Adyashanti: Q&A-practical advice on working with "I got it, I lost it" situation
Вставка
- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- **part of a Q&A excerpted from Lake Tahoe Retreat May 2019 Q&A (Day 4), which is available (currently 63 videos) with "basic membership" ($5/month, unbelievable!) at: • Lake Tahoe Retreat May...
"Let me just kind of give you a little reflection back to make sure you don't miss it.
'I need to acknowledge-acknowledge,' and you heard me talk about the practice of acknowledgement during this retreat, I imagine. I've mentioned it several times of how powerful the practice of acknowledgement is. That which you saw, knew yourself to be during that awakening, is still present. You are still that emptiness.
Acknowledge it, which means give it your attention. Don't try to grasp it. Don't try to understand it. Don't try to do anything with it. Just intuitively acknowledge it, but only over and over and over and over and over. Acknowledge it: 'oh, okay, that's what I have experienced myself to be. Okay, let me take a moment to be that knowingly. Let me just let that sink in for a moment.
... and by doing that, true nature just starts to become more stable. it just starts to deepen and the confusions start to clarify themselves..."
~ Adyashanti
Recorded at Granlibakken Tahoe in Tahoe City, California on May 17-24, 2019.
adyashanti.ope...
--------------------------
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.ope...
Free teaching materials, including videos, audios, articles, and free PDF of The Way of Liberation: adyashanti.ope...
Adyashanti youtube channel: / @adyashanti
---------------------------
Our facebook group page "The Direct Way by Adyashanti (Spiritual Awakening & Awakened Living)": / directway
My post re: How I experience or relate to Adyashanti's Retiring from Live Teachings
/ 715965296582243
Very interesting for me to hear this "A-Z back to C and then slowly fwd to Z" description now. I woke up at an Adya retreat almost 20 years ago. Was wide awake and blasted with insights for months on end. One day a voice inside said "i'm tired" and another voice said "ok" and I watched myself follow a thought stream right back into the dream. Then several years of "got it, lost it" until that became unbearable and just sort of gave up for many years. Then last year I recalled that moment of stepping back into the dream and thought, maybe I'll go back there and stop indulging thoughts again. The next morning thought parted again and there was nothing but presence. No big fireworks this time, no emotions, no revelations, just presence interacting with life. Washing the dishes, moving through the day. And in the absence of fireworks I was finally able to see the simplicity and ever present-ness of what this is about, just this presence that looks through the eyes, always here, always on, as soon as one is not invested in a thought. So much of my conditioning was seen through in that first awakening period but there were deeper grooves that it seems had to be lived through...which took many many years...just like he describes here- shot from A to Z then dropped off back somewhere in the middle to let life wring out the rest, slowly slowly slowly over years. There is still a habitual tendency to dwell in thought for periods but now there is a knowing that that simple presence is always here and always reachable at every moment. It's so simple I missed it the first time in all the grandness and bliss of awakening. Thank you for sharing these clips! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for sharing your related experiences...much appreciated...😊♥🙏
❤💥💖🔥 yes! Thank you😊
Thank you Kung Wu
Adya helps my body to survive a little longer
Much love
❤
I dunno. My 2 brief awakenings of course didn't last, but the felt-sense of it was so palpable and strong, That faded then left entirely. I only get rare glimpses of that state now. I can acknowledge as Adya suggests, but the feel of it is not present, and that part had strongly affected me.
Often awakenings come with big felt experiences, bliss, relief, joy, etc, and when those subside we go looking for the felt experience which is missing. But as he's saying, what part of that glimpse IS still here? The presence that looks out of our eyes is here at all times whether we're having a big experience of it or not. Instead of looking for a particular feeling of it, just notice what's there peering out of the eyes right now when one is not lost in thought. It's much much quieter than the way it comes in an awakening. Notice what it feels like to just bring awareness to awareness itself instead of awareness being in thought. It only exists right now. Thought is always somewhere else. Where is presence right now? Good luck 🙏