Adyashanti Quotes about Enlightenment

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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

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Becoming Better, Enlightenment, Crumbling

Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True

Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

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Mind, Enlightenment, Movement

Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.15, Sounds True

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

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Enlightenment, Natural, Ends

Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.11, Sounds True

Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

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Goal, Enlightenment, Separation

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

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Enlightenment, Consciousness, States

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

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Mistake, Thinking, Enlightenment

It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

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Reality, Enlightenment, Bliss