True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought. Adyashanti More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti You are not your story. Adyashanti storiesworld 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 wisdomspiritualletting-go An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. Adyashanti freedomordinarymen 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 connectionswantlove-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 understandingmissingmind 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 limitlesslabelsbelieve 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-uplightletting-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 momentssimplelittles 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 hidingstatesgiving Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions, Adyashanti teachingspiritualthinking What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest Adyashanti manifesttryinginteresting Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control. Adyashanti meditationrealletting-go The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are. Adyashanti requirementsgrowthspiritual 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 walllove-youfall True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything. Adyashanti true-freedomdesire 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 confusionhumanitygiving The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. Adyashanti buddhistbuddhismchristian 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 awakeninglifethinking 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 sufferingbeautifulmean 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 hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers. Adyashanti slippingsecrettrying
