Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
ADYASHANTIIt simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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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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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
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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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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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[And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
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Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.
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