There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.
ADYASHANTIReal meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
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When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
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There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
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The 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.
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No one can give you the strength of character necessary… Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
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One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
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Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
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Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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Whatever you resist, persists.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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