A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
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Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
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When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
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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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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.
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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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As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
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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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Take one step backward into the unknown.
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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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When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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