Adyashanti Quotes About Awakening

Quotes about: Awakening

• The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

  Adyashanti

  Awakening, Belief, Barriers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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.

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  Ideas, Brightness, Awakening

• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Christian, Buddhist, Teaching

• Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.

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  Life, Thinking, Awakening

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

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  Light, Mind, Needs

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

• My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

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  Dream, Awakening, Awake

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

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  Mean, Enlightenment, Waking

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

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  Reality, Grace, Challenges

• Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are.

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  Ideas, Encounters, Delay

• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Time, Reality, Thinking

• The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

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  Ego, Awakening, Ultimate Freedom

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

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  Dream, Teaching, Reality

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

  Adyashanti

  Awakening, Yearning

• 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

• You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.

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  Order, Awakening, Facts

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