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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

Adyashanti

The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Balance Buddha Convention Extreme Insight Middle Mind Missing Simply Understand Understanding
It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
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Anymore Clothing Concept Different Drunk Pain Spiritual Wearing
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
When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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Love Maintain Sorrow State Trying Unpleasant
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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Away Conglomeration Division Force Opoosote Separate
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
One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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Alone Authority Humility Innocence Past Reference Stand Unknown
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Burn Destruction Everything False Flame Fulfilment Love
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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Apparent Bondage Compassion Freedom Invitation Need Running Stop
As 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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Aware Awareness Being Gently Resting Unmanifest
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Biggest Many People Provide Question Spiritual Teaching Thinking
The perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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Anybody Compassion Enough Include Leave Perspective Until Vision
Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
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Ever Eyes Occurred Seek Seeking God
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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Bare Dreadful Fearful Illusion Light Overcome Pure Some
When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Death Issue Itself Now Realize Realizing Solve
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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Exist Hidden Lacking Literally Only Present Quite Truth

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

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