My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
ADYASHANTIIf you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
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Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.
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At 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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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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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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What am I, really? The beautiful thing…is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that’s going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature,
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In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I’ve degraded you. I’ve made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.
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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
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The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
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The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.
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As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.
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Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the “me” is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.
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If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
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