The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
ADYASHANTIThe ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
ADYASHANTIThe door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
ADYASHANTIReality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
ADYASHANTIWhat is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
ADYASHANTIYou can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
ADYASHANTIOnly when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
ADYASHANTIIf you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
ADYASHANTIRelaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
ADYASHANTIThoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.
ADYASHANTIRefuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
ADYASHANTIThoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
ADYASHANTIThe mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.
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.
ADYASHANTIEventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
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