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Aug 30, 2019 11:48:59 GMT
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Adyashanti
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. This truth is so simple, shocking and radical that it is easy to miss among one's flurry of seeking. He is here to shake his students awake and not to ask them to dream better. We must wake up to the fact that we are all already living Buddhas. We are the emptiness, the infinite nothing. Let go of all ideas and images in our minds: they come and go and are not even generated by us. ~ Adyashanti
As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and on life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flow out of you have a liberating effect on others. ~ Adyashanti
Any thought that’s believed, consciously or unconsciously, is going to distort your perception of what is. -Adyashanti
"Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises." ~ Adyashanti
"You are more an unseen presence than a person, a field of alive awareness permeating the body and beyond." —Adyashanti
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility. ~ Adyashanti
At that moment, you feel as if your path has ended. It can be hard to end it when so much is invested in your path, but if you really want to be free, you must want to know the truth more than anything else. And when you do, you find that the truth is so damn empty. There is so much nothing to it. There is so much nobody there, just a very vivid awakeness. ~ Adyashanti
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are. ~ Adyashanti
In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't. ~ Adyashanti
Q: I want what you wanted.
Adya: What did I want?
Q: You wanted to become enlightened.
Adya: I wanted to become enlightened. Ok. It didn't work out.
Q: Did you at least become awake?
Adya: No. Awakeness became awake. Enlightenment becomes enlightened. The me, the little guy, little Steven Larry Gray, that meditated in his parent's backyard for hours and hours a day, every single day, in the morning and the evening, and did nothing but do the good Buddhist thing, diligently, terribly, terribly disciplined, he didn't get enlightened. He never made it. He never crossed the river of nirvana, it never happened to him. What he did was, for whatever reason, maybe the seeking was necessary, is he got exhausted. It just completely exhausted itself. The little one that was trying to get awake and enlightened got so exhausted, so stricken by I can't do this, I can't, and I could no longer tell myself I can. That means the complete and utter destruction of denial. Because the denial is "I can". And your experience keeps showing you "you can't." And so I got so exhausted psychically, internally, emotionally, spiritually that I couldn't keep it up anymore. And i had to see the truth. I was willing to see the truth only because I was exhausted. I can't do it. And in that "I can't do it", and not as a spiritual strategy, emptiness woke up out of the seeker. The seeker didn't wake up. Consciousness woke up from the seeker, from the personality, from the "me" that was trying so hard. ~ Adyashanti
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Aug 30, 2019 16:30:09 GMT
Post by Figgles on Aug 30, 2019 16:30:09 GMT
Adyashanti The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. This truth is so simple, shocking and radical that it is easy to miss among one's flurry of seeking. He is here to shake his students awake and not to ask them to dream better. We must wake up to the fact that we are all already living Buddhas. We are the emptiness, the infinite nothing. Let go of all ideas and images in our minds: they come and go and are not even generated by us. ~ Adyashanti As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and on life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flow out of you have a liberating effect on others. ~ Adyashanti Any thought that’s believed, consciously or unconsciously, is going to distort your perception of what is. -Adyashanti "Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises." ~ Adyashanti "You are more an unseen presence than a person, a field of alive awareness permeating the body and beyond." —Adyashanti One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility. ~ Adyashanti At that moment, you feel as if your path has ended. It can be hard to end it when so much is invested in your path, but if you really want to be free, you must want to know the truth more than anything else. And when you do, you find that the truth is so damn empty. There is so much nothing to it. There is so much nobody there, just a very vivid awakeness. ~ Adyashanti When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are. ~ Adyashanti In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't. ~ Adyashanti Q: I want what you wanted. Adya: What did I want? Q: You wanted to become enlightened. Adya: I wanted to become enlightened. Ok. It didn't work out. Q: Did you at least become awake? Adya: No. Awakeness became awake. Enlightenment becomes enlightened. The me, the little guy, little Steven Larry Gray, that meditated in his parent's backyard for hours and hours a day, every single day, in the morning and the evening, and did nothing but do the good Buddhist thing, diligently, terribly, terribly disciplined, he didn't get enlightened. He never made it. He never crossed the river of nirvana, it never happened to him. What he did was, for whatever reason, maybe the seeking was necessary, is he got exhausted. It just completely exhausted itself. The little one that was trying to get awake and enlightened got so exhausted, so stricken by I can't do this, I can't, and I could no longer tell myself I can. That means the complete and utter destruction of denial. Because the denial is "I can". And your experience keeps showing you "you can't." And so I got so exhausted psychically, internally, emotionally, spiritually that I couldn't keep it up anymore. And i had to see the truth. I was willing to see the truth only because I was exhausted. I can't do it. And in that "I can't do it", and not as a spiritual strategy, emptiness woke up out of the seeker. The seeker didn't wake up. Consciousness woke up from the seeker, from the personality, from the "me" that was trying so hard. ~ Adyashanti There it is. |
