Let It Be
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Trying to get rid of your ego would be like trying to get rid of your shadow. Where are you gonna put it?!
~ Adyashanti
How Deep are Your Claw Marks?
How deep are your claw marks?
The only advice I can give is to dig in your claws as little as possible. Because you’re going to be dragged into the truth; the only question is how deep are the claw marks you leave in the ground as you get dragged :) And you will leave some claw marks because everybody leaves some claw marks; everybody holds on. Everybody holds on but the less you hold on, the easier and quicker it goes.
~ Adyashanti
Everything Falls Away
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If you are a true seeker of liberation, you’ve got to be willing to stand alone. At the moment of liberation everything falls away – everything. Suddenly the ground beneath your feet is gone, and you are alone.
~ Adyashanti
The Art of Deep Listening
Adyashanti
I stayed up really late last night, just to listen to Adyashanti’s live webradio show. Or, as he put it, to join the virtual sangha. I’m so happy I did, because it was wonderful! The theme of the show was deep listening, the flip side of trying to control.
A Demolition Project
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Enlightenment is a demolition project. It simply shows you that everything you ever believed was true isn’t.
~ Adyashanti
What’s Not Real
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When you’re not thinking, everything that disappears, that’s what’s not real.
~ Adyashanti
Enlightenment May Not Be Easy
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It is important that we know what awakening is not, so that we no longer chase the by-products of awakening.
~ Adyashanti
Where Are You Going?
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All paths lead away from the truth. The truth is already here.
Where are you going?
~ Adyashanti
Consciousness isn’t an Experience
It can't rain all the time...
Consciousness appears as nothing and everything, but its essence is no thing. If we look for it as a thing or an experience, we won’t find it.
~ Adyashanti
Deep Intimacy with Existence
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I was listening to a wonderful live webcast with Adyashanti last night. These are some of the notes I took, words of his that really touched me.
Consciousness appears as nothing and everything, but its essence is no thing. If we look for it as a thing or an experience, we won’t find it.
Ask yourself, is it true that it [stillness, consciousness] isn’t here right now?
The willingness and courage of true aloneness (which is different from loneliness), is deep intimacy with and affection for existence.
Come Undone, Let Stillness Have You
Fuelled by masala chai I'm breathing through the bittersweet lessons and challenges of Shiva's tough love, slowly discovering the art of becoming empty. I am coming undone, finding myself once again... and it is t/here, waiting with arms wide open. Shanti ♥
