Adyashanti Best Quotes

Questioner: What‘s the best thing I can do for my awakening? Adyashanti: Be with an enlightened teacher and listen.

Selflessness is what everyone fears, even those who are intrigued by it. In a very real sense, you become (or are revealed to be) that which everyone is afraid of—the abyss of infinity. There you can bring no preferences, no agendas, and no certainties. It is the end of your inner world. Perhaps that’s the best way to explain it. Okay, now, do you still want it? And no, you cannot be assured of being of service, at least service as it is usually thought of. No certainties can come along for the ride—everything must be surrendered, no exceptions.

Beyond this it is best not to formulate any rigid ideas of what “full awakening” is like. It is full only in the sense of feeling whole and complete, but it is forever open to disclosing and realizing this completeness more deeply and clearly.