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Aug 30, 2019 16:35:01 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 16:35:01 GMT
Adyashanti The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. This truth is so simple, shocking and radical that it is easy to miss among one's flurry of seeking. He is here to shake his students awake and not to ask them to dream better. We must wake up to the fact that we are all already living Buddhas. We are the emptiness, the infinite nothing. Let go of all ideas and images in our minds: they come and go and are not even generated by us. ~ Adyashanti As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and on life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flow out of you have a liberating effect on others. ~ Adyashanti Any thought that’s believed, consciously or unconsciously, is going to distort your perception of what is. -Adyashanti "Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises." ~ Adyashanti "You are more an unseen presence than a person, a field of alive awareness permeating the body and beyond." —Adyashanti One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility. ~ Adyashanti At that moment, you feel as if your path has ended. It can be hard to end it when so much is invested in your path, but if you really want to be free, you must want to know the truth more than anything else. And when you do, you find that the truth is so damn empty. There is so much nothing to it. There is so much nobody there, just a very vivid awakeness. ~ Adyashanti When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are. ~ Adyashanti In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't. ~ Adyashanti Q: I want what you wanted. Adya: What did I want? Q: You wanted to become enlightened. Adya: I wanted to become enlightened. Ok. It didn't work out. Q: Did you at least become awake? Adya: No. Awakeness became awake. Enlightenment becomes enlightened. The me, the little guy, little Steven Larry Gray, that meditated in his parent's backyard for hours and hours a day, every single day, in the morning and the evening, and did nothing but do the good Buddhist thing, diligently, terribly, terribly disciplined, he didn't get enlightened. He never made it. He never crossed the river of nirvana, it never happened to him. What he did was, for whatever reason, maybe the seeking was necessary, is he got exhausted. It just completely exhausted itself. The little one that was trying to get awake and enlightened got so exhausted, so stricken by I can't do this, I can't, and I could no longer tell myself I can. That means the complete and utter destruction of denial. Because the denial is "I can". And your experience keeps showing you "you can't." And so I got so exhausted psychically, internally, emotionally, spiritually that I couldn't keep it up anymore. And i had to see the truth. I was willing to see the truth only because I was exhausted. I can't do it. And in that "I can't do it", and not as a spiritual strategy, emptiness woke up out of the seeker. The seeker didn't wake up. Consciousness woke up from the seeker, from the personality, from the "me" that was trying so hard. ~ Adyashanti There it is. Yup. amen.  |
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Aug 31, 2019 14:32:22 GMT
Post by Enigma on Aug 31, 2019 14:32:22 GMT
Adyashanti The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. This truth is so simple, shocking and radical that it is easy to miss among one's flurry of seeking. He is here to shake his students awake and not to ask them to dream better. We must wake up to the fact that we are all already living Buddhas. We are the emptiness, the infinite nothing. Let go of all ideas and images in our minds: they come and go and are not even generated by us. ~ Adyashanti As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and on life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flow out of you have a liberating effect on others. ~ Adyashanti Any thought that’s believed, consciously or unconsciously, is going to distort your perception of what is. -Adyashanti "Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises." ~ Adyashanti "You are more an unseen presence than a person, a field of alive awareness permeating the body and beyond." —Adyashanti One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility. ~ Adyashanti At that moment, you feel as if your path has ended. It can be hard to end it when so much is invested in your path, but if you really want to be free, you must want to know the truth more than anything else. And when you do, you find that the truth is so damn empty. There is so much nothing to it. There is so much nobody there, just a very vivid awakeness. ~ Adyashanti When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are. ~ Adyashanti In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't. ~ Adyashanti Q: I want what you wanted. Adya: What did I want? Q: You wanted to become enlightened. Adya: I wanted to become enlightened. Ok. It didn't work out. Q: Did you at least become awake? Adya: No. Awakeness became awake. Enlightenment becomes enlightened. The me, the little guy, little Steven Larry Gray, that meditated in his parent's backyard for hours and hours a day, every single