This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
ADYASHANTIThis simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
ADYASHANTIOnly when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
ADYASHANTIWhenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
ADYASHANTIThe process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
ADYASHANTIHas it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
ADYASHANTIWhen a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
ADYASHANTIWe need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
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.
ADYASHANTIThe true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
ADYASHANTIThe most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
ADYASHANTIRefuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
ADYASHANTIMeditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
ADYASHANTIThe Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
ADYASHANTIMany Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
ADYASHANTIAs you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
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