Adyashanti: Q&A-want to detach from the need of service to not feel suicidal or meaninglessness

~ excerpted from "Caring for the World: Engaging from Non-Division": adyashanti.opengatesangha.org...
"The idea that we're going to completely eliminate suffering in the world is actually an extraordinarily violent idea."
"At some point, that experience and that feeling of meaninglessness is going to need to be just really encountered."
"The other way is just the opposite-what does life want of me? ...and then we make another mistake, is we always think, to think in these huge terms...that we're waiting for some profound galactic calling, instead of like 'well this is what is life calling of me right now'..."
"It's different, what do you want to do, do you want to serve or do you want to change? They're very very very very different."
"When you are no longer preoccupied with your own conflict, it's kind of like 'okay, what is there left to do but serve?' because almost everything else you see was a means of trying to solve your conflict, whether it was looking for the person (the soulmate) or the perfect job or the perfect everything was being a search for completion...When you start to feel that deep sense of completion, it's like the only thing there's left to do, that makes any sense really, is to serve. That's what there is to do..."
"The motivation to help itself is perfectly part of one's true nature, just to serve as part of true nature. But the fear and the anger, look around you in the world, fear and anger isn't just on the side of the people doing the things we don't want them to do. It's on the side of the people who are trying to be a corrective to all that. Go into a meeting of a group of ecologists or lots of groups that are trying to do the right thing, and often times it won't take very long before you start to feel like this is the angriest bunch of people I've ever been with."
"...That's where you can feel more of that unity, and then we get back to what's really at the core of our nature, which is love, not loving because I want to avert a disaster or...there's no because. It's just one's nature because that's just the way it is. Anybody gets down into the core of their being, they're going to discover that that love is their nature and that's why they do it."
~ Adyashanti
from a live Q&A in Caring for the World: Engaging from Non-Division
adyashanti.opengatesangha.org...
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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."
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My post re: How I experience or relate to Adyashanti's Retiring from Live Teachings
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[@jencooper2200]

Like the difference between the word growth and expansion.... this is so excellent🙏🏻

[@rul4522]

It reminds me of my own interpretation- like, listen to me and the world would be a better place. Now at 81 i laugh at it. The Absolute knows better. Not to say that doing nothing is the answer. Therefor ‘you can’t do anything, but you have to do something’ is my guide.

[@anitaandersson1068]

Brilliant Big Thank You 💎🙏🏻💎🤩🤩

[@rul4522]

‘Love is their nature’ how beautiful ans simple.🙏

[@tutorial9322]

This really helped me ❤️