Adyashanti on the Process and Experience of Awakening (part 1)

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

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🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Adyashanti is a renowned and gifted spiritual teacher. He's written many books, hosts meditation retreats and speaks around the world to large audiences at a time. With such a wide audience, it's amazing that when you experience Adya's teaching, it's as if he's speaking directly to you - to your very heart. Whatever your experience with or preconceived notions of spiritual awakening, allow yourself to re-engage with the idea through this interview. As you turn the inquiry towards yourself this time, you may be surprised, moved and/or transformed by what you find - if you are brutally honest in the process.our inner life.

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In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss...

Eric's awakening experience
The awakened state in perpetuity
The shift in perception that happens with awakening
The paradox of wanting something like awakening yet wanting it stands in the way of having it
Will gets you to the cushion and once there, it's important to let go of it
Does one need a spiritual teacher when seeking awakening?
The teacher evoking something from vs the teacher giving something to the student
How people work with unconscious patterns
How you can't not be awakened - even if you don't feel it, it's there
Emotional conflict
Paying attention to what's recurring in you
Anything that's happened to us that was too big for us to remain conscious while we experienced it, gets trapped in our system - turned into some other emotion or it just gets stuffed and is now just there waiting for you. The universe is now asking, "can you experience this now?"
Being fine with being sad
Let everything be exactly the way it is
How dealing with life's experiences as they come transforms you
A clinched fist vs an open hand metaphor
"Let" vs "Let go"
If you can't let it go, can you let it be
Failure as part of triumph
Failing your way through something consciously can cause a sort of transformation
What it looks like to build a spiritual practice
Daily quiet meditation, Engage in some precise self-inquiry (a wonderment of "being")
How spirituality is the direct investigation of YOUR experience
The only way to get self-inquiry wrong is not to be ruthlessly honest about what's happening in your experience
The fear of getting something wrong
Think of your spiritual teacher kind of like a college professor

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0:00.0	If I could get somebody in a room with me and just do a moment of magic and have them
0:04.3	awakened and stay that way, that's what I would do, right?
0:07.2	We would just start a McDonald's of awakening.
0:17.8	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:19.9	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
0:24.6	like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:30.0	And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:34.3	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.
0:39.0	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:41.9	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:45.4	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:48.8	It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:53.7	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how
0:58.1	they feed their good wolf.
1:15.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:16.2	Our guest on this episode, for the second time in history, I believe, Adia Shanti.
1:20.6	The guest was the 166th episode that we did.
1:26.4	He's the author of The Way of Liberation, Falling Into Grace, True Meditation and The End
1:32.1	of Your World.
1:33.9	Adia Shanti is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all
1:38.4	beings.
1:39.4	His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire and recognize what is true in liberating
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