The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
ADYASHANTIRelaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,
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If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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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 truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
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When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
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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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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
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