@pottercrazygirl good and bad is dream, you (the personality with opinion) is also dream, you must wake up, end the dreaming.. and the dreamer ends.. Along with the dream. Check out my channel video on "end of suffering" it is very simple if you are willing to be simple
what about crime..thats my greatest issue...when i learnt that we all have the same amount of good and bad in us given that we are one ...well i'm scared of myself!!
I guess i'm seeking assurance that i won't do bad and just be an observer while playing my role
I like his stuff, but one thing confuses me. It's when he mentions "God" or "the divine". I assumed he was a Buddhist, but they don't have a deity as such. What am I missing?
@karasulas I know he has spent a lot of time with Zen Buddhism, but he talks from his own experience. I know what you're saying, but the distinction I'm making here is that he doesn't relay a set of stories written by other people under a particular heading, he talks about his own direct perception of the truth of reality.
Thanks for replying. I think we largely agree, in fact I suspect we largely like the same things about his thoughts. But his use of that very specific and unquestionably loaded word "God" still puzzles me. I'd like to see him talk specifically about what that word means to him, I think that could be really interesting.
I was actually turned on to all these ideas by Eckhart's books. I was raised Catholic, became born again in highschool, and rejected all religion in college. Now, at 28, I'm starting to see what that whole journey was for. While I love The Power of Now and A New Earth...I'm not that into Eckhart's speaking style. It's so....detached. That's why I'm thrilled to stumble upon this guy. Him and Tim Freke engage this material in a much more...alive manner. If you like this guy, look up Tim Freke. :)
These people are the greatest marketing scum. Selling lies, fueled vibrations of falsness. The only voice that ever mattered was the one that says "I want", go with that.
AWARENESS. CONCESSION IS OUTSIDE OF REALITY. AWARENESS. CONCESSION IS SPIRIT .GODS BODY MAY BE REALITY BUT HIS AWARENESS. CONCESSION IS OUT SIDE REALITY WHEN YOU GET OUT SIDE OF BELIEFS AND BELIEF SYSTEMS REALITY APPEARS TO HAVE A AWARENESS OR PROGRAMED .THING APPEARS TO BE MANIFESTED AND THE FUTURE KNOWN. BUT AWARENESS. CONCESSION OF GOD MAY MANIFEST REALITY AND REALITY MANIFEST AWARENESS. CONCESSION OF PEOPLE AND LIFE MUCH LOVE AND PEACE.
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR HIM WHY DON"T HE TEACH WHEN A BELIEF ABOUT PEOPLE OR THOUGHTS ABOUT PAST AND FUTURE USE AWARENESS TO DISSOLVE IT . NOT THE THOUGHT OF AWARENESS . AWARENESS AS THAT FORCE THAT IN YOUR CHEST AND ON YOUR FACE OR MAYBE THAT ENERGY THAT LIVES THERE . TEACH AWARENESS ,REALITY ,THOUGHTS,AND BELIEFS . HOW THOUGHTS DEVISE THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS BECOME REALITY TWIST THE MIND OF PEOPLE IN TO A BELIEF REALITY TRUTH AND LOVE BONDS
Notice how these spiritual teachers constantly focus on "I" and "me" and hardly ever talk about serving others and helping the less fortunate. New Age spirituality is totally self absorbed.
@WeNeedA3rdParty I disagree. He's talking about how to GET TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GRASP THE ONENESS OF ALL OF US. When you do that, giving and helping comes naturally. Truly giving. Not as a way to get a future reward, not to feel we're "good", not because we're told we should or in hopes our giving will be seen and acknowledged or even because it feels good to give. What feels "good" is to know we are all one. The giving comes after that ... because it's what makes sense.
but trees actually have different consciousness and of course they have their own way of fear of extinction... the fact they do not tell us so, is obvious - they speak no english... but ok I get it, just do not like these kind of simplification. even plants have their individuality.
thank you! o knowledge o reason o passion the window the walls the hands teh greatest thing I could have said is I am now thinking now planning now dreaming a tree a rock a cloud the only thing that ever happened happens now
Why are all the "negative" comments flagged as spam, or removed? Can't your ego stand the thought that some people have not lost the plot as you have? Still, if it makes you happy, I suppose it is a good way of avoiding the realities and responsibilities of living in the real world. Some people drink. some take illegal drugs, you just talk rubbish.
@Tony5326 Ppl in touch of their true nature don't flag them as spams, if u wish to not have comments, dont allow them. :) They are flagged as spam because we constantly defend our idea of ourselves, and ppl who only have "enlightenment" as an idea, not integrated in the experience, it's still in mind, and mind now defends this new idea of self.
@Nacluw Not quite sure why you're telling me to not allows comments as it was someone else's video, and quite frankly the rest of your sentence makes no sense whatsoever. Not quite sure how to "integrate enlightenment into the experience" and I'm not criticising your method of escaping reality, but if you keep deleting or flagging as spam anyone else's opinions then your method of "defending your idea of yourselves" makes it obvious your minds are really CLOSED to reality.
@Tony5326 I'm not trying to ecape reality my friend. I'm trying to look for it. The absolute one. Because if one thinks that what we see around with our eyes, hear with ears etc. is the absolute reality is it stands, he's most likely mistaken. One has to remember that the brain are on the way and they edit stuff so much that if you call the experience edited by the brain the "reality". You might want to think again. See, eyes are the instrument, not the see'er.
@Tony5326 Tony, I agree. I enjoy reading the critical comments, as long as they're respectful. And on the other hand, this isn't a debate. Duly noted that you reject the ideas.
Yes, and it is through simplicity that we transcend the mind and arrive in the present. I have a new song video "Be Here Now" which explains this in song. Blessings BE.
hey people im new to this and need some help i feel like i have awakened ..at least that is what my mind is telling me. but does becoming more enlightened mean i find it more difficult to function in the "real world" i have responsabilities etc
@mickeyfinn80 -- personallly I would say --no. I am not a disciple of Zen Buhddism -- so I cannot speak to that school but in our practice of "mukti" or awakening -- it does not mean that there is any other world to go to or any reason that the actual present world should be difficult. Quite to the contrary. What DOES happen in our practice though, is that when this is happening there can be some unconcious resistance to it. Things come up when they are free. It's not always pretty. Namaste.
@DoNotBeHighandMighty Okay. All descriptions are possibilities, and they resonate or they don't. If it doesn't resonate, it doesn't resonate. Nothing is right or wrong here because there is nothing that is outside of the Universe. :)
@BenjaminSmythe .. Thats deep and basically Advaita vedanta... it just overloads my brain :))) Where do we go at death, dissolution back into the prime creator ? :)
@blackbird69xxx I asked a homeless man about death recently. He lives near Nation's Burger on University Ave. in Berkeley and spends all day lying on the sidewalk watching the world go by.
He said, "I don't know. I don't know. That's, like, the future." :)
This is the second best answer I have ever heard. The first came from Adyashanti. He reached into his pocket, when asked about death, and said, "Here is a quarter. Call me when you find out."
The more I explore that which is outside of the mind, the more I appreciate the joy, rather than just the suffering that it brings. Playing around with all the subtleties and extremities of duality can be truly fun if not connected to identity :)
Perhaps there is, in fact I am pretty sure there is but it seems these days everybody is enlightened, hell, there is excellent money to be made out of it of course !
