**excerpted from The Search for Meaning (2016): ua-cam.com/video/rRdyypnnLjQ/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Adyashanti
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"Real stillness, in the spiritual sense it is totally unconventional. Real stillness is, say in meditation, it's not about trying to be still. If anything, it's the relinquishing of all resistance. And I will also say, of all grasping. So when you're not grasping at anything, trying to hold or maintain anything, and you're not opposing or in resistance to anything, and I mean even very very slightly, now that's a completely different experience of stillness. Then it feels like all of existence is completely still-not just me meditating having found an inner experience of stillness when all resistance is relinquished. There's experience of total stillness, which has nothing to do with movement or the cessation of movement. It has to do with absolute non-resistance to movement. And then there's no center from which you're endeavoring to maintain a state of stillness because this kind of stillness-complete non-resistance is built into the fabric of reality...
Without a story, without a new reference point, might that disorient the mind? Sure, let it be disoriented...Do you feel disoriented sometimes when you really let go in a deep way? Sure, you can feel disoriented but trust it. If you try to become reoriented, find something new to orient around, all you'll do is make yourself feel more and more and more and more and more disoriented...
But as soon as it realizes it doesn't have to find one, or it's going to find a different way of being oriented simply by letting go, relaxing, then the whole thing can just calm down and you can feel everything is okay. And if you're not in your mind, stuck in your mind, your mind is still there, but if you're not stuck in your mind, you know what you need to know when you need to know it...So in a certain sense, you learn to trust your lostness. You become easy with it. You become relaxed with it, which gains you access to an even deeper experience of being, which is much more clear and much more simple..."
~ Adyashanti
The Search for Meaning (2016)
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About the talk:
In response to a question about the dark night of the soul and the “exquisite agony” of ego being stripped away, Adyashanti offers a 90-minute talk about awakening from the storyteller. With precise, practical, and revelatory pointers, Adyashanti invites you to see how deeply compelling it is to live with no script and no story, where the “experience of being is so overwhelmingly sufficient that the search for meaning and purpose doesn’t make sense.”
Topics Include:
The Dark Night and the Falling Away of Self
Ego in the Mind, Heart, and Gut
The Paradox of Spiritual Seeking
The Mind as Storyteller
The Key to Your Freedom
Undermining Your Story
Meaning and Purpose
Stillness as Non-resistance
Trusting the Infinite
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Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.
Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an American-born spiritual teacher. Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all."
For more please go to his website: adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/
Free teaching materials, including videos, audios, articles, and free PDF of The Way of Liberation: adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/teachings/intro-teachings
Adyashanti youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@Adyashanti
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