Adyashanti: Mind

Adyashanti is Spiritual teacher. Explore interesting quotes on mind.
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“The cause of suffering is not thinking, it's identification with thinking. This is very, very important to understand, because if you don't understand that it's identification with thinking that's really at the heart of the matter, and you assume that it's thinking itself that's the problem, then you can waste immense amounts of time and energy trying to stop your mind from thinking, trying to better your mind.”

Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Understanding , Problem , Thinking , Suffering

“When we come to the realization that we are not this identity that the mind has created, but we're actually spirit, at that moment spirit has become conscious of itself. It's become conscious of itself as spirit, as ineffable being, as a sort of conscious presence.”

Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

“You can't get rid of thoughts, and you can't get rid of thinking. To battle your mind is one of the most deceptive ways that the mind keeps you in its own domain.”

Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Way , Thinking

“The mind is something that happens within you. Thinking is something that happens within what you are. Thinking does not define what you are. Thinking doesn't define anything.”

Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Thinking

“Luc Saunders: “What do you think happens to individual consciousness after the death of a body?”
Adyashanti: “The question presumes that there is such a thing as individual consciousness. Awakening shows you that there isn’t. The mind creates the illusion of individual consciousness to convince us that this awareness is ours, that it belongs to us. I imagine that, after the death of the body, it’s very difficult to maintain the illusion of individual consciousness. But who knows? We’ll see. I’ll give you a phone call if I can. [Laughs. ]””

Adyashanti

Interview for The Sun Magazine (2007)

Death , Imagination , Question , Thinking

“Who you think you are is just that - it is who you think you are. It is who you have been taught to believe that you are. It's a conglomeration of beliefs about yourself, ideas, opinions, judgements, all the ways that mind keeps thinking about a self - thinking a separate self into existence.”

Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Idea , Thinking , Way

““Ego itself is a fiction created in the mind by circular patterns of thinking based on separation. So, 'the ego is the fiction in the mind' - what does that mean? [It means] that ego is basically our sense of self, and the thoughts, ideas and beliefs that circle around that sense of self that go into deriving a bigger, more conceptualized version of ourself. In other words: who we think and imagine ourselves to be.””

Adyashanti

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Imagination , Idea , Thinking , Sense