“In order to find what the concept of God is pointing to, you must let go of your image of God and every concept you have about God. You must dare to be void of all concepts and enter into perfect Emptiness, perfect stillness, and perfect silence. You must forget everything you have ever learned about God. It won‘t help you. It may comfort you, but such comfort is imaginary; it is an illusion. Let go of all the false comforts of the mind. Let them all come to an end. The end must be experienced fully in Stillness. When you let all images, all concepts, all hopes, and all beliefs end, Stillness is experienced. Experience the core of Stillness. Dive into it and surrender fully. In full surrender to Stillness, you directly experience That to which the concept of God points. In that direct experience, you awaken from the dream of the mind and realize that the concept of God points to who you truly are.
(p. 20-21)”
Source: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti
“Sincere students find sincere teachers, and sincere teachers find sincere students. The two go together like a box and its lid. (p. 108)”
Source: The Impact of Awakening: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti
“Make the sunrise a temple.”
Source: The School of Soft Attention
“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.”
Source: True Meditation: Allowing Everything to Be as It Is
“Your mind is too focussed on human beings. Observe the patterns, shapes, colours, texture, sounds and sensations around you. Soon you will come out of human identity and realize that you're not a person but a presence. You're not something that exists; you're the existence itself.”
“[Zuzuki-roshi] I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.”
Source: Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
“You can say that before the Absolute all are equal, but there are not two, but one person, who is you.”
Source: Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa
“I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good.”
Source: One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
“If you haven’t been able to be happy, maybe it’s because you’re holding firmly to your idea of happiness”
Source: The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices
“We still have not yet fully understood electrons and nuclei; for scientists, a speck of dust is very exciting. A particle of dust is a marvel.”
Source: The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries