Adyashanti: advice to a questioner with 27-year inquiry experience...let your seeing stop you (Q&A)

**This is part of a long Q&A excerpted from "Truth or Bust" (Classic Talk, 2007)":
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• Truth or Bust (Full-Le...
"There is a difference between seeing that there's no me and absolutely realizing that there's no me...seeing what you're not is one thing and a vital thing and that is what you can do...realizing what you are is quite different...what has to really be let go of is you're just following-this is like pointing out instructions-you follow them. If you're so inclined, like scientific experiments you do them and you find the result, and you just dwell where they take you...
When you stop right in the middle of that and don't try to find any other way, only then can something else open up. That's what all this investigation does...Discriminating wisdom gets you to the end of discriminating wisdom. And from there something else must come, but it can't come from discriminating wisdom anymore..."
~ Adyashanti
from "Truth or Bust (2007)"
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About the talk:
In this open and expansive talk, Adya discusses the pre-battle scene in the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu epic. The story is about the willingness to face our most sacred beliefs and let go of them. Adya shares the moment in his own life when the willingness to question everything reoriented his entire spiritual quest. "People wake up when they're willing to see the Truth more than they want to assert illusion." (Recorded on April 18, 2007 in Palo Alto, California.)
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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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[@mitrarashidi4945]

🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

[@jumperontheline]

The grace of effort is that eventually it becomes obvious that effort is useless. ❤

[@jeremy1253]

When he says everything is spirit that means spirit precedes everything. We are of the same energy that created the big bang. What energy was replicating cells in your mother's womb before the mind and body were formed? This is your true nature.

[@RippleDrop.]

Sorry but, no. That's not what he means. Adya says exactly what he means. You add this interpretation to his words. Literally everything is spirit. There's nothing that 'comes out of' spirit. There's nothing outside it. That what he literally says and means. It's self-evident to all with awakening.

[@niloc1414]

@@RippleDrop. What about "everything is awareness"?

[@audricpinder6432]

Yes the difference between somethingness and absolute nothingness is not the presence or absence of material but the presence or absence of awareness (not necessarily to the level of conciousness) and awareness is not physical so it can be labeled spiritual

[@niloc1414]

@@audricpinder6432 This human rejoices when it touches the absolute. It's not about looking for it, just allow it to come to you. But I haven't fully realized I am it, but who cares.