You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been.
AdyashantiAdyashanti We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
AdyashantiAdyashanti There 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, ‘I want to be free.’
AdyashantiAdyashanti Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
AdyashantiAdyashanti To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness.
AdyashantiAdyashanti At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
AdyashantiAdyashanti If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
AdyashantiAdyashanti True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
AdyashantiAdyashanti All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.
AdyashantiAdyashanti If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
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