' An aliveness '...

Everything that’s spoken in satsang is only meant to strike a recognition, an aliveness, a remembrance in this moment, and nothing more.

The truth is only true if it’s living for you, for me.

If it’s alive within us, it’s real, and it transcends anything we could say about it.

If the truth remains only in its spoken form it dies.

Even your own insight, if it becomes rigidified in your mind, will die.

Even the greatest sutras die as soon as they aren’t alive within somebody.

When they become just words they die because all teachings, the truest teachings, need you and me to bring them to life, to find the life within them.

When you find the life, then you can bow to the teaching and be the living of it.

At that point the words don’t mean a whole lot..."



- Adyashanti, Pacific Grove, CA
September 2005