ok ill just sit in a room for the rest of my life and do nothing.lets see how that works out. gee if idont do anything well then i guess i cant eat or drink water. then if i do that i should be dead within a week. hmmm sound like a good plan. whaddya all think?
@hawstom i masturbated. life is survival of the fittest. what this "adyashanti" is doing is no different. his ego must be feeling pretty good to be attracting people to him.
Larsnelson...so spinning your wheels..into the earth without awareness till your human body wears out then getting absorbed again is a better use of time? That's all your doing
glad to kno im not the only one who was seeing the fuzzy around him. thought it was jus my computer. so thanx stephaniewilson100 metioning it :) & thank u Adyashanti for sharing ur story :) :) :)
@trappedsoul7 totally. He seems so genuine and real. Too many spiritual teachers are lost in their own world. Adya seems way more down to earth and just...nice. If you like this guy, you'll love Tim Freke! Look him up...seriously. Very similar message. And a really nice guy. Alan Watts is similar..though more famous. He died in 1970s but is still totally timely today.
@boogiebuddy01 same , just sitting in my room, and lose it, its amazing, i feel a million dollars after it, but waste too much time on the computer lol
@wmc1982 by seeing through the ego. Ego (or personality, sense of you, you u think u are, whatever you want to call it) is self imagined, you perpetuate it through compiling memory and thoughts moment to moment. Stop compiling a false image of yourself and you will see a true living entity, which is your everyday being. Check out my channel, my newer black and white videos cut to the chase. I feel sometimes well known teachers talk too much an get people thinking too much, ramanas most direct t
Anyone looking for a legit and fully enlightened teacher, try Mooji, Gangaji, Tolle or Adyashanti. There are many phonies or not fully enlightened spiritual teachers out there. Popularity doesn't matter. Some of them have 100.000's of followers if not millions.
I don't want you to believe me just because I say so however. But if you don't mind, I sincerely hope you might try these 4 instead of many others on the net.
Thumbs + if you give this some consideration so other people might too.
I like his laughter, it's very helpful to hear him talking, there is a freshness and sometimes we can step directly into awareness with laughing about all our constructions, thank you very much!
jdim - That's a good question. To become a guru means spending your whole life deeply investigating the contents of your brain. The contents of every human's brain, the closer you get to the root, is basically identical and filled with all sorts of disgusting, perverted desires and ideas. The more you meditate, the more freaked out you become by your own nature. Some gurus chose to exorcise these "demons" by indulging them to their ultimate limit. The point is to become FREE.
After getting deeply into the Eastern Spirituality Movement and meditating for years I have finally concluded its all bs. Read the book "Stripping the Gurus" its about how all these spiritual leaders are all a bunch of sexual predators, liars, fraudsters and perverts not only that but there is a huge amount of people who get psychotic breaks from meditation. You would think if 'enlightenment' existed there would be a couple people who don't have rap sheets a mile long.
@jdim80127 How dare you slander the great Buddhas and Patriarchs and Sages of the past like that! It's only because you met "pop Buddhists" and other quacks. But that's your own limitation, it doesn't mean that there's no authentic teaching. Just stop chasing after blockheads and idolatry of "gurus" and read the texts of the old sages, the Sutras. Then maybe there's some hope for you.
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@Eden: thought it was ok, not more. Guys, you're battle is over. You're both wrong, it is just I, the mighty Smurf from Sweden, who has the answer: 42.
@Both of You: you're complicating things too much. All you really have stay focused at, is the presence, nothing else exists, not even your concepts or phenomena.
The past is not in any way attached to the present, simply because it doesnt exist.
@dajo81 Meh; just some idle chit chat. I drank too much soda at the new X-Men movie & couldn't sleep. Not crazy about "stay focused on this presence" as a pointer, though, gotta tell ya. Too vague.
@braveone2u: I see your point. Didn't expect a good comment here. The concept of "ego" is merely a phenomena we've created. It does not exist. The concept of personality is impressions/experiences we've stored during our lifetime so far. If we go beyond this, change is possible, and removal of our concept of self. And then removal of fear, the opposite to happiness, freedom.
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how meany of you all know?all governments,all laws and all religions are beliefs and belief system. they are not need nothing to do with the truth or reality..there is THE GOD CODE =LOVE , TRUTH AND NECESSITY . THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD, ONLY EVENTS IN REALITY . JUST FEEL LIKE GOOD OR BAD WHEN THESE EVENTS HAPPENS .I SEE NO SINS, ONLY PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS AND WAYS TO HELP THEM .GOVERNMENTS AND LAWS ARE LIKE THE BIBLE AND THEN THE PEOPLE ARE LIKE THE 99,000 RELIGIONS WITH ALL THEIR BELIEFS .
Most of the people commenting this clip claiming they "got rid" of their egos (more or less), but their egos had to comment that they got rid of their egos. Isnt that ego for ya.
You can see the calm he has from his understanding of his own awareness. I've been fascinated by him ever since my first philosophy teacher showed a clip of him in class. too bad he says "urinate goodness" at 3:43
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do any of you guys feel like if your in pure awareness you wouldn't want to do anything? i feel like humanity is sustained by doing, and if i let go of doing into being, i'm letting go of humanity. what if they perish? i need to do something!
@braveone2u The only "price" that must be paid is the delusion that there is someone who is "not free". Without the belief in that not-free someone, there's only freedom.
@braveone2u Hmm... Beliefs. Mental noise. I guess it doesn't hurt to have voices like yours as a part of the spiritual landscape, though. At the right time they can be just as helpful as the "you are already That" voices.
