The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
ADYASHANTIIt is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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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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What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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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 process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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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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We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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