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.
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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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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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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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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