Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
ADYASHANTIYou will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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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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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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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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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
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Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
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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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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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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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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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