The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
ADYASHANTIMeditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside.
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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
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The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.
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You’re Arguing with ‘What Is’ – Your demands keep you chained to the ‘dream-state’ of the conditioned mind. The desire to ‘control’… is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
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The Truth doesn’t answer anything. The Truth IS everything!
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Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
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If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you.
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You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.
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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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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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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 proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
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In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
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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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Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.
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