The Aloneness of Awakening (Excerpt)
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- Adya describes the aloneness that arises when we awaken from the idea of ourselves and how in that aloneness, we can experience oneness, the greatest intimacy of all. Excerpted from August 2, 2009, Palo Alto Meeting, “Reality-Oriented Spirituality”: bit.ly/3Q9TSV9
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Quote from this Video: “Enter into your aloneness, and what you realize is your absolute intimacy with all things.” adyashanti.org
I was always scared of being alone so I hung on for a lifetime to crappy lonely relationships. Almost 6 yrs alone and I have more peace and feel less lonely than ever!!🤗
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That’s wonderful! You’ve probably realized that in essence you’re never alone and that feeling lonely was not even necessary because you were accompanied all along by your source!
Feeling peace and comfort is not the point. This is one chapter of the denial stage where someone denies to participate in expressing her/himself fully as some form of protest for having their ego dissolved
@@bitkurd I went alone off grid to understand and heal my ego self. I needed to get away from everything and everyone so I couldn't distract myself from myself. I had to face a lifetime of unresolved pain I'd been trying to run from. I was too exhausted and couldn't run anymore. THAT was terrifying HELL at times. But as time went on I noticed there was less and less need to even operate from "little sue". I live in a sort of timeless state and do whatever I feel like doing at any moment. I am aware of her thoughts and feelings popping up, but don't operate from her small neurotic personality....most of the time.😉 I do have a hard time maintaining peace and oneness with all when I interact with other people. I morph back into small stressful personality most of the time, but am getting better with practice. I wish everyone could spend time alone in nature with NO distractions like TV, phone, Internet, to figure their shit out....and after ALL that work, you suddenly laugh and realize "OK, You finally understand. ..so what?? It's not that important and doesn't really matter anyways!!"😅😄😃😄
Not talking about being physically alone…
The issue is that people emphasize human relationships over any other ones. But, in fact, we are in relationship with all life around us and with ourselves all the time. So you are never actually "alone" and fostering relationship with Nature, God, with oneself can be deeply gratifying and fulfilling. I love being "alone" but I'm never lonely. As my wise Mother would say, "How can you be alone when you are surrounded by such beauty?" She was very much connected to Nature, which was her deepest and greatest relationship.
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My relationship with nature is the most important relationship in my life too. Love ❤️ and peace ❤️ 💕
You are blessed to have a mother so wise. Thank you for sharing. I found your mother’s words immensely helpful.
I have been alone as Long as I can remember. Understanding finally this is who I am. Silence and aloneness comfort me deeply.
At one of these early Palo Alto meetings, Adya said: "Thinking is the ultimate addiction". It's been with me all these years. And when I was going 'half-nuts' during post-awakening integration, I was here in Berlin laying on the floor in the middle of the night, listening to Adya's audio. Again anf again - night after night ... after night.
His work on post-awakening integration might have saved this form... so that it now, finally, can serve its divine purpose.
can you kindly share the names of some of these audios?
Since having my out of body experience in 2014, (I stopped breathing, long story) - I came back to my body knowing things I never knew before. For example I know 100% that all humans are my close family, and we are all one and a part of All That Is. You can never be separated from God - it's impossible. Since then I have never felt so alive, and I really enjoy being with myself and communing. As someone who had no interest in the Bible I began to read it. The Bible really came to life, and I came to understand that the stories of Jesus and the apostles and the prophets of the Bible, are all parables that explain the ascension of man. They are not meant to be taken as literal historical accounts, but explanations of our states of growth.
Si. Curioso que él haya hecho referencia a "Jesús y sus discípulos" como sujetos históricos. Hace pocos días me encontré con un vídeo de Ryan Mcmahon y su lectura de la biblia, novedosa para mi, y muy cercana a lo que decís acá. Xoxo
We know!! Thats why all religions can co-exist. They serve that same purpose.
So I assume it's a positive thing? I've been feeling more and more that things, myself, and the world aren't "real" and it's such a heavy pointless feeling
Beautiful ❤ resonates
To each his experience
Forced solitude...healed me of my need, codependency of people. I feel so free. Amen.
Aloneness = All oneness
Yes!
This is exactly what I needed to hear today ❤
Yeah,that I can dig
Together Here as the Unique Energies within our One Source Core 🐘💙😊✊🏽💯
Lovely.. Just saw this so true.. Aloneness = All Oneness.
The relationship you have with yourself is the only one that truly matters
At the age of 75 I have come to realize that I don't "think" like almost everyone around me. I DO understand that my mind, my awareness has not been captured by the cultural narrative that has been fed to me. I feel benignly alienated from, and non-conversant with, most others, knowing that we speak "different languages". I don't feel lonely, just sad because of it.
