You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
ADYASHANTIYou are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
ADYASHANTIAn ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
ADYASHANTIThere is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
ADYASHANTIThere is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your ‘demand’ on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
ADYASHANTIMeditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
ADYASHANTITo 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.”
ADYASHANTIThe perspective of Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.
ADYASHANTIImagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
ADYASHANTIWhy is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
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.
ADYASHANTIWhen someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
ADYASHANTISilence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
ADYASHANTIMy speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTIWhatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can’t be taken away.
ADYASHANTISincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
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