Just being open
Adyashanti says : “When your image of the me takes a break, you’ll find all you are doing at that moment is just being open. You feel quite relieved that you are not trying to get to another moment or…
Category Buddhism
What is inquiry?
Adyashanti says : “What is inquiry, really? This is a good question. And like most really good questions, it is very basic. Authentic inquiry is allowing yourself to care, to take on the weightless burden of caring. Everyone knows what…
The quest for enlightenment
Adyashanti says : “The quest for enlightenment is the quest for truth or reality. It’s not a quest for ideas about truth—that’s philosophy. And it’s not a quest to realize your fantasies about truth—that’s fundamentalized religion. It’s a quest for…
Openness
Adyashanti says : “Openness has not accumulated anything, so it’s free. It has a profoundly innocent but wise relationship to everything. It is something primary, awake, and alive. You can sense how incredibly precious it is. When you look right…
What am I?
Adyashanti says : “Many people find their spirituality taking them outward. They think they are going inward because they have heard the spiritual teaching, “Inquire and look within.” Meanwhile, they are out in the stars somewhere looking for someone else’s…
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire
Adyashanti says : “But even then you can realize the truth and still not operate from it. You can have a very deep awakening experience and still not function from that awakening because the me is still convinced that a…
A Sadhu’s Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi
A Sadhu’s Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi says : “After I had been meditating in the presence of Bhagavan for some months, I reached a certain stage when I would be overcome by fear. I asked Bhagavan about this. I was…
Strive to realize the Four Noble Truths
“Imagine that the whole earth was covered with water, and a man was to throw a yoke with a hole in it into the water. Blown by the wind, that yoke would drift north, south, east and west. Now, suppose…
Four qualities
“With four qualities the wise, intelligent, worthy person goes about – not uprooted, not lifeless, not blameworthy, not censured by the wise. What four? With good conduct of body, speech and mind, and with gratitude, with gratefulness.” – Anguttara Nikaya…
Consciousness
“Where do earth, water, fire and air no footing find? Where do long and short, small and great, pure and impure, name and form finally cease? The answer is: It is in the consciousness of the Noble One Invisible, boundless…