Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
ADYASHANTIBe a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
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True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
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As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
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The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
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I often describe the Absolute as Pure Infinite Potential, prior to being or becoming anything. It is forever unborn, yet gives birth to all of existence. About our ultimate nature nothing can be said; it must be revealed.
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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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At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
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It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.
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If you think that people should be nice to one another, then by all means be nice. But when you project that belief onto the people and the world around you as if it were an objective reality, or worse still.
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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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Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question.
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Freedom and Love arise when you die into the unknown mystery of being.
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The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.
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The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.
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