@braveone2u I'm sorry, but I haven't a clue what you're talking about. That entire paragraph was incoherent. Are you quite sure you understood what I meant by "awareness"? I'm not getting why you're hung up on that word. Feel free to switch to PM if you need more characters.
@braveone2u There are no unenlightened people OR enlightened people. Because there are not "people" at all; only This. There is no separate individual who could become enlightened or remain unenlightened. There is only Enlightenment itself.
@braveone2u In reality, all you have is a presently-arising memory of an experience. It's gone now, let it go. What you describe does not reflect what's seen here and now, though. From what I can see, there's no "merge" possible, because in order to "merge" with something you have to at some point have been separate from it. It's not like a drop of water disappearing into the ocean; it's more like a wave realizing it was never separate from the ocean in the first place. No point A or B.
@braveone2u Don't get excited. I'm saying it's foolish to place any weight whatsoever on past experience. Because past experiences do not exist in reality. If you're really gonna stand by that "in the now" line you keep using, you'll see that memory as just another thought, presently appearing and disappearing in consciousness, and it won't be believed any more than any other thought. Because it's no more special than any other thought. Thoughts are just mental noise; none of them contain truth.
@braveone2u What tells you that the past is a part of the "now"? Presently-arising thoughts. If not for the narrative of presently-arising thoughts, you would have no idea that even one second preceded this one. That's all it is, really; narrative, a story. You say there's a "past"? Show it to me. I see no evidence for such a thing.
@braveone2u Well, see there I could dogmatically accept what you're saying, form a belief out of it and all that stuff, or I could just go by what's clearly seen here and now.
@braveone2u I see no existence for the past outside of the mind. "Once it's in one's consciousness"? Once WHAT is in one's consciousness? Thought. Only thought. What we've all agreed to call the past only exists as a story told by presently-arising thought.
@braveone2u Not sure how you'd like me to sound, bro. If you want someone to butter up your ego and make it feel good about itself, I'm probably not your man. Figure someone claiming a lofty perspective on spiritual matters should be able to take it.
@braveone2u I'm just speaking from what's clearly and presently seen here and now. If you're seeing something ELSE clearly here and now, you must of course go with that. I haven't any interest in ranking people "better" or "worse" than anyone else. Not interested in defending myself either, actually. Think what you want of me. I'm going to bed.
@braveone2u And so that's what I've been trying to get at here. You're grabbing a presently-arising thought, with the label "experience" attached to it, and saying it's "true". And since you take that thought to be true, you form beliefs out of it. And so the mind goes on, playing basically the same game it has since birth, just with a slightly modified rules set. Mind hasn't been seen through at all. You can't see Reality when you're so conceptually enslaved.
@EdenConsciousness what about all them fancy scientists saying that the past, present, and future all exist at the same time? you know like quantum physics and such
Read "New Self New World" by Philip Shepherd to understand how the doing that is informed only by the energy or consciousness of doing, and is not sustained and integrated and connected to being is a shallow, disconnecting, unenlivened, ultimately self-destructive way. This book exquisitely describes the answers to your question.
it's not so much lost as blocked...it's never lost, bliss is what you are. Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta explain well. My take is that the ego is the human virus that blocks your real nature and worst makes you believe you are a someone.
@superjujujuice Ramana and "No cigar datta" were great. heavy 6th stagers. Wanna hear about that? I'll just tell ya. It's when you shut out the world and take your sanctum deep inside. But who really gives a fuck about the "I" thought?
What is emptiness? If awareness just is it must be the perfect emptiness.
Awareness better watch out. All this goodness of your own nature could be just ego shit..Fuck your true fuckin' nature! This guy has a show or 2 to convince me. No Siddhi.
The spiritual transmission already here is way beyond this sensitive clearheaded messenger of good will and a little spiritual subtlety thrown in.
@Countrychiddler the bliss was mostly at the beginning. Still there is bliss but it feels as just having a 'good day', then poof! Dosen't last for long that's for sure. Sometimes "I" disappear but i am mostly here. As a paradigm, I understand we are not here and whatever happens does not happen to anyone. Bliss, as I understand, happens when the "I AM" gets out of the way and the 'self' shines UNOBSTRUCTED. The self is always there that's why there is no you...or me!
when people "forget" about themselves then this "ego" stuff shows up.... but in reality it doesn't exist, it i just illusory pattern which apparently is activated when we "forget" about ourselves and don't watch what we are doing at any moment. But when we are aware of ourselves and everything around (when we cover everything with unwavering attention) then everything works just right for us, ego and anything else is no longer a problem.
He can not explain awareness because awareness is something you need to experience for yourself, he can only point you in the right direction and tell you how you might maintain awareness.
I went to one of Adya's retreats and it was good, but repeatedly he refused to take responsibility for the Eastern philosophy from which the basis of his philosophy springs, even though he was a student of Zen for many years. He really seems like a great person, but really ... must the White culture claim every idea as their own? LOL
Adya doesn't claim to own anything, especially head knowledge. He doesn't talk from a place of book/brain knowledge. He talks from his own direct experience....the words aren't whats important anyways
@dancinglight1, what you said is true and also what I said. Yes, he comes from the heart and obviously speaks from his own experiences, but he also couches what he says very much in Zen philosophy, but it's disappointing that he repeatedly, specifically denied that his obviously Zen-based teachings were Zen-based during the retreat.
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Even Through Passing Through The Shadow, Even If Light Can Not Be Seen... Your Aware That Darkness Exists all Around, Your Aware That Nothing Exists But Your Awareness Of It.... I Know This, Because I Experienced It at The Age Of 2 Years Old... Darkness Was All Around Me, for the feeling of 1 second or less. Definatly Less Than a Milisecond... Yet I was Aware that Darkness Existed, Thus My Consiousness Was Born From Nothing...
