Adyashanti Excerpt - The Power of the Dark Night

[@DanielBepunkt]

Wow, what a great shift in my mind to name it as "dark night of the ego/will" instead of "dark night of the soul"... It points more to the core of what is really going on there... Never seen it that way. Thank you, Adya! It helps a lot to accept it and to open up!

[@theequatableskeptic8148]

Spirituality should have a warning ⚠️ Just like sugar, tobacco and alcohol packets do. ‘Gone gone gone to the other shore, on having never left’

[@lisadunn7335]

Truth

[@jordangould1541]

Adyashanti has to be one of the the wisest human beings alive

[@lazanijaa]

Wisdom is in the heart. When we are committed to our heart we committed to our light and love.

[@foogentog]

The wisdom comes from god. It’s transmitted through adya’s talents.. he certainly is a precise and meticulous speaker, while remaining simple enough to easily follow. Gods wisdom can come through to any of us, and it is completely different when it comes straight through you from God, rather than just hearing words about it from one of his bodies. Adya is trying to point you toward where god will come through to you for yourself. It’s the same wise god intelligence coming through him that wants to say hi directly to you, but you have to let god in. It grants wisdom that makes things so clear and obvious that it’s beyond doubt.

[@amsa9742]

Yes he is definitely channeling something greater than him alone.....how wonderful to be alive in this time with such awake people and their teachings accessible

[@squamish4244]

He's simple and direct without being simplistic. No trick answers or 'Zen talk' with him. He's done a lot to demystify what enlightenment is and strip it from the traditional gobblegook.

[@squamish4244]

I have been enduring a Dark Night for 16 friggin years. It was triggered in 2006 by a massive breakdown on psychedelics and then a year later I got hooked on Valium and everything got gummed up in the works. Yet even so. The drug use has been intermittent, and here in 2022 I am still suffering from existential anguish. A deep, dark, black ball of fear in the gut. A subtle drain on all my energy that keeps me locked up in a small life in a bundle of fear. And I have gotten SO MUCH help. Doctors, healers, teachers, meditation, neurofeedback, detox, IV therapy. Everything under the sun. I have had kundalini syndrome for 14 years and a crazy whirl of energy this year forcing its way out of my head periodically. Something big has got to be going on in my subtle energy system/unconscious mind that's heading for a shift in my conscious mind. So i just keep going and waiting for something to budge. But we'll see, won't we?

[@RVEEATOR]

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[@Jacadz]

Great help to hear this. I suddenly fell into "hell" after having a huge ecstatic awakening. I had no idea what had happened in the first place and was unable to function for several months. But it was essential in taking me into the depths of being and having to function without my usual operates. I had no teacher or teaching and thirty years later these experiences are being explained so beautiful by Adyashanti. xx

[@mothmos]

does it naturally go away (the dark night phase) or did you have to 'do' something?

[@tiborpiri]

@@mothmos For me full acceptance, allowing it to be as it is helped - and helping whenever something arises. The 'do' part is recognizing what is, recognizing if there is a resistance (or sometimes fear), allowing the resistance (fear) and when any side feeling or reaction dissolves to allowing, be and observ the main experience. Acceptance and allowing is not a 'doing' but a giving up of the resistance and/or fighting, urge and action of running away. These are not 'doing' either, but I do not have words to describe :) The closest concept is to 'be' mindful of what is happening.

[@foogentog]

mothmos relax into it

[@foogentog]

It takes time though. Incremental improvements for me.

[@ThriveWithLouise]

i went through that hell feeling couples of times. its horrible.but my last awakening recentely was the best for the first time, not really an ecstacy feeling more just peace of mind, clarity feeling present, a joyful feeling, my ptsd also went with it

[@bluesage1528]

Oh what a relief, what a healing to hear this

[@pamelajonesmd]

Jouseph, Bless you for posting this and the link to the full talk. It has been very very helpful. For those lost in the Dark Night it provides a lifeline to have an explanation and confirmation of the process. It can be a long and rocky path and Adyashanti has proven to be an excellent teacher and guide.

[@theglowjob.]

what was the talk called? the link does not work anymore :(

[@Starstorm111]

I had a traumatic childhood. Too much to type but, psycopath mother.. and I was adopted as a teen. After 12 ys of therapy and the last 3 of psychoanalysis I had this “thought “ that was NOT mine but came into my consciousness. It said: “You have to go thru the great journey of the river of the 1000 waterfalls. You gonna suffer a lot but the exit is on the other side.” A month or so later it started. This was a year ago. I spend most of my time alone. It’s been crazy and it still is. Purging childhood trauma, being with 0 emotionall support from anyone. No family no partner. Not recognizing my old self at all. I lost the connection with that person I was. I went from the void to highly emotional and very lost internally. Very isolated and I can not stand people nor society so it’s as a prision. I don’t want to be alone but I can not Stand being around others. Some days I’m hopeful others terrified. I get thoughts of higher realm feeling me I’m not alone and “they” are with me. Other days I get intrusive evil thoughts. It’s just too painful to feel out of life. Completely disconnected from life energy. I hope I’ll be back .. cause it’s just too much, too deep and complex and the most terrifying, too lonely and isolated.

