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Adyashanti (/ˌɑːdiəˈʃɑːnti, ˌɑːdʒə-/ AH-dee-ə-SHAHN-tee, AH-jə-; Sanskrit word आध्या शान्तिः meaning "primordial peace"; born Steven Gray on the 26th of October 1962) is an American spiritual teacher and author from the San Francisco Bay Area who offers talks, online study courses, and retreats in the United States and abroad. He is the author of numerous books, CDs and DVDs and, together with his wife Mukti, is the founder of Open Gate Sangha, Inc., a nonprofit organization established in 1996 which supports and makes available his teachings.

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The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

Letting Go, Like, Opposite, Opposites, Relinquish, Trying

The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

Come, Confusion, Important, Samsara, True, Way

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

Destruction, Flames, Fulfillment, Love Is, True

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

Ifs, Image, Slay, Truth, Truth Is

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

Growth, Know, Requirement, Requirements, Spiritual

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

Eye, Life, Look, Stakes, Velvet, Winning

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a form of concentration. Meditation and concentration are two different things. Concentration is a discipline; concentration is a way in which we are actually directing or guiding or controlling our experience. Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control.

Foundation, Letting Go, Meditation, Real, True, Two

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

Allow, Arise, Conclusion, Faith, Withholding

Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

Cynicism, Doubt, Negative, Pervasive

No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.

Ash, Consumes, Fire, Lead, Spiritual, Teaching

To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.

Dream, Looking, Night, Reflect, View, Views

The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.

Enlightenment, Extremes, Mind, Missing, Understanding, Way

We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s 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.

Self, Someplace, Thinking, Truth, Whole

When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

Egoic, Let, Letting Go, Self, Whole

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

Stories, Story, World

There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

Apart, Conscious, Consciousness, Individual

The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

Buddhism, Buddhist, Christian, Christianity, Christians, Create

Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, really real and liberating. . . When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.

Beckons, Heart, Powerful, Real, Toward

In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.

Becomes, Emptiness, Heart, Instantly, Literally, Love Is

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

Bird, Different, Head, Sound, Thoughts

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