Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
ADYASHANTIIf you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
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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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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
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Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
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Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.
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So most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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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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