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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
Adyashanti
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Adyashanti
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Steven Gray
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?
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Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
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Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
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All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
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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. Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.
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Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
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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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An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
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When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.
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