The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.
ADYASHANTIA meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?
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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
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The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
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Concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.
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There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.
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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
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We don’t come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don’t come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
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When 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.
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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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You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.
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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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Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
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