day, in the morning and the evening, and did nothing but do the good Buddhist thing, diligently, terribly, terribly disciplined, he didn't get enlightened. He never made it. He never crossed the river of nirvana, it never happened to him. What he did was, for whatever reason, maybe the seeking was necessary, is he got exhausted. It just completely exhausted itself. The little one that was trying to get awake and enlightened got so exhausted, so stricken by I can't do this, I can't, and I could no longer tell myself I can. That means the complete and utter destruction of denial. Because the denial is "I can". And your experience keeps showing you "you can't." And so I got so exhausted psychically, internally, emotionally, spiritually that I couldn't keep it up anymore. And i had to see the truth. I was willing to see the truth only because I was exhausted. I can't do it. And in that "I can't do it", and not as a spiritual strategy, emptiness woke up out of the seeker. The seeker didn't wake up. Consciousness woke up from the seeker, from the personality, from the "me" that was trying so hard. ~ Adyashanti There it is. Yes, the power of futility. (My #1 best seller, now in paperback)  The complete and utter failure to practice his way to freedom. But look at the devotion. The only thing he ever needed on the pathless path leading to the gateless gate. |
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Aug 31, 2019 16:22:14 GMT
Post by Figgles on Aug 31, 2019 16:22:14 GMT
Yes, the power of futility. (My #1 best seller, now in paperback) The complete and utter failure to practice his way to freedom. But look at the devotion. The only thing he ever needed on the pathless path leading to the gateless gate. Yes! And all the practice in the world will not 'cause' devotion. One who is wholly dedicated to practice is demonstrating the presence of devotion...and THAT, while not a sure-fire path or 'cause' to SR either, seems to make for a very auspicious 'correlate.' |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 16:33:08 GMT
Yes, the power of futility. (My #1 best seller, now in paperback) The complete and utter failure to practice his way to freedom. But look at the devotion. The only thing he ever needed on the pathless path leading to the gateless gate. Yes! And all the practice in the world will not 'cause' devotion. One who is wholly dedicated to practice is demonstrating the presence of devotion...and THAT, while not a sure-fire path or 'cause' to SR either, seems to make for a very auspicious 'correlate.' True. Devotion comes first which leads to practice which gets results. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 16:37:36 GMT
Yes, the power of futility. (My #1 best seller, now in paperback) The complete and utter failure to practice his way to freedom. But look at the devotion. The only thing he ever needed on the pathless path leading to the gateless gate. Adya's practice wasn't a waste of time. It got to the point of the final letting go which the ripening of practice had facilitated. |
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Aug 31, 2019 16:49:52 GMT
Post by Figgles on Aug 31, 2019 16:49:52 GMT
Yes! And all the practice in the world will not 'cause' devotion. One who is wholly dedicated to practice is demonstrating the presence of devotion...and THAT, while not a sure-fire path or 'cause' to SR either, seems to make for a very auspicious 'correlate.' True. Devotion comes first which leads to practice which gets results. Where there is true devotion, sincerity, willingness/openness, looking at what needs to be looked at, happens naturally. No formal, ongoing, effortful meditation 'practice' necessary. Again though, I have nothing against an interest to meditate, nothing even against a 'plan' to meditate, it's just important to see/acknowledge that as a practice, it's not a cause to SR. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 17:18:50 GMT
True. Devotion comes first which leads to practice which gets results. Where there is true devotion, sincerity, willingness/openness, looking at what needs to be looked at, happens naturally. No formal, ongoing, effortful meditation 'practice' necessary. Again though, I have nothing against an interest to meditate, nothing even against a 'plan' to meditate, it's just important to see/acknowledge that as a practice, it's not a cause to SR. Nor is training for the 100 metre sprint a cause of getting a gold medal, but on the other hand you're unlikely to get that medal if you don't train and you'll probably need a coach as well. |
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Aug 31, 2019 19:04:27 GMT
Post by Figgles on Aug 31, 2019 19:04:27 GMT
Where there is true devotion, sincerity, willingness/openness, looking at what needs to be looked at, happens naturally. No formal, ongoing, effortful meditation 'practice' necessary. Again though, I have nothing against an interest to meditate, nothing even against a 'plan' to meditate, it's just important to see/acknowledge that as a practice, it's not a cause to SR. Nor is training for the 100 metre sprint a cause of getting a gold medal, but on the other hand you're unlikely to get that medal if you don't train and you'll probably need a coach as well. You're equating meditation practice with training for skill acquisition. SR is not an acquired skill....not an accomplishment, acquisition at all. SR does not involve learning, training or acquiring new knowledge. Rather, it's an 'unlearning'...an 'un knowing' of stuff that was previously known for certain and never questioned. |
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The complete and utter failure to practice his way to freedom. But look at the devotion. The only thing he ever needed on the pathless path leading to the gateless gate.