Same with me😢
Me too, at 37. I went to Iraq at 19 and was seriously disillusioned when getting back. That’s when I found Alan watts and then a bunch of others. I truly don’t think like most in my culture. I’m sure I don’t think like most in any culture. Sometimes I wish I could just go back and live a typical American life-meaning I take for granted the norms and customs as “just the way things are.”
I also find that when I am absolutely alone, non-attached to Anything, there is such a sacred , deep feeling of connectedness to all life , it's like the smell of freshly baked bread or cake , like coming home to a hot cup of tea and the fireplace lit in winter and it's always new and fresh, sacred and full of subtle joy.
"Alone" is derived from "all one"; the company of God is all I need to fill my heart.
@dellwright1407God, others... Same difference
I feel soooo fine being alone! A happy and in peace, hermit.
I love the comments here. It's encouraging to know that others get it, that we're never alone...because ultimately there's no separation.
It can be hard to daily witness the suffering and anger of others. So many live that way, but when we're awake we can share our joy at merely being, and it does seem to be contagious. 🥰
Your comment indicates you may not get it and the opposite of what he’s pointing at. 🙏
There isn't anyone to be alone. Keep going.
There is no back button, just an understanding that the path must be walked- picking up those priceless treasures revealed.
It takes serious balls to be alone. Which is why most people aren’t. Constantly running away from that aloneness. The more I ‘learn’ about what life really is, the more alone I feel.
"Come ye from among them and be ye separate" ~Jesus
“Culture is not your friend.” -Terrance McKenna
We are all equals. It's just that the ego can't see it, because it must be special!@@StarHuman-ii4re
Interesting! It would be so much better had people let Jesus be who he was and not twisted the concept around to suit their agendas.
What a beautiful way of explaining it! It’s such a luxury and blessing to yearn for aloneness and intimacy with the sacred and the divine, especially in a confusing, polarizing and chaotically divisive and traumatizing world.
Thank you for sharing this, Adya!🙏
Hearing this lead to understanding "alone" as "all-ONE", being connected and whole with all that is.
Aloneness is allONEness❤
People often ask me.
Iwhere are you going where have you been.
I tell them that life is not about going somewhere doing something as Adyashanti says it's simply about being
30 years to figure out they don't know anything 😅
That got me so good.😂 i feel so seen i want to lough and cry
I realized I'm alone and I'm so sad. No one understands me, and no one believes me .My family thinks this awakening is in my head. And I don't know anything, this is true. Thankyou Adya ❤
The One is not alone... the One is all one.
Thanks to all for sharing love, truth, pointers and guides. Love and courage to all called, to come and be here.
I started to realise I am all around me. When I awakened for the 5th time I realised my environment was mirroring me, my speed, my level of calm, everything. I don’t know if I am now in charge of my waking reality - it’s a big responsibility but I also feel like there’s no one just me, everyone is “me” at different levels of consciousness. Now time means nothing to me, the time of reality is determined by me.
Clicked this expecting to have a laugh, but actually it wasn't bad. Enjoyed it.
I graduated from seminary, knowing so much more than when I went in, and it wasn't until I was done that I understood I knew less than when I started. The world is black and white and so easy when you're young and idealistic, but as you age, and develop wisdom, you understand at last, just how much you don't know. And now, more than thirty years later, I'm finally at a place where I'm pretty sure I know a few things.
I hope I can get there too. I realized the other day just how much I don't know 😕
There is no-one who is spending time alone, because there's absolutely no one there. No person that is to say. You are pure awareness and the light of the world, no thing is separate from anything else...❤
word salad.....
Another Gem! I get what I need when I need it. Thank 🙏 You Adyashanti for sharing your simple yet profound pearls of wisdom ❤️🔥
At just the right time, I discovered Asyashanti. As I get older, I miss being married and start feeling lonely. His videos have been a blessing to me.🙏
It's a circle . We are one . Nothing matters .
I'm alone but not lonely and I love it..🎉
Glimpses--just lovely lovely glimpses...
Exactly!!
Thank you very much for sharing this! :) Great.
I really needed to hear this. I’ve been most alone for a year on my journey. Periods of content understanding and SelfJoy, and periods facing the Bored Emptiness of my Self.
Thank you so much
The heart is awake, the mind sleeps. There is always a part of us awake here right now and a part sleeping in time consciousness outside. ✊🏽😊💙🙏🏽💎
A taste of this aloneness is even better than a healthy solitude
I feel like Mary was deeply involved in the process of the resurrection, more than anyone ever talks about. Thank you for bringing this up in me♥️
Mary Magdalene, right? Yes! To me, it's obvious. If there was a resurrection, it was Mary M., his favorite and best disciple, to whom he gave many secret teachings. He had taught her to do what he had done. And was the only one documented in EVERY account to have been there at the "discovery" of the resurrection.
