Adyashanti on the notion of Self

[@popularmmepic1584]

Dude is so accurate and so hysterical. The cost of popcorn? Love it. Truth can be seen by normal everyday people. He is a shining example of this.

[@DarkMoonDroid]

4:26 I tried to speak without referring to myself. No "I". No "me". I lapsed into speaking in the 3rd person. I spoke about the Jennifer Event. I tried so many things. But the thing itself was real and felt (I don't know who felt it) and all inquires (I don't know who was inquiring) about how to language it were frustrated. This wasn't a matter of, trying this as a "spiritual practice" or a "spiritual exercise". It was neither spiritual nor an exercise. I (I don't know who) was just trying to be precise! LOL Couldn't do it! And the more "I" failed to not refer to the "I", the more "I" reformed. That's when it became crystal clear that speaking the "I" brought it into being - and then all the ancient Hermetic texts and Gnostic texts started to make sense.

[@robertleslie5741]

Self is a manifestation of a collective spirit. When I refer to myself, I always use the pronoun "we" rather than I. It reminds me "I am" refers to more than who I think I am. Or want. Or feel. It is the Spirit of Compassion and Understanding that unites us in: One Body. One Mind. One Heart and One Soul.🙏

[@orangoetan2967]

Greatest teacher of my lifetime

[@DarkMoonDroid]

DavidAKZ Because the work of the "Formless All" is to make solid objects. That's what it does. It's doing a really good job. Yay, Formless All! LOL It didn't really help me to speak of it as being an illusion. That just gave me more to struggle with - exactly the way you're struggling right now! The most helpful thing to me was to just accept that Forms appeared and say that this is what the Universe is doing right now. And the more honest and observant I was about what was appearing, the more well prepared I was for when lightening struck.

[@mikeearls126]

I just thought of something interesting. You know how all seemingly solid things seem to be solid? They are really just empty space if you look at how atoms are made up. The concept of self sounds so similar.

[@groundofbeing9733]

6:55 self is a verb Mind bomb

[@ermiyaswoldearegay9471]

When we seek for truth or God, what we fail to see is who am I, who is seeking? The answer is we don't know who we are. Because it doesn't exist. On a true deeper investigation we might find there is nothing but silent stillness. Then what's left I will leave it up to you.

[@greenearthnazi20204u]

if you struggle it will catch up in you, you will struggle more and more . as hate , worries or fear. these are enemy thing of the self .

[@ingenuity168]

Try seeing yourself from other people's eyes.

[@DavidAKZ]

@EdenConsciousness Very good ! ok, so why does the table that appears infront of you appear solid if it is essentially empty ?

[@Sigillum22]

@willC801 What is? :o

[@DavidAKZ]

why does the illusion of the self appear so solid ?

[@jameelisaac7122]

cause its apart of your being its a contraction in the body and an idea you believe

[@jameelisaac7122]

also we don't know the self is an illusion we been conditioned to believe its real.

[@Simon0]

Adya is growing older!

[@cyberspore00]

We all are. You are 4 years older since you wrote that sentence : )

[@oldnewbieraver]

cyberspore00 I am not.

[@ceeIoc]

cyberspore00 time is not real

[@eric-humanappliance]

Hello from the future. I was just thinking "he looks so young here" :)

[@Olhamo]

good teaching

[@David01132]

Lol love Adya's comment about the overpriced popcorn :)

[@tnvol5331]

Adya's conflicting stories about his initial awakening worries me.

[@groundofbeing9733]

TN Vol I’ve listened to hundreds of hours of Adya and spoken to him on multiple occasions. There are no conflicting stories. He is beyond consistent. Your ego is most likely projecting a shadow.

[@tnvol5331]

@@groundofbeing9733 You might have made a rational point if not for your last sentence when you gave yourself away.

[@unfnbelievable3609]

Self or no-self, whatever it is... it still gets on my nerves!