When you See Adya speak in person, how he scans the room and how he answers questions, but also in the message itself, you can sense a deep peace that he has attained. The authenticity of his being is inspiring.
I recall reading about the Czech psychiatrist Stanislavsky Grof writing about seeing emotional “breakdowns” as “spiritual crises.” Anyhoo, great work with this woman and for reminding us of the suffering that resistance causes!
This is so helpful and insightful. Adya shows such in-depth understanding and compassion. He expresses himself with such clarity. Also his voice is very soothing and calming.
As I head to my next retreat with Adya, this offers a great reminder of the nature of this mind and how crafty it can be in scaring itself! Thank you for posting.
When we are not practicing aversion, we can jump through hopes and fears in the moment if the context and context of our experience is ripe. We learn to "hope" and that we need to do that when things go awry. Conventionally, it is fine to utilize certain kinds of hope as skillful means, but the nature of hope is related to fear. We can hope that something happens and fear that it won't, etc. Those are common and pervasive projections into the future, of course. We can fear things may get worse and hope they improve. Some insight into that can reveal the strong addiction to the imagined future as we try to satiate a craving for certainty and outcomes. One can wean, at the very least, from anchoring self and reality in that common pair of expectations. Simply noticing it can initiate the release from it since worry and desire, (which are future based) are another subset of the two. Now, that is not any kind of advice, especially for someone in crisis. Awareness of both context and contents is a matter of appropriate response to suffering. However, it is a potentially insightful contemplation concerning the nature of duality and the dynamics of the mind which can be mirror-like. There may be an "Aha!" in there for some. Maybe so.
That's the thing with happiness it just comes...cherish the times when it does...just be the best you can be....understand yourself and just do the best that you can do...i also find that improving one's nutrition(get those vitamins in) and making sure you get adequate rest is important to being your best
Life has ups and downs...it is a journey...i tend not to put attachment on my feelings..if they come they come..if they go they go...pain and sorrow can be helpful...it can make you stronger...make you more aware...just be...don't force anything ..just be..who you are makes a difference
If you want to argue from a neurological viewpoint, the Orch-OR theory postulates that the brain is a quantum computer and that information is sent back in time to compensate for the delay - or it would be more correct to say that time does not exist on a quantum level and the concept of a delay is meaningless. The theory was developed by highly respected physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff and has some experimental support. Determined materialists are enraged by it.
I would like to check back in on this woman in a year or two (or ten) and see if she did indeed experience the breakthrough that Adya talks about. Some do, some don't. Unfortunately, I took this sort of advice to think my suffering was purifying me when what I really needed was good medical help. It set me back years. It's a point I've rarely heard him address - sometimes you need more than "just let go".
***** Well, in my case, I was struggling with an addiction, and I thought the psychological roller-coaster of the addiction was purifying me, when really it was just my out-of-control nervous system going haywire. All my meditation was having no effect, it was like pushing a boulder uphill only to have it roll down again. In my case, yes, removing the addiction allowed the underlying cause to be permanently cleansed, I have become much more emotionally stable and clear-headed since. So yes, I believe the treatment did reach places Adyashanti is going for. It is clear from what I have seen of spiritual teachers, including Adya, that a lot of them do not understand addiction, nor do they approach spirituality from a neurological or physiological perspective. Technological limitations made it impossible to do so until very recently, and the various spiritual paths suffered as a result.
@102435317555667828517 This is where skillful means come in. A central criticism of neo-Advaita teachers like Adyashanti is they don't really provide effective advice on what to actually DO. It's all well and good to say there is nothing to do and nobody to do it, but here we are, needing to do quite a lot to move forward. I myself work with energy healers to help dislodge the powerful mental and emotional knots in my mind, I do neurofeedback, I have a brainwave entrainment device to help me concentrate while meditating, and I do hot yoga, an intense form of workout that is both meditative and cleansing. As more technologies become available I will make use of them as well.
***** Have you looked at Shinzen Young's 'Five Ways to Know Yourself?' Very systematic approach and he even conducts conference call meditations. Also take a look at the Consciousness Hacking movement and Buddhist Geeks, I think they really are where all this is going. 20 years is too much time to spend and not have felt you made progress, I'm sorry to hear that.
i agree with you to an extent, if you followed adyas advice consistently it might work, but some people have too much stuff and will go too much back into their egos. i think a combination of some psychiatry/medical help, but simultaneously still being grounded in your spiritual practise, depending on the person, doing a combination of both whilst following you heart. this is from personal experience.
@@lilia2440 For most people, there is simply too much shit in the way to go Adya's path. Or many of us would be on his level, which is very far from the truth. Probably less than one percent of society as on his level. Look at all the shit that happened in the three+ years since you posted this comment. We are not advancing fast enough. Brain-computer interfaces like what Elon Musk is working on present exciting possibilites. What if we could switch on/turn off parts or patterns in the brain, like the Default Mode Network, which is responsible for the constant chattering mind? Deep brain stimulation has already had remarkable success in shutting off the chattering mind for terminally ill cancer patients, with the result that they often don't need any painkillers (!) until the last few weeks of their lives.
