Adyashanti: Q&A "anything in ourself we have not acknowledged, we tend to manifest it all around us"
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
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"I'm suggesting when you can see those same qualities in you that you have trouble with in another, when you can see them in yourself and really admit to them that they're there, you will have gone 95% of the way to the resolution of your conflict. And as long as you refuse to see that, you'll keep creating new bosses like that until you do see that in yourself...
We all have infinite amounts of qualities, capabilities, capacities. We can be infinitely good and infinitely bad and everything in between...the difficulty is anything in ourself that we have not acknowledged, we tend to manifest it all around us..."
"What is it in me that can't get along? Can I look at that?....then you start to have the power of your own happiness in your own hands."
~ Adyashanti
from "Getting Beyond Ego (2008)"
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About "Getting Beyond Ego (2008)":
The ultimate trick of egoic consciousness is to try to get beyond ego. Yet the more you try to get beyond it, the more you get caught up in it. In this enlightening talk, Adyashanti reveals the real meaning of "allowing everything to be as it is." He shows how this teaching, when understood fully, offers a way to go beyond the egoic state.
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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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The quote itself "it is all just in your mind" is so good, so promising the only option for true liberating.... but, but 😄 How about the "hard facts" like war, discrimnation, mobbing and so on. Just in the mind of the "victim"? It is the same thing with positive thinking. Sounds good, but often it is actually also helpful to face "reality" and name it. That can be very powerful, liberating, making change possible at all. Maybe it would be better to be more direct and tell the person: "Your are dwelling in self-pity here and victimize yourself." (If it is the case.)
Maybe "Adyashanti: Could you talk about the manifestation of war? Q&A" (also on this channel) is relevant to what you are speaking of. The link is: ua-cam.com/video/PEUo40S0qmI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KungWu
Below is from the clip:
"...all I can suggest is when you start to peer in there, what's it like outside of my beliefs? What starts to end is the war inside here...it doesn't disconnect you at all. It doesn't mean you don't have a response. What I have found is whatever response comes through you, it actually empowers that response much much more...It doesn't cause discord in you. It doesn't cause you to suffer when others suffer, which makes you available to others, which makes us available to each other, which makes us available to have a response - whatever that response may be tends to be much more peaceful..."
I agree, and I think that sometimes we need to own our projections, and sometimes we need to be the mirror for another. For example, if you are being abused by someone, you probably do have a part of you that abuses yourself somewhere in your psyche. However, we can also reflect back to the abuser that their behavior is unacceptable and protect ourselves from that. That is actually doing the opposite of abuse; it's being a wise, strong adult. I think Adya missed this in this one.
@@lunalinguine Thank you, very helpful to me how you name it. It is somehow the "victim-offender-reversion", isn´t it?! And that is a problem with the "spiritual wisdoms": They can be ab-used easily for that. We live in an offender centered world, people love these kinds of easy answers: Just your projection, just in your mind, drop yourself and so on. But we go nowhere with this. And if you have realised the deep truth behind it, for sure you do not need to talk about it anymore and for sure you do not use it as weapon against unpleasant comments 🙂
@@RoadTrip-bc2ps I'm glad it helped, and I appreciate you naming this. I agree -- I think those easy answers can be a way to spiritually bypass our humanity. And, right, if you've realized a deep truth there can be this expectation to always be open, soft, yielding. But Love isn't always soft and yielding. Many bypass this in the spiritual community and that really can lead to tolerating or perpetrating abusive behavior. I hope we are evolving past this!
@@KungWu Dear KungWu. First thank you so much for your work to pick out a unique collage of excerpts from Adya. Valuable. 🙂 The "war excerpt" you point at creates for me the same question: How to deal with relative life. Does ever someone faces relative every day life with these wisdoms? You yourself: Family, friends, collegues... how do you act, deal, solve everyday issues? You really tell yourself and others "it is just in your mind"? How does "deep wisdom" and "the need for handling situations" come together? Actual, I mean, not as knowledge.
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
What did Adya mean when he said @4:30
"...as long as you refuse to see that, you'll keep creating new bosses like that..."
Did he mean that the questioner will keep encountering bosses like that or did he mean that the questioner would create bosses like that by projecting in his own mind based on his past conditioning regardless of his objective reality?
We are all reflections of each other. As long as we decide not to change the behavior that annoys us about others, life will keep providing us with the mirror until we say “enough”! We must change in ourselves what we don’t like to see in the world around us. Own the reflection.
Until you change unforgivenness if yourself, you will always have bosses (and other people) who are unforgiving