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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.

Adyashanti

The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
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Balance Buddha Convention Extreme Insight Middle Mind Missing Simply Understand Understanding
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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Buddha Buddhist Christian Christianity Create Goal Good Remember Teaching
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
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Heart Integrity Married Mind Quiet Wisdom
The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
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Ash Burned Consume Realized Teaching Ultimate
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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Acceptance Self Total Transcendence Yourself
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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Anybody Appreciate Appreciation Existence Gratitude Way
All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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Big Deal Freedom Love Mean Say Trust Yes
We realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
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Constructed Formed Idea Quite Realize Self Sense Suddenly
The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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Beautiful Immediate Thing Truth Being Unimaginavly
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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Growth Really Requirement Spiritual Yearning
When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Death Issue Itself Now Realize Realizing Solve
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Being Enlightenment Mean Truly Waking
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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Door Fate God Hard Light Perceive Something Try Trying Wrong
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
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Go Here Integrity Letting Realize Thinking Time Zero
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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Ask Intimate Most Power Question Self Spiritual
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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Grace Look Prone Reality Self Start Thinking

To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.

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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.

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