No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being. Adyashanti More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti You are not your story. Adyashanti stories world The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief. Adyashanti wisdom spiritual letting-go An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. Adyashanti freedom ordinary men Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it's because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it. You'll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside. Adyashanti connections want love-is The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere. Adyashanti understanding missing mind As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought. Adyashanti limitless labels believe What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being. Adyashanti giving-up light letting-go At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature. Adyashanti moments simple littles 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 giving it away as fast as you receive it. Adyashanti hiding states giving Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, Adyashanti teaching spiritual thinking What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest Adyashanti manifest trying interesting Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. Adyashanti meditation real letting-go The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are. Adyashanti requirements growth spiritual True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all. With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself. Adyashanti wall love-you fall True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything. Adyashanti true-freedom desire True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought. Adyashanti use doe thinking At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form. Adyashanti confusion humanity giving The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. Adyashanti buddhist buddhism christian Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature. Adyashanti awakening life thinking When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails. Adyashanti suffering beautiful mean
