“Perhaps the most important element of any spiritual teaching is what we bring to it, because this dictates what the teaching will reveal within ourselves.”

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 3: Orientation to the Teaching (2010)

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Spiritual teacher 1962

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