The Spiritual Orientation beyond Feeling Better (Excerpt)

Adya discusses an existential spiritual motivation other than just the universal psychological desire to feel better. Excerpted from October 3, 2010, Palo Alto Meeting, “The Existential Drive to Truth”: bit.ly/3SEcO0q.
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Quote from this Video: “There’s a very deep connection between the big questions of our existence and our own personal psychology.” adyashanti.org

[@rul4522]

I want to say that when i met ‘my teacher’, I just didn’t want to go anywhere else, no holiday anymore and that kind of stuff. Just was where I wanted to be.

[@griffinkater9702]

❤️🙏🏻💚✨ I love you Adya. Thank you for 13 years of beautiful teachings and help finding and living the Truth.

[@Stefan69whatever]

Important talk. However there is also a psychological situation where you have given up on being happy, or more precisely being happy in a worldly sense. If you really look at life as a whole and apply the Buddhist principles of ahitya and dukkha (impermanence and unsatisfactoriness), the impossibility of finding happiness in the world becomes pretty obvious. And that psychological situation is actually very condusive to asking existential questions with perfect openness. And this openness may lead to the realization of sunyatta and anatta, that is of emptiness and no-self.

[@renakmans3521]

Isn’t that what he’s essentially saying? If you’re referring to Buddhism as a religion than I think I see your point but objective practitioners don’t see it as religious.

[@citizenenak]

Ironically my first breakthrough was a therapist in a line of therapists who stopped me talking mid sentence, Nick! Did you hear what you just said? Me, what? You said my life sucks and I have to live it. I believed in pain.

[@chrisscott6762]

I feel like he massively contradicts himself here... especially towards the end of the clip, yet it is profound. Will have to listen again.

[@rul4522]

I even didn’t know why I went all the way, I only knew afterwards that I didn’t have to look tor holidays etc. In a way there was, call it a force, ‘this is a pull’. Never went anywhere, except California where my teacher lives and visited beaches, where silence reigns.

[@renakmans3521]

Amazing explanation about the purpose of theology! ❤

[@irenemagill4890]

Thank you ❤

[@priyankadixit8478]

thank you for being in my life

[@wthomas5697]

All questions are related to how we feel. Doesn't matter what those questions are.

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[@Adyashanti]

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[@dek2000utube]

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[@tomtulpe9380]

Sometimes answers to the "really big questions" of our thoughts come out of our mind. Is then our mind able to accept them??

[@Jimmy-wn6ll]

Approach meditation from the existential

[@Nobodyzerobc]

Not two ways Adya. Suffering includes existential questions . Without the premise of Suffering you would not have the staying stamina to embody ‘ IS’.

[@citizenenak]

The way it actually is is akin to the arc of justice MLK spoke too. What an iconic wonderful example of a human being.

[@le9127]

I would like to understand why some videos on this channel are made available and removed quickly

[@Adyashanti]

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[@le9127]

@@Adyashanti Yes, thank you very much

[@janetrice7923]

My grandson at 4 years old: I’m gonna grow up…and then what??