When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
ADYASHANTIThe process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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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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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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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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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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