Ask anybody on the street what they are looking for, and they'll probably say they're looking for peace, happiness, success, popularity, power, love, acceptance,...
Safransky: Let's pretend that I'm thoroughly unfamiliar with contemporary spiritual vocabularies. How would you describe your teaching to me?
Adyashanti: My background is primarily Zen Buddhism, and...
In my early days in the ashram in India I went through a period of intense fear. I felt so hopeless and disempowered that I...
A householder should not conduct himself like a vanaprastha or sannyasin; nor should a vanaprastha or sannyasin behave like a householder". This is one of the...
The solution for greed, if at all you are interested in freeing yourself from greed, is to allow that greed to fill the whole of your...
We see love everywhere in nature. Whatever in society is good and great and sublime is the working out of that love; whatever in society...
Regarding the question of whether you need a guru: there are stages in your development where you need a guru. However, you've got to understand what...
There are many things that I can doubt, but I cannot doubt my own consciousness in this moment. My consciousness IS, and even if...
You cannot manage a situation unless you know exactly what is happening. The inner responses are allowed to happen for want of a proper...
The following is a conversation between the Buddha and King Pasenadi from the book Old Path, White Clouds by Thich Nhat Hanh:
Teacher Gautama, there...