My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTIMy speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTITrue meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
ADYASHANTIIt is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
ADYASHANTIWhen we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
ADYASHANTIThe 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,
ADYASHANTIYour life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
ADYASHANTIIt has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
ADYASHANTIOne Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
ADYASHANTITruth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
ADYASHANTISpace and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
ADYASHANTIMeditation 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.
ADYASHANTIIn the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
ADYASHANTIA quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.
ADYASHANTIWhatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering.
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.
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