This is the perfect comment, when people are fed up with the term enlightenment and everything it represents your left with only one direction to travel. Test it, practice it, question it, only then will realization come. It's unreal that we "humans" think we are something intelligent that grew out of an unintelligent universe. Be brutally honest with yourself and beleive noth but your experience. once you can't describe something away you are forced to "experiance" it.
That's a very very good point pupo and I agree as that too is my experience.
I guess I keep wondering about all these "enlightened" ones who have popped up all over here in the west, especially when there seems to be various price tags associated with what they do and my searchings over a lot of years with the handful of true spiritual teachers that history records is that this was not the case, they were never a commercial entity.
But yes, personal practice and experience is where it is at.
Yeah that's a hard one to swallow and difficult to get around. But for me something suddenly changed about 9 months ago, no mystical experienace no overwelming bliss or happiness just such a profound change in what is happening around me that i know i will never be the same. so profound that i can apply this new "veiwing/understanding" to anything and it is instantly seen through. And i can also see why Ramana chose not to talk. Nothing but my perspective has changed, and yet i'm alive again
Suddenly I knew what Ady was trying to say. It's like trying to explain the colour green to a blind man, you can't use other things because he hasn't seen those either. Alan Watts once had a 2 hour conversation with a blind woman about darkness, she had no idea what it was because she had never seen light... for me it was the imperfections in language that made something crack in my head. Its imperfections made me see it had been manufactured and thus flawed and Insufficient
Your comments are quite valid and down to earth with it (You must be enlightened !)
What I hear all the time from these ones is that these things can not possibly be put into words yet they continue to try. As you suggest about Ramana Maharshi, why not just be silent, reach out to a few who may be nearby and simply set the example through your life, not what you say ?
This is my whole thing about them so often being entrepreneurial and commercial, there is always another book or workshop.
LOL... not enlightened in the spiritual sense but i defintily have an enlighted view now in that all i have labled my entire life has been taught to me and is generally excepted "by society" as true. (For me) when a tree was no longer leafs, branches, roots, & bark and was now left to be the experience of that which we call a tree (as a whole unit). I see Ady trying to convay this & i even see when he gets caught in dead end trying to explain it.
But he knows better than anyone that "that" which is explaining is the imperfect being that carries the life force, but him knowing that somehow changes the message. When the screen changed for me it was like when someone is trying to stone wall you by talking pig Latin, or outright lying to you and then you through direct experience figure out what they were purposely mis-explaining to you so you wouldnt figure it out, & the first thing you say is what an ass hole!
(Yes Im talking of spiritual teachers here) and then after that you say wait f*ck me for not seeing this. This sees at times really deep and insightful and at times is lost in the background in my everyday life but the crack allows me to see through what we are all taught to see first.
I'd like to take the point of self critique for it's own sake, I don't think it has anything tod with seprateness. first, I asume all roses are clones, I must look more closely and then come back to seprateness.
What if a flower were aware and used it's awares for self critique? How well am I converting carbon, would be functional. Why do I look this way? my leaves work but are not as even as the one on the flower next to me?- that sounds self distructive and pointless.
excuse me, of course I mean wolves in sheeps clothing. Of course I am allowing all this, as any Tantric should, but too many American students check their objectivity at the door and get suckered by half ass teachers and phony gurus (America is replete with them at the moment). Many spiritual and religious teachers are just living out their own voyeuristic tendencies and trying to find a norm to check themselves against. They need to worry about their own fixation on self.
I know why I am listening to him, because I monitor these guys. We have been warned to watch out for sheep in wolves clothing. Once upon a time I was told by a supposed teacher that a meditation group had voted me out of their group. This turned out to be because of his own insecurity as it turned out to be a lie. There have been numerous zen scandals in recent years of so called zen teachers molesting their students.
How's about, let's meet the individual as an individual. Like, do you enjoy being lumped together with some group and being stereotyped:"Those guys are always doing....."
rhinohippo! My ego that made me respond. Your ego made you post your comment. Egoland? Yes, there IS Ego! So, are you trying to fix that? Allowing what IS: My urge to comment happens thru separateness and not FEELING oneness. If/when we FEEL true oneness, there will be no urge to comment, no more questions. Until then there still just is what IS. As fullofstarlight commented: We're lost in our heads. But these comments may very well assist us in the ongoing process of letting go? I let love be.
rhinohippo, I think the more interesting/ revealing question is: Why are we still listening to him, and why does he cause such a reaction in you? Do you KNOW what a 'teacher' SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be saying? Some people talk and some people listen and some resonate for whatever reason. To criticise why is not wrong nor right, but it highlights the distance between our perception and WHAT IS. When we are ALLOWING, then anything anyone says will become irrelevant to you :-)
actually in re-reading what you said I like it. So I should let you know that. You point out an excellent measuring stick, "allowing" and irrelevance. In fact that is as good as anything Adya says in this vid. I am not as bothered by Adya as I was, he is seeming much more irrelevant.
Me, I just don't like as much "talk" as most Americans, but no biggee. So take care fellow traveller and metta!!!!
who exactly do you think you are to lecture others? You make a statement about how you feel when we know oneness. So you already know huh? If not where are you coming from? Do you think you are enlightened, oh please. I don't think anybody should become a teacher until they have broken through all the way, otherwise they are just yapping their bull.
I am suspicious of any teacher who would actually utter the words to his students that is very advanced.
rhinohippo, You think I am claiming to be enlightened? Quite the opposite, I still have questions that's why am still here. I was trying to explain what I have understood so far. Am not assuming I know what oneness is, but I think I understand what teachers are pointing to and I was just trying to explain it in those terms. Apologies if that was not clear. You however do appear to be assuming to know who is write or who is wrong - In that case I bow out of this discussion. Peace.
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America is currently full of these fast talking gurus taking advantage of the baby boomers bank accounts and lifelong neglect of their spirituality. Listening to a real guru or a pseudo guru is a wate of time, everything you need to know bout enlightenment can be learned in about five minutes, the rest is up to you and listening to these blowhards is a waste of time. Look at this guy, he is Egoland
Adyashanti..a brilliant mind.a zen master. I highly recommend reading his book Emptiness Dancing for those looking to delve deep into the meaning of their true nature. A statement he makes, which for me describes the essence of what we seek. Wake up! You are all living Buddhas. You are the divine emptiness, the infinite nothing. This I know because I am what you are, and you are what I am.
This guy talks all of this feel good enlightened spiritual stuff, but if you look at his shirt, it is filled with occult symbolism. The all seeing eye of Lucifer; the sun worship symbol. You also hear this same kind of philosophy in theosophy and freemasonry. I have developed a healthy dose of mistrust for the new thought movement. Christianity is a scam too. Is there such thing as truth? Is everybody a charlatan?
I don't know if there is any objective truth. It does not seem like it. If it were, I don't see how I could truly see it. I see the truth as purely subjective.
I'm trying to spot the all seeing eye and the sun worship symbol but I can't find it. Could you point it out more?
For all I know all non-duality guru's could be part of a new world religion, but as long as you never buy into anything, even that would be of no concern whatsoever
These "gurus" seem to touch upon something essential tho.
