Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
ADYASHANTIStop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
ADYASHANTISo most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK…….
ADYASHANTIMany people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually, the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers.
ADYASHANTIWhen you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.
ADYASHANTINothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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.
ADYASHANTIWhen 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.
ADYASHANTIIt simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.
ADYASHANTIThat there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
ADYASHANTITake the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
ADYASHANTIOnce again, we find ourselves back in the unknown – not in the idea of the unknown, but in the lived reality of it. It’s the mind humbled, on its knees, with bare feet and free of the known.
ADYASHANTITo pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren’t who you imagine yourself to be.
ADYASHANTIThe willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
ADYASHANTIWhen a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.
ADYASHANTIAt any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
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