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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

Adyashanti

Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Silence

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Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

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Hurt, Reality, Love Is

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Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru's touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples. Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.

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Religious, Views, Secret

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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. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. 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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Taken, Mean, Responsibility

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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

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Past, Mind, Moments

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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.

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Teacher, Hurt, Rip

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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

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Letting Go, Real, Meditation

Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.12, Sounds True

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The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind,
the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

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Thinking, Tree, Mind

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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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Struggle, Reality, Loses

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Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

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Freedom, Ideas, People

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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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Knowing, Meditation, Listening

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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, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

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Letting Go, Honesty, Hard Work

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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?

Adyashanti

Path

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The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

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Life, Dream, Spiritual

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You are not your story.
They are not your story about them.
The world is not your story about the world.

Adyashanti

Stories, World

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As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.

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Believe, Labels, Limitless

Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.19, Sounds True

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To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you realize, "I'm here." Here is where thoughts aren't believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.

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Letting Go, Zero, Thinking

Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

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At a certain point we need to grow up; we need to look inside ourselves for our inner guidance. There are things most human beings know; they just don't want to know them. They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren't working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don't want to know what's not convenient. So we pretend not to know.

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Growing Up, Needs, Looks

Adyashanti (2009). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

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Humility, Past, Innocence

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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

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Death, Meditation, Dresses

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Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

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Silence, Meditation, Mind

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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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Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Honest

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Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."

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Peace, Compassion, Self

Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

Adyashanti

Christian, Buddhist, Buddhism

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What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

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Letting Go, Giving Up, Light

Adyashanti (2006). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.105, Sounds True

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