I love your stories & teaching 🙏🏻 the encounter with the old man served the purpose both directions. He had an aversion to Buddha as well so his reaction is part of his anti-Buddhist identity
“No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.” ~ Adyashanti
The Jesus quote made me research the Gospel of Thomas where the quote comes from and wow, mind is blown, "The Kingdom of God is within you and all around you." The Gospel of Thomas was not included in the Bible because it did not align with the theological perspectives that became dominant in early Christianity, particularly after the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. The texts that became the New Testament were chosen based on their conformity to orthodox teachings, especially those emphasizing the divinity of Jesus, salvation through the Church, and the resurrection. The Gospel of Thomas, with its focus on inner wisdom and direct personal experience of the divine, was considered heretical by the early Church fathers, who saw it as a threat to their growing institutional authority.
Whose to say any one of us would recognize the Buddha (or Christ or any other great being) if he appeared before us as a stranger? That is a major pitfall, believing we could recognize such beings. But then, they’re also around us and within us always. And we don’t recognize that either.
@@asheavyrain It sure looks like you missed the point. Did you watch the video? Adya "Met the Buddha" on a backpacking trip, and allowed the experience to kill the Buddha in his identity.
Let's say Truth is a white light. When it shines itself on a red ball, the ball has no other choice than to reflect itself as it is. How is self-awareness any different when faced with the Truth.
I have come to put into my map of reality that there are as many paths to enlightenment as there are sentient beings. And god (God, Vishnu, Great Spirit, Dao, Tao, Allah, etc) would have it no other way. Could have it no other way. And anyone teaching that a specific way of meditation, orientation, ritual, understanding or lack of understanding is nothing more than identity. Not a bad thing. Just a thing. It is my way of remembering that everything is a sacred expression of the divine. Then i forget again and look upon a broken and self destructive human civilization and feel sad.
probably he was intentionally putting Adya's identity upon a challenge. Defying Buddha's authority inside Adya's heart, undermining all idolatry, and also showing that all of us can have good critical thinking and question even the highest authorities.
@@RogerioLupoArteCientifica That's right, what you're saying is right Adya is trying to say, "Identity is a joke. " There's a story in Buddhism that goes something like this: "There was a man who insulted the Buddha, and the Buddha didn't care at all, and he told the man, Who's being insulted, who's being insulted?" I'm using a translator and I hope you can understand thank you 🙏🙏
I get the part concerning your Buddhist identity. That’s good. Are you assuming though that this was his intention ? If not then the question is why was Buddha an asshole ?
Lovely story!
Thanks Ady ❤
Thanks again Adhya
So right! Even experienced this myself!
I love your stories & teaching 🙏🏻 the encounter with the old man served the purpose both directions. He had an aversion to Buddha as well so his reaction is part of his anti-Buddhist identity
“No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.” ~ Adyashanti
Are we in control of whether this shift happens or not? Is letting go a conscious thing that someone can do?
When u dream different...some different comes out...its rather that simple. As its said: The mind creates what is....whatever play u play.
🙏 thanks
The Jesus quote made me research the Gospel of Thomas where the quote comes from and wow, mind is blown, "The Kingdom of God is within you and all around you."
The Gospel of Thomas was not included in the Bible because it did not align with the theological perspectives that became dominant in early Christianity, particularly after the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. The texts that became the New Testament were chosen based on their conformity to orthodox teachings, especially those emphasizing the divinity of Jesus, salvation through the Church, and the resurrection. The Gospel of Thomas, with its focus on inner wisdom and direct personal experience of the divine, was considered heretical by the early Church fathers, who saw it as a threat to their growing institutional authority.
If you meet the Buddha on the road, let him pierce your identity
good one
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Whose to say any one of us would recognize the Buddha (or Christ or any other great being) if he appeared before us as a stranger?
That is a major pitfall, believing we could recognize such beings. But then, they’re also around us and within us always. And we don’t recognize that either.
@@asheavyrain It sure looks like you missed the point. Did you watch the video? Adya "Met the Buddha" on a backpacking trip, and allowed the experience to kill the Buddha in his identity.
@@kiplambel4052 Haha.
Robin Williams had a joke like that, punchline was I knew Gandhi he was a jackass
Let's say Truth is a white light. When it shines itself on a red ball, the ball has no other choice than to reflect itself as it is. How is self-awareness any different when faced with the Truth.
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beautiful story. Thank you strange guy
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I have come to put into my map of reality that there are as many paths to enlightenment as there are sentient beings. And god (God, Vishnu, Great Spirit, Dao, Tao, Allah, etc) would have it no other way. Could have it no other way. And anyone teaching that a specific way of meditation, orientation, ritual, understanding or lack of understanding is nothing more than identity. Not a bad thing. Just a thing. It is my way of remembering that everything is a sacred expression of the divine.
Then i forget again and look upon a broken and self destructive human civilization and feel sad.
So why did he feel that way about Buddha?
probably he was intentionally putting Adya's identity upon a challenge. Defying Buddha's authority inside Adya's heart, undermining all idolatry, and also showing that all of us can have good critical thinking and question even the highest authorities.
I wish that's always the case, but often times people just have opinions.
Maybe coz he left his wife
@@RogerioLupoArteCientifica That's right, what you're saying is right Adya is trying to say, "Identity is a joke. "
There's a story in Buddhism that goes something like this: "There was a man who insulted the Buddha, and the Buddha didn't care at all, and he told the man, Who's being insulted, who's being insulted?"
I'm using a translator and I hope you can understand thank you
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I get the part concerning your Buddhist identity.
That’s good. Are you assuming though that this was his intention ? If not then the question is why was Buddha an asshole ?
Sounds like a Jed McKenna comment. “Buddha was an asshole.”
Thank you, beautiful Adyia
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