When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, being simply what you’ve always been, you’re actually very simple. You basically sit around wondering what all the fuss is about...
Adyashanti
to be continued...
Friday, 16 September 2011
Being, Awake Pt 2
...When everybody around you has a whole host of ideas and beliefs about a whole variety of things, you don’t. Everyone on the path is getting there; you haven’t gotten anywhere. Everyone is climbing the mountain; you’re selling hiking boots and picks at the foot in the hope that if they climb it and come back down, they may be too exhausted to do it again. When everybody else is looking to the next book, to the next teacher, to the next guru to be told what’s real, to be given the secret key to an awakened life, you’re not. You don’t have a key because there’s no lock to put it in.
When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, being simply what you’ve always been, you’re actually very simple. You basically sit around wondering what all the fuss is about...
Adyashanti
When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, being simply what you’ve always been, you’re actually very simple. You basically sit around wondering what all the fuss is about...
Adyashanti
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I like this and it annoys me in equal measure. It feels a little superior somehow, as if he is laughing at those poor stupid people down there rushing around like idiots.
However, I know that he is NOT speaking like that. And I think what he says is true, and all the spiritual traditions seem to speak to the same thing: everything you need is here right now. Don't go running to look for what is already here.
It's a funny thing, ain't it. A small shift to the right, almost feels imperceptible sometimes, but it changes so much. Puts a stop to charlatans too.
Yup. It's an invitation to reality, to Life in all its fullness... to simply lose the need to know, and so to know all, to see that it's all here now, and that there's nowhere you have to go. Shift happens, and it's beautiful:)
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