Adyashanti - Sensing what you are 

Michelangelo once said when asked how he made the statue of David appear so lifelike, that " it was quite easy. I simply chiseled away everything that he wasn't and then he appeared."

It only took me ~18 years after dramatically awakening *from* the me to get to the directly sensing what remains part he’s pointing to 😂. I can remember hearing him say things just like this and just having no idea what was being pointed to beyond the boundary of thought. Even after realizing you are not the me in your thoughts, the mind still tries to form a new updated concept of self and reality. Over and over. Even after there‘s a sensory knowing of what’s here, of the empty awake space that’s always here, the mind can try to draw a new updated picture. But any concept draws boundaries inside that space and will eventually collide with what’s outside the line it has drawn. Until perhaps that exhausts itself and the gps in the brain finally stops searching for a location and the scale tips from looking for conceptual knowing to just an endless flow of stuff arising in an open space that never closes with no self in any particular location. The born flowing through the unborn to put it in spiritual language. Good luck to all and keep going!

Thank you thank you thank you 🙂🙏♥️

Bernadette Roberts was the greatest mystic of all time. She was opposed to the word transformation because she never felt anything being changed but only falling away. All of a sudden, something has changed and you are somehow less.

The goal is to bring an end to playing 'ping-pong' with yourself . a thought arises from one 'player' and the other player says that thought is not real ...... we are the third player/observer observing the other two stooges playing ping-pong. we are the silent one .

Such a compassionate and appropriate response.

I would love to know the 870 people who 👍 this video 😊❤

learning to stop asking the questions. Life without a story.

This one is amazing.

The Stripped Down Version of Awakening: Naked Through the Gate You can take from this world only that which you have brought in. Only that which cannot be taken away by death is real. Everything else is unreal. It is made of the same stuff dreams are made of. -Osho The awakening process can be stripped down to your own sense of being present as you become aware of yourself as a presence of consciousness perceiving things in your own world. This presence of consciousness with its own sense of being present as it perceives things in its own world is called I Am or the Self. That presence of perceiving consciousness is what you come to know yourself to be as you begin to awaken. You know that you are here now because you have the sense of being present as you perceive things in the world in the present moment. The problem is that when you look within, you cannot find yourself as the perceiver of things. You cannot find yourself in the sense of being another thing that you can perceive as you perceive things. Even as you look within, the perceiver of things cannot be found, and yet you have the sense of being present as you perceive things. When you look within, you can perceive your thoughts, memories, beliefs, feelings, emotional states, and even your own self-concepts, but those things can't be what you really are because they're just more stuff that you can perceive. You have the sense of being present as the perceiving consciousness that perceives all that stuff, but when you look within, you can't find yourself as the perceiver. Once you've removed all the stuff that you can perceive from your field of view, all that's left is silence, emptiness and nothingness, like the empty space of a room from which all the furnishings have been removed, and yet your own sense of being present remains within this empty space. You still have your own sense of being present as a presence of perceiving consciousness even when you don't perceive anything else. Even if you remove everything from your field of view and perceive nothing, your sense of being present remains. The essential nature of the problem is you cannot perceive yourself as the perceiver of things in the sense of being another thing. Your own perceiving consciousness is not-a-thing that you can perceive, and yet you remain aware of this nothingness with your own sense of being present. You remain aware of your own sense of being present even when you perceive nothing. The only way you can awaken to the truth of what you really are is if you continue to focus your attention on your own sense of being present even as you become willing to perceive nothing else. You must stabilize your attention on your own sense of being present and remain aware of yourself in the sense of being present as a presence of perceiving consciousness even as you become willing to perceive nothing else. Remaining aware of your own sense of being present as you perceive nothing is the whole trick of passing through the gateless gate and awakening. You can only pass through the gateless gate if you are naked of all things. The only thing you can take with you as you pass through the gate is your own sense of being present, which is not-a-thing. Your willingness to remain aware of your own sense of being present while you perceive nothing is your willingness to look into the darkness. The darkness is the Source of the light of consciousness illuminating the world you perceive, but you cannot find yourself or discover your true nature in that world. The perceiver of things cannot be found in the perceivable world that it perceives. Like Neo in the Matrix, you have to put on your dark glasses and become willing to look into the darkness. The awakening process is only about stripping everything away until you perceive nothing while you remain aware of your own sense of being present. You have to remove everything from the room you occupy until there is nothing left to perceive in the room except for empty space. Even the walls of the room have to be removed. The reason you surrender to divine will is to undergo the death-rebirth transformation. You have to die in identity to the embodied form of a person you perceive and be reborn of the spirit. That spirit is your own perceiving consciousness that you become aware of with your own sense of being present. The reason you detach yourself from things is so you can know yourself to be a non-identified detached witness of things and see things from a higher level of consciousness with a sense of distance and detachment. Once you see that all the things you perceive in your world are only illusions, including the person you take yourself to be, you lose interest in paying attention to an illusion. When you withdraw your attention away from the illusion, you also withdraw your investment of emotional energy in the illusion that animates the illusion. That is how you become desireless. When you shift the focus of your attention onto your own sense of being present and look within into the emptiness of your own being while in this desireless state, you are stripping away everything you can perceive down to the nothingness of empty space. Not only does the room you occupy become empty of things, but even the walls of the room disappear. The walls of the room and everything that appears in the room were only holographic illusions created by the energy the Self expends due to its motion in its accelerated frame of reference. Those illusions disappear in an ultimate state of freefall. The walls of the room, which is a holographic screen, is the only thing that creates a sense of limitation and divides the Self from its true undivided nature. That limitation and division comes to an end in an ultimate state of freefall. This experience of falling into the void is the self-destructive process of ego-death that leads to the experience of No-self. When the individual being of the Self becomes desireless and selfless and the world of things it perceives disappears from existence, the gateless gate opens. The divided being of the Self, the sense of being present, the sense of I Am, returns to, reunites itself with and dissolves into the undivided being of No-self. See the Science and Nonduality website for a scientific discussion along the lines of the holographic principle of modern physics of this ultimate truth of what you are: scienceandnonduality.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/what-is-real/ or read the PDF document: scienceandnonduality.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/what-is-real-14.pdf

