Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
ADYASHANTITruth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
ADYASHANTIOnce again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
ADYASHANTIReal meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
ADYASHANTISince everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
ADYASHANTIWe think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
ADYASHANTIThe main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is a destructive process.
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.
ADYASHANTIHave you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.
ADYASHANTIWe are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
ADYASHANTIReal meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
ADYASHANTITrue love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..
ADYASHANTILove causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
ADYASHANTIAt any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
ADYASHANTIAwakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
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