Adyashanti on Free Will

The number one principle of my whole teaching is to have a great clarity about your intention. About what you are doing why you are doing it and where you are headed. Because without that clarity: your energy gets dissipated.

Adyashanti

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the question ultimately is: are you gearing towards satisfying your greed and your gluttony and lust (as a way of sublimating your fear of loss)

or towards saying yes to life and committing to serving something beyond your appetites.

each and every day: to what energies and psychic currents you lend your flesh and your bones—is the ultimate question.

“Free will then is not exempt from causes and conditions but is rather the flexible coordination of attention, intention and emotion in skillful action.” —Evan Thompson

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Inside Out

They say that the way out is through: that the way to the other is through the self: that the way out is through going in. But it’s just as true to say the flip side of all this: That it is by going out that we find our way in: That we are born to explore: That we are mobile creatures with limbs and a sex for a reason: That we’re here to move about and engage and discover how life flows, how life is flowering through us—reincarnated as it were in a particular way through each one of us: For it is out there where we find true intimacy with all that is ultimately within.