Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
ADYASHANTIWhat you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
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Feel 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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When 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.
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What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?
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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.
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
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That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
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There is profound responsibility in being Love… more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they’d be crushed by the realization of it.
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My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
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True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.
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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free,
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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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.
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