Adyashanti Quotes About Enlightenment

Quotes about: Enlightenment

• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Becoming Better, Enlightenment, Crumbling

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True

• An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

  Adyashanti

  Freedom, Men, Ordinary

• Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

  Adyashanti

  Enlightenment, Natural, Ends

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.11, Sounds True

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

  Adyashanti

  Mean, Enlightenment, Waking

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

• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Missing, Understanding, Mind

• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Enlightenment, Bliss

• Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

  Adyashanti

  Mind, Enlightenment, Movement

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.15, Sounds True

• 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 joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

• 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.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Teaching, Reality

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

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

  Adyashanti

  Mistake, Thinking, Enlightenment

• Enlightenment is a destructive process.

  Adyashanti

  Enlightenment, Process, Destructive

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.104, Sounds True

• Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

  Adyashanti

  Enlightenment, Consciousness, States

• 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

  Goal, Enlightenment, Separation

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