The Direct Path of Spirituality (Excerpt)
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- Adya points to the direct path of spirituality-instantaneously waking up to the unconditioned consciousness that we already are-and how that differs from “progressive” spiritual paths where we can end up with a spiritualized sense of self. Excerpted from November 19, 2008, Palo Alto Meeting, “Transcending the Layers of Consciousness”: bit.ly/42IeBUj
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Quote from this Video: “Direct forms of spirituality always and predominantly point out the unconditioned consciousness immediately, and their whole aim is to break the mind’s rigid fixation on its false identity.” adyashanti.org
This is all well and good, yet the fact is that we are terrified of the truth, as it is the end of our seeming specialness, as individual persons, with our precious opinions, experiences, likes and dislikes.
When I was a small young boy and my twin brother and i were very small for our age I used to watch my brother following my mom around the house where ever she was he was.
I used to listen to the women talking all the time rushing around as if they were in a race.
And nothing has changed I go out for lunch every day every body is doing the same indulging it idle chat and small talk not being quiet for one minute going through life blindly like hungry ghosts as is said in Buddhist texts.
Yet they are Oblivious to it being in silence for most people is seen as pain and suffering.
To be honest I can't even imagine how it's to be on a progressive path. It must be like looking for your glasses while wearing them.
I think it's more a case of gradually weaning ourselves off the seeming desires of our egos.
If we think the ego mentality offers anything of value, we will never give it up, and awaken.
@@kimbirch1202 agreed, the direct path is very good to stabilise our selves in our true nature, again again until we see the illusion of ego and break free.
It's the process of getting the true self to learn ways of weaning off of things that are not itself.
Super helpful for a lot of people in the western world who have learned to not trust the self and/or have been traumatized. But it is ultimately limited, like the view that there is any path at all in some sense...
It’s simple. To be on a “progressive path” is not very different than being on the so called “direct path”. More than 99% of people who seek Enlightenment/Nirvana/Liberation NEVER get it and die in spiritual frustration. Which means that people who are on the “direct path” will waste their time just like people on the “progressive path” are wasting theirs. Just ask Adyashanti how many of his disciples got to Enlightenment, and I’m pretty sure that number is VERY SMALL.
For what or who does it matter whether it's a direct or progressive path!.....What is a "path" anyway?😉.....Sorry, these thoughts just appear☺️…..thougts….thoughts…..thougths😊♥️
Much love from Croatia ❤
I thought I'd seen all of old Adya on TH-cam. Thanks for sharing. 😊❤️🙏
You are not anything you can think about yourself - thats a realisation shift right there 😮
Good advice from a good guru👨🎨
So it is ❤
Wow. This is the clearest explanation ever. Thank you.
Like Krishnamurti said, "Truth is a pathless land"
I hope that Adyasanti, his disciples and those who have written comments to this video are all Self-realised persons because it is so very easy to have Self-realisation in this direct path method. All such Self-realised persons are requested to start preaching about the direct path so that many more struggling souls may reach their goal instantaneously.
Is what he’s talking about fully Nibbana? Like the Buddhist Arahants?
Thank you, Adyashanti. 🙏
Much love from Ireland 😊
It's talks like this that makes me think he might be Jed McKena
OK, I am going to wake up from sleep tomorrow morning, wish me luck 😆
His remarks at the end I like the story of Jesus about the workers in the vineyard and everybody whether they worked all day or just one hour received the same
His remarks at the end I like the story of Jesus about the workers in the vineyard and everybody whether they worked all day or just one hour received the same.
Thank you, that works like flipping a switch. I threw out my resume.
To realise that one is a spirit and not body,mind or intellect, it takes quite a long time or path. This process takes a bit of cleaning of mind . One has to go past thamas (ignorance) followed by going beyond rajas (intense activity) spanning incarnations,before reaching satwa (knowledge). This is not worldly knowledge but that one is a spirit or a sentient obsever and that all other worldly things are mere objects of thoughts.
I hope this is my last incarnation. I cant go through it again. Being a baby, crying, pooping and messing. A kid again? No thanks! picking my nose and eating it, scabby knees, being bullied at school, feelings of shame and inadequacy...Never mind adolescence and then the endless tyranny of work in adulthood. God please let this be the only one, the end 🙏
Whatever you resist persists.
It's true
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Truly wonderful stuff!
I got it. For a moment 😭
Good words. 🙏🏽
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"Ten lifetimes!? They built Rome quicker than that!" I feel this often 😢😂😅
Yet he is on a progressive path. He is blatantly different now than he was then.
I don't know if Adi would agree, but Jesus teaches that we all have deep - seated mainly unconscious guilt, over the false belief we have sinned against God, by choosing separation.
This is not justified however, because it is only a DREAM of separation.
Therefore all seeming sin, we perceive in ourselves, and others, must be forgiven, if we are to know our innocence.
You can't awake to what you are in the future
NOW is the beginning ..part of..Ones Future.
This is the first teaching of adyashanti that actually doesnt make sense to me. I've been on the path a few years and have been and still am cleaning up my karma. This feels like the right thing to do and I like doing it. But here he sais that you can just spontaniously awaken without having to clean up one's karma. I get that you actually already are awake and that you dont have to actually wake up but that wouldnt change anything at all. I know its true but it wont change my view of the world. So why isnt it necessary to clean up ones karma? The only way it still would make sense to me is that the practice itself is already enlightenment (which it is but then adyas words would be a bit misleading in my opinion)
If CONSCIOUSNESS modulates itself, to form the mind. The latter, being finite, cannot directly access CONSCIOUSNESS because CONSCIOUSNESS is infinite, unlimited and is not an object. The mind (although paradoxically it is made up of CONSCIOUSNESS) can only "know" objects. Where is Love, Peace and Happiness in all of this? The human being, by his nature, yearns for love, peace and happiness. However, longing turns into suffering. So he creates associations (religions) "politicizing" that longing.
😇GVB. 💌 "I know that without me G-d can no moment live. We're I to die, then He could no longer survive. G-d cannot without me a single worm create. Did I not share with him destruction were it's fate? I am as great as G-d, and He is small like me. He cannot be above, or I below him be. Etc...Grace V.💟
So simple! 🙏👌💖
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