The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
ADYASHANTIThe middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
ADYASHANTITruth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
ADYASHANTIAwareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
ADYASHANTINobody 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.
ADYASHANTISo most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
ADYASHANTIThe true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
ADYASHANTITrue freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
ADYASHANTIAs soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
ADYASHANTIThe 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.
ADYASHANTIThe aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
ADYASHANTINow 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.
ADYASHANTITruth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.
ADYASHANTILove causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
ADYASHANTIIt is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
ADYASHANTIThe more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
ADYASHANTIGrace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
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