Adyashanti - Your personal drive starts to dry up...

[@opalfires]

Ugh! 7 years in this place - No drive at all. I left my career 2 years ago making a lot of money and have been hoping for inspiration to “do” something I love but nothing ever comes up that makes me feel alive and joyful. My life is joyful in and of existence itself but my personal will is gone and I don’t have a clue what to do with myself. I am like a leaf in the wind. I cannot muster up a solution. Thankfully, I know Spirit is with me so I do not feel alone, abandoned, depressed or lost but I receive no guidance on how this one should navigate life or make a living. My savings are running dry so I started to do health coaching but I really get nothing out of it and I am not motivated at all to build a business and be successful. I suppose the last vestige of the ego is wanting a purpose here, feeling safe financially and the security of it all. This video helped ALOT! I need to keep going, open more and burn up in the fire! I guess I’ll see what comes from it! Anyone going through this, please know you are held and loved! keep showing up ❤

[@Harshalove]

I am definitely in this phase. My massage career is over. No will… leaf in the wind

[@helenamunozfernandez3665]

I think I heading this way, more and more clueless

[@tonyholiday050]

I may be 10 years late on listening to this message. But goodness me , such a relief. 💚

[@Daneiladams555]

This has been happening for years and it's not fun Moments of bliss but manim surrounded by motivated people It's lonely

[@elenol1310]

Same here, not alone on that , it can seem lonleyv

[@survivingawakening700]

I have been in this limbo, faling apart for about two years now. Sometimes it can be very confusing. Although I had awesome spiritual honeymoon and was once very clear I started seeking again, because of how confused I was. The mind cannot hold the orientation of its own surrender for very long. It feels like god is dragging me in and I am kicking and screaming, not knowing what is happening, helpless and hopeless. Ideas of responsibility towards somebody else, keeping and making promises, this or that should hapen is really the egoic hook for this body. I am really not sure I can ever again provie somebody with value to make money. That is my personal hell. I hope god finishes soon i have no nails no more.

[@liviamelanie-awakentolove]

how are you now?

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

As long as we resists we are in pain, relief comes with the surrender

[@hihihi686868]

This video had a huge impact on me. I just realized that for the past 6 years, all of the decisions I've made to help make my life better were actually causing me more suffering because they were coming from my head-centric intellect/ego which uses logical and rational reasoning to make decisions. Telling myself what I "Should" and "Shouldn't" do. I realized that I am caught in the trap. Now is when I realize that the best way forward is to go inwards through meditation and conquer the ego so I can listen to the voice of my true self, not the fake self (ego). Decisions and choices should be made by following gut and intuition.

[@marie-gabriellemarty2689]

beautiful, I've arrived at the same conclusion.

[@sohara....]

Yes, "logic" - am seeing the limits of it now

[@afriend621]

Meditation is fine but using it to "conquer the ego so I can listen to the voice of my true self, not the fake self". is not the truth. "Conquering" is an egoic activity. True meditation is not a thing to be used for conquering ego. The only thing that "conquers . . ego" is ego itself. True meditation is only stillness, emptiness.

[@Dowlphin]

When you have an aim, but no energy, it might be better to drop the aim and become aimless, yet with energy. Then goals might become reachable without having reached for them.

[@Dowlphin]

***** Makes me happy to hear this. And you in turn also reminded me of my own advice, haha. Very useful.

[@BA-ei7tl]

??

[@CorePathway]

Improved consciousness is always part of the answer. What is the situation trying to reveal?

[@Dowlphin]

@@CorePathway That can be very subjective, though. And if you try not to be, maybe you only get confused. Possibly because there is no objective component to it.

[@GummiTomm]

Great comment

[@ms94895]

Ego says I'm lazy and I need to get a full-time job. God says sitting in fear and dissolving is my full-time job :)

[@Nothingtoundo1]

That's awesome, you've just assisted me in an aha moment! Thank you ❤

[@benhollis9207]

Thank you. So good. ❤

[@atomusbliss]

Been my primary occupation for four years now 🎉

[@photoholicflix]

I really needed this. I am experiencing exactly what this woman is feeling.