Wow my mind is totaly free of conflicts right now. Without the need to stop thinking. If i accept everybody and everything else as he/it is, with what will it be in conflict with? Allso the search for meaning has stopped. But the shift to enlightment did not happen yet. Maybe there are more lessons to learn.
Thank you very much other me, though i dont take the worry in me.
I was told that you can't challenge the devil and win. A spiritual being like the devil cannot be given any challenge man conceives of that is beyond his capacities.
In 6th grade in the early 60's Robbie Malsbury wanted to challenge the devil and win. We were there for him on this one.Robbie wanted a deal for a new Bike. The devil never came. Robbie knew if he farted then asked the devil to catch the fart and return it painted green the devil would fail. I believed in Robbie and Adyashanti
I was taught from an early age by my Father that being a "Free Spirit" was very important because to live this way allows us to choose our own path with out becoming too caught up in the reality of some other person. So monasterbird, I personally will not get caught up in your huge EGO...No I will choose
my own path and not become enchanted or amazed by your "All Knowing" wisdom either.
The Mind is just a tool. A very powerful one. Look around you, every Car, Chair, Song, Language, Tradition etc. was once a thought of the Mind. If you identify with it, it builds a whole (virtual) reality for you. It loves to have something (new) to do. So it creates education,beliefs,good/bad,win/lose, obsessions,joy/sadness,control etc. just to fullfill its purpose. It wants to do the best job :) The Bible refers to the mind as Satan (Master Of Illusions).
Shortly after writing this my Mind (Ego) felt superior for building links. After letting the feeling immedately go, i suddely thought that it was its right to do this, because it has done a good job. After surrendering this thought (illusion of justice) i needed to stop thinking. It literaly clings on everything to substain itself.
From what you write here your mind and your ego seem to be the same thing. Don 't go overthinking. In the frame of mind here you will be thinking that I am your mind trying to hold on to you of course so you'll be considering you are being harassed by your own mind - which isn't the case. Then the next step is you'll fear that you or I are wanting connections when actually we both just want answers of how it is - not answer of how the mind or the ego say it is.
Thank you for pointing out that i can know nothing for sure. I really needed that. At the moment im totaly thorn apart. One part of me wants to go back to the experience i had in the awakening(?) so badly, one part fears what will happen then, another part denies that experience and one part tries to make sense of all of this. Im so glad people like you and adya give me the faith that everything is ok and will be ok. now im crying...
Not sure I've ever had such an experience of awakeninig that you talk about here. Thanks for replying to me because I got to listen to this video again _ and I needed to.
After crying the realisation that everything is ok started to settle in. I gave everybody else the permission to do what they want. Suddenly i felt that i can do what i want. Everything would be ok. Then it hit me: What if the ego is not inside you, but every person outside is an aspect of it? The more i think about it the less struggles are in my head. This also fits with my experience i confessed at the "Wisdom of Do Nothing / Adyashanti" Video here.
It's possible - as anything is possible. It might not be true though. All I know is that if I cut myself or bang my head then I bleed and I hurt. But when someone else cuts themself or bumps their head then that person bleeds and hurts. I can see where this thought comes from and I've had the thought myself before as I'm sure many, many other people have had. It might be so but how will we ever know if it actually is? So should we think it is when we don't / can't know?
Ahh, but did not those who wrote the Bible write it from their minds? Thus, would not the very Satan that the minds of the Bible writers created be but a figment of those minds? Also, how can we know if the work / words / speeches of Adyashanti are any more than things from his minid? Any what then is the mind?
the cloud makes u wonder and go deeper..i had times of perfect vclarity and then times of cloudy distress..but if u keep your mind under control and keep it quiet at will, u have a clarity so beautiful, that you will wonder how u forgot that u arent seperate from WHOLE
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He's a nice guy, but has no understanding based on the ground of true reality, his teacher had transmission from a less than realized master, and he is the result of that. But, hey, he may appeal to some and lead them to truly enlightened masters.
well, sorry to disenchant you all. but you are "enchanted" and that is NOT zen. I just returned from 2 years in a zen monastery studying with the dharma heir of Yamada Mumon. The energy that is passed from living master to disciple is *FAR* beyond the type of mundane teaching given here. and this is why I say he's a nice guy, but not a master in the "reality" i.e., fundamental ground of the mind (buddha). hopefully, he presents expedient means to get you all 'started'. Cheers :)
monasterybird...Oh dear...so sad to see massive spiritual ego like that! I suggest you go back to the monastery and get a dharma slap from the master. You naughty boy!
monasterybird..so sorry to have referred to you as a boy. Really though you didn't get it . Unless you are just joking. What a waste of time that monastery was .
I've been on the most amazing 2 year journey of my life, i could go on and on about where it started and how it ended but it really dosent matter. The greatest tip anyone could ever get to awaken is the corner stone of all of Adyashanti's work. You are already awakened. It existed in your silance, all you have to do is swim and play the emptiness of no thought. It is not a goal that needs to be attanined, anytime anywhere it existes in the hum of silence. Yu are the silence.
He and Eckhart Tolle share many fundamental points and as a Buddhist I find it very easy to relate to both of them, despite the vitriolic attacks some "Buddhists" regularly perform on them (how ironic when a Buddhist becomes so caught up on dogma and authenticity of the Dharma, becoming trapped in his/her own little fairy tale world). I must admit I love to read Eckhart, but live or on video, Adyashanti is more lively and easy to follow, thanks also to the fact that English is his first language
My resistance to people pointing me towards Eckhart Tolle is now gone. I will take a look. I resisted and resisted without seeing or hearing any of his pointers until today.
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Its the best when you watch a beautiful talk on our true nature and people start fighting about what Jesus really ment.
Well your not the first to have this fight and you wont be the last. I do enjoy listening to people who are still alive because you can ask them your self what did they mean when they said...
This is so relevant to me today. I have decided over the past few days that instead of choosing to have a nicer life in 'ego' I choose to step out of it completely. Just like he said feeling good about myself is still just 'my idea' about myself. I let that go today and embrace the truth of who I am in whatever way I will 'realise' it. Thanks.
This is so relevant to me today. I have decided over the past few days that instead of choosing to have a nicer life in 'ego' I choose to step out of it completely. Just like he said feeling good about myself is still just 'my idea' about myself. I let that go today and embrace the truth of who I am in whatever way I will 'realise' it. Thanks.
This is so relevant to me today. I have decided over the past few days that instead of choosing to have a nicer life in 'ego' I choose to step out of it completely. Just like he said feeling good about myself is still just 'my idea' about myself. I let that go today and embrace the truth of who I am in whatever way I will 'realise' it. Thanks.
Maybe you should look again at what Jesus actually said, instead of what people said about him. If you take just his own words, out of the context of being warped to fit Christian belief structures, they fit perfectly with these same teachings that have been being taught the same for thousands and thousands of years. It's got nothing to do with any forms or names, it's the space behind the names and forms.
basie, wow what a concept. ok lets look at what Jesus said.....
Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.-john 6:35
Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.-john 3:3
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me--john 14:6
He was speaking through metaphors. The thickheaded arrogance of people who presume to understand but actually have no idea whatsoever is exactly what got him killed when he set out to awaken humanity. He never claimed to be the Son of God, he never wanted to be worshipped, he never wanted to start Christianity. Look again, and this time look with an open mind.
so in scripture. matthew 16 specifically... peter says... "you are the Christ the Son of the living God...." since Jesus did not want that, He replies, peter you are BLESSED, because my Father in Heaven has revealed this to you.
i think the one that has no idea of Jesus are the new age gurus traveling a broad road that leads them to destruction. Jesus did not set out to "awaken" humanity, but to save us from sin.
Yes, to save us from sin, which originally meant misunderstanding. At least that was before it's meaning was twisted by the Church to serve it's own political agenda.
what a joke. Jesus died the horrible death on the cross and shed His blood, because of .... misunderstanding. sorry basie you are still in both.
so when a guy rapes a woman, when a husband abandons his family, when someone breaks in your home steals all you have, when a person lies and deceives you so that he manipulates you from you life savings, whan a person decides to drive drunk and kills your teenage son.... its all a "misunderstanding"? tolle makes big bucks off people like you.
I can feel the anger in your words, Tom. It's okay, let it out. I also suggest thinking about letting go of your narrow minded insistence on seeing everything exactly as you've been brainwashed to.
no basie, no anger, maybe some sarcasm maybe some reality, but no anger. i am sure that you would love to see me let go of my narrow road, but i do not believe that i will. i will continue and wait for you to join me.
yes. those things are caused by misunderstanding, which is to say, a dualistic state of consciousness that says "I am more important than you, and your suffering is less real than mine". All that's really needed to be free from sin is to see that others are the same as you, and ultimately that they are you and we are all One.
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This guy's great. No bullshit.
2eidolons 1 week ago
thanks for this simple truth.
damian2001111111 2 months ago
Another freak guy. Just like the Imam or the Priest.
Fuck em all.
TheObiTwice 5 months ago
@pottercrazygirl good and bad is dream, you (the personality with opinion) is also dream, you must wake up, end the dreaming.. and the dreamer ends.. Along with the dream. Check out my channel video on "end of suffering" it is very simple if you are willing to be simple
NondualAwareness 5 months ago
please in spanish !!!!!
it's a REAL petition !!!
urusol 5 months ago
what about crime..thats my greatest issue...when i learnt that we all have the same amount of good and bad in us given that we are one ...well i'm scared of myself!!
I guess i'm seeking assurance that i won't do bad and just be an observer while playing my role
Help if anyone understands me
Pottercrazygirl 5 months ago
We're not good or bad, we are the One. :)
thomasnordwest 6 months ago
@presentlightoftruth you need jesus the most....cast out that demon in you
hopaloop 7 months ago
I like his stuff, but one thing confuses me. It's when he mentions "God" or "the divine". I assumed he was a Buddhist, but they don't have a deity as such. What am I missing?
SirCosmoBonsor 8 months ago
@SirCosmoBonsor This guy speaks his own direct experience, not a religion.
karasulas 7 months ago
@karasulas
He's a Zen Buddhist.
SirCosmoBonsor 7 months ago
@karasulas I know he has spent a lot of time with Zen Buddhism, but he talks from his own experience. I know what you're saying, but the distinction I'm making here is that he doesn't relay a set of stories written by other people under a particular heading, he talks about his own direct perception of the truth of reality.
karasulas 7 months ago
@karasulas
Thanks for replying. I think we largely agree, in fact I suspect we largely like the same things about his thoughts. But his use of that very specific and unquestionably loaded word "God" still puzzles me. I'd like to see him talk specifically about what that word means to him, I think that could be really interesting.
SirCosmoBonsor 7 months ago
I was actually turned on to all these ideas by Eckhart's books. I was raised Catholic, became born again in highschool, and rejected all religion in college. Now, at 28, I'm starting to see what that whole journey was for. While I love The Power of Now and A New Earth...I'm not that into Eckhart's speaking style. It's so....detached. That's why I'm thrilled to stumble upon this guy. Him and Tim Freke engage this material in a much more...alive manner. If you like this guy, look up Tim Freke. :)
avedic 8 months ago
99.9%. stumpy digit up if you heard that.
me1we1 9 months ago
These people are the greatest marketing scum. Selling lies, fueled vibrations of falsness. The only voice that ever mattered was the one that says "I want", go with that.
stellarshore 9 months ago
@stellarshore Hope that's working out for you.
therealcindymancini 8 months ago
@stellarshore This is an awesome point. What happens when the voice says, "I want to listen to Adyashanti?" Is that a mistake?
BenjaminSmythe 1 month ago
Don't resist resistance. Hahaha I love it! Thank you for this teaching
tanpm0620 9 months ago
AWARENESS. CONCESSION IS OUTSIDE OF REALITY. AWARENESS. CONCESSION IS SPIRIT .GODS BODY MAY BE REALITY BUT HIS AWARENESS. CONCESSION IS OUT SIDE REALITY WHEN YOU GET OUT SIDE OF BELIEFS AND BELIEF SYSTEMS REALITY APPEARS TO HAVE A AWARENESS OR PROGRAMED .THING APPEARS TO BE MANIFESTED AND THE FUTURE KNOWN. BUT AWARENESS. CONCESSION OF GOD MAY MANIFEST REALITY AND REALITY MANIFEST AWARENESS. CONCESSION OF PEOPLE AND LIFE MUCH LOVE AND PEACE.
greenearthnazi20204u 11 months ago
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR HIM WHY DON"T HE TEACH WHEN A BELIEF ABOUT PEOPLE OR THOUGHTS ABOUT PAST AND FUTURE USE AWARENESS TO DISSOLVE IT . NOT THE THOUGHT OF AWARENESS . AWARENESS AS THAT FORCE THAT IN YOUR CHEST AND ON YOUR FACE OR MAYBE THAT ENERGY THAT LIVES THERE . TEACH AWARENESS ,REALITY ,THOUGHTS,AND BELIEFS . HOW THOUGHTS DEVISE THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS BECOME REALITY TWIST THE MIND OF PEOPLE IN TO A BELIEF REALITY TRUTH AND LOVE BONDS
greenearthnazi20204u 11 months ago
@greenearthnazi20204u Awesome.
BenjaminSmythe 1 month ago
This guy is more mind than transmission. Spiritual Transmission is super sensitive to bliss. No egos present. I as an ego can trot out the same shit.
Countrychiddler 1 year ago
ego creep
jojojigaboo 1 year ago
We all are the less fortunate...until we see the cycle of desire end.
4theloveofgrace 1 year ago
Notice how these spiritual teachers constantly focus on "I" and "me" and hardly ever talk about serving others and helping the less fortunate. New Age spirituality is totally self absorbed.
WeNeedA3rdParty 1 year ago
@WeNeedA3rdParty You serve others immensely when you realize yourself. It helps them to realize themselves. But it's a taboo!!
nir8vana 11 months ago
@WeNeedA3rdParty The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Helping people awake from the dream helps them steer clear of that.
