Adyashanti on liberation
Adyashanti319 quotes“The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.”
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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
AdyashantiAdyashanti We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
AdyashantiAdyashanti You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
AdyashantiAdyashanti If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
AdyashantiAdyashanti [And yet] it is astounding how completely we humans define ourselves by the content of our minds, feelings, and history.
AdyashantiAdyashanti In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
AdyashantiAdyashanti You are the doorway to the infinite.
AdyashantiAdyashanti They know deep down that certain things in their lives are working or aren’t working, that certain parts of their lives are functional and others are dysfunctional. But sometimes, as human beings, we don’t want to know what’s not convenient. So we pretend not to know.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
AdyashantiAdyashanti This 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
AdyashantiAdyashanti You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
AdyashantiAdyashanti You 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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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