What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
ADYASHANTIWhat would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
ADYASHANTIThe beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
ADYASHANTILove is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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.
ADYASHANTIAll is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
ADYASHANTIOne doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
ADYASHANTIIn the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
ADYASHANTIYou’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
ADYASHANTIThe ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
ADYASHANTIWhen you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
ADYASHANTIHas it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
ADYASHANTIThe true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
ADYASHANTIWhatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
ADYASHANTIEgo is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed.
ADYASHANTIThe goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
ADYASHANTIIt is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
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