Adyashanti - I feel the fear of death

Great talk from a retreat at Garrison with Adyashanti.
He is the author of Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.
Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all." Based in California, Adyashanti lives with his wife, Mukti, Associate Teacher of Open Gate Sangha. He teaches throughout North America and Europe, offering satsangs, weekend intensives, silent retreats, and a live internet radio broadcast.
"Adyashanti" means primordial peace.
For more please go to his website
www.adyashanti.org/index.php?f...

[@squamish4244]

Ramana Maharshi's example is very, VERY rare but incredibly inspiring. He was a pretty normal kid until the age of 14 when his father died and the fear of death overcame him - and meditating on it, with self-enquiry, he experienced a shift of consciousness so massive he instantly became a powerfully enlightened being. It took him years of silent meditation to integrate this realization, but it did happen that quickly. The fact that such a transformation can happen at all is so deeply inspiring, as it reveals the unbounded and unconditioned nature of awareness, regardless of any condition in your life.

[@squamish4244]

Well, here I am, eight years later, having gone through the ringer many times in a horrifyingly intense way, and yeah, I've still got the fear of death raging.

[@squamish4244]

It's not the nothingness that we think it is.

[@antoniofranciscogarcia1707]

Love you, Adya

[@benjaminhartson3714]

I loved that last bit when he said “enjoy yourself, alive or dead.”

[@willkenway]

Thank you. ❤️🙏

[@unitivecounselingservices]

thank you so much...

[@dragonx13x]

what i got out of this is when you die you are nothingness.

[@squamish4244]

You also realize that ultimately, you are never separate from your loved ones because who they really are is not the appearance but the awareness shining through it. So when they die, they aren't really going anywhere. It sounds very poetic, but you may wonder, so what? But such a state is accessible to all of us with the correct practice and dedication. I have never lost a parent but it was the terrible grief of a close friend whose brother died that first motivated me on the spiritual path.

[@squamish4244]

I'm sorry to hear of your loss. According to Buddhism, by closely examining our sense of self we can come to see that we possess no solid, permanent identity and our thoughts, emotions and physical sensations arise and subside back into an infinite nothingness that is always present. It is not dependent on time or space and is not affected by death. You can directly experience this truth and your identity shifts from the personality to the boundless awareness behind it.

[@Katje1603]

thanku so much... so much... adya is one of the most wow pple....

[@squamish4244]

I really appreciate these videos.

[@jefftiderain2484]

I like that. Could you expand a bit on that. I know its difficult to put these things into words I am really going through a lot of fear around death right now. My mother passed away not to long ago so I've been thinking about death more and more.

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Awesome number indeed!
And i saw this comment 11 months later d: Love & ligth for all *

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Oldies are Goldies

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Just a thought...

[@potentialinc]

11:11 !! nice

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8:11 Imaginary*