EdenConsciousness 9 months ago
@WeNeedA3rdParty I disagree. He's talking about how to GET TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GRASP THE ONENESS OF ALL OF US. When you do that, giving and helping comes naturally. Truly giving. Not as a way to get a future reward, not to feel we're "good", not because we're told we should or in hopes our giving will be seen and acknowledged or even because it feels good to give. What feels "good" is to know we are all one. The giving comes after that ... because it's what makes sense.
therealcindymancini 8 months ago
but trees actually have different consciousness and of course they have their own way of fear of extinction... the fact they do not tell us so, is obvious - they speak no english... but ok I get it, just do not like these kind of simplification. even plants have their individuality.
CassiusChrysanthe 1 year ago
There is only one thing.
SeattleMashUps 1 year ago
@SeattleMashUps yes and even mentioning it is useless
MrSweatish 9 months ago
brookbart 1 year ago
Why are all the "negative" comments flagged as spam, or removed? Can't your ego stand the thought that some people have not lost the plot as you have? Still, if it makes you happy, I suppose it is a good way of avoiding the realities and responsibilities of living in the real world. Some people drink. some take illegal drugs, you just talk rubbish.
Tony5326 1 year ago 3
@Tony5326 Ppl in touch of their true nature don't flag them as spams, if u wish to not have comments, dont allow them. :) They are flagged as spam because we constantly defend our idea of ourselves, and ppl who only have "enlightenment" as an idea, not integrated in the experience, it's still in mind, and mind now defends this new idea of self.
Nacluw 1 year ago
@Nacluw Not quite sure why you're telling me to not allows comments as it was someone else's video, and quite frankly the rest of your sentence makes no sense whatsoever. Not quite sure how to "integrate enlightenment into the experience" and I'm not criticising your method of escaping reality, but if you keep deleting or flagging as spam anyone else's opinions then your method of "defending your idea of yourselves" makes it obvious your minds are really CLOSED to reality.
Tony5326 1 year ago
@Tony5326 I'm not trying to ecape reality my friend. I'm trying to look for it. The absolute one. Because if one thinks that what we see around with our eyes, hear with ears etc. is the absolute reality is it stands, he's most likely mistaken. One has to remember that the brain are on the way and they edit stuff so much that if you call the experience edited by the brain the "reality". You might want to think again. See, eyes are the instrument, not the see'er.
Nacluw 1 year ago
@Tony5326 Tony, I agree. I enjoy reading the critical comments, as long as they're respectful. And on the other hand, this isn't a debate. Duly noted that you reject the ideas.
therealcindymancini 8 months ago
thank you my friend
cofiking1 1 year ago
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The most fundamental question of all: What is The underlying law of nature.
TedDGPoulos 1 year ago
Yes, and it is through simplicity that we transcend the mind and arrive in the present. I have a new song video "Be Here Now" which explains this in song. Blessings BE.
richardschooping 1 year ago
hey people im new to this and need some help i feel like i have awakened ..at least that is what my mind is telling me. but does becoming more enlightened mean i find it more difficult to function in the "real world" i have responsabilities etc
mickeyfinn80 1 year ago
@mickeyfinn80 -- personallly I would say --no. I am not a disciple of Zen Buhddism -- so I cannot speak to that school but in our practice of "mukti" or awakening -- it does not mean that there is any other world to go to or any reason that the actual present world should be difficult. Quite to the contrary. What DOES happen in our practice though, is that when this is happening there can be some unconcious resistance to it. Things come up when they are free. It's not always pretty. Namaste.
brookbart 1 year ago
Living is all there is.
No one lives separate from Living.
No one resists. No one makes a choice because there is no one here.
Supernovas, botox, poetry, pronouns, microphones, redwoods and woodpeckers are all Living.
There is no adyashanti separate from the eyes reading this.
This is it.
BenjaminSmythe 2 years ago 8
@BenjaminSmythe supernovas botox poetry pronoun -- you made my day man. : )
brookbart 1 year ago
@BenjaminSmythe Beautiful my friend ♥
blackbird69xxx 1 month ago
"I am" is a thought the Universe is having.
No one wakes up because no one is asleep because no one is here separate from the Universe.
There is no "we" operating any of this.
No free will, no agent, no choice, no enlightenment separate from reading this.
No one can realize the truth of their being because there is nothing here except Being.
No one has a mind. No one has a thought. No one makes a decision. No Divine separate from reading this.
Inevitable? This is it.
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DoNotBeHighandMighty 1 year ago
@DoNotBeHighandMighty Okay. All descriptions are possibilities, and they resonate or they don't. If it doesn't resonate, it doesn't resonate. Nothing is right or wrong here because there is nothing that is outside of the Universe. :)
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@BenjaminSmythe
I tried to correct this master. And I failed, have been corrected, and schooled.
DoNotBeHighandMighty 1 year ago
@BenjaminSmythe
And in doing so, I have found I was trying to correct the universe.
DoNotBeHighandMighty 1 year ago
@BenjaminSmythe very nice. no damage done to the message but well taken. : )
brookbart 1 year ago
@BenjaminSmythe dude... you have confused me! haha
Alanik22 1 year ago
@BenjaminSmythe Oh wow.. its just like nothing is actually happening anymore... consciousness is just randomly playing haha life is so random now
ncripzx 4 months ago
@BenjaminSmythe .. Thats deep and basically Advaita vedanta... it just overloads my brain :))) Where do we go at death, dissolution back into the prime creator ? :)
blackbird69xxx 1 month ago
@blackbird69xxx I asked a homeless man about death recently. He lives near Nation's Burger on University Ave. in Berkeley and spends all day lying on the sidewalk watching the world go by.
He said, "I don't know. I don't know. That's, like, the future." :)
This is the second best answer I have ever heard. The first came from Adyashanti. He reached into his pocket, when asked about death, and said, "Here is a quarter. Call me when you find out."
BenjaminSmythe 1 month ago
The more I explore that which is outside of the mind, the more I appreciate the joy, rather than just the suffering that it brings. Playing around with all the subtleties and extremities of duality can be truly fun if not connected to identity :)
fagadhi 2 years ago
@fagadhi Hell yeah. Awesome!
BenjaminSmythe 1 year ago
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Hey, isn't this the singer from General Public who sang that great 80's song, "Tenderness"....i love that song...where is the black guy
TonyKenningIsCrying 2 years ago
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TonyKenningIsCrying 2 years ago
THANK YOU ADYASHANTI thank you so much.
cofiking1 2 years ago
I have re-programmed mio way of looking at world ~ I look on now as The Observer.
I re-mind self I no mio emotion ~ I am one who Observes emotion as cloud that floats away and sees other cloud coming . . .
Letting go now easier ~ no clutching; keep hand open for next experience and lesson it brings.
Words no adequate once Awake.
Scusa fractured English per favore. Si?
Namaste'
Gia
Giavannanow 2 years ago
Who says this guy is "enlightened" ?
I see nothing but personality here and he sounds like a born again Christian of the meditation world.
cspace1234nz 2 years ago 2
@cspace1234nz HI:) Great comment. I wonder is there is such a thing as 'enlightenment'. maybe we should just ' arrive' :)
jd
Satori1800 2 years ago
Perhaps there is, in fact I am pretty sure there is but it seems these days everybody is enlightened, hell, there is excellent money to be made out of it of course !
cspace1234nz 2 years ago
@cspace1234nz
This is the perfect comment, when people are fed up with the term enlightenment and everything it represents your left with only one direction to travel. Test it, practice it, question it, only then will realization come. It's unreal that we "humans" think we are something intelligent that grew out of an unintelligent universe. Be brutally honest with yourself and beleive noth but your experience. once you can't describe something away you are forced to "experiance" it.
