Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
ADYASHANTIEventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, 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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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.
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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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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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A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
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