You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
ADYASHANTIStop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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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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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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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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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.
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Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
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There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
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Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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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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When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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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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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don’t want to know them.
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Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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