Luv
pupo1313 2 years ago
That's a very very good point pupo and I agree as that too is my experience.
I guess I keep wondering about all these "enlightened" ones who have popped up all over here in the west, especially when there seems to be various price tags associated with what they do and my searchings over a lot of years with the handful of true spiritual teachers that history records is that this was not the case, they were never a commercial entity.
But yes, personal practice and experience is where it is at.
cspace1234nz 2 years ago
Yeah that's a hard one to swallow and difficult to get around. But for me something suddenly changed about 9 months ago, no mystical experienace no overwelming bliss or happiness just such a profound change in what is happening around me that i know i will never be the same. so profound that i can apply this new "veiwing/understanding" to anything and it is instantly seen through. And i can also see why Ramana chose not to talk. Nothing but my perspective has changed, and yet i'm alive again
pupo1313 2 years ago
@cspace1234nz
Suddenly I knew what Ady was trying to say. It's like trying to explain the colour green to a blind man, you can't use other things because he hasn't seen those either. Alan Watts once had a 2 hour conversation with a blind woman about darkness, she had no idea what it was because she had never seen light... for me it was the imperfections in language that made something crack in my head. Its imperfections made me see it had been manufactured and thus flawed and Insufficient
pupo1313 2 years ago
Your comments are quite valid and down to earth with it (You must be enlightened !)
What I hear all the time from these ones is that these things can not possibly be put into words yet they continue to try. As you suggest about Ramana Maharshi, why not just be silent, reach out to a few who may be nearby and simply set the example through your life, not what you say ?
This is my whole thing about them so often being entrepreneurial and commercial, there is always another book or workshop.
cspace1234nz 2 years ago
you said we are all one if you can real say that,that a unreal statement not true we all want the same things in live.we all have the same love
subtraction of thought is a ego
Sirbirdbill 2 years ago
LOL... not enlightened in the spiritual sense but i defintily have an enlighted view now in that all i have labled my entire life has been taught to me and is generally excepted "by society" as true. (For me) when a tree was no longer leafs, branches, roots, & bark and was now left to be the experience of that which we call a tree (as a whole unit). I see Ady trying to convay this & i even see when he gets caught in dead end trying to explain it.
pupo1313 2 years ago
But he knows better than anyone that "that" which is explaining is the imperfect being that carries the life force, but him knowing that somehow changes the message. When the screen changed for me it was like when someone is trying to stone wall you by talking pig Latin, or outright lying to you and then you through direct experience figure out what they were purposely mis-explaining to you so you wouldnt figure it out, & the first thing you say is what an ass hole!
pupo1313 2 years ago
(Yes Im talking of spiritual teachers here) and then after that you say wait f*ck me for not seeing this. This sees at times really deep and insightful and at times is lost in the background in my everyday life but the crack allows me to see through what we are all taught to see first.
pupo1313 2 years ago
So pure being ... you are like fresh water ... peace and blessing ...
Atmaniceland 2 years ago 2
I'd like to take the point of self critique for it's own sake, I don't think it has anything tod with seprateness. first, I asume all roses are clones, I must look more closely and then come back to seprateness.
What if a flower were aware and used it's awares for self critique? How well am I converting carbon, would be functional. Why do I look this way? my leaves work but are not as even as the one on the flower next to me?- that sounds self distructive and pointless.
budatress 2 years ago
i love this satsang - thank you for posting it
classicalguitartv 2 years ago
Welcome to life, where nobody knows what this is. The mystery is the beauty of it & it's ALL mysterious especially the labels. Behind mind.
nicholaspowiull 2 years ago
egoland God i was there for soooo long lol love ya
valerievanos1 2 years ago
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bergamatt 2 years ago
wisebod, you singled out my negative reaction to Adya, but passed on all the shallow positive responses. Interesting.
rhinohippo 2 years ago
excuse me, of course I mean wolves in sheeps clothing. Of course I am allowing all this, as any Tantric should, but too many American students check their objectivity at the door and get suckered by half ass teachers and phony gurus (America is replete with them at the moment). Many spiritual and religious teachers are just living out their own voyeuristic tendencies and trying to find a norm to check themselves against. They need to worry about their own fixation on self.
rhinohippo 2 years ago
oh is this guy supposed to be a teacher?
I know why I am listening to him, because I monitor these guys. We have been warned to watch out for sheep in wolves clothing. Once upon a time I was told by a supposed teacher that a meditation group had voted me out of their group. This turned out to be because of his own insecurity as it turned out to be a lie. There have been numerous zen scandals in recent years of so called zen teachers molesting their students.
rhinohippo 2 years ago
How's about, let's meet the individual as an individual. Like, do you enjoy being lumped together with some group and being stereotyped:"Those guys are always doing....."
worryphree 2 years ago
rhinohippo! My ego that made me respond. Your ego made you post your comment. Egoland? Yes, there IS Ego! So, are you trying to fix that? Allowing what IS: My urge to comment happens thru separateness and not FEELING oneness. If/when we FEEL true oneness, there will be no urge to comment, no more questions. Until then there still just is what IS. As fullofstarlight commented: We're lost in our heads. But these comments may very well assist us in the ongoing process of letting go? I let love be.
wisebod 3 years ago
Why does Steven Gray (Adyashanti) need to comment? Why does Mr. Gray need to call himself Adyashanti? He seems attached to talking.
rhinohippo 2 years ago
rhinohippo, I think the more interesting/ revealing question is: Why are we still listening to him, and why does he cause such a reaction in you? Do you KNOW what a 'teacher' SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be saying? Some people talk and some people listen and some resonate for whatever reason. To criticise why is not wrong nor right, but it highlights the distance between our perception and WHAT IS. When we are ALLOWING, then anything anyone says will become irrelevant to you :-)
wisebod 2 years ago
actually in re-reading what you said I like it. So I should let you know that. You point out an excellent measuring stick, "allowing" and irrelevance. In fact that is as good as anything Adya says in this vid. I am not as bothered by Adya as I was, he is seeming much more irrelevant.
Me, I just don't like as much "talk" as most Americans, but no biggee. So take care fellow traveller and metta!!!!
rhinohippo 2 years ago
just a mirror of you then....
sanjayshah001 2 years ago
if that is so, then you are just a mirror of me
rhinohippo 2 years ago
who exactly do you think you are to lecture others? You make a statement about how you feel when we know oneness. So you already know huh? If not where are you coming from? Do you think you are enlightened, oh please. I don't think anybody should become a teacher until they have broken through all the way, otherwise they are just yapping their bull.
