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“The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now. The correct attitude is that there is no such thing as an awakening that happens tomorrow. Tomorrows never come. The time is now. You must be sincere. Sincerity and earnestness are the most beneficial attitudes to have. (p. 109)”
― The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti
― The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti
“Meditation is what we are, not what we do; the separate self is what we do, not what we are.”
― The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter
― The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter
“Suffering ensues when we allow awareness of objects to eclipse awareness of being. Happiness is revealed when we allow awareness of being to outshine awareness of objects.”
― Being Myself
― Being Myself
“The experience of being aware is in exactly the same condition now as it was two minutes ago, two days ago, two months ago, two years ago or twenty years ago. The awareness with which our experience as five-year-old girls or boys was known is exactly the same awareness with which our current experience is known. Thus, our essential nature of knowing, being aware or awareness itself has no age. It is for this reason that as we get older, we feel that we are not really getting older. The older we get, the more we feel that we have always been the same person. The sameness in ourself is the sameness of awareness.”
― Being Aware of Being Aware
― Being Aware of Being Aware
“At some point after awakening—sometimes very soon, sometimes not for quite a while—you reach a stage that I call “trials and tribulations.” In the Jesus story, this is symbolized by Jesus’ forty days in the desert and his encounter with Satan in the desert immediately following his baptism. In Buddhism, this stage is mythically portrayed by the image of Buddha sitting under the bodhi tree, assaulted by Maya, the force of illusion. Maya is an impersonal force of illusion, while Satan is a personification of what we think of as evil, but the source of evil is actually illusion, so these are really two different mythic representations of the same experience.”
― Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
― Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
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