Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
ADYASHANTIYou must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.
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If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
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Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.
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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves.
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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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All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
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Everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
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The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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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.
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Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
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It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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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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