Look into Willoughby Britton’s work on the dangers of meditation. No one talks about it, but some people go on these intensive meditation retreats and have very serious mental breakdowns, like this women.
I try and watch this video but my mind is so distracted, I'm in sheer paralyzed traumatized overwhelming panic. I've got no money. what the fuck am I going to do? I'm in terror. I am absolutely desperate for a miracle...
@Countrychiddler - the now cant evade you, it is always here and now! nor can awareness be faulty. look to see where you're attention is. is it on the present moment, or on matters of the mind?
Fear is not only in the mind. The mind may be a senior component in the process. But it has no power to overcome the fear inherent in bodily existance.
If it’s that bad, maybe medical help is what you need. It’s not shameful, it’s normal, it’s ok. It really is. Awareness will still be there when the time comes for spiritual awakening. Take care of yourself.
I get mixed messages here: First he says the fear is the mind, the bully, that is doing everything it can to get you back away and not go deeper into your experience and into the truth. He talks about it as an opponent. Like, this fear is trying to prevent your seeing, freedom, expansion, spiritual development, don’t listen to it. As if it didn’t carry any deeper truth. Then he talks about totally admitting it’s there, giving it full permission to be here right here right now, I’m afraid, I’m anxious.. don’t fight or try to change it. As if it is the deeper thing that we need to experience. First it’s an opponent keeping you from your deeper seeing and feeling, not to be allowed. Then it is the deeper truth that needs to be felt and allowed. I’m not asking what to do with it, just an observation, or interpretation.
Samuel RODRIGUEZ-PEREZ it can get to a point where only a movement of grace can resolve it.. Anything you do, doesn't help... The best thing I've found is the will gets widdled down to nothing, to the point you can't hold on anymore. That's my experience, some 16 years ago now i was overwhelmed by sheer terror. Over a period of a month or so, to the point where i was even afraid to close my eyes for fear of being sucked into the void haha. Well for some reason i then just walked up the stairs and lay on my bed and as soon as i closed my eyes i felt the subtle gasping onto existing itself fall away and there was just total void.. no objects object...no perception...nothing but consciousness, but not of anything. That then opened up into subtle states within the inconvenience i guess and then went back into nothingness... kind of demonstrating that consciousness isn't limited and is the source from which all states are modifications of itself.. then it was like being in the presence of this great and divine being and suddenly realizing or remembering 'oh this is Me!".. just then sensory perceptions returned, the sound of a bird...but the bird was singing in this Me i am, as a modification of itself. All perceptions were like that, like the world reborn as consciousness or something. One of the biggest insights that come of it was not to be afraid, the terror is really a call from ones true being to "give up all dharmas snd come to Me" as Krishna apparently said in the Gita. Its Grace but we project demons.. that's why we cling to existence.
@@michaelmcclure3383 thank you Michaelmcclure3383, I did not see this mesage before, it could be helpful in that time, so after many years dealing with this immense fear, and being able to practice lot of things among them ACIM, Meditation, Yoga, I'm just seeing what you said and/or the sunlight at the end of the tunnel. I could have some experiences of my real conciesness, I could see that my terror was since I was completly identify with my little self, my ego or my little character so once I could be able to see my self as the place where everything was happening that was it, I could see I will never die, my story or little character will just go, the real awareness is a completly safe place. I can tell anybody being into this dreathful fear that it is all a trick of the mind, a joke, we are never in real danger, ever. this realization is freedom is salvation! .. sometimes (as in my case) it takes time, lot of self love, tears, tons hard work!.. but gonna make it, we are safe!
Really? All of the people who lose their fear of death - dying is the cessation of bodily existence, so that's about as bodily as it gets. If you're talking about the fear necessary to avoid getting hit by a car or just being alert to keep this body alive, that is a very limited form of fear. It can't produce the kind of reaction that the woman in this video is having or that most of us are here to learn how to transcend.
If the "now" is so great why is it still just a vision of the past? All these romantic visions of "the Now" take a fraction of time to reach the brain. Therefore "Now" is already "the Past".
Countrychiddler that’s not correct. He’s not speaking about thoughts, what you are talking about are thoughts ABOUT the now, not the now itself. The now itself has nothing to do with the thinking mind. It is not an interpretation, it is BEFORE all of the interpreting that can happen.
Now is not vision of the past. Now is absence of the thought. Now is the only real thing. Past and future are just mental constructs of your mind. To get into illusion of the time you have to start thinking. Without thinking there is no future and there is no past. Without thinking there is no time at all. Only now.
you have it wrong. You are conceptualising this in the frame of 'clock time'. The 'now' is outside of time. what people do is live in the present moment. Which is experiencing everything that happens as it arises in your field of awareness. This is not the past in this sense.
Your missing the point. What good is conventional knowledge about what your attention is up to. And isn't logic about as limited as a human brain crunching numbers?
You missed the point. It takes a fraction of a second for the "now" to reach the brain. That's where the fault lies. You can't count on you own perception because it is always after the fact. And you can say it's some miniscule measurement in linear time but ........? Everybodies aware, awareness can be colored by many shades of illusion. There is no argument we can produce that amounts to the Truth.
