Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it? — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Questioner: What‘s the best thing I can do for my awakening? Adyashanti: Be with an enlightened teacher and listen.” — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Everything depends upon your readiness and willingness to let go into the Unknown and live from that mysterious and precious condition. The… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite definitions of enlightenment comes from a Jesuit priest named Anthony de Mello, who passed away some years ago.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what‘s important.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment depends to a large extent on believing that you are born for Freedom in this lifetime, and that it is available… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“In order to find what the concept of God is pointing to, you must let go of your image of God and… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“This (liberation) isn't something I can help you with. I can tell you what you need to do, but you have to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being,… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present… — Adyashanti Copy Share
This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the… — Adyashanti Copy Share
When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself. — Adyashanti Copy Share
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this,… — Adyashanti Copy Share
You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to… — Adyashanti Copy Share
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that… — Adyashanti Copy Share
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. — Adyashanti Copy Share
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy. — Adyashanti Copy Share
Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you. — Adyashanti Copy Share
One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by… — Adyashanti Copy Share
