One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
ADYASHANTIWhy is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
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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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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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This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.
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When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
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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
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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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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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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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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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When we’re in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
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