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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.

Adyashanti

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Buddha Everything Find Going Nature Since Supreme
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
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Deeper Experience Great Mind Power Question Silence Spiritual
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
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 is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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Being End Enlightenment More Natural Nothing State
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Direction Goal Meditation Prayer Pure Silent Surrender Wordless
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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Capasitymitself Fall Go Letting Nature Spiritual True Unknown Wisdom
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
In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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Acquire Awakened Eternal Follower Initiator Living Teaching
As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind’s compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Aware Awareness Being Gently Resting Unmanifest
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
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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Freedom Hand Key Opinion Question Stories
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?
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Actually Fade Idea Image Path Such Thing
The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Agenda Into Only Reality Run Running Thing Truth
What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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Against Away Dog Leashes Own Run Running Tug
As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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Each Heart Life Love Nothing Peel Seeking Taken You

There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.

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There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.

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