The word parable comes from a Greek word meaning “comparison or analogy” and is essentially a very brief story that conveys a spiritual truth. A parable is a bit like a riddle: it has a meaning you can’t completely understand with the logical, conditioned mind. A parable is meant to present your mind with something that pushes you to go beyond your current level of understanding in order to comprehend it.

— Adyashanti

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Close the gap between what is and what you want it to be, between what is presenting itself and what you want to present itself. This gap of judgment is the separation you feel. You need to totally choose what is and lean into it with your whole being.

— Adyashanti

The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness.

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What we call ego is simply the mechanism our mind uses to resist life as it is.

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There’s no way to become happy. We simply need to stop doing the things that make us unhappy.

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It’s important that meditation is not seen as something that only happens when you are seated in a quiet place. Otherwise spirituality and our daily life become two separate things. That’s the primary illusion – that there is something called “my spiritual life,” and something called “my daily life.” When we wake up to reality, we find they are all one thing. It’s all one seamless expression of spirit.

— Adyashanti

One of the most common of these traps is a sense of meaninglessness. 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. Only someone who is disconnected from life itself will seek meaning. Only someone disconnected from life will look for purpose.

— Adyashanti

In awakening, what’s revealed to us is that we are not a thing, nor a person, nor even an entity. What we are is that which manifests as all things, as all experiences, as all personalities. We are that which dreams the whole world into existence. Spiritual awakening reveals that that which is unspeakable is actually what we are.

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We should come to know that there is more Reality and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all of our thoughts and ideas about Reality.

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You come into the natural state by letting go of control by letting go of effort and resting in a state of vividness. It’s very simple. It couldn’t be simpler. Sit down; let everything be as it already is.

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All of a sudden there I was, standing there, holding my plate my of food at this wedding, and there was the realization that even though I don’t see things the way most people around me see them, this is it. This is life, and it is absolutely wonderful, amazingly beautiful. The only thing left for me to do was to walk back into the world.

— Adyashanti

What is required is the willingness to let life impact you; to let yourself see when life impacts you; to see if you go into any sort of separation about it, if you go into judgment, if you go into blame, if you go into “should” or “shouldn’t,” if you start to point the finger somewhere other than at yourself.

— Adyashanti

True realization, true enlightenment, comes through a complete relinquishing of personal will – a complete letting go.

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That’s a teaching meant to shake us from our slumber. In order to come into our full potential and to embody the truth and radiance of what we are, we must come vitally alive; we must lean once again into presence; we must pour ourselves forth into life, instead of trying to escape life and avoid its challenges.

— Adyashanti

This calling can arrive at any point in your life. It is that moment when the trajectory of your life begins to turn toward the mystery of life. When I say the mystery of life, what I’m referring to is that transcendent aspect of life that shines through the world of space and time.

— Adyashanti

Looking at personal issues is like pulling just the top of the weeds out of your lawn: they pop right back up. You may have some relief from the trouble of the day, but the root is still there, totally untouched. But having experiences, even if they clear up problems or offer beautiful insights, is very different than finding the root of who you are. If you don’t get to the root, you just get another weed.

— Adyashanti

The Buddha image shows us abiding tranquility amidst the turning wheel of life.

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Unfortunately, when we turn to religion, often the churches box us in even more. They tell us that we are inherently flawed, that we need to be forgiven for this sin, this stain that we carry. The first and most important function of religion is to connect you with the mystery of life and the mystery of your own being. When religion fails to do this, it has betrayed its primary mission, and all we are left with is dogma and belief.

— Adyashanti

But Jesus never defines what someone must have faith in; he doesn’t say “your faith in me has healed you.” Rather, it’s faith itself, the trust in things unseen that heals.

— Adyashanti

We’ve become trapped in a world of dreams, a world in which we live primarily in our minds.

— Adyashanti

Awareness is not trying to change things; awareness is not trying to fixing anything. You can start to notice that there is this presence of awareness within you, which is not trying to change your humanness. It’s not trying to alter you. Just as important, it’s not trying to alter others. This awareness is totally inclusive. It is a state of being where everything is okay simply the way it is.

— Adyashanti
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