The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
ADYASHANTIThe beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
ADYASHANTIThe intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
ADYASHANTINothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
ADYASHANTIIf you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
ADYASHANTIThe paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
ADYASHANTIYou lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
ADYASHANTIIt is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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.
ADYASHANTIAt first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
ADYASHANTIIf you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
ADYASHANTISincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment 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.
ADYASHANTIYou’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
ADYASHANTIThe question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.
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.
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