An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
ADYASHANTIAn ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
ADYASHANTIIf we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
ADYASHANTIYou’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
ADYASHANTITrue freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
ADYASHANTINothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
ADYASHANTIFreedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.
ADYASHANTITrying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.
ADYASHANTIThis does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.
ADYASHANTIThe separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
ADYASHANTIWe need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
ADYASHANTIAwareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
ADYASHANTIMy speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTIWhat will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
ADYASHANTIThere’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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.
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