Yur purdy.
such a beautiful, yet dreadful description of my momentary state of mind...
Adya! Thank you again.
I can relate to every single tiny word ... I've always loved Adya's eloquence.
I am Alone. I am whole and complete. Lacking nothing. I am everything and, at the same time, nothing.
I had my awakening in 2011 in Sedona, Az. Lots of karmic relationships happened while remembering past lives, up until 2020. Been happy and at peace since 🙏✨
Thank you Adya, for sharing yourself with the world. 🙏
Al one - how beutiful is this speach🙏🏼❤️
Sound is our mind , Silence is our being , dont try to become , just Be ..... Osho
Well spoken. As Michael Valentine Smith said, "I grok that thou art God." Namaste❤
This reminded me of John Mayer's song Something's Missing from 2003. "I'm not alone, I wish I was... something's missing, and I don't know what it is..." He didn't know he was talking about consciousness but I bet ya he does now. I'm autistic and love how the Maori describe being autistic, "in your own time and space." Me and my dog, nature, all we need.
This guy is legit. Enlightened.
I’m 34 and most of my friends are in their 70s. I love them and I wish I could find at least one person my age that I could connect with.
Very simple and clear message Adyashanti ! Greetings from Western Australia. 🎆
So healing ty
Thank you
I would like to drink a cup of tea with this man
As a friend reminded me that I was alone so they popped in now and again
Truth be know till that point I had never felt the impact of being alone to that of loneliness
It was a passage of awakening
I felt one with nature and the mundane tasks of the day
Time slipped away in orchestrated of rhyme and rhythm
Weaving a tapestry of life
Alone in understanding. I feel it.
Thankyou Adyashanti - That was lovely to listen to and so true - you have a lovely calming voice.
Wow, thank you, so good to hear ❤
Great talk ever ❤
"Illusion needs company" ..yes ..I am peaceful and happy being alone ..no tv for few years of mass media , or group socialising . Bliss emerges
If this is illusion then everything and everywhere is an illusion therefore you will always and forever be escaping something that doesn’t exist
@@bitkurd I didnt say TV was illusion . I was quoting the video
Very beautiful subject.Gentleness of the extremity of wise diamond ...thank you beautiful being.
One energy unity within source ✊🏽🐘🔱💙⚓
Wow, Bill Burr has quit comedy and became a guru.
He's more on it than these ego heads😂
Profound teaching 🙏🏻
Fabulous presentation of this truth🎉
I Love being Alone with My GOD Presence 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
You do not have, you are.
Beautiful! 💜
I can relate to this
Well sure -?- am getting Onenesd oddness of j Krishnamurti's I"I don't mind & it does not matter" Yet, key word, as, as moment by moment, yes, things are adding finally at 75 adding UP-?-Mostly by subtraction & too, choice less awareness-?- even the trusty mind & this aging can/body gone, yes far beyond fo & too empty ness.
Somehow, unborn, so can't die & now only a prayer Dancer am I & the Allness of the Beloved, where even lover's disappear.
Appreciate always your plain languaging exquisite clarity of revealing Essence of being & embodying Consciousness
Alone, Allone , All One, All is One!' If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.'
John Paul Satre.
The brain is a complex system which expands and, if allowed, folds in on itself, creating enlightenment as described by gurus. The system must experience specific knowledge or become sick-like and discontinue its expansion. This knowledge is very dharma like - no central leader, etc. A thorough study of complex systems and the realization that the disharmony of your system is the only reality in which you have ever experienced. This, accompanied by continuous study of spirituality to turn away the disruptive thinking that is already present (Vedantic) can lead to complete harmony.
I LOVE BEING ALONE
I don't feel more alone in my understanding of reality because I realize there is no other condition. What I mainly feel is that my view is different in both mundane and fundamental ways from all others and theirs' differs from mine. But I am like all other humans in the most important ways: my needs, my motivations, my emotions. We are not alone in our humanness.
So true. In aloneness you discover that you are not who think you are. The difficulty is that you cannot know who you really are.
Who you really are begins to come to your awareness in the process of letting go.
You don't have to "do" anything to attain it. It's just a recognition of who you were all along.
@@Mantras-and-Mystics Yes, it's more like no need for an identity except for communication and human interaction.
@@Mantras-and-MysticsSure except there are certain realities like having enough to live on and when you are a young 74 retired professional 3 times around and you can't just relax because of the uncertaintiy and who wants to reinvent themselves AGAIN.........doing nothing only works for awhile.
