The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot… — 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
This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but… — 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
Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly… — 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
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
We can't have an idea of what life should look like, about how spirit should be manifesting as our very life, because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
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