Adyashanti Interview
Here’s a link one of my students sent me. It’s several years old, but it reads like it took place yesterday. Adya, as this teaching does, spends the bulk of his time talking about how to orient to life in post-awakening. These days any regular teaching that focuses exclusively, or almost exclusively on the idea that “if you stick with us long enough you’ll ‘get it'”, gives me pause. Awakening is a real, live, doable event and process. We’ll see significant planetary chance when we move past “my forthcoming awakening” and into actually embodying Awakeness. I doubt we’ll see it any sooner.
Adya is one of a very few teachers with whom I can find virtually nothing to argue about. He is also someone that I can simply look at and see that there is less Adyaness present “over there” than there is Fredness “over here”. This is great news for Me, but ego is not so crazy about it.
September 6, 2015 @ 10:58 am
Thanks, Fred. Great interview; I love Adyashanti! Lol – Can an ego really be upset about being less diminished than another ego? That’s a fairly advanced ego that has the ambition to disappear. And when it finally disappears, will it be proud? Heh, heh…I disappeared, but now I’m not around to enjoy it!
Love,
Kathleen
September 7, 2015 @ 10:47 pm
Hmmm … just meditated between reading it, and commenting here. His take on practice bringing him to full failure came to me as a quintessential dilemma. While reading, I felt encouraged by his explanation that the lineage/carriers transmitted a spark, and zen made a place for him to fail. While meditating, the fear of how i can “make myself” continue any practice wanted to latch on to the despondence of “how can i practice something with the goal of FAILING?” Funny, all the reading study heretofore, including his interview, i guess contributes to my own personal “the energy is just no longer there (for seeking). So i more readily went “on” instead of circling in the despondence.
I like the ego jousting imagery! It reminds me of my existential concern of “would God wonder how It could exist, like humans can (and then have to displace on to a “god”). I eventually realized it was no different than “can God make a stone too heavy for Him to lift?” And i guess it’s no different than “can an ego have the ambition to disappear?”! I’m glad too to rejoin the Truth of (N)One.
September 13, 2015 @ 11:12 pm
When we fail–if we fail badly enough, like I did–surrender occurs spontaneously.
September 11, 2015 @ 3:10 pm
A fine interview and his statement about meditation, “whenever you’re not manipulating reality, you’re meditating” cuts like a laser through cloudiness. Funny we just talked about it too. Fresh and juicy!
September 11, 2015 @ 3:23 pm
Correction! He said “manipulating your experience…” You can’t manipulate reality. It is.
September 13, 2015 @ 11:08 pm
Hey, Robin. He’s very clear.