Now this is a good one!

So good. Perfect. ❤

Just thanks.

such a soothing voice he has

enlightenment comes when you become aware of all the things you were hypnotized by

sense =) and don't think! Thank you Adya!

So good!

adyashanti has it! love em

love it

Great great and true clip! ❤️

When you say the I dont know, try to "feel" or experience the thing in you that doesn't age. It's nothing, but lack of a better word you can still feel it. When you say I dont know that means in other words you dont know what it is because its what you are, feel it and dont claim ownership of the experience you are the experience its(self)😇

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So true and so helpful! Thank you!

It's not easy because the silence is terrifying and I feel like I'm going to die or have a heart attack.

Thank you

smoking a joint an listen too Adyashanti is fucking niiiiaaace :D

surely we're all 3 at the same time.. but only 1 of them is real and lasting, the silent one.

Lesson 12 I am upset because I see a meaningless world. The importance of this idea lies in the fact that it contains a correction for a major perceptual distortion. You think that what upsets you is a frightening world, or a sad world, or a violent world, or an insane world. All these attributes are given it by you. The world is meaningless in itself. These exercises are done with eyes open. Look around you, this time quite slowly. Try to pace yourself so that the slow shifting of your glance from one thing to another involves a fairly constant time interval. Do not allow the time of the shift to become markedly longer or shorter, but try, instead, to keep a measured, even tempo throughout. What you see does not matter. You teach yourself this as you give whatever your glance rests on equal attention and equal time. This is a beginning step in learning to give them all equal value. As you look about you, say to yourself: I think I see a fearful world, a dangerous world, . . . a hostile world, . . . a sad world, . . . a wicked world, . . . a crazy world, . . . and so on, using whatever descriptive terms happen to occur to you. If terms which seem positive rather than negative occur to you, include them. For example, you might think of "a good world," or "a satisfying world." If such terms occur to you, use them along with the rest. You may not yet understand why these "nice" adjectives belong in these exercises but remember that a "good world" implies a "bad" one, and a "satisfying world" implies an "unsatisfying" one. All terms which cross your mind are suitable subjects for today's exercises. Their seeming quality does not matter. Be sure that you do not alter the time intervals between applying today's idea to what you think is pleasant and what you think is unpleasant. For the purposes of these exercises, there is no difference between them. At the end of the practice period, add: But I am upset because I see a meaningless world. What is meaningless is neither good nor bad. Why, then, should a meaningless world upset you? If you could accept the world as meaningless and let the truth be written upon it for you, it would make you indescribably happy. But because it is meaningless, you are impelled to write upon it what you would have it be. It is this you see in it. It is this that is meaningless in truth. Beneath your words is written the Word of God. The truth upsets you now, but when your words have been erased, you will see His. That is the ultimate purpose of these exercises. Three or four times is enough for practicing the idea for today. Nor should the practice periods exceed a minute. You may find even this too long. Terminate the exercises whenever you experience a sense of strain.

I've been flatlined for six years...only one year, really?

In my experience, not even that (very good) description of yours, is good enough to describe who we are, because if you've noticed the "silent one", who is noticing him? that means there was something before the "silent one". What is that? That's very tricky. :-) Peace and love

Wow❤🎉😂🙏🌈💙

shit! thank you adya! namaste

via negativa.

Who is the one reading this comment? lol

I am mr nobody who are you reading this

Is that true?