We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.
ADYASHANTII often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
More Adyashanti Quotes
-
-
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.
ADYASHANTI -
Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness
ADYASHANTI -
Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
ADYASHANTI -
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
ADYASHANTI -
Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.
ADYASHANTI -
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
ADYASHANTI -
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
ADYASHANTI -
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
ADYASHANTI -
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
ADYASHANTI -
To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
ADYASHANTI -
The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
ADYASHANTI -
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.
ADYASHANTI -
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
ADYASHANTI -
Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
ADYASHANTI -
You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.
ADYASHANTI -
As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
ADYASHANTI -
My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
ADYASHANTI -
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
ADYASHANTI -
To 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.”
ADYASHANTI -
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
ADYASHANTI -
Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.
ADYASHANTI -
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
ADYASHANTI -
Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
ADYASHANTI -
Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
ADYASHANTI -
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.
ADYASHANTI -
The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
ADYASHANTI