If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
ADYASHANTIWe need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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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 paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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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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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
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To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
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To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
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To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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