[@tarunarora2312]

oh God such a relief u hv offered to me in such testing times. Thank u so much fr hvng uploaded ds one God bless

[@jixie_93]

Dark night of the will. I first experienced this in my 20's and certainly didnt recognize it that way! Here I am 40 years later and realize that life has again and again presented me with the same type of situation and I have always taken it as a put down of myself, a self denigration, low self esteem etc. This talk has given me much to think about and ponder... I wish he went on to talk about how to reframe and how to surrender...

[@Comeoriginal08]

This sucks so bad, haha. I don't know how much longer I can take it, my outward situation just keeps getting worse. I'm trying so hard to stay positive but it's so hard when so many emotions are coming up and I keep getting a setback after setback.. :(

[@rumpsugg]

how are you now?

[@Comeoriginal08]

rumpsugg Really really good! That dark night was the worst I have ever been through but in the end, the clouds parted and I advanced in every area of my life. I'm really grateful for it today, but it was really hard at the time.

[@tc88101]

So happy for you Comeoriginal08, I am just making my way through it right now :) So funny how everything just suddenly feels lighter and lifts away lmao

[@pfacontractor1573]

Comeoriginal08 : that's how its suppose to be. Its called the Dark night of the soul

[@squamish4244]

Were you on medication?

[@misskaistar]

ON POINT!!! On my search for the definition of; you pin it down to a tee!!Cuz all the research I was doing, i thought i was down with this New Age thang in the previous life or.something. Now i know it's being a floaty, yet persists in the knowing. Thanks! HIIIIIGH 5

[@melzization]

Hello Jouseph, thank you so much for sharing this Adya talk. I only found him recently and I love how he is able to articulate spiritual and subtle realities. Thanks beautiful souls for sharing your dark night experience in the comments, it has been very similar for me, where I didn't have a teacher as my will and ego began to dissolve along with the rest of my life. I like what he says about how difficult this can be and that it is relative to your level of resistance. As Eckhart says 'resist nothing'. Like many here, 10 years later and I'm finally understanding what has happened. Thank you Adyashanti and so much love to all xx

[@robertleslie5741]

Trying to hold an inflated beach ball under the water is tiring. Whatever we resist persists. The moment I learned to let go, I felt the freedom just to be.

[@QuantumSatsang]

The link to the full talk is not available anymore, does anyone have the full talk anywhere? I really need to hear this

[@mixxestudio3887]

thank you

[@SuperObamaladen]

What's the difference between this and a extreme lower Chakras blockage?

[@moonsod1113]

And what about those who are really enlightened, way beyond awakening, who become completely detached from life, apart, with a sense of constant well-being in a transcendent state entrenched in emptiness, being nothing, and then find life is meaningless and pointless even though you have a constant sense of infinitude and the mind is silent; the Self is always there, but there is the paradox at the other end of the pole as the lost personality which has lost its meaning and becomes rootless and depressed, even though your meditation remains amazing. And yet you are lifeless.

[@ahrimanic7]

Awakening is not always love and light and eternal bliss. One can be condemned to living as a ghost trapped in a body that forgot to die when the personality itself made the transition, albeit prematurely. It is a living death, not so tragic but certainly quite aimless. The cosmic carrot has been caught. Without this hidden, transcendent goal, life becomes quite empty indeed. Be careful what you wish for.

[@valerieh2014]

Jeffrey Moore What do you mean ... could you say more

[@jondo6983]

Valerie Hiniker awakening is horrifying... everything you feel or EVER felt was real isn't...all of your humanity dies life becomes death and death becomes life... you become and nobody (detached from body because you know it is a corpse) and a nothing (you are no longer a thing or a person just formlessness) and you become an embodiment of eternity(think about what you were before you were born) and death and you can't go back. This is freedom liberation enlightenment. I know because I have consciously under gone the process. In fact it is what is happening to all of us all the time but the enlightened ones witness it with eyes wide open no distractions. It's an immense act of bravery and the only human dignity to be found in the unalterable human condition. Also you don't have to wish for it.... it is an inescapable given. YOU ARE IN IT AS WE SPEAK... SEE IT OR BE BLIND IS THE ONLY FREE WILL WE HAVE. Do you get it my fellow soul?

