The mind thinks that there is an observer, an independent you,
and that is what is doing the observing.
But really there isn’t someone who is observing.
Consciousness is conscious.
Awareness is aware.
Observing is observing.
– Adyashanti
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Milosz, Lawrence, Einstein and Adyashanti on nondual awareness
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carse, katz, and the vast view
Poet, novelist, scientist and zen monk – an unlikely gathering of extraordinary minds with a mutual perspective…
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I
or not-I.
– Czeslaw Milosz
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness …
being at one with the object.
– D. H. Lawrence
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveals itself in nature. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.
– Albert Einstein
The truest knowing is to be able to perceive without abstraction—purely, simply. This is what the world is crying for.
– Adyashanti
a parade of nondual perspectives
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true nonduality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true Emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream. I say, Wake up! Then, your heart will be flooded with a Love that you cannot contain.
– Adyashanti
the awakened eye 