This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.
ADYASHANTIThe 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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The world’s problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present to suggest that we are not only sleepwalking, but at times borderline insane as well.
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Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind.
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The 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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Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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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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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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