What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only life, undivided and whole.
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
Take one step backward into the unknown.
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.
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.
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.
Enlightenment is a destructive process.
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.
You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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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