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 fuzzydoodle rated 8 days ago -
Enlightenment is a Gamble
Time to cash in your chips
put your ideas and beliefs on the table.
See who has the bigger hand
you or the Mystery that pervades you.
Time to scrape the mind's shit
off your shoes
undo the laces
that hold your prison together
and dangle your toes into ...
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- fuzzydoodle rated 8 days ago
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Enlightenment is a Gamble
Time to cash in your chips
put your ideas and beliefs on the table.
See who has the bigger hand
you or the Mystery that pervades you.
Time to scrape the mind's shit
off your shoes
undo the laces
that hold your prison together
and dangle your toes into emptiness.
Once you've put everything
on the table
once all of your currency is gone
and your pockets are full of air
all you've got left to gamble with
is yourself.
Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top
of the highest stakes table.
Place yourself as the bet.
Look God in the eyes
and finally
for once in your life
lose.
Adyashanti
poetry-chaikhana.com/A/Adyashanti/index.htm [poetry-chaikhana.com]
A Tendency to Shine
If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
your mind's clothing
with more sooty knowledge.
No, I have something else in mind.
Today I hold a flame in my left hand
and a sword in my right.
There will be no damage control today.
For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.
So don't just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.
Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.
Adyashanti
poetry-chaikhana.com/A/Adyashanti/index.htm [poetry-chaikhana.com
"You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself."
"True Meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience."
"A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself."
"The `I' thought is a denial of what is."
"Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully."
"The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere."
"All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are."
"As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway."
- Gemboy rated 6 months ago
- A wonderful teacher
- bonobojoe07 rated 10 months ago
- A teacher of the non-dual tradition that communicates what is beyond words with an a great deal of clarity. Lots of video and audio clips.
 BSpankalicious rated 10 months ago- This is not the Buddhism that I practice. I practice Nichren Daishonin Buddhism. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
- FAIRYUSER rated 3 weeks ago
- Freedom is not necessarily exciting; it's just free. Very peaceful and quiet, so very quiet. Of course, it is also filled with joy and wonder, but it is not what you imagine. It is much, much less. Many mistake the intoxicating power of otherworldly charisma for enlightenment. More often than not it is simply otherworldly, and not necessarily free or enlightened. In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.
- WealthSecrets rated 10 months ago
- If you want to get right to the heart of the matter, this is the place to explore. Discover "who am I?" You may be surprised by what you find, or don't find ;)
- tomstine rated 10 months ago
- Adyashanti is the real deal. Spending time with him and his teachings reveals the truth of the man.
- PiTrinam rated 13 months ago
- Enlightenment page! Much thanks, Adyashanti.
- GNius rated 20 months ago
- Buddhism in Cali......
- jcharliem rated 12 months ago
- beware of "violent" religions. these claim death of the ego and mental exhaustion to be the key to eternal bliss. im not saying that this is one of those, but i have my doubts.
in any case, dont just trust people claiming to be "enlightened". enlightenment is truly a moral question, and ruining peoples well being (by purposefully leading them into spiritual and mental destruction) is far from "enlightened" behaviour.
the word "enlightenment" carries a better connotation if understood as in terms of "weight". "light" is what mass murderers talk about.
"god" is compassion, not the bringer of light.
(do you understand this?)
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