Adyashanti on concept
Adyashanti319 quotes“Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.”
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.
AdyashantiAdyashanti It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.
AdyashantiAdyashanti When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
AdyashantiAdyashanti There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
AdyashantiAdyashanti It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
AdyashantiAdyashanti When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
AdyashantiAdyashanti When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti In True Meditation, we’re in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.
AdyashantiAdyashanti That there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.
AdyashantiAdyashanti There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
AdyashantiAdyashanti True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
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Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
Yoko OnoYoko Ono The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine L.O.V.E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.
Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.
Kobe BryantKobe Bryant I love directing, I really do. The whole concept of being in control of a presentation, particularly a movie or a show where you’re dealing with actors and crew.
Morgan FreemanMorgan Freeman If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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