Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
ADYASHANTIEnlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.
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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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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline.
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You do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you’re willing to be disturbed. You’re willing to be amazed. You’re willing to be surprised.
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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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There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
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When 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.
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Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru’s touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples.
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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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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.
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If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
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One 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?
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Nobody 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.
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You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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