Adyashanti: Q&A-there's no "my" consciousness...very direct & clear pointing to direct experience
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- ~ excerpted from "Big Sword Swinging (2005)" adyashanti.opengatesangha.org...
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"Tony is who you're not. Let's just start there...Tony exists within you, within the light of consciousness...because it's the truth that sets you free...What's the result now Tony's not struggling to hold on?" ~ Adyashanti
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About "Big Sword Swinging (2005)":
In this delightful 4-download classic from the 2005 Santa Monica Intensive, Adyashanti says, "This is like spiritual triage. You're being exposed to an awful lot in two days. I've got the big sword swinging." Indeed, these exceptionally fresh talks and honest dialogues cut through the concepts of both new and seasoned listeners, going deep into the simple presence of being.
Topics Include:
Getting Beyond "What Do I Do?" to "What Am I?"
An Investigation into Doing vs Not Doing
Understanding Where Intentions Come From
Letting Go of the One Who's Letting Go
Living in a Virtual Reality
The Only Power of the Manifest Is to Put Us in Trance
Consciousness Is the Transformative Agent
The End of Being Special
How Spirit Moves from Overflow
The Transparency of the Heart
The Wisdom of the Void
The End of Spiritual Immaturity
The Movement from Personal to Impersonal Motivation
Children: Imposing Values vs. the Unspoken Power of Love
Choice and Free Will
Fear Is Resistance
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Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, 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.
Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an American-born spiritual teacher. 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."
For more please go to his website: adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/
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My post re: How I experience or relate to Adyashanti's Retiring from Live Teachings
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Awesome talk... reminds me of when I was walking outside of town and suddenly I froze as it hit me - the most mundane, basic realization: "me", the person.. does not need to do a single thing to uphold reality. Everything just is. But somehow I have always had like a fear or tension that I somehow thought was important to maintain "my reality". Boy when that hit me, it hit hard. I froze and tears started welling in my eyes. My limited, humans eyes, operating within the infinite presence of reality.
Haha, fantastic conversation ! Thanks for sharing 🙏
This was wonderful to listen to, so simply yet eloquently put. Nice to be reminded that we are not our ever seeking minds!
Love Love Loved this… and a fun laugh as well 😂 Very much needed right now!!!!
Great
Their voices sound identical lol
I think I understand all of this but what I don’t get is that if the punchline is “Tony can’t grasp it, Tony can’t hold on to it, etc.” then what exactly is the purpose of something like this? What is the purpose of being a spiritual teacher or spiritual practitioner or doing any of it? Isn’t even the most barebones meditation practice just total bullshit then? If I can’t realize it, or stay in it, then how do I get there? And if there is no there to get to, or no me to go anywhere or stay anywhere, how do I realize that? How does the self illusion give way to the light of consciousness? Is it just aimless luck? Am I condemned to live in illusion and suffering until luck intercedes?
Thank you for being here. 🙏
Did you notice @5:40 Adya said "now while Tony's doing that, you and I are going to have another little discussion"? What he's pointing out is that we are not thought(s) or what we think we are. Now he's talking directly to what Tony truly is-awareness or consciousness...
Maybe check out the other related excerpt (with the same participant) entitled "powerful pointers led to powerful experience...relief and wisdom of not knowing...": th-cam.com/video/gWojSxl4V54/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=KungWu
or another one related to "role of Grace...everything is interconnected and inter-influencing everything": th-cam.com/video/o47m9JUY16Q/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=KungWu
With best wishes,
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I guess the purpose of all spiritual practice is to realise that "you" is an illusion. But until that's realised, there's going to be a "you" practicing and that's ok.