Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
ADYASHANTIGrief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
ADYASHANTIWhat am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
ADYASHANTIThe intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
ADYASHANTIOften life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.
ADYASHANTIRelaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
ADYASHANTIYou can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
ADYASHANTIThe process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
ADYASHANTIThe most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don’t know who you are; you lose your boundaries.
ADYASHANTIIn the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
ADYASHANTIThere is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
ADYASHANTITo accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”
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.
ADYASHANTIAn ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
ADYASHANTINothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
ADYASHANTIThe main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
ADYASHANTINeither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
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