It 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.
ADYASHANTINothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.
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Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel very insecure.
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As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.
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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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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
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One 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.
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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You are the doorway to the infinite.
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We can’t have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because all of those ideas would just be products of the past – something we learned, imagined, or desired.
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The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
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Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
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To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
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It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
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