True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. Adyashanti More Quotes by Adyashanti More Quotes From Adyashanti When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love. Adyashanti emptinesseternitymoving Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time. Adyashanti teachingtimeteacher Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of. Adyashanti distancespiritualthinking There's something more to life than what we see on the surface. Adyashanti surfacemore-to-life You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy. Adyashanti incrediblesmysteryjoy When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself. Adyashanti solveissuesrealizing Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be. Adyashanti realizationmeditationteaching The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking. Adyashanti turnstruth-iseye 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 scriptsidentitysteps It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life. Adyashanti blissenlightenmentreality The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do. Adyashanti easymaylooks Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death. Adyashanti meditationdressesdeath When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence. Adyashanti silenceanswersbrain Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that. Adyashanti enlightenmentwakingmean Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point. Adyashanti spiritualfearpeople As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally. Adyashanti hardest-timesopeningstudents We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization. Adyashanti consumersrealizationexpression The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. Adyashanti seekingtruth-is Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all. Adyashanti embracewake-upcauses My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better. Adyashanti awakeawakeningdream
