Adyashanti Quotes about Meditation

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Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

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Death, Meditation, Dresses

In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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Knowing, Meditation, Listening

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

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Letting Go, Real, Meditation

Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.12, Sounds True

Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

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Silence, Meditation, Mind

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

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Prayer, Goal, Meditation

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

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Letting Go, Meditation, Experience

Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing

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Prayer, Knowing, Meditation

Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.

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Attitude, Meditation, Tunes

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?

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Meditation, Needs, Moments

Adyashanti (2010). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be.

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Teaching, Meditation, Realization

Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.

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Thinking, Meditation, Should

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

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Letting Go, Space, Meditation

Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.21, Sounds True

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

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Yoga, Mean, Meditation

Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.23, Sounds True