When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
ADYASHANTIMost spiritual seekers move away from this insecurity by seeking and striving for a distant spiritual goal. That’s how they avoid feeling insecure.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing – not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
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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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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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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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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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When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
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Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
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