Start Where You Are (Excerpt)

adyashanti.org - Useful spiritual engagement is when we are honest about where we are in our spiritual unfolding process, and we are not trying to be anywhere else. Adyashanti emphasizes the importance of starting where you are, since the essence of spirituality is the willingness to be honest and real with yourself.
Video Excerpted from “The Timeless Gap of Presence”:
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Quotes from this Video:
“It’s a good idea to just be honest with where you are.”
“The foundational embodied spiritual practice is dedicating some time to silence.”
“To become aware of the silence in and around you-that itself is an embodied spiritual practice.”
“As soon as we’re in the future, we’re already in a state of division between where we are and where we hope to be.”
“Almost more important than the practice is the attitude with which you do it.”

[@allenmorgan4309]

I spent several months at a monastery and I lived in silence the whole time. It takes some getting used to. The silence became deafening at times if that makes any sense but when I left the monastery and came back into this noisy world we live in my nerves almost couldn't take it. I had to readjust to the noise. I live alone and most of the time I live quietly but not in complete silence. It is a good thing to sit in silence on a regular basis. In the silence everything that is in you will come to the surface and then you are forced to deal with yourself and in dealing with yourself you eventually discover that what you are struggling with isnt really you. When that realization comes then it is easier to stop struggling and let go and that is when I discovered that there is nothing to struggle against, nothing to seek and nothing to find. All there is is this present moment. I AM the present moment and everything that is within the moment is within me.

[@kidsmoked]

Thank you. 🙏

[@deepensachdeva8363]

Thank you :)

[@greenhealth164]

Wonderful!

[@WHOAMI-vi1xr]

Can we learn sitting in silence in our home.

[@pinco2012]

"The essence of spirituality is to be honest with yourself, to be who you are, to feel what you feel, to be as evolved as you are". Great! One of the best definitions I've ever heard.

[@warehousing2953]

Politicians should be forced to go through lessons like these. ;D

[@soundvillage001]

“Just be honest with where you are”. Gold. Thank you 🙏

[@samar3634]

Be authentic, be who you are at every moment. Thanks for sharing 💐

[@Ahmad-ps9zh]

As always, right on time. Thank you!!!

[@kidsmoked]

I have felt the grasping - and that being still in a grasping world is going to be challenging. Thank you for bringing this to my awareness. 🙏

[@mariepaulecoutens]

Adya is always exactly on point. It's crazy. I listent and I always say to myself, Gosh I love him and what he says so much!!!... Thank You so much!!!

[@kimbouss]

Thank you so much Adya,
I’ve been experiencing a lot of resistance towards my own thoughts and projection for a year now, this 10 min video worked like magic for me, For the first time I know what it means to allow the mind to be as it is, and suddenly it becomes less agressive and even friendly !
So i’m very very grateful thank you.

[@MarySmith-nv4ni]

Yea

[@UniversalAwakening]

Thank you so much, it's important to be honest with ourselves and to start from where we are yes. This serves as a crucial reminder for me 🙏❤️

[@tomblack2064]

I am a great believer in reciting the alphabet. It is so good for the soul. Just be present, in the moment, transcend time and space like a turtle

[@Nobody-lf8mm]

Im enchanted and pocess through the ligth and unlimited space from your eyes!!!...Always your precence and energy Get me so Deeper!!! Thank you as always for being! Namaste.

[@mdawson12345]

Thanks Adya for the important reminders.

[@gabriellaarango9100]

Thank you !!!!! I saw very clearly how seeking is divisive,,,,,, and how it takes me away from being in this exact moment,,,, thank you !!!!

[@jackspicerisland]

Thank you thank you thank you

[@daisukematsui357]

Thank you

[@andreadea8600]

Wonderfulll!!!!! Namastê!!!!

[@Molumba]

Thank you Adya ❤

[@user-tl8yu1hv8j]

謝謝

[@petrahattingh8013]

Thanks for sharing!

[@adamrafferty]

Thank you Adya!

[@saikumar9849]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@bullamarta]

Thank you Adya.

[@carlavela7106]

Gracias ☺ 😊 💖 💖 💖 😍

[@brendarogers4664]

Ive gone to the future, how do I get back to where Im supposed to be? love and respect to Adya and all his followers we are beautiful souls who sometimes get scared xx

[@gretanavarauskaite2904]

❤️🙏🏻❤️

[@popcornsquid8304]

Gražus katinukas 😀

[@popcornsquid8304]

Greta jei Tau patinka Adya ir supranti rusiškai pažiūrėk Артур Сита video. Tikrai vertas dėmesio žmogus :)

[@PoleaM]

❤ I AM....without"me"

[@ShaunDobbie]

I am absolutely terrified of reality, I worry that I will reincarnate into torture and suffering.

[@Mello-xe3qx]

Your mind has made your worst nightmares a reality right now, but if you look at who you are right now you will see that you ain't torture and suffering

[@ShaunDobbie]

@@Mello-xe3qx I am not torture and suffering, you are right. I am aware of it but that doesn't make it any less terrifying. I just want manifestation to end so that I can have peace. I don't want to live an infinite amount of lives.

[@Mello-xe3qx]

@@ShaunDobbie but what if when you accept life, you really enjoy living infinite amount of lives and actually stop suffering?

[@ShaunDobbie]

@@Mello-xe3qx Well Shaun Dobbie must die completely for such acceptance to be possible. I am just glad I don't remember the innumerable lives I've lived before this one.

[@claudelebel49]

@@ShaunDobbie forget infinite number of lives. The only thing you have is this moment. Your worry about future lives is pure fiction, thoughts believed in.