The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
I think there are ideas that enlightenment is about getting to some place where nothing uncomfortable ever happens, where no delusory thought will ever walk through your consciousness—those very ideas about enlightenment are delusions; it just doesn’t seem to work that way. Besides, it doesn’t really matter. When that gap is so narrow that it can
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Truth is not unloading our opinions onto someone. That is not truth. Truth is not telling our beliefs about things. That is not truth. Those are ways that we actually hide from truth. Truth is much more intimate than that. When we tell the truth, it has the sense of a confession. I don’t mean a confession of something bad or wrong, but I mean the
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Arguing with something doesn’t help us get beyond it; it doesn’t help us deal with it. It actually imprisons us; it ties us to whatever it is we’re arguing with.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
The amazing thing about the way we’re hooked up is that our feeling center, our heart center, duplicates thought into feeling; it transforms concepts into very real, alive, felt sensations.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
From our new view of reality, we are free from the egoic desire to find meaning. We see that the ego’s desire to find meaning in life is actually a substitute for the perception of being life itself. The search for meaning in life is a surrogate for the knowledge that we are life.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
Being stuck in emptiness is a form of being stuck in the transcendent, being stuck in the position of the witness.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
Often people will come to me with some particular emotion that is troubling them—it may be fear, anger, resentment, jealousy, anything. I tell them that if they want to release it, they have to get at the underlying worldview of the feeling. What would the emotion say if it could speak? What belief patterns does it have? What is it judging?
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
But the gravitational force of the dream state can still be very strong. Even as we know the truth of our being, we can still find ourselves believing in ego. While we may know that a thought has no validity, is absolutely untrue, we may find ourselves believing in it anyway.