In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
ADYASHANTIThe truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
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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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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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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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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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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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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
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When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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