[@aquietsky]

Yeah, it's quite disorienting. The state of not knowing anything.

[@puslengheaionut6308]

And how long it last?

[@brettneuberger6466]

Puslenghea Ionut I think I’m finally moving out of this stage. Of course, as soon as I say that, I realize it’s impossible to remain who I think I am while seeing life through the lens of who I really am. Hahah....This whole awakening thing is a trip! Best I can tell is to just keep watching the watcher as best we can and continually surrender to whatever happens.

[@megashira1]

Hi, I need some help. Long story short, a month ago I ran into an old friend with which I shared an old ego with. That ego was at odds with my present ego. Inside I could see "myself" fighting to preserve my present ego structure and it's story in relation to my old ego. Since that day I have just been frozen. The majority of the day I cant think, read, put thoughts together, plan, organize or even communicate with other people. People talk to me and my mind cannot grasp the words. There is no cognition going on. I don't know if this is some sort of awakening or some sort of traumatic stress response I've experience and am stuck in. I am perpetually stuck in a state of mindlessness not mindfulness. It is absolutely horrific. There are brief moments like now that I try to capitalize on when the "freeze" response subsides. The disorienting state others speak of are they similar to what I have expressed or no?

[@beautifulrose8619]

@@megashira1 Are you still experiencing this? I used to be anxious and depressed, now I am feeling nothing. Not happy or sad.

[@Kali-77]

„The very effort to escape IS suffering. The attempt to escape delusion is the highest form of delusion there is“

[@martinbrookesmusic]

Exactly this. “Thy will be done.”

[@sarahdu2748]

Such a profound and beautiful talk about dissolving the self! Thank you🙏🏻

[@astrozlisa]

I love this message. I get it, I'm living it, I understand it and I can be with the bliss of the nothingnesst, but it's very inconvenient for being self-supporting financially. I generate income via my offerings in my business and it's challenging when I don't feel motivated to create anything. My worried mind is not on board with the nothingness, either. I'm not sure how to navigate this, but I'll show up as needed. I am looking forward to seeing how this unfolds and where it leads me.

[@fairygrrl45]

Lisa Zimmerman update? Im here now too and feeling perturbed. Hearing Adya talk about it is helpful but I guess doesn’t make it any easier to simply surrender to it.

[@astrozlisa]

@@fairygrrl45 a month later, I don't feel worried. Aligning with what is...

[@afriend621]

@@astrozlisa another update please.

[@HkLY45]

This is an issue for me - I own businesses and have many employees. My family depends on me to provide a safe life for them. My businesses cannot fail, or I will lose everything for the rest of my life. Adya can say "it's ok" because he makes his living with his words. The rest of us in society make our living through our work. Not enough gurus address this. Business performance often depends on high activity levels and requires exercising the ego. I can say "oh I need to find freedom and peace so I just need to stop trying" but this is completely selfish and will cause immense suffering for my family. So I consider it my spiritual practice to sublimate my ascension process for the good of those whom I love. Christ on the cross. Put me up there too. I achieve spiritual surrender and freedom by taking my responsibilities seriously. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to my family and the families of my staff to use my business abilities and provide. Monks and gurus have a place in society, but they also must remember that most humans must produce more than they consume in order to add to society and care for the people around them. My highest love for the world is to exercise my gifts in a way that provides for those who cannot care for themselves without me.

[@Cmkrs34]

Hi read your post and thought you might find video The Self that Cant Help Itself by Sesn McGrath ex monk jungian analyst snd contemplative. The series is Secular Christ from channel psychology and the cross. Dont be put off by titles. Its not a fundamentalist Jesus outfit. Far ftom it.

[@HkLY45]

@@Cmkrs34 thank you for the recommendation. I cannot seem to locate this video. Any help is appreciated.

[@soulhappy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZfMloSqapyohKssi=aBdrGqNAzW7BuNR3

[@jonashjerpe7421]

@@HkLY45It is Sean McGrath. You will find the video here on YT

[@sohara....]

I found the Sean McGrath channel with topics Jesus, Jung, and "beyond individuation", but not that talk. If anyone has any other talks with a link, it'd be appreciated, thanks!

