Adyashanti: Q&A- I take medicine...it makes me drowsy...a conundrum..."you had the answer all along"

**excerpted from "Rest as Awareness" (2009): adyashanti.ope...
Adyashanti: "What I mean by you were thinking a little too much, that's not a criticism. It's a way of saying 'hey, you had everything at your disposal, as everybody does, to look at this.' All I did was ask you questions...and then you realize that you had the answer all along..."
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About the talk:
In this simple yet profound talk, Adyashanti reveals the heart of the teaching-what it means to rest as awareness. He explains how the egoic mind state keeps us from truly resting, and shows us what we need to relinquish so that a direct, immediate access to awareness can spontaneously happen with no effort on our part.
Quotes from this Video:
“Rest as awareness. That’s the teaching in three words. If you understood what that means, then you wouldn’t need anything else. That’s the whole of it. That’s basically the teaching. That’s the method. That’s the technique. That’s the thing to do. That’s it.”
“Spiritually waking up is actually much more like going to sleep than it is like waking up.”
“To rest as awareness means to relinquish everything else but awareness. You don’t have to understand anything. You don’t have to control anything. You don’t have to make your mind more quiet. You don’t have to change the way you feel. You don’t have to solve all your life issues. You just rest as awareness.”
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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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