Transcendence as a Stage in Awakening - Adyashanti 

and more, why paraphrase something so epic?

First mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. Then mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.

Whew!! I just recently watched a couple of that dudes videos. Pretty scary actually. I don't see much difference between that scene and David Koresh et al.

Enlightened ego is definitely a thing. Adi da, Sai Baba. All these guys ended up believing they are a messiah.

Maybe try praying to God, believe me it will help you a lot more then this bullshit

@Armenias Thunk i think you were born 2000 years to late

J Cove i have beautiful transcendent moments.. and i love them! Then there are the less transendent moments and yo just come back to usual suffering liek anxiety or depression. but that transcendent is always there somewhere!

J Cove one more thing.. i am terrified of death! If you can offer any advice i would take it!

+Simon0 The advice is to always ask the question, who is anxious and who is going to die? What were you before you realized that you are, perhaps at the age of three of four? Or ask yourself to describe who you are without the use of words or images. It is not even asking that you must do, but rather making anything you can to question the validity of who you actually think you are, like you must be strong enough to take back the punches that will surely be sending you back to the square one, but you must firmly establish yourself and stand strong in the I am. Realize that no matter what you do you are dead already, and in few hundred years not even one person will be aware of you ever being on this planet, not even if you were a famous one, these times are gone, besides what do we really know about any of the important personas of the past, aren't their reputations shaped by the ever flactuating subjective nature of human history? Read I AM THAT by Nisargadatta Maharaj and allow the existence to guide you along tilll you awaken, but prior to that you must ponder and question your very nature, and remember, that you only have one shot! Don't get caught in any idea, not even the idea of God almighty or reincarnation, as these too are only concepts and words and symbols and letters and sounds, but the reality is just beyond. Now now now now now, you know what I mean? Ask questions like, does the reality thinks or cares, does it conceptualize like we humans do? Some people awaken through relatively easy dropping off of their false self, but most are bound to war for it! Deep in your heart plant the idea that you are already enlightened, visualize vividly and tangibly yourself in the state of awakeness in most awkward situations of your daily life, and it will soon dawn on you that all is imaginedanyway and I mean everything! You will also discover that your most frightening states of anxiety are in fact your deep deep moments of surrender, in which you will be falling on your knees, anywhere, even in public toilet if there isn't a better choice. Falling on your knees in bliss you will, where you used to fall apart in fear, and you will laugh and cry at the same time. Question, ponder and fight, until one day you see your foot in the door deep enough to go beyond. Namaste.

@@dogeeen Wow. I loved reading this. I had some of this thoughts myself lately. Not only thoughts but real feeling of them. I can feel how my biggest suffering if viewed correctly can be the bliss. I had exact moments you describe. Falling to my knees, crying and laughing at the same time. Only to find myself trying to grab and own those moments. Its really fine "work" to be able to recognise the ego trying to own it. Coz I found myself in the same circle again and again. Now I feel like my big wobble is kind of settling down. Strangely enough when this video started I had this realisation. And I even stopped paying attention to what Adya was saying untill the point when he actually said the very same thing I thought of at the biggening of his talk. Anyway, thank you for this comment. It made my day. Namaste!! 💗🌼