It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
ADYASHANTIThe important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
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In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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