Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
ADYASHANTIAs you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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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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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
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Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.
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