resistance creates suffering...

SUFFERING AND RESISTANCE

We suffer in the present from past experiences
In direct proportion to how much identity
we derive from that suffering.

The easiest way to keep dreaming
is thinking your dreaming is true.
Don’t get mixed up with the ‘whys’,
they will not help you.

Whatever you resist you become.
If you resist anger, you are always angry.
If you resist sadness, you are always sad.
If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
If you resist confusion, you are always confused.

We think that we resist certain states because
they are there, but actually
they are there because we resist them.
- Adyashanti
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Looking at this I wonder if this is also true
for resisting love and joy and happiness?
It's just a question that arose.
What can I say? It happens. S.
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clearing out identification is freedom...

"Freedom is the realization that this deep, deep peace and this unknown are what you are. Everything else is just an extension of that unknown. Bodies are just an extension of that unknown. The trees outside are just an extension of the unknown in time, in form. Thought and feeling are also extensions of the unknown in time. The whole visible universe, in fact, is just an extension in time of this unknown, this mountain of quiet.

So it's really important to get to the point of maturity where you are willing to look at what is fundamental. There is a difference between pulling the weeds of confusion out and getting to the root of Truth. Did you ever pull weeds from a lawn, grabbing only their tops, and discover they were back again so quickly that it was as if the lawn was never weeded at all?
Clearing out identification is like this."
~ Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing

~~~)oOo(~ open mind, open heart ~)oOo(~~~

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"Realize that there isn't somebody in there to protect.
There is no need for an emotional barrier or the feelings 

of separation and isolation that come from that barrier.
The only reason you ever thought that you needed protection 

was because of a very innocent misunderstanding.

This happened because when you were given a concept
of yourself in very early childhood, you also received
a kit with which to build walls that would protect this concept.
You learned to add to the kit as circumstances arose.
If a good dose of anger seemed useful, you would add that
to the kit, or perhaps you added resentment, shame, blame,
or victimization. Whether you cling to a self-image as a good person
or an inadequate person, the kit of identity is used to protect that image."
~Adyashanti,
Emptiness Dancing

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notice how Light weaves itself into dreams...

There You Are again...

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Ever since I stepped out of imagination
and into the Heart of things
I have become so much less spiritual.
Heaven, hell and earth
hold no meaning for me anymore .
For I am neither coming
nor going
nor staying put.
All I do is notice all the various ways
that Light weaves itself into dreams.

When someone asks me who they are
or what God is
I smile inside and whisper to the Light:
There you go again, pretending.
~ Adyashanti

There you go again, pretending...

There You Are again

"Ever since I stepped out of imagination
and into the Heart of things
I have become so much less spiritual.
Heaven, hell and earth
hold no meaning for me anymore .
For I am neither coming
nor going
nor staying put.
All I do is notice all the various ways
that Light weaves itself into dreams.

When someone asks me who they are
or what God is
I smile inside and whisper to the Light:
There you go again pretending..."
~ Adyashanti
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Everybody and everything is very good at pretending to be anything but Light.
Then there's spiritual people/seekers pretending to be Light.
All quite funny, isn't it?

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what is bluer then blue, and truer than True?

"There is no such thing as an absolutely True thought.

This doesn’t mean that some thoughts are not truer than others, only that no thought is absolutely True.
What IS is what’s happening before you have a thought about it.Notice the difference between what your mind thinks about this moment, and this moment as it is before you have any thought about it."
- Adyashanti