When you accept and fully realize most can't understand you just mentally turn and walk away as a master teacher understands you can't help anyone.
You become every thing in the room when you’re alone, when you’re out of the room you see everything is you.. it’s sameness 😢❤
@@perprerpI've never had French fries, but I love fried potato sticks!
@@perprerp before seeking this Eternal Bliss you speak of, one must not only learn to cook the potato in the many various ways but set amongst time to learn how to grow the potato. Then one will know how to grasp the Eternal Bliss that is within all of us. Sprout of a potato is an allegorical reference for our own lives, only once one grasps this concept then they will grow into this Eternal Bliss just just as the potato once did.
One Source together 💯🐘😊💙✊🏽
The simple narrative of it all is, we are born alone, and we die alone. By alone, we are ourselves
I agree as I have been doing alone for a while now like for the last 30 years. I was always easily in visible circles, lived most of my life in larger vibrant metropolitan area but then I found myself in the Desert 19 years ago. If there are no accidents, then I chose this on the other side. I have gotten used to doing my solo journey but it is even harder when you are in an area of "not like-minded people" where you are forced to do the alone thing all the time. I keep busy and go out and about but I do get tired of this alone thing as this was not my nature at all.
Nice. Made big sense.
Loneliness and alone are way different. I will use the word solitude instead of alone. Solitude has spiritual connotation than alone. Solitude is always and always an option. Loneliness is imposed, there is deliberate attempt to make one person helpless.
Most people we know do not choose solitude. You need a rare strength to opt solitude. Among the many strengths humans and animals possess, the choice of solitude stands taller. We are given groups to feel consoled, to feel less miserable. In opting the group we are accepting a defeat, the acceptance of a crutch by the disabled person, this group is not evolved or wise most of the times. When two people who are solitude friendly meet, there is bigger fun than the other guys have. It is because they do not seek other as a means to avoid fear and misery. Why is not solitude boring???? Each wise men fills it with a different ingredient. A nature lover will sense a great fulfillment in his solitude, he would not speak for hours, his silence is full, talk here has no enough vocabulary. By choosing it again and again he is choosing august company.
Likewise, the emptier of his small longing, the monk kind, who has actually had a gregarious life prior, is attempting to be bigger. This bigger persona will give him freedom, he has been having conversation that has nothing to offer, in this deep silence he has to draw ftom the unsaid. The world words can not conjure. The world of permanence and assurance.
You are very wise that was a pleasure to read
Well said. loner by choice is not lonely
Bill Burr has really mellowed out.
Thank you so much❤️
I actually feel less alone during meditation. I feel the all encompassing oneness with everything around me.
There's a book called 30 Days to Overcome Loneliness by Harper Daniels that teaches nice mindfulness lessons.
Papaji said one 1 secomd. That is all it takes.
This is what I do!
Love this one so much.
True! Since I am 80 I feel alone. Why? Nobody understands you and what’s more, I even don’t try.
The world goes in a continuous loop of corruption, greed, and misery. While it was such a blessing to awaken it is also tragic to experience life in a world full of people that are unawakened and choose to remain dormant due to what they perceive as a normal style of living and the choice to feel safe with what they know and are taught throughout life. I feel alone in this regard as someone that wants to help others but people instantly see spiritualism as weird and different which is outside their normal so they auto shut anything down in relation to it. I forgive them though as I know how they feel but I do wish they could experience life what it was meant to feel like. Even if the world was very cruel to me growing up I always still have their best interest in mind and want to help them as much as I can.
I'm 67 and believe that we can't lead others. We can only model the joy we feel ourselves. I often wonder how others can't see how outrageously beautiful life is, and marvel at its diversity, but I think it's true that when the student is ready the teacher appears.
BEAUTIFUL!
For the master at the time of passing, there is a moment of loneliness as one is separates from that has been known and loved in this life and the one realizes that it is the totality and has always been everything and then joy, peace, and expanding consciousness of eternal truth.
And I’m lonely when you’re around,, never lonely when I’m by myself…
needed this, thank you
Those alone can find one another and build something new.
I realized once you figure it out and know this you cannot go back and unknow it !
True so ❤
I embrace and love being alone all my experience with people are bad even in my own family I truly don't like people so I do my own thing a stay in my own world
A sense of aloneness is just another dream. It’s still holding on to a sense of oneself. Just wash the dishes and take out the trash. A feeling of aloneness like all feelings come and go. There’s nothing special about it.
There is no I There is but the hole in the donut. Very freeing... Indeed.
So beautiful 🥰🙏🏻