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From eternity, without time, I Am, the unborn. Just as a dream begins at some point during sleep, so ' at some point' That which I Am appears as Consciousness here, and this world comes into being. I open my eyes: there is experiencing life in this apparent body/mind. After a certain span of experiencing, I close my eyes: the world ceases to be, and from eternity I Am, the unborn. What could be simpler, or more obvious?....
Where is this guy coming from? Is he coming from anywhere? Maybe he is everywhere at once. His presence suggests that he is sensitive to the Divine in a way that is very attractive to his audience. He's appears to have a spiritual resonance of great simplicity.
Yes; as to transcend the ego we need to dis-empower it through neutrality, and we do this by deepening into the present experience. I have a new song here on youtube "Be Here Now" which explains this simple, yet porfound truth through song. Blessings BE.
, no, not "urinate goodness" but your inate goodness, the goodness that you're born with... But as he says "spills" before, your remark is funny. Have a nice day, friend
While there is wisdom and insight to what is being said, he is still teaching "doing"...that their is a individual person that can make a choice to "do" something. Nobody is doing anything, who awakens?
If you listen to Tony Parsons or Jeff Foster the message is much more simple and direct, who stops thinking for a bit?...seems many like this type of teaching because it gives them something to hold on to, the idea that "you" are doing anything and that "you" can reach awakening by "doing"
@GG74K Nobody is doing anything, yet due to the delusion of self, suffering is experienced. All teachings, even Tony or Jeff's, are an attempt to deliver an antidote to this delusion. However awareness can be pointed to return to itself is turning the wheel of dharma. Doing nothing, for most people, simply is not possible. Cause and effect rolls on, and as long as internal events are grasped at as self, delusion plays. Hence the importance of spiritual practice. Otherwise we'd all be awake!
Adyshanti is a great teacher for people who have had the awakening but needs to sustain it. He is real smart to analyze how mind works. Getting rid of ego is hard. Initially you can ruthlessly kill it but later you have to be very clever to see its subtleties.
You can't get rid of ego, the only thing you can do is be aware of certain mental and emotional patterns. The seeing is awareness and that is not the patterns. Then ego starts to fade and burn up.
I started listening to him but didn't quite understand it even didn't quite like it. then I realized one day and whent back to his vids and suddenly I saw all the rich content. many people that are still very much in the mind will blow this of a crock of shit, they have no clue what they are missing.
@ruwanie You don't necessarily have to completely rid of your ego. To me, the ego is our sense of individuality. I believe we all have one, just most let theirs dictate and control their lives. People who have egos usually only want what's "good" but not what's "bad". In other words, the don't want ALL of life, they want part of life, and this will guarantee misery! Once you acknowledge the ego, you can begin to manage it, and eventually be free of it. Love (Oneness) is the resolution!
@ruwanie can't get rid of it. you still need it to interact with others , in conversation, and while doing job. just minimising the extremes, like obsessive thoughts, that can be done.
@ruwanie This is as false and delusional as it gets. Adyashanti never talks about getting rid of the ego. He talks about the ego becoming irrelevant and stopping to be a problem. You need not know any subtleties of the mind. There is nothing to sustain. You are awake, you are enlightenment. I will repeat there is nothing to understand or sustain.
@braveone2u I think i get what you're saying. And if i'm seeing things right it makes sense to me. Are you hinting that awakening is just a concept as well? That will one day be irrelevant and forgotten as we realize our 'oneness with "god"? and i guess it's necessary along the way?
Yes I do believe myself. I think the tree analogy is enough to prove my point. Without a brain there is no awareness. In fact, consciousness is a better word for awareness anyway.
I can feel that Eckhart Tolle lives in the moment and practices what he preaches, where Adyashanti seems more egotistical in that he tries to create his image, whether it be to enhance understanding or not -- people learn through example and imitation.
Adya has definitely experienced Awareness. All his worlds are pointing at it. It is evident because, He is struggling to put it worlds so that peoples can understand with their brain. The effort is futile though. Our analytical brain, analyzing it from our own context, cannot understand it. Awareness is beyond brain. The moment we give-up the effort to understand it , and stand at nothingness; we will get it. If he succeeds putting it in word, It will be a revolution.
A tree is alive. Is it aware? We can't know, but we can pretty safely assume that it is not. It does not have a brain, and cannot feel, and so it can't really be aware.
Aliveness is different from awareness. I'm not a fan of Adyashanti as his "teachings" are very easily criticized as being "spiritual rhetoric," and for good reason.
Eckart Tolle teaches more honestly, but he is still confused about the difference between aliveness and awareness.
"As far as i believe" you say Calvin, meaning you do not KNOW. Believing is for people who do not know, don't talk your junk ideas about awareness if you don't know, if you haven't experienced it. If you had tasted awareness by now you wouldn't be talking about how awareness is dependent on the mind.
Go and meditate bro, stop getting involved in these pointless ideas on which master is right and which is wrong, if you don't like what he's saying then go and listen to eckhart or whatever.
When some Bhuddists or advaitans say everything is consciousness, all is awareness, that the objective world is unreal, they mean it in the sense that the object of awareness is always itself (as Bernadette Roberts elucidates). When you see something, you see it as it is in yourself, not as it is in itself. Everything, including our most rigorous objective science, has a subjective stamp because it is coming from consciousness. Hence, consciousness believes it's nature to be non local.
Hello Metaemipricus, I used to think the same. Here are just a few questions you might want to look at. Or not. haha, its up to you.