[@sitarainbow8837]

Believing there's some sort of endpoint - being awakened or enlightened - may play a part. There are no endings or beginnings in eternity/infinity, just things cycling, hopefully on a spiral stairway into higher consciousness, higher frequency. We ascend or descend it based on our free-will choices. That being the case, there are no "enlightened" ones, no "awakened" ones, just eternal, infinite NowHere moments which most of us do not fully occupy. To the extent we're in the mind, we're either off into the future or back in the past - not fully Present. Many mistake the mind as the tool for enlightenment, but it's the wrong tool for the job. Instead, we discover it's Heart, the portal into the nothing that is pregnant with All That Is. The hardest thing is to turn the reins over to Heart, to ignore mind most of the time. Words can't contain or convey any of this, just present its shadows & pointers to it. We learn to listen - & speak - via Heart, which amounts to letting Heart speak & run the show that is our lifetime. Many make it to the nexus of That, but don't cross into it due to their reliance on the mind, their need to understand what's going on. We can "understand" from this or that perspective, but in 3D it's all relative, so nothing is solid, equally applicable to all. ~♥~ PS The only thing available (to the mind) is *relative truth.* This journal goes into that - medium.com/@deepthink8/what-is-truth-51228812e7cb

[@Facetsofbeing]

If we are suffering alot from what we 'discovered', there is little doubt the conceptual mind is busy making judgements. All of that is the conceptual mind commenting. The nature of reality itself is neither good nor bad, at the deepest level. Regarding the role of the conceptual mind I agree with much of what Sita Rainbow above said. ESPECIALLY that the conceptual mind is not what experiences realisation. It is basic awareness itself that experiences reality directly. Then the conceptual mind comes in with all its interpretations. These interpretations can be quite specific to the individual. And can interpret things as good or bad with equal arbitrariness.

[@jousephtailler3242]

Assuming I won't get in trouble for uploading these, I would like to provide an excerpt from his online radio talk from the start of the year, Finding the Capacity to Heal, next. I mean, it's free advertisement.

[@pinkifloyd7867]

+Jouseph Tailler Thanks for the link, it's affordable and quick and I'm at a point where I wish I never got started 30 years ago. They didn't warn me about this and if I had known I'm not sure would do it again because ignorance was crazy but more fun...,this audio kind of helps me deal with what nobody wants to tell you, maybe because it isn't easy to put in words.

[@rumpsugg]

+Peace and Love how are you doing?

[@pinkifloyd7867]

I bought it, but I have to keep listening to it, it’s weird how fast I forget what he says and have to go back to it. Geeezzzz !!!

[@innocentdevil1122]

@@pinkifloyd7867 Can u please email me this audio clip....i m going through this phase right now and dont have enough money to buy this audio...this would be a great help and i will always be grateful to you. Thank you

[@3mindgame]

It appears to me that we can meet our Ego limitation in many different types relationship. Not necessarily spiritual, work,personal, school.

[@lazanijaa]

3mindgame relationship can awaken us more than sitting and meditating

[@Kimoto504]

What about when both depression and the dark night are at play?

[@Kimoto504]

Thanks for the replies. the Universe hasn't seen fit to give me anyone who's particularly helpful. Maybe one or two somewhat receptive but not very available. Actually lots of unhelpful and harmful ones so have no choice but to be with it all alone for the most part... Far more contempt and disregard than understanding.

[@ziccman]

Excellent talk !

[@aprilbrandao4925]

Thank you for the great info !!!❤ Namaste !!!❤

[@karinahoed1614]

❤

[@tiborpiri]

Could you please send me the name/title or source of the whole talk? The link below the video is not working.

[@Sigillum22]

Why do you need to know?

[@christopherlaro4156]

If you cant serve others and leap out of the self/ego on what path ur on, start a new path. Have a death n move on into servitude. Everyones depressed. Everyone. The dark night is on going. Accept it. Lean in and again-SERVE. You dont matter. Peace.

[@garethjones6880]

Thanks so much, this was great... Is there other bits to this?

[@jousephtailler3242]

Gareth Jones Yes. I don't want to get in trouble for uploading the whole thing, so I put a link to where you can buy the audio in the description.

[@albesayz]

Awesome talk. Does anyone have the full version?

[@lazanijaa]

I ruined my awakening. Was running from my darkness.

[@andreac647]

I don't think that is possible 🙂

[@briandottcom]

@@andreac647 Sure it's possible. You can run, run, run, but you can't stop, because you can't hide ;-)

[@maltsday]

How did you run from it?

[@lisac8509]

The dark night of the soul happens in ONE night. It is not just a lo g time of depression.

[@User98681]

False mine and many others last years