Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
ADYASHANTIWhat the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.
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Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
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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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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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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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The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life.
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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 mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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