“The truths job is to strip you.
No matter where you find yourself, in the greatest heaven or the greatest hell,
you will always find the cosmic Buddha (truth) undoing your buttons on the front of your shirt…
you’ll always find that the cosmic Buddha will be taking off your garments.
No matter what clothes you wear, the great compassion of the truth will always be stripping you.
The Great Death is the willingness to be totally stripped.
The final liberation. Including stripped of our own awakening and our own enlightenment…
You can’t even want to hold to something that’s ultimately real.
If you want to hold on to it, you know that’s not it. (truth, reality)
Nothing really dies. It just changes form. How can you want what already is?
Somebody that has a belief, (in heaven, etc.) at the end of their life, they’re going to be very afraid.
At the time of death, our belief (about death) isn’t worth very much.
Death is an experience. And all experience is an illusion.
But only by measuring the truth by what is eternally always present.
All this experience is nothing but a display of our true nature… is temporary.”
No matter where you find yourself, in the greatest heaven or the greatest hell,
you will always find the cosmic Buddha (truth) undoing your buttons on the front of your shirt…
you’ll always find that the cosmic Buddha will be taking off your garments.
No matter what clothes you wear, the great compassion of the truth will always be stripping you.
The Great Death is the willingness to be totally stripped.
The final liberation. Including stripped of our own awakening and our own enlightenment…
You can’t even want to hold to something that’s ultimately real.
If you want to hold on to it, you know that’s not it. (truth, reality)
Nothing really dies. It just changes form. How can you want what already is?
Somebody that has a belief, (in heaven, etc.) at the end of their life, they’re going to be very afraid.
At the time of death, our belief (about death) isn’t worth very much.
Death is an experience. And all experience is an illusion.
But only by measuring the truth by what is eternally always present.
All this experience is nothing but a display of our true nature… is temporary.”
~ Adyashanti, The Great Death (Quote courtesy of Davidya (ढविड्य) aka David F. Buckland, MA)
Image ~ Lord Byron on his deathbed by Joseph Denis Odevaere, 1826
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