~ excerpted from "The Five Truths about Truth by Adyashanti (2005)": adyashanti.opengatesangha.org...
"The most important thing for the mind (thought) to know, the most intelligent thing that thought can know is that it doesn't know. That's intelligence. We're not taught that that's intelligence; we're taught that that's ignorance. But it's a very intelligent mind that knows that it doesn't know, that knows its place in the universe. Its place in the universe is relative knowledge-relative knowledge how to get people to the moon and build better crops and more crops and build rooms like this...thought helps with that, but that's just functional knowledge...it's a tool, but it doesn't know..." ~ Adyashanti
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About The Five Truths about Truth by Adyashanti (2005):
During this landmark retreat in the fall of 2005, Adyashanti distilled the essence of his teachings into five truths about the nature of ultimate reality. New students discovered a deep resonance with the profound simplicity, while advanced students found themselves riveted by the freshness and radical directness of the teachings. This 10-download set offers 12 hours of edited recordings from this powerfully transformative retreat.
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Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.
Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an American-born spiritual teacher. Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all."
For more please go to his website: adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/
Free teaching materials, including videos, audios, articles, and free PDF of The Way of Liberation: adyashanti.opengatesangha.org...
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