Remember the Reasons Why You Came Here - Robert Adams
ADYA I will try to explain what happened experientially. At the moment of awakening, it was as though I was completely outside who I thought I was. There was a vast, vast, vast emptiness. In that vast emptiness, in that infinite emptiness, there was the smallest, smallest, smallest point of light you could imagine. And that smallest point of light
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“It is of no use to see my body, which is going to rot and fade away. Instead, consider this: if you see Dharma, you see me; if you see me, you see Dharma.”
Dainin Katagiri, Steve Hagen (Editor) • You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight
Turn within and notice that there is no I or me—no one is doing the looking. The silent and mysterious presence—the manifest expression—of Being looks out upon the world. Notice that this Ground has no name, no agenda, and nothing to gain or lose. It is the gaze of eternity looking into the world of time.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
We all come to practice with questions, perhaps the most basic of which is “Why am I suffering?” We also come to practice with our private answers to that question, answers that involve blaming ourselves or others, or which catch us in endless cycles of hope and disappointment. These answers lie buried within our minds as grim unconscious beliefs,
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