Adyashanti citáty

„Not knowing is the atmosphere from which wisdom springs forth.“

—  Adyashanti

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

—  Adyashanti

„The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.“

—  Adyashanti

„All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.“

—  Adyashanti

„Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.“

—  Adyashanti

„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

„The cause of suffering is not thinking, it's identification with thinking. This is very, very important to understand, because if you don't understand that it's identification with thinking that's really at the heart of the matter, and you assume that it's thinking itself that's the problem, then you can waste immense amounts of time and energy trying to stop your mind from thinking, trying to better your mind.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

„Awakened values are not really based in morality. They're not based in should or shouldn'ts. Awakened values are values that are inherent within conscious spirit.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

„The main purpose of the illusion of me is to keep you at all costs from realizing your own nothingness.“

—  Adyashanti

The Undivided Self (2004)

„It is the basics that are most important. Never leave this foundation. From this, an incredible depth is to be found - an ongoing revelation of the truth of existence.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 2: Application of the Teaching (2009)

„It is impossible to know what words like liberation or enlightenment mean until you realize them for yourself. This being so, it is of no use to speculate about what enlightenment is; in fact, doing so is a major hindrance to its unfolding. As a guiding principle, to progressively realize what is not absolutely True is of infinitely more value than speculating about what is.“

—  Adyashanti

The Way of Liberation (2012)

„Our true nature is something that is ineffable. In other words, it's not something you can grasp, it's not something you can really think about, it's not something you can touch, taste, or feel. (…) Because it has no shape, because it has no form, that is the reason that I call it spirit. Spirit is that which exists, but it doesn't have a particular shape or a particular form.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

„Suffering is caused by identification with egoic consciousness. When we identify with egoic consciousness, we go unconscious or become unaware of our true nature as conscious spirit.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

„Sy Safransky: “Didn’t taking the name “Adyashanti” reinforce a certain sense that you are an enlightened holy man?”
Adyashanti: “Oh, absolutely it did. It’s sort of a ridiculous-sounding Eastern name. (…) I always tell people to call me “Adya,” and leave the “shanti” part off.”“

—  Adyashanti

Interview for The Sun Magazine (2007)

„Who you think you are is just that - it is who you think you are. It is who you have been taught to believe that you are. It's a conglomeration of beliefs about yourself, ideas, opinions, judgements, all the ways that mind keeps thinking about a self - thinking a separate self into existence.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

„The good news is that at the essence of who and what we are there is a deep and fundamental goodness. Not the goodness that we've been taught, not like morally good, as opposed to morally bad, but something deeper - a goodness which is inherent in what we are.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

„I think one of the hallmarks of a spiritual maturity (or even a human maturity) is the ability to shift perspective. (…) We often use these words that give this… impression, which I think is a false impression ultimately, that there's some ultimate perspective that is the right and correct perspective, as if unity consciousness or something is the correct perspective. But, you know, if I'm a 3-year-old kid and someone's threatening my life, and my mother's next to me, I want her to be in a fierce perspective, right? I don't want her to kinda just go "it's all one, so it really doesn't matter if you're harmed.“

—  Adyashanti

It does matter. And so... yeah, I think the ability to shift perspective is really vital to our functionality.”
Wake Up San Francisco event (2015)
Zdroj: Alanis Morissette - Wake Up San Francisco with Adyashanti & Tami Simon - YouTube (starts at 5:45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_ClddVgJs

„The beautiful thing is that anybody has the potential for a massive shift in perspective… even if they're a complete mess.“

—  Adyashanti

Wake Up San Francisco event (2015)
Zdroj: Alanis Morissette - Wake Up San Francisco with Adyashanti & Tami Simon - YouTube (starts at 10:27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_ClddVgJs

„Egoic consciousness is something that the vast majority of people live in almost all the time. Humanity is by and large caught in this realm of egoic consciousness, and therefore manifests it in the way that we, human beings, live our lives - both individually and collectively.“

—  Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)