If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
ADYASHANTIIf you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
ADYASHANTIAll that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
ADYASHANTIThe most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
ADYASHANTIIf you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that’s not it.
ADYASHANTIIf you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
ADYASHANTITo be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, “I’m here.” Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
ADYASHANTIMy speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTIAll is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
ADYASHANTIThe Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
ADYASHANTIWhen 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?
ADYASHANTIThe truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, “What’s ultimately behind this set of eyes?” Turn around to see what is looking.
ADYASHANTIMany spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing.
ADYASHANTIWhen we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
ADYASHANTIWhenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
ADYASHANTIThis world is not my concern; it is myself.
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