Enlightenment is not an altered state of consciousness – its coming out of an altered state of consciousness.
Adyashanti
August 23rd Daily Meditation Moment
August 23, 2022 by
Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment.
Adyashanti
June 30th Daily Meditation Moment
June 30, 2022 by
As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought. ~
Adyashanti
March 22nd Daily Meditation Moment
March 22, 2022 by
Whatever happened is what happened. Whether it was good or terrible, it is what happened. Whatever’s happening now is what’s happening. We don’t have to call it “good” or “bad”. It may be painful; it may not be painful. We may like it; we may not like it. Whatever’s happening this moment is what’s happening. When you argue with it, when you say that what is happening shouldn’t be happening, you suffer. ~
Adyashanti
July 26th Daily Meditation Moment
July 26, 2020 by
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience. ~ Adyashanti