It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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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The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
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Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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You can’t lose what you serve. That’s the secret. What you serve, you can’t lose. What you don’t serve and what you try to hold onto, you can’t hold onto. It’s always slipping out of your fingers.
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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.
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When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
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Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
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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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Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
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