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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

A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that.
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Few History Knowing Minute Personality Place Question
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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Belief Concept Few Freedom Idea People Truly
The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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Beyond Buddha Everywhere Invitation Middle Unborn
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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Being Enlightenment Mean Truly Waking
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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Existence Flow Harmony Magical More
When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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Answer Brain Honest Inquire Instantly Notice Silence
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Cannot Conspiracy Helping Misery Need Resistance Survive
If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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Anything Anywhere Control Give Infinitesimal Right Urge
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.
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Awakening Challenge Dealing Grace Life Reality
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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Come Impulse Insecure Internet Mind Moving Outside Spiritual
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.
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Abstractness Heart Instead Isolated Opportunity Real Serving Spirituality
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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Concept Delay Encounters Idea Instant Down Stop
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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Listening Moment Place Silence Space Thought
Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Come Imagine Silence Trusting Up
One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
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Difficulties Giving Hide Hiding Lavishing Nirvana State

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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