If awareness is created in the brain than where is the boundary between my awareness and yours?
Does awareness have any objective qualities? can you find a limit to it in your actual experience? if not, than how can you be sure that it is personal?(that its mine)
The brain produces thoughts. Do you need a thought to know that you are aware?
Him and Deepak Chopra should get together and have a talk
atntony 7 hours ago
I think I want to be aware of doing a lot and have fun instead of being aware of me doing nothing.
zakkah93 2 days ago
ok ill just sit in a room for the rest of my life and do nothing.lets see how that works out. gee if idont do anything well then i guess i cant eat or drink water. then if i do that i should be dead within a week. hmmm sound like a good plan. whaddya all think?
1111BLAKE1111 1 week ago
@1111BLAKE1111 Yes. Do nothing until the right action arises from the nothingness. When it's time to get a drink, you will get a drink.
hawstom 1 week ago
@hawstom i masturbated. life is survival of the fittest. what this "adyashanti" is doing is no different. his ego must be feeling pretty good to be attracting people to him.
1111BLAKE1111 3 days ago
@1111BLAKE1111 That might sound absurd...but try it. Really. See how long you last before you get WHY he said that...
avedic 1 week ago
Larsnelson...so spinning your wheels..into the earth without awareness till your human body wears out then getting absorbed again is a better use of time? That's all your doing
4theloveofgrace 3 weeks ago
glad to kno im not the only one who was seeing the fuzzy around him. thought it was jus my computer. so thanx stephaniewilson100 metioning it :) & thank u Adyashanti for sharing ur story :) :) :)
NayNay7771 1 month ago
this guy must be so high and rich in energy or vibration , look at the fuzzy glow around him :)
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@stephaniewilson100 lol...he's bending space time around his head...
avedic 1 week ago
Adya has to be the coolest guy i've ever seen. and he isn't even trying!
trappedsoul7 3 months ago
@trappedsoul7 Same, he has a way of speaking the truth with much comedy too.
ZenMaster2010EE 2 months ago
@trappedsoul7 totally. He seems so genuine and real. Too many spiritual teachers are lost in their own world. Adya seems way more down to earth and just...nice. If you like this guy, you'll love Tim Freke! Look him up...seriously. Very similar message. And a really nice guy. Alan Watts is similar..though more famous. He died in 1970s but is still totally timely today.
avedic 1 week ago
doing nothing is my favorite thing to do
boogiebuddy01 3 months ago
@boogiebuddy01 same , just sitting in my room, and lose it, its amazing, i feel a million dollars after it, but waste too much time on the computer lol
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boogiebuddy01 3 months ago
Another self-satisfied fraud. Who does this character think he's kidding? What a waste of time - for himself and everyone else!
larsnielsen1000 4 months ago
@wmc1982 ramana maharshis most direct teaching was through silence (by just being)
NondualAwareness 4 months ago
@wmc1982 by seeing through the ego. Ego (or personality, sense of you, you u think u are, whatever you want to call it) is self imagined, you perpetuate it through compiling memory and thoughts moment to moment. Stop compiling a false image of yourself and you will see a true living entity, which is your everyday being. Check out my channel, my newer black and white videos cut to the chase. I feel sometimes well known teachers talk too much an get people thinking too much, ramanas most direct t
NondualAwareness 4 months ago
Ok, so how do I let go of my ego and see my true self? Just through meditation and thinking about nothing?
wmc1982 4 months ago
@wmc1982 as you begin to meditate let go of all thought, don't hang on anything, that is when the journey begins.
alderete74 4 months ago
Anyone looking for a legit and fully enlightened teacher, try Mooji, Gangaji, Tolle or Adyashanti. There are many phonies or not fully enlightened spiritual teachers out there. Popularity doesn't matter. Some of them have 100.000's of followers if not millions.
I don't want you to believe me just because I say so however. But if you don't mind, I sincerely hope you might try these 4 instead of many others on the net.
Thumbs + if you give this some consideration so other people might too.
Chillerbill 4 months ago
annoying door to door salesman? isnt annoying a judgment? hahaha just kidding!
I'm not serious at all
TheGuilanvi 4 months ago
"Awareness", this is not Zen, this is poison that will make sure you will be damned to countless more rebirths into the worst hells you can imagine.
AirSandFire 4 months ago
@AirSandFire Awareness is just a term to describe what cannot be described. it's hard to find an appropriate word for it. it is not mental awareness.
mantisce 4 months ago
I like his laughter, it's very helpful to hear him talking, there is a freshness and sometimes we can step directly into awareness with laughing about all our constructions, thank you very much!
knochenwerferin 5 months ago
jdim - That's a good question. To become a guru means spending your whole life deeply investigating the contents of your brain. The contents of every human's brain, the closer you get to the root, is basically identical and filled with all sorts of disgusting, perverted desires and ideas. The more you meditate, the more freaked out you become by your own nature. Some gurus chose to exorcise these "demons" by indulging them to their ultimate limit. The point is to become FREE.
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petedool 5 months ago
After getting deeply into the Eastern Spirituality Movement and meditating for years I have finally concluded its all bs. Read the book "Stripping the Gurus" its about how all these spiritual leaders are all a bunch of sexual predators, liars, fraudsters and perverts not only that but there is a huge amount of people who get psychotic breaks from meditation. You would think if 'enlightenment' existed there would be a couple people who don't have rap sheets a mile long.
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parrish37ray32 6 months ago
@jdim80127 How dare you slander the great Buddhas and Patriarchs and Sages of the past like that! It's only because you met "pop Buddhists" and other quacks. But that's your own limitation, it doesn't mean that there's no authentic teaching. Just stop chasing after blockheads and idolatry of "gurus" and read the texts of the old sages, the Sutras. Then maybe there's some hope for you.