I am suspicious of any teacher who would actually utter the words to his students that is very advanced.
rhinohippo 2 years ago
rhinohippo, You think I am claiming to be enlightened? Quite the opposite, I still have questions that's why am still here. I was trying to explain what I have understood so far. Am not assuming I know what oneness is, but I think I understand what teachers are pointing to and I was just trying to explain it in those terms. Apologies if that was not clear. You however do appear to be assuming to know who is write or who is wrong - In that case I bow out of this discussion. Peace.
wisebod 2 years ago
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America is currently full of these fast talking gurus taking advantage of the baby boomers bank accounts and lifelong neglect of their spirituality. Listening to a real guru or a pseudo guru is a wate of time, everything you need to know bout enlightenment can be learned in about five minutes, the rest is up to you and listening to these blowhards is a waste of time. Look at this guy, he is Egoland
rhinohippo 3 years ago
Adyashanti..a brilliant mind.a zen master. I highly recommend reading his book Emptiness Dancing for those looking to delve deep into the meaning of their true nature. A statement he makes, which for me describes the essence of what we seek. Wake up! You are all living Buddhas. You are the divine emptiness, the infinite nothing. This I know because I am what you are, and you are what I am.
Zenday23 3 years ago
i love this man
valerievanos1 3 years ago 2
Amazing, thanks for this.
blissful420 3 years ago
This guy talks all of this feel good enlightened spiritual stuff, but if you look at his shirt, it is filled with occult symbolism. The all seeing eye of Lucifer; the sun worship symbol. You also hear this same kind of philosophy in theosophy and freemasonry. I have developed a healthy dose of mistrust for the new thought movement. Christianity is a scam too. Is there such thing as truth? Is everybody a charlatan?
thadtricity 3 years ago
you're lost in your head.
fullofstarlight 3 years ago 11
I don't know if there is any objective truth. It does not seem like it. If it were, I don't see how I could truly see it. I see the truth as purely subjective.
I'm trying to spot the all seeing eye and the sun worship symbol but I can't find it. Could you point it out more?
For all I know all non-duality guru's could be part of a new world religion, but as long as you never buy into anything, even that would be of no concern whatsoever
These "gurus" seem to touch upon something essential tho.
JonasAbrahamLind 3 years ago
Wow my mind is totaly free of conflicts right now. Without the need to stop thinking. If i accept everybody and everything else as he/it is, with what will it be in conflict with? Allso the search for meaning has stopped. But the shift to enlightment did not happen yet. Maybe there are more lessons to learn.
Thank you very much other me, though i dont take the worry in me.
freierHimmel 3 years ago
we are the one . . . what a cop out! lego my ego adya
LAWESTBY 3 years ago
I was told that you can't challenge the devil and win. A spiritual being like the devil cannot be given any challenge man conceives of that is beyond his capacities.
In 6th grade in the early 60's Robbie Malsbury wanted to challenge the devil and win. We were there for him on this one.Robbie wanted a deal for a new Bike. The devil never came. Robbie knew if he farted then asked the devil to catch the fart and return it painted green the devil would fail. I believed in Robbie and Adyashanti
jobedied 3 years ago
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz get a job, buy a house found a family, die
Mongodelight 3 years ago
I was taught from an early age by my Father that being a "Free Spirit" was very important because to live this way allows us to choose our own path with out becoming too caught up in the reality of some other person. So monasterbird, I personally will not get caught up in your huge EGO...No I will choose
my own path and not become enchanted or amazed by your "All Knowing" wisdom either.
pat52007 3 years ago
If "a mind can never understand the divine", then what then is a mind and what then is the divine? What is the point of having a mind at all?
deliciousonionsoup 3 years ago
deliciousonionsoup,
The Mind is just a tool. A very powerful one. Look around you, every Car, Chair, Song, Language, Tradition etc. was once a thought of the Mind. If you identify with it, it builds a whole (virtual) reality for you. It loves to have something (new) to do. So it creates education,beliefs,good/bad,win/lose, obsessions,joy/sadness,control etc. just to fullfill its purpose. It wants to do the best job :) The Bible refers to the mind as Satan (Master Of Illusions).
freierHimmel 3 years ago
Shortly after writing this my Mind (Ego) felt superior for building links. After letting the feeling immedately go, i suddely thought that it was its right to do this, because it has done a good job. After surrendering this thought (illusion of justice) i needed to stop thinking. It literaly clings on everything to substain itself.
freierHimmel 3 years ago
From what you write here your mind and your ego seem to be the same thing. Don 't go overthinking. In the frame of mind here you will be thinking that I am your mind trying to hold on to you of course so you'll be considering you are being harassed by your own mind - which isn't the case. Then the next step is you'll fear that you or I are wanting connections when actually we both just want answers of how it is - not answer of how the mind or the ego say it is.
deliciousonionsoup 3 years ago
Thank you for pointing out that i can know nothing for sure. I really needed that. At the moment im totaly thorn apart. One part of me wants to go back to the experience i had in the awakening(?) so badly, one part fears what will happen then, another part denies that experience and one part tries to make sense of all of this. Im so glad people like you and adya give me the faith that everything is ok and will be ok. now im crying...
freierHimmel 3 years ago
Not sure I've ever had such an experience of awakeninig that you talk about here. Thanks for replying to me because I got to listen to this video again _ and I needed to.
deliciousonionsoup 3 years ago
This whole thing makes much more sense now.
After crying the realisation that everything is ok started to settle in. I gave everybody else the permission to do what they want. Suddenly i felt that i can do what i want. Everything would be ok. Then it hit me: What if the ego is not inside you, but every person outside is an aspect of it? The more i think about it the less struggles are in my head. This also fits with my experience i confessed at the "Wisdom of Do Nothing / Adyashanti" Video here.
freierHimmel 3 years ago
It's possible - as anything is possible. It might not be true though. All I know is that if I cut myself or bang my head then I bleed and I hurt. But when someone else cuts themself or bumps their head then that person bleeds and hurts. I can see where this thought comes from and I've had the thought myself before as I'm sure many, many other people have had. It might be so but how will we ever know if it actually is? So should we think it is when we don't / can't know?
deliciousonionsoup 3 years ago
Ahh, but did not those who wrote the Bible write it from their minds? Thus, would not the very Satan that the minds of the Bible writers created be but a figment of those minds? Also, how can we know if the work / words / speeches of Adyashanti are any more than things from his minid? Any what then is the mind?
deliciousonionsoup 3 years ago
I feel its a tool to learn from....I love to watch it and learn from it..keep it quiet tho =)
laprop 2 years ago
my god this was really a pineal gland cleansing...no thought no problems,nothing is right or wrong, just NOW
laprop 3 years ago
Yes, but it only seems to cleanse for about 5-30 minutes, then the clouding starts again. Within an hour or a little more I'm all clouded up again.
deliciousonionsoup 3 years ago
the cloud makes u wonder and go deeper..i had times of perfect vclarity and then times of cloudy distress..but if u keep your mind under control and keep it quiet at will, u have a clarity so beautiful, that you will wonder how u forgot that u arent seperate from WHOLE
laprop 2 years ago 5
Deffently a lot to think about
UniqueExposures 3 years ago
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He's a nice guy, but has no understanding based on the ground of true reality, his teacher had transmission from a less than realized master, and he is the result of that. But, hey, he may appeal to some and lead them to truly enlightened masters.
monasterybird 3 years ago
So monasterybird, just what is true reality?Is your idea of true reality the correct one for all?Just your ego alone proves to me your
reality is based on ego.
