Fear 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.
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.
ADYASHANTIThere’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
ADYASHANTIMany Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality.
ADYASHANTIWhat you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
ADYASHANTIWhen we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
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.
ADYASHANTICessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
ADYASHANTIMost people don’t get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says ‘you can’t say that’ or ‘you shouldn’t say that’ or ‘that wasn’t appropriate’.
ADYASHANTIWhen you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.
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.
ADYASHANTIWe realize–often quite suddenly–that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
ADYASHANTIWhen you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
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.
ADYASHANTIThere’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
ADYASHANTIWhen you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you’re holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
ADYASHANTIThe biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
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