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.
ADYASHANTIThe more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
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With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.
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What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.
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There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
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There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there’s nothing there to grab hold of.
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Most human beings have an imprinting that if they’re real, if they’re honest, somebody’s not gonna like it. And they won’t be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.
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Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if ‘I’m good.’ You don’t find oak trees having existential crisis. ‘I feel so rotten about myself. I don’t produce as much acorns as the one next to me.’
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Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
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Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.
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There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
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Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
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