germanydreamer08 3 years ago
well, sorry to disenchant you all. but you are "enchanted" and that is NOT zen. I just returned from 2 years in a zen monastery studying with the dharma heir of Yamada Mumon. The energy that is passed from living master to disciple is *FAR* beyond the type of mundane teaching given here. and this is why I say he's a nice guy, but not a master in the "reality" i.e., fundamental ground of the mind (buddha). hopefully, he presents expedient means to get you all 'started'. Cheers :)
monasterybird 3 years ago
monasterybird...Oh dear...so sad to see massive spiritual ego like that! I suggest you go back to the monastery and get a dharma slap from the master. You naughty boy!
goddessdownhere 3 years ago
monasterybird..so sorry to have referred to you as a boy. Really though you didn't get it . Unless you are just joking. What a waste of time that monastery was .
goddessdownhere 3 years ago
It doesn't sound like the masters you have been following had any more success. At least in your case
fabsternyc 3 years ago
true reality does not judge
layz0 3 years ago
"He's a nice guy, but has no understanding based on the ground of true reality"
That's an interesting observation monasteryduck. My observation is that you are a dumbfuck.
LeagueOJustice 3 years ago
If anyone is awakened and has any tips for me please write to me.. (just respond to this post) thanks.
Simon0 3 years ago
I've been on the most amazing 2 year journey of my life, i could go on and on about where it started and how it ended but it really dosent matter. The greatest tip anyone could ever get to awaken is the corner stone of all of Adyashanti's work. You are already awakened. It existed in your silance, all you have to do is swim and play the emptiness of no thought. It is not a goal that needs to be attanined, anytime anywhere it existes in the hum of silence. Yu are the silence.
pupo1313 3 years ago
It doesn't matter.
vapourmile 3 years ago
He is one of the best teachers i have seen so far :)
kayupfus 3 years ago 3
He and Eckhart Tolle share many fundamental points and as a Buddhist I find it very easy to relate to both of them, despite the vitriolic attacks some "Buddhists" regularly perform on them (how ironic when a Buddhist becomes so caught up on dogma and authenticity of the Dharma, becoming trapped in his/her own little fairy tale world). I must admit I love to read Eckhart, but live or on video, Adyashanti is more lively and easy to follow, thanks also to the fact that English is his first language
fabsternyc 3 years ago
My resistance to people pointing me towards Eckhart Tolle is now gone. I will take a look. I resisted and resisted without seeing or hearing any of his pointers until today.
Thank you.
deliciousonionsoup 3 years ago
if you feel good about yourself its easy to feel bad about yourself! Good one. I am totally caught up in that.
Simon0 3 years ago 2
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freedomstates 3 years ago
Its the best when you watch a beautiful talk on our true nature and people start fighting about what Jesus really ment.
Well your not the first to have this fight and you wont be the last. I do enjoy listening to people who are still alive because you can ask them your self what did they mean when they said...
dead sages cant do that.
WallyD4 3 years ago 5
Sorry, pressed post comment too many times!!
TheUnseenUniversity 3 years ago
This is so relevant to me today. I have decided over the past few days that instead of choosing to have a nicer life in 'ego' I choose to step out of it completely. Just like he said feeling good about myself is still just 'my idea' about myself. I let that go today and embrace the truth of who I am in whatever way I will 'realise' it. Thanks.
TheUnseenUniversity 3 years ago 2
This is so relevant to me today. I have decided over the past few days that instead of choosing to have a nicer life in 'ego' I choose to step out of it completely. Just like he said feeling good about myself is still just 'my idea' about myself. I let that go today and embrace the truth of who I am in whatever way I will 'realise' it. Thanks.
TheUnseenUniversity 3 years ago
This is so relevant to me today. I have decided over the past few days that instead of choosing to have a nicer life in 'ego' I choose to step out of it completely. Just like he said feeling good about myself is still just 'my idea' about myself. I let that go today and embrace the truth of who I am in whatever way I will 'realise' it. Thanks.
TheUnseenUniversity 3 years ago
how's that working for you?
TheCareMores 3 years ago
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same demonic spirit that is on tolle, just with less hair, no accent, and without the sweet vest.
your true nature is sinful. the only remedy for sin is the BLOOD OF JESUS.
followers of these teachings will be awakened but to a dark light.
newenglandtom 3 years ago
Why is tag for this video "Anthony de Mello"?
influencija 3 years ago 2
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same demonic spirit that is on tolle, just with less hair, no accent, and without the sweet vest.
your true nature is sinful. the only remedy for sin is the BLOOD OF JESUS.
followers of these teachings will be awakened but to a dark light.
newenglandtom 4 years ago
newenglandtom,
I agree with you even though it's never the most popular topic to talk about.
wisdom1221 3 years ago
Maybe you should look again at what Jesus actually said, instead of what people said about him. If you take just his own words, out of the context of being warped to fit Christian belief structures, they fit perfectly with these same teachings that have been being taught the same for thousands and thousands of years. It's got nothing to do with any forms or names, it's the space behind the names and forms.
Basie10 3 years ago 2
basie, wow what a concept. ok lets look at what Jesus said.....
Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.-john 6:35
Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.-john 3:3
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me--john 14:6
newenglandtom 3 years ago
He was speaking through metaphors. The thickheaded arrogance of people who presume to understand but actually have no idea whatsoever is exactly what got him killed when he set out to awaken humanity. He never claimed to be the Son of God, he never wanted to be worshipped, he never wanted to start Christianity. Look again, and this time look with an open mind.
Basie10 3 years ago
so in scripture. matthew 16 specifically... peter says... "you are the Christ the Son of the living God...." since Jesus did not want that, He replies, peter you are BLESSED, because my Father in Heaven has revealed this to you.
i think the one that has no idea of Jesus are the new age gurus traveling a broad road that leads them to destruction. Jesus did not set out to "awaken" humanity, but to save us from sin.
newenglandtom 3 years ago
Yes, to save us from sin, which originally meant misunderstanding. At least that was before it's meaning was twisted by the Church to serve it's own political agenda.
Basie10 3 years ago 3
what a joke. Jesus died the horrible death on the cross and shed His blood, because of .... misunderstanding. sorry basie you are still in both.
so when a guy rapes a woman, when a husband abandons his family, when someone breaks in your home steals all you have, when a person lies and deceives you so that he manipulates you from you life savings, whan a person decides to drive drunk and kills your teenage son.... its all a "misunderstanding"? tolle makes big bucks off people like you.
newenglandtom 3 years ago
I can feel the anger in your words, Tom. It's okay, let it out. I also suggest thinking about letting go of your narrow minded insistence on seeing everything exactly as you've been brainwashed to.
Basie10 3 years ago
no basie, no anger, maybe some sarcasm maybe some reality, but no anger. i am sure that you would love to see me let go of my narrow road, but i do not believe that i will. i will continue and wait for you to join me.
tolleisadeceiver 3 years ago
yes. those things are caused by misunderstanding, which is to say, a dualistic state of consciousness that says "I am more important than you, and your suffering is less real than mine". All that's really needed to be free from sin is to see that others are the same as you, and ultimately that they are you and we are all One.
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andypandy245 4 years ago
The only true wisdom is in knowing that we know nothing.
peteq1972 4 years ago