As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
ADYASHANTIAs you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
ADYASHANTIWhen you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
ADYASHANTIThe middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
ADYASHANTIQuestion your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.
ADYASHANTIAs long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy.
ADYASHANTIYou can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
ADYASHANTIEverybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you,
ADYASHANTIHas it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?
ADYASHANTIYou’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
ADYASHANTIThe aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
ADYASHANTIWhen emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
ADYASHANTIWe think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit.
ADYASHANTIMost people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
ADYASHANTIYou come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.
ADYASHANTIFear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
ADYASHANTILife itself is nothing but relationship.
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