Adyashanti:
“If you filter my words through any tradition or ‘-ism’, you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond – awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.”
Part of this, for me, is understanding how to use ideas as tools instead of as identities. One extreme is Nihilism which says all ideas are wrong and the other is Idealism which says there is only one true idea.
Yes, that’s really helpful – ideas as tools, not identities.