Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. — 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
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
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you… — 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
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
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
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security… — 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
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world.… — 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
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
