What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
AdyashantiWe think thereโs someplace other than here to get toโthatโs what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.
AdyashantiAn ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
AdyashantiIt is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
Adyashanti