Adyashanti Quotes - Page 8

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• Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

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  Love, Moving, Agendas

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

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  Spiritual, Knowing, Doors

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• It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Teaching

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• We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.

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  Community, World, Sacred

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• Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that' or 'you shouldn't say that' or 'that wasn't appropriate' so most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK.......Most human beings have an imprinting that if they're real, if they're honest, somebody's not gonna like it. And they won't be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.

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  Real, People, Childhood

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• Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

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  Self, Inquiry, Answers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.

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  Running, Sleep, Simple

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• You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Enlightenment

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• 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.

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  Reality, Enlightenment, Bliss

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• Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being -- as if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.

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  Fate, Light, Trying

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• Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.

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  Struggle, Fall, Space

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• There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

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  Solve, Fierceness

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• The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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  Silence, Sound, Want

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• What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature, it authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This...is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it's not what we expected.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Self

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• Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

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  Life, Knowledge, Love Is

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• We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

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  Truth, Thinking, Self

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• Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

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  Enlightenment, Consciousness, States

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• The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

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  Truth Is, Seeking

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

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  Awareness, Pursuit, Pure

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• We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

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  Self, Ideas, Who We Are

  Adyashanti (2009). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

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  Missing, Understanding, Mind

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• Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

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  Feelings, Listening, Awakening

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• Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.

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  Thinking, Meditation, Should

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• Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

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  Refuse, Transformed

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• Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

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  Source, Yearning

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