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Post by Reefs on Feb 15, 2013 8:09:11 GMT -8
This thread is for posting Adyashanti quotes only.
Two simple rules:
#1) you may not post comments
#2) you may post other Adya quotes
If someone wants to discuss these quotes, that can be done in a separate thread, "The Daily Adya (discussion)" thread.
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Post by Reefs on Feb 15, 2013 8:12:18 GMT -8
Liberation
Q: What is liberated from what?
A: That sort of question is what you are liberated from. Be sincere, don't ask questions out of mere interest. Ask dangerous questions - the ones whose answers could change your life.
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Post by Reefs on Feb 15, 2013 8:34:44 GMT -8
Nothing rare
A: The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare. When this barrier is dropped, or at least you start to tell yourself "I really don't know if my belief that awakening is difficult is true or not," then everything becomes instantly available to you. Since this is all that exists, it can't be rare and difficult unless we insist it is. The basis of all this is not theoretical, it is experiential. No one taught it to me, and no one can teach it to you.
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Post by sufilight on Feb 16, 2013 1:28:44 GMT -8
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you. It has no intention to harmonize. It has no agenda. It just happens. The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda. Everything else will have an agenda.
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Post by Reefs on Feb 16, 2013 1:42:54 GMT -8
Peeling Oranges (1)
Q: Letting go of our egocentricity so we can experience awakening - do you suppose it is peeled off us the way we peel an orange?
A: Peeling is like having a dream at night in which you are going to a therapist, and you start feeling better and better, and you feel like you are getting somewhere. Awakening is as if you are sitting on the couch telling your story, and you are still a mess - haven't gotten very far. Then all of a sudden you realize this is a dream, this isn't real, you're making it up. That's awakening. There's a big difference.
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Post by Reefs on Feb 18, 2013 1:54:37 GMT -8
Peeling Oranges (2)
Q: I've made up all of it?
A: The whole thing. But the awakeness in you is not dreaming. It tells itself stories and wants to know if you're progressing. When you shift into wakefulness, you realize. "Wait, it's a dream. The mind is creating an altered state of reality, a virtual reality, but it's not true - it's just thought." Thought can tell a million stories inside of awareness, and it's not going to change awareness a bit. The only thing that's going to change is the way the body feels. If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it's all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don't awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.
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Post by Reefs on Feb 19, 2013 3:16:47 GMT -8
Awakening (1)
A: You have experienced moments in your life, whether or not you are aware of them, when you momentarily forgot the "I" with which you have been identified. It can happen spontaneously at a beautiful sight, or it can occur from egoic forgetfulness. People usually discount these moments. After experiencing the "nice moment", you then reconstitute your familiar sense of identity. But actually these opportunities are like little peepholes through which the truth is experienced. If you start to watch for them, you will notice them. All of a sudden the mind will stop thinking of its story. You might notice that your separate identity or sense of a me just took a break, and whatever you truly are didn't disappear. Then ask yourself, "What is the real me? If my identity can take a break and I don't disappear, what am I then?" or rather, "What am I when I do disappear?"
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Post by sufilight on Feb 21, 2013 2:18:52 GMT -8
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
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Post by Reefs on Mar 7, 2013 7:09:27 GMT -8
Awakening (2)
A: Usually the mind gets activated in response to the questions "What am I?" It starts thinking about it until true intelligence breaks in again and says "Now wait a minute - that's just more thought." Then there can be a gap of quietness between thoughts, and if you are very present in that gap, you stop acting out your familiar identity. As soon as identity jumps into the gap, you don't feel present anymore. Being nobody is usually so baffling to the mind that it starts filling that gap very quickly. "How can I be nobody?" But to fill it up with a somebody is meaningless. If you really want to know what you are, just experience the gap, experience the openness, and let it bloom inside. There is no better way to find out who you are.
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Post by Reefs on May 20, 2013 6:20:33 GMT -8
Being humbled
Q: It seems so arrogant to think that I could be enlightened. I'm afraid to even entertain that possibility for fear that I'll just be disappointed. How could I be worthy of enlightenment?
A: The great news is that you don't have to be worthy of enlightenment. Nobody's worthy of it. Despite unworthiness, it is given. Enlightenment is too big to be worthy of. Who could be worthy of it? Who is separate from it to be worthy? That's the Love. Worthiness doesn't count. Nothing can ostracize you from the Truth of your Self.
You have to allow yourself to be humbled. That humbling can take place in an instant or over a lifetime, it doesn't matter. Finally, when you become humble enough to come back to being nothing and to discovering your perfect nothingness, you discover everything. When that is discovered, it's important to be true to that and to not shrink away from it by saying "Not me, no. It couldn't be me."
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Post by Reefs on Jun 1, 2013 19:18:36 GMT -8
True Silence (1)
A: If you have been in mediation groups, you have probably experienced a manufactured silence. It's the kind of silence that comes from the manipulation of mind. That's a false silence because it is manufactured, controlled. Real silence has nothing to do with any kind of control or manipulation of yourself or your experience. So forget about controlling the mind.
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Post by Gopal on Jun 2, 2013 21:39:35 GMT -8
True Silence (1)A: If you have been in mediation groups, you have probably experienced a manufactured silence. It's the kind of silence that comes from the manipulation of mind. That's a false silence because it is manufactured, controlled. Real silence has nothing to do with any kind of control or manipulation of yourself or your experience. So forget about controlling the mind. I liked it. Yes this silence is a creation so it attracts it's opposite. |
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Post by humphrey on Jun 3, 2013 9:45:07 GMT -8
“If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
your mind's clothing
with more sooty knowledge.
No, I have something else in mind.
Today I hold a flame in my left hand
and a sword in my right.
There will be no damage control today.
For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.
So don't just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.
Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.”
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Post by Reefs on Jun 5, 2013 3:55:22 GMT -8
True Silence (2)
A: To say "I am silent" is actually quite ridiculous. When you look at it, its not that you are silent, it's that you are silence. Conceptually it may seem to be a small difference between the experiences of "I am silent" and "I am silence", but this is actually the difference between bondage and freedom, heaven and hell.
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Post by Reefs on Jun 6, 2013 2:28:38 GMT -8
True Silence (3)
A: Stop thinking of silence as a lack of noise - mental noise, emotional noise, or the external noise around you. As long as you see silence as something objective, something that is not you but might come to you like an emotional experience, you are chasing your own projected idea. Looking for silence is like being on a motorboat racing around the lake looking for a smooth spot where everything is silent, and there you are - vroom! vroom! - racing around with increasing anxiety that you are never going to get there. No matter how long you raced around that lake you would never find that silence. Actually, all you have to do is throttle back and turn the key off, and then there you are. Then it is very quiet, very still. When you start to be receptive and allowing, you start to return to your natural state, which is very quiet. Being receptive is just like throttling back. It's a natural state of quiet.
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