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NicoleLeblanc100 7 months ago
@Eden: thought it was ok, not more. Guys, you're battle is over. You're both wrong, it is just I, the mighty Smurf from Sweden, who has the answer: 42.
dajo81 8 months ago
@dajo81 Ha!
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
Vague and simple yes, just like the new X-men. ;)
dajo81 8 months ago
@dajo81 Hey man, I loved that movie.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
@Both of You: you're complicating things too much. All you really have stay focused at, is the presence, nothing else exists, not even your concepts or phenomena.
The past is not in any way attached to the present, simply because it doesnt exist.
dajo81 8 months ago
@dajo81 Meh; just some idle chit chat. I drank too much soda at the new X-Men movie & couldn't sleep. Not crazy about "stay focused on this presence" as a pointer, though, gotta tell ya. Too vague.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
@braveone2u: I see your point. Didn't expect a good comment here. The concept of "ego" is merely a phenomena we've created. It does not exist. The concept of personality is impressions/experiences we've stored during our lifetime so far. If we go beyond this, change is possible, and removal of our concept of self. And then removal of fear, the opposite to happiness, freedom.
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braveone2u 8 months ago
visit no-self.com
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NellieBrown100 9 months ago
how meany of you all know?all governments,all laws and all religions are beliefs and belief system. they are not need nothing to do with the truth or reality..there is THE GOD CODE =LOVE , TRUTH AND NECESSITY . THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD, ONLY EVENTS IN REALITY . JUST FEEL LIKE GOOD OR BAD WHEN THESE EVENTS HAPPENS .I SEE NO SINS, ONLY PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS AND WAYS TO HELP THEM .GOVERNMENTS AND LAWS ARE LIKE THE BIBLE AND THEN THE PEOPLE ARE LIKE THE 99,000 RELIGIONS WITH ALL THEIR BELIEFS .
greenearthnazi20204u 10 months ago
Most of the people commenting this clip claiming they "got rid" of their egos (more or less), but their egos had to comment that they got rid of their egos. Isnt that ego for ya.
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braveone2u 8 months ago
that was beautifuly spoken :)
xjoe1988x 10 months ago
You can see the calm he has from his understanding of his own awareness. I've been fascinated by him ever since my first philosophy teacher showed a clip of him in class. too bad he says "urinate goodness" at 3:43
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rbernson1 10 months ago
@whalingstories At 3:43 Adyashanti says: "It's Your Innate Goodness." He did not say: "urinate goodness" (thank goodness)!
rbernson1 10 months ago
@whalingstories I think he says "your innate goodness" ;)
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JamesonMary 11 months ago
do any of you guys feel like if your in pure awareness you wouldn't want to do anything? i feel like humanity is sustained by doing, and if i let go of doing into being, i'm letting go of humanity. what if they perish? i need to do something!
beats299 11 months ago
@beats299 You ARE pure awareness ALREADY. Ain't no "in" or "if" about it.
EdenConsciousness 9 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u The only "price" that must be paid is the delusion that there is someone who is "not free". Without the belief in that not-free someone, there's only freedom.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u Hmm... Beliefs. Mental noise. I guess it doesn't hurt to have voices like yours as a part of the spiritual landscape, though. At the right time they can be just as helpful as the "you are already That" voices.
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u I'm sorry, but I haven't a clue what you're talking about. That entire paragraph was incoherent. Are you quite sure you understood what I meant by "awareness"? I'm not getting why you're hung up on that word. Feel free to switch to PM if you need more characters.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u There are no unenlightened people OR enlightened people. Because there are not "people" at all; only This. There is no separate individual who could become enlightened or remain unenlightened. There is only Enlightenment itself.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u In reality, all you have is a presently-arising memory of an experience. It's gone now, let it go. What you describe does not reflect what's seen here and now, though. From what I can see, there's no "merge" possible, because in order to "merge" with something you have to at some point have been separate from it. It's not like a drop of water disappearing into the ocean; it's more like a wave realizing it was never separate from the ocean in the first place. No point A or B.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u Don't get excited. I'm saying it's foolish to place any weight whatsoever on past experience. Because past experiences do not exist in reality. If you're really gonna stand by that "in the now" line you keep using, you'll see that memory as just another thought, presently appearing and disappearing in consciousness, and it won't be believed any more than any other thought. Because it's no more special than any other thought. Thoughts are just mental noise; none of them contain truth.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u What tells you that the past is a part of the "now"? Presently-arising thoughts. If not for the narrative of presently-arising thoughts, you would have no idea that even one second preceded this one. That's all it is, really; narrative, a story. You say there's a "past"? Show it to me. I see no evidence for such a thing.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u Well, see there I could dogmatically accept what you're saying, form a belief out of it and all that stuff, or I could just go by what's clearly seen here and now.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u I see no existence for the past outside of the mind. "Once it's in one's consciousness"? Once WHAT is in one's consciousness? Thought. Only thought. What we've all agreed to call the past only exists as a story told by presently-arising thought.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u Well, if that's how you're gonna see it that's how you're gonna see it. Just trying to save you a little grief.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u Not sure how you'd like me to sound, bro. If you want someone to butter up your ego and make it feel good about itself, I'm probably not your man. Figure someone claiming a lofty perspective on spiritual matters should be able to take it.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u I'm just speaking from what's clearly and presently seen here and now. If you're seeing something ELSE clearly here and now, you must of course go with that. I haven't any interest in ranking people "better" or "worse" than anyone else. Not interested in defending myself either, actually. Think what you want of me. I'm going to bed.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u Oh, chill the fuck out and accept my friend invite.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 7 months ago
@braveone2u And so that's what I've been trying to get at here. You're grabbing a presently-arising thought, with the label "experience" attached to it, and saying it's "true". And since you take that thought to be true, you form beliefs out of it. And so the mind goes on, playing basically the same game it has since birth, just with a slightly modified rules set. Mind hasn't been seen through at all. You can't see Reality when you're so conceptually enslaved.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
@EdenConsciousness what about all them fancy scientists saying that the past, present, and future all exist at the same time? you know like quantum physics and such
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@beats299
Read "New Self New World" by Philip Shepherd to understand how the doing that is informed only by the energy or consciousness of doing, and is not sustained and integrated and connected to being is a shallow, disconnecting, unenlivened, ultimately self-destructive way. This book exquisitely describes the answers to your question.
