Adyashanti - Exploring the Depth of Inquiry

adyashanti.org - Adyashanti examines the common inquiry: Who am I?, and the common misconceptions that accompany it. Upon recognition of these unnecessary thought patterns, you can retire the old stories that encircle your mind and no longer serve you, and embrace the truth of your being. This brings to light the answers that have been ever-present, simply awaiting your acknowledgement. By paying attention to and trusting your own perception, the answers clarify themselves, and a new way of being emerges in front of you. Adyashanti reminds you that you need not wait for an answer, that all you have to do is explore the depth of your inquiry with sincerity and heart, to discover the answers that are ever-available and ever-present.
Video Excerpted From “The Awakened Nature of Being”:
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Quotes from this video:
“This is the primary misunderstanding: I am the one that is conscious. Instead of: I am the consciousness itself.”
“When you think about it, you can always find a self. Then you stop thinking about it, and it’s gone.”
“The reason that I can’t see myself as anything specific is maybe because there isn’t one there.”
“The door to liberation is seeing: No, there isn’t some little entity that is aware. There isn’t a little me in there. Awareness itself is aware.”

[@MichaelLittle47]

This is a really difficult message to convey outside of one's own realization. Yet Adya's words are pure gold, as pure as words can get...
Consciousness forms the totality of experience... And it forms itself as a very broad spectrum of thought\perception that seems to indicate the reality of a separate being. This is the hardest part to see around - and it seems we only come to glimpse behind the curtain by mere happenchance. (at least that's how it has felt for me) You stumble upon it! And all your seeking served to only place "that stone" in your path, so that eventually your toe would strike upon it. But that is just about as much as the seeker can hope to do.

[@floriangeyer6315]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@ermiyaswoldearegay9471]

Consciousness can be regarded as pointless ,meaningless nothing that might lead to hopelessness and seansysiom .The point is it's a miracle without which nothing exists.

[@Triton67se]

great, just like I find consciousness myself, there is no identity there at all, there is no ME there. All ME there is is in the mind.

[@Dowlphin]

We are machines, perfectly capable of running on autopilot. The unified consciousness merely observes through their camera lenses.
I took salvia divinorum once, and it was a relatively unspectacular but profoundly enlightening experience. When my observer got separated from my perceiver by moving a couple seconds into the past, I realized for the first time that those are two things. And I experienced that I was reacting to my surroundings exactly as normally, but I only became aware of all that a moment later. I felt that everything was happening too late, lagging behind, yet my reaction times were perfect. I heard myself speak words commenting on my observations and every word I thought: I said this a moment ago, why am I only becoming aware of it now?
The present is only considered the moment the sensory inputs reach the brain as long as the observer stays in sync with that.

[@DannyPodcast]

This is fire

[@Nadiarus]

I think we are in hell. I understand what you talking about. There is so much suffering and pain, I cannot ignore it. It's incredibly hard to feel it and stay in tune with the inner peace at the same time. It's like yoyo effect. One moment you are in silence (the Eckhart Tolle "now", there are no words really to describe it, but there is no happiness in there either), and then the next moment you feel despair and the empathy at the same time. The longer I experience the living in the now moment, the worse those two feelings get. It's not how I imagined awakened state of being. It's pretty bad. I feel like people who don't care about this spiritual stuff are happier actually. I hope I am doing it right. lol

[@Nadiarus]

Leviathan thank you

[@Dowlphin]

The people who are happier because they don't care about this stuff are either naturally farther along the path or are only happy because they are ignorant of the suffering they cause others. There's a lesson in that, too. They can make others miserable, but the mere non-awareness or non-belief of it, the denial, the not being in their perception or world view, makes them happy.
The more unpleasant things you become able to see, the more pleasant things you are also able to see. Naturally the former tends to be overwhelming because it's abundant due to being so easy to manifest. That's why on that level of perception one needs to learn to not feed energy into it. Judgment of it nourishes it. Simply accept its existence and then send your energy into pleasant things and you become an agent of positive change, through non-doing, while not having to worry that you might cause harm, since you are aware of what causes harm.

[@floryniculescu]

If the now moment seemed hell, that means you weren't truly in the now....
And, if the now is pretty difficult, surrender to it... Live it, let it be, accept it as it has been chosen by you, for your growth.
May your light shine every moment ♥️