Surrender Or Suffer / Adyashanti

"Adyashanti invites you to slide over into the passenger's seat and stop trying to steer life in the direction of imagined happiness. This profound and transformative satsang makes the alternatives starkly clear: suffer, or surrender and fully enjoy life's incredible journey. 90 minute recorded on November 22, 2006." --- http://www.adyashanti.org

Check out the new "Cafe Dharma" at http://www.adyashanti.org/cafedharma/index.php?file=radio&rid=2 There is a highly reccomended and free download of a 90 minute satsang called "Enlightenment Straight Up". Also, free while live, full length, ONLINE satsangs with listener participation at the website. The next one is August 12th and the one that occurred in May was fantastic in my personal opinion. These small clips don't give the viewer a full perspective of Adyashanti's teachings and his compassionate wisdom that comes through when communicating with a questioner.

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[xtrmsprts]

Surrender is deathly arduous ...and then supremely liberating... 

[ZetanCrisp]

Thanks for replying.

I seem to be stuck in an inbetween world where i can see that i create my thoughts, but i still get caught up in them. It goes around in circles, i just want to be completley 'awake' all the time but dont know how to stop getting swept away every 5 minutes and having to continuously catch it happening.... or is that just the way it is?

[neekos72]

free will is not 'based on separation' - the multiplicity of the one includes free will..

when he opens his mouth he is enacting the 'control' that he claims is unenlightened. that is will.

ultimately there is no grand purpose in arguing this, we are all unique within the one that is unique. i make the comment simply to point to the importance of not denying your free will and also because without your will you will be exploring the world created by the egos you previously called unenlightened!

[souleks0]

@ZetanCrisp determination, dont give up. listen to "lester levington" the ultimate goal, on you tube, it migth help

[NondualAwareness]

@nothingwithouten at your older question, what is different between relinquishing control and being passive? If there is effort in being passive, then it is still an attempt to control, if your truly being passive, then you are completely relaxed, free and have all the spaciousness to respond to a situation that needs to be dealt with

[NondualAwareness]

@nothingwithouten the purpose of spiritual path is to learn that the mind is a mechanism, just like the heart pumps blood, the mind calculates. If you can leave mind alone without following it's never ending calculations, u will see life without a "guide" "no plan" "no anticipation.. Therefore no comparison.. No better or worse" check my channel

[meditation51]

I like the metaphor, driving through life in a car. ..onto a perpetual destination.

[lgarvey]

hard determinism

[jobbew]

@ZetanCrisp haha :-) the point here is You don't create your thoughts at all! You only think YOU created them, because you're still in the driverseat.

[ogfunk187]

is he on trial lol?

[sweeetly]

@ZetanCrisp Its the way it is....for a while. Continue :)

[nothingnesswithouten]

@Divaz231 Thank you for your reply. It was helpful. Maybe I just need to learn to trust awareness. Or realize that there is no 'I' separate from awareness. Don't really know how that realization is supposed to happen. But then maybe that's the absurd nature of the spiritual quest.