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

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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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