sdietzler 9 months ago
Awareness is beyond the "universal". Awareness is the state of Higher Knowing, beyond limited human consciousness, beyond energy.
crystalcorp 11 months ago
@crystalcorp
"beyond energy" " beyond the light " the light of lights the great void void , inspiring...
indigonaal 11 months ago
it's not so much lost as blocked...it's never lost, bliss is what you are. Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta explain well. My take is that the ego is the human virus that blocks your real nature and worst makes you believe you are a someone.
superjujujuice 11 months ago
@superjujujuice Ramana and "No cigar datta" were great. heavy 6th stagers. Wanna hear about that? I'll just tell ya. It's when you shut out the world and take your sanctum deep inside. But who really gives a fuck about the "I" thought?
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pavanatanaya 11 months ago
What is emptiness? If awareness just is it must be the perfect emptiness.
Awareness better watch out. All this goodness of your own nature could be just ego shit..Fuck your true fuckin' nature! This guy has a show or 2 to convince me. No Siddhi.
The spiritual transmission already here is way beyond this sensitive clearheaded messenger of good will and a little spiritual subtlety thrown in.
Countrychiddler 11 months ago
the truth that sets you free is that there is no you....
superjujujuice 11 months ago
@superjujujuice Then what invoked "you" to produce this response?
Countrychiddler 11 months ago
@Countrychiddler there is only the one who invokes.
superjujujuice 11 months ago
@superjujujuice That's all well and good but what do you have to do with that? Can you back that shit up with transcendental bliss?
Countrychiddler 11 months ago
@Countrychiddler the bliss was mostly at the beginning. Still there is bliss but it feels as just having a 'good day', then poof! Dosen't last for long that's for sure. Sometimes "I" disappear but i am mostly here. As a paradigm, I understand we are not here and whatever happens does not happen to anyone. Bliss, as I understand, happens when the "I AM" gets out of the way and the 'self' shines UNOBSTRUCTED. The self is always there that's why there is no you...or me!
superjujujuice 11 months ago
@superjujujuice Why do you lose this Bliss. It is only Gods Spiritual Transmission. The you and me in it is entirely secondary.
Countrychiddler 11 months ago
There is no action by the ego that can cause a non-ego state of enlightenment. God must take the last step.
unenlite 1 year ago
3:43 Urinate goodness!
besaidlozo 1 year ago 2
@besaidlozo lol
heathrassner 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing the love!
:o)
ChenStyleJohn 1 year ago
Adyashanti is such a wonderful teacher. To the point. I love it. :)
ChakraSyncDotCom 1 year ago
i've been on an awakening path for some time and then i found teachers like e. tolle and it has completely accelerated the process
much <3 and total respect
Donwinnn 1 year ago
when people "forget" about themselves then this "ego" stuff shows up.... but in reality it doesn't exist, it i just illusory pattern which apparently is activated when we "forget" about ourselves and don't watch what we are doing at any moment. But when we are aware of ourselves and everything around (when we cover everything with unwavering attention) then everything works just right for us, ego and anything else is no longer a problem.
GeorgeGogle 1 year ago
@GeorgeGogle Thanks!
Flipself 1 year ago
let this fr*king ego be there..who cares?!
GeorgeGogle 1 year ago
head-shaven willem dafoe ! :) i like his message
xtrmsprts 1 year ago
Only fools and liars tell people to get rid of their ego.
TrevorTCR 1 year ago
Thank you
jayandkevin 1 year ago
He can not explain awareness because awareness is something you need to experience for yourself, he can only point you in the right direction and tell you how you might maintain awareness.
terrybrookman 1 year ago
You say 'Awareness is aware'. These words are unnecessary and are extra, they are too much. It sounds as an awareness 'high'. It sounds like thought.
You are correct the ego takes much longer to dissolve and reveal its tricks.
ccloud13xsi 1 year ago
No. Awareness is not intelligent. Awareness is not aware. With some of your words, you are making something out of awareness.
ccloud13xsi 1 year ago
funny is good! :-D
VenusAsABoyFilms 1 year ago
Come to englad adyashanti you're a great channel for truth
easternupo 1 year ago
I went to one of Adya's retreats and it was good, but repeatedly he refused to take responsibility for the Eastern philosophy from which the basis of his philosophy springs, even though he was a student of Zen for many years. He really seems like a great person, but really ... must the White culture claim every idea as their own? LOL
CheezInspector 1 year ago
@CheezInspector
Adya doesn't claim to own anything, especially head knowledge. He doesn't talk from a place of book/brain knowledge. He talks from his own direct experience....the words aren't whats important anyways
dancinglight1 1 year ago
@dancinglight1, what you said is true and also what I said. Yes, he comes from the heart and obviously speaks from his own experiences, but he also couches what he says very much in Zen philosophy, but it's disappointing that he repeatedly, specifically denied that his obviously Zen-based teachings were Zen-based during the retreat.
