“Truth is a very high standard. It’s not a plaything. To tell what’s true within ourselves isn’t to tell what we think, it’s not to tell our opinion, it’s not to dump the garbage can of our mind onto someone else – this is what I think about you, this is what I feel about you, this is my judgment about you – none of that’s true. That’s illusion. That’s distortion. That’s one’s own garbage. It’s one’s own problem. It’s one’s projection.
What is Truth? Truth isn’t to unload our opinions onto someone. That’s not truth. Truth isn’t to tell our beliefs about things. That’s not truth. Those are ways that we actually hide from truth. Truth is much more intimate than that. Whenever we tell the truth it has much more of the sense of a confession – I don’t mean a confession of something bad or wrong – but I mean, the sense, where we come completely out of hiding.
Truth is a simple thing. To speak the truth is to speak from a sense of total and absolute unprotectedness. And to do that, with any consistency, we have to not only have met every place in ourself that is afraid of doing that, we have to see – what is the belief structure I have that tells me I can’t do that? Because those belief structures are by their very nature based in unreality. But just to know that’s not enough – you have to actually see it, really perceive, exactly what one believes… what are the exact belief structures that cause you to go into duality?, that cause you to go into conflict and hiding?”
– Adyashanti, The End of Your World
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