When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
AdyashantiWhenever you arenโt manipulating your experience, youโre meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, youโre controlling your experience again, and youโve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.
AdyashantiThis one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
AdyashantiAll delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways weโre talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
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