CheezInspector 1 year ago
We Are All One Consiousness, Born And Seperated By Ether... Without The Etheric Ego, We Become One State, Unified By Knowning We Were Once One Consiousness At The Dawn Of Creation..
Eilizsia 1 year ago
This Is The Nature of Creation... Even With Nothing, something still has a Place to come into existance...
Eilizsia 1 year ago
Even Through Passing Through The Shadow, Even If Light Can Not Be Seen... Your Aware That Darkness Exists all Around, Your Aware That Nothing Exists But Your Awareness Of It.... I Know This, Because I Experienced It at The Age Of 2 Years Old... Darkness Was All Around Me, for the feeling of 1 second or less. Definatly Less Than a Milisecond... Yet I was Aware that Darkness Existed, Thus My Consiousness Was Born From Nothing...
Eilizsia 1 year ago
Awareness Feels The Reason Why Nothing Exists, The Awareness Of Nothing Defines The Birth Of Consiounsness
Eilizsia 1 year ago
The Universal Consiousness Has No Presence Physicaly, It is Born From The Awareness Of Nothing.. Eg. Even If Nothing Exists, Nothing would still be Something to be Aware off.
Eilizsia 1 year ago
Who lets go of the egoic self? Is that not a doing in itself.
mlovidius 1 year ago
theres a tenderness coming thru from within those who are in realzation and coming from their true selves.
also a peacefulness and joyousness.
its rare to see and yes, its so refreshing to me :)
blessings to all
Owen
divinkee 1 year ago
Pointers to that which is awareness
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altaskier3 1 year ago
From eternity, without time, I Am, the unborn. Just as a dream begins at some point during sleep, so ' at some point' That which I Am appears as Consciousness here, and this world comes into being. I open my eyes: there is experiencing life in this apparent body/mind. After a certain span of experiencing, I close my eyes: the world ceases to be, and from eternity I Am, the unborn. What could be simpler, or more obvious?....
GG74K 1 year ago
Where is this guy coming from? Is he coming from anywhere? Maybe he is everywhere at once. His presence suggests that he is sensitive to the Divine in a way that is very attractive to his audience. He's appears to have a spiritual resonance of great simplicity.
Countrychiddler 1 year ago
Why did he protect himself when he failed of making the audience laugh by scratching his head?
crywolf30 1 year ago
@crywolf30
LOL :) take it easy man ....
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TedDGPoulos 1 year ago
Yes; as to transcend the ego we need to dis-empower it through neutrality, and we do this by deepening into the present experience. I have a new song here on youtube "Be Here Now" which explains this simple, yet porfound truth through song. Blessings BE.
richardschooping 1 year ago
3:44 - "urinate goodness..."??? Hee...
bamboosa 1 year ago
@bamboosa
, no, not "urinate goodness" but your inate goodness, the goodness that you're born with... But as he says "spills" before, your remark is funny. Have a nice day, friend
Onlylovesaves 1 year ago
While there is wisdom and insight to what is being said, he is still teaching "doing"...that their is a individual person that can make a choice to "do" something. Nobody is doing anything, who awakens?
If you listen to Tony Parsons or Jeff Foster the message is much more simple and direct, who stops thinking for a bit?...seems many like this type of teaching because it gives them something to hold on to, the idea that "you" are doing anything and that "you" can reach awakening by "doing"
GG74K 1 year ago
@GG74K Nobody is doing anything, yet due to the delusion of self, suffering is experienced. All teachings, even Tony or Jeff's, are an attempt to deliver an antidote to this delusion. However awareness can be pointed to return to itself is turning the wheel of dharma. Doing nothing, for most people, simply is not possible. Cause and effect rolls on, and as long as internal events are grasped at as self, delusion plays. Hence the importance of spiritual practice. Otherwise we'd all be awake!
Mabowabochan 1 year ago
Adyshanti is a great teacher for people who have had the awakening but needs to sustain it. He is real smart to analyze how mind works. Getting rid of ego is hard. Initially you can ruthlessly kill it but later you have to be very clever to see its subtleties.
ruwanie 2 years ago 17
Yeah good point, it's very subtle, never stops attacking and each wave is stronger.
Greatmk 1 year ago
ruthlessly kill it hmmm and how you suppose to do that
gefftom 1 year ago 2
You can't get rid of ego, the only thing you can do is be aware of certain mental and emotional patterns. The seeing is awareness and that is not the patterns. Then ego starts to fade and burn up.
ialwzwin99 1 year ago 8
A beautiful quote................" He who is full of himself, is likely to be quite empty"
mark1952able 1 year ago
@ruwanie
right on the money.
I started listening to him but didn't quite understand it even didn't quite like it. then I realized one day and whent back to his vids and suddenly I saw all the rich content. many people that are still very much in the mind will blow this of a crock of shit, they have no clue what they are missing.
colloredbrothers 1 year ago
@ruwanie You don't necessarily have to completely rid of your ego. To me, the ego is our sense of individuality. I believe we all have one, just most let theirs dictate and control their lives. People who have egos usually only want what's "good" but not what's "bad". In other words, the don't want ALL of life, they want part of life, and this will guarantee misery! Once you acknowledge the ego, you can begin to manage it, and eventually be free of it. Love (Oneness) is the resolution!
jduran9123 1 year ago
@ruwanie, so true. I've been listening to Eckhart Tolle and a bit of Krishnamurti for a while, and it is so helpful to here it more simplified!
chafe11 1 year ago
@ruwanie what an ignorance .. ( :
Thundaberg 1 year ago
@ruwanie My understanding is that Adyashanti teaches not to kill your ego, but to just surrender to it. To surrender to the Divine Fire within.
