believe Dream Ilusion Living Many Reality Referring Sages
My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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Bittersweet Experienced Opposite Reveal Teacher Used
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
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Arise Conclusion Faith Holding Withholding
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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Available Cause Connected Deeply Happen Open Really Unspoken Way
Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Destructive Enlightenment Process
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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Come Gift Grace Mind Reality Realization Truth
In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
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Concept Fixating Free Heart Hold Human Love Emptiness
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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Belief Concept Few Freedom Idea People Truly
When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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Feel Hate Illusion Lov Someone Tell Uplifting You
In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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End Giving Ourselves Silence Simple
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Belief Liberation Practice Put Something System Way
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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Available Completely Grace May Ourselves Thinking
As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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Holding Liberation Long Mean Perceive Responsibility Taken
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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Anything Control Go Letting Mastering Meditation Real Technique Two
Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Ever Eyes Occurred Seek Seeking God
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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Freedom Hand Key Opinion Question Stories
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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Desire Feel Good Integrity Mean More Order Real
It is good to remember that 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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Buddha Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Goal Good Remember Teaching
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Buddha Everything Find Going Nature Since Supreme
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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Accept Awareness Comprehensive May Mind Understand Way
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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Allow Anything Control Exactly Meditation Moment Need
If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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Filter Liberating Lying Mind Missing Saying Tradition Truth
True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
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Everything Experienced Let Go Meditation Revealed Seen Space True
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Authentic Being Deeply Honest Mystery Positive Thinking
It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Desire Experience Feel Perception Simply Stronger Yeaning
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Appreciate Appreciation Attention Freedom Holding Living Meditation

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