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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.

Adyashanti

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
ADYASHANTI

After Itself Seek Source Yearn Yearning
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind … it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
ADYASHANTI

Come Gift Grace Mind Reality Realization Truth
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.
ADYASHANTI

Ash Burned Consume Realized Teaching Ultimate
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
ADYASHANTI

Accepted Disappear Paradox Resistance
You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
ADYASHANTI

Fold Inside Love More Outside Recieve Thousand
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?
ADYASHANTI

Asking Distant Enlightenment Goal Invite Reach Separation Stop Striving
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
ADYASHANTI

Emptiness Generated Idea Let Go Pay Reality
In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
ADYASHANTI

Doorway Greatest Mean Meditation Paradoxical True Yoga
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.
ADYASHANTI

Elsewhere Hate Love Self Someone Wanted
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
ADYASHANTI

Acceptance Self Total Transcendence Yourself
Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
ADYASHANTI

Almost Comfortable Fall Knowing Possibility Relaxing Surrounding
Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
ADYASHANTI

Claim Claimed Emotion Feeling Perception Sense Time
You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
ADYASHANTI

Look Looking Prior Think Thinking Thought
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
ADYASHANTI

Emptiness Eternity Love Move Moving Still
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.
ADYASHANTI

Differently Freedom Given Think Whole
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
ADYASHANTI

Act Highest Knowing Meditation Naked Prayer

No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.

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No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.

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