It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
ADYASHANTIWhen a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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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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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating …
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
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The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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