Wisdom from Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti
I've found many wonderful teachings from my Facebook feed these days. Here are a few for you to bring more love and light into your days!
“In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the Christ within, or your Buddha nature.
Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made “little me” is all you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
Resistance – The Silent Energy Leak
“Resistance is the inner 'No' to what IS.
It is the most subtle barrier to the Timeless Now. We judge, we get irritated, we fight the moment because it doesn't fit our ego's blueprint.
But this struggle only anchors us in psychological time and drains our vitality.
Awakening is the art of Non-resistance.
When you stop fighting reality, you stop being a victim of circumstances.
You become the space in which everything happens.
Stop the war within. Say 'Yes' to the Now.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
"Meditation, in this sense, is really a state of discovery. Sitting in quiet and stillness and just being in a state of openness gives you a clear opportunity to watch what happens internally when you stop judging your experience, when you stop judging your mind for being busy, or you stop judging yourself for having a particular feeling. You don’t try to get rid of the feeling. You don’t try to get rid of the mind. You just let go of your judgment. You let go of trying to control the moment. For a while, you surrender into what is.
In these moments of stillness, whether in formal periods of meditation or otherwise, we can begin to let go of our conflict with what is. This is what meditation actually is: letting go of our conflict with life, dropping the struggle with who and what we are. Through resting in this way, we enter a state of nonresistance, where we’ll be able to have a taste of what it is like to live for a moment without judgment or conflict. With this as a foundation, it then becomes easier to access these moments of stillness and to let go of the illusion we have of control in our lives.
Especially during challenging times, we are conditioned to move into a conflictual relationship with life, where we habitually evaluate, judge, and try to control particular life situations. If, however, we’ve had some taste of what it’s like to let go, of realizing for ourselves the futility of trying to control things, then we can much more naturally develop a wider perspective on our experiences, even the difficult ones. In this way life itself becomes a meditation, and a whole new relationship with existence starts to unfold."
~ Adyashanti
