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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Cupertino
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Steven Gray
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As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the right way to go because it's going there anyway.
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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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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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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. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
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You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
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