Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
ADYASHANTIGo ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
ADYASHANTINobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? …’cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
ADYASHANTIOnly something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
ADYASHANTIIf you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
ADYASHANTIA meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
ADYASHANTIReal meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
ADYASHANTIThe light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
ADYASHANTIThere is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
ADYASHANTIWhen you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.
ADYASHANTIThe biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
ADYASHANTIThere’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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.
ADYASHANTIWhen you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
ADYASHANTINo matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
ADYASHANTITo pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
ADYASHANTIFeel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don’t live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
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