Darpinion 1 year ago
@ruwanie can't get rid of it. you still need it to interact with others , in conversation, and while doing job. just minimising the extremes, like obsessive thoughts, that can be done.
lovehopefaith1000 1 year ago
@ruwanie No, there is no ego to get rid of, thats the illusion.
Paddehj 1 year ago
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@Paddehj "there is no ego to get rid of, thats the illusion" - What do mean it's an illusion? Thanks.
cakeisnotanumber 1 year ago
@ruwanie @ruwanie The only thing that wants to "kill" the ego, or see a need to, is the ego itself.....
chrysopoeia321 10 months ago 2
@ruwanie This is as false and delusional as it gets. Adyashanti never talks about getting rid of the ego. He talks about the ego becoming irrelevant and stopping to be a problem. You need not know any subtleties of the mind. There is nothing to sustain. You are awake, you are enlightenment. I will repeat there is nothing to understand or sustain.
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u I think i get what you're saying. And if i'm seeing things right it makes sense to me. Are you hinting that awakening is just a concept as well? That will one day be irrelevant and forgotten as we realize our 'oneness with "god"? and i guess it's necessary along the way?
inflamesrgods 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
@braveone2u Experiences come and go. What's called enlightenment always Is. The experiencer is what is awakened FROM.
EdenConsciousness 8 months ago
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braveone2u 8 months ago
yo yo yo whats zzap peeps?
dumbhotguy 2 years ago
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who is it that knows there is no ego?
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question279 2 years ago
trying to stomp on that foot that is in the door doesn't do any good cause it is wearing steel-toe boots ;)
blueghost03 2 years ago
adya is drinking out of a different cup ;)
blueghost03 2 years ago
what is it when you look at the sky and get a sudden very intense feeling of peace? What is that.
Simon0 2 years ago
@Simon0 ,it is you experiencing yourself as infinite space.
glenemma1 1 year ago
@glenemma1 it is beautiful whatever it is. I have felt it less recently though :(
Simon0 1 year ago
Favorite 9:23, letting go of the ego does remove doubt. Wonderful video.
thewilddivine 2 years ago
CalvinSomething -
we can be lost in translation
words are not important - they have individual meaning, but speaking from the knowing space, enspired space rather then philosofical view
I say tomato - you say tomato,
milamo123 2 years ago
Yes I do believe myself. I think the tree analogy is enough to prove my point. Without a brain there is no awareness. In fact, consciousness is a better word for awareness anyway.
I can feel that Eckhart Tolle lives in the moment and practices what he preaches, where Adyashanti seems more egotistical in that he tries to create his image, whether it be to enhance understanding or not -- people learn through example and imitation.
CalvinSomething 2 years ago
Adya has definitely experienced Awareness. All his worlds are pointing at it. It is evident because, He is struggling to put it worlds so that peoples can understand with their brain. The effort is futile though. Our analytical brain, analyzing it from our own context, cannot understand it. Awareness is beyond brain. The moment we give-up the effort to understand it , and stand at nothingness; we will get it. If he succeeds putting it in word, It will be a revolution.
SmrutiRanjanSarangi 2 years ago
Awareness IS in the brain; as far as I believe.
A tree is alive. Is it aware? We can't know, but we can pretty safely assume that it is not. It does not have a brain, and cannot feel, and so it can't really be aware.
Aliveness is different from awareness. I'm not a fan of Adyashanti as his "teachings" are very easily criticized as being "spiritual rhetoric," and for good reason.
Eckart Tolle teaches more honestly, but he is still confused about the difference between aliveness and awareness.
CalvinSomething 2 years ago
Would you prefer OSHO or Paramahansa Nithayanda? All the teachers teach the same thing but in different ways for different people.
Crawdaddy75 2 years ago
now they are the ones who are , confused ? do you believe yourself?
ahmednabil 2 years ago
"As far as i believe" you say Calvin, meaning you do not KNOW. Believing is for people who do not know, don't talk your junk ideas about awareness if you don't know, if you haven't experienced it. If you had tasted awareness by now you wouldn't be talking about how awareness is dependent on the mind.
Go and meditate bro, stop getting involved in these pointless ideas on which master is right and which is wrong, if you don't like what he's saying then go and listen to eckhart or whatever.
Rkooner 2 years ago
!!! Great !!!
innerbeing1983 2 years ago
The hair on my arms just stood up by the last minute of what he told. By exactly telling how the universe would unfold. The trust in that. My god....
arvi2010 2 years ago
When some Bhuddists or advaitans say everything is consciousness, all is awareness, that the objective world is unreal, they mean it in the sense that the object of awareness is always itself (as Bernadette Roberts elucidates). When you see something, you see it as it is in yourself, not as it is in itself. Everything, including our most rigorous objective science, has a subjective stamp because it is coming from consciousness. Hence, consciousness believes it's nature to be non local.
flockofseagulls87 2 years ago
awareness is a function of the brain
Metaemipricus 2 years ago
Hello Metaemipricus, I used to think the same. Here are just a few questions you might want to look at. Or not. haha, its up to you.
If awareness is created in the brain than where is the boundary between my awareness and yours?
Does awareness have any objective qualities? can you find a limit to it in your actual experience? if not, than how can you be sure that it is personal?(that its mine)
The brain produces thoughts. Do you need a thought to know that you are aware?
Kind Regards, Ric
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