[@gameofthrones5655]

That is true so...even more we see duality...even more it haunts u= 2 grazy all of it= feels like a extraordinary mindlabyrinth...not a nice play at all....though u also can not really go back where u were...u just rather deal with it better...when u not care or worry about it anymore and maybe just chill out in it. Thx 4 the uploud...perfect timing.❤

[@catheriner391]

Thank you Thank you and so many more. This is where I have been and from which I have been slowly, gently emerging. Every single word was a perfectly accurate description of my experience, confusion, and fear. You have confirmed what I had dared hope. I'm coming home.

[@dianegriffiths4992]

💙thanku for your profound guidance...really helps me to gain perspective and so keep doin wat im doin...nothing much at all....because i dont want to distract....jus observing from a kind of apprehensive surrender🤔💜its like being in contracted labour..as th mother AND th unborn babe...💞

[@catheriner391]

Boy did I need this. Lost in limbo. No longer afraid. thank you love

[@ebolachan6496]

For the moment, fear will return. It always does. Love, Ebola-chan.

[@philbeaulieu4398]

Catherine R I feel the same, we don't really how much we're attached to our ego, just breathe through it... :)

[@afriend621]

Amen, sister.

[@ammusi]

I used to be "clinically" depressed, but that's gone - sitting for years and self inquiry blew that away, it was NOT easy, but it worked. Maybe the sitting is getting to other layers of thought patterns that I could live without, when they surface it's not easy, but I look at them. I think the wants are draining because I know, at the heart of it, that even if I got what I wanted, it wouldn't wake me up, it would just make me satisfied for a while. Thanx for the replies, much appreciated.

[@robertleslie5741]

Just a thought... Luke 22:42 NLT 42 “Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”🙏

[@1tinytatertot]

Thank you, I have experienced being empty and have seen my no thing ness. This assisted me in understanding what it was that I underwent. I have never heard anyone say anything about the empty and nothingness like that. You have to actually experience it to know it.

[@whocares6218]

Went through this process last year and it was crazy. It feels as if the ground you’ve been walking on your whole life was taken away.. best thing to do is not to cling to anything and just let yourself fall away..

[@afriend621]

I love your comment. Thank you. !

[@mimkuipers8569]

Wow this is profound. Something like this happened to me sometime ago, it was so uncomfortable, yet so exquisitely beautiful. So awesome to hear insight that helps explain this experience.

[@Natashaz48]

So beautifully articulated. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@soundvillage001]

This is helpful. I’ve been going to different healing practitioners to help get me ‘back on track’ but just wasted thousands off $ and none of what they suggested worked. Right now I can’t’ do’ anything. That’s been stressing me out but have to accept and surrender. Thank you Adya. 🌟🙏

[@n.lyndley.9889]

The Ego wants to ‘get back on track’ but you’re raising your vibration and that would be a retrograde step. Be still, life unfolds!

[@chriskingston1981]

I have this for several years, but found some great relief in new knowledge. For me always fear of meaningless life comes up. I learned that fear does not exists, only love. I always tried to fight meaninglessness with searching for things to do, which made the fear worse, because I couldnt find anything fun to do... What helps me very good is to remind myself of the real truth. There is only love! What I am feeling is fear, but this is an illusion, it doesnt exists. Remind yourself fear does not exists. Everything is one. Denial of illusions works very good. This helps me to get out of the feeling very fast, to make room and remove the blockage of the energy which gives you strenght in the situation you are in.

[@afriend621]

Thank you.

[@ammusi]

Well I can give you empathy that's for sure. You're not lazy, you're seeing that worldly rewards are not what will do it for you - not really. The more time passes, the more that stuff looks like a lie. What I decided to do is start meditating again everyday and I have started to learn a martial art. It's amazing how much I'm learning about myself with Kung Fu and during those classes I do feel motivated. Anyway, it's your ego telling you you're a 'lazy slob'. You're not.

[@ammusi]

I'm not depressed, but yeah, maybe this is apathy - I just don't know. My wants or desires are going and nothing much seems to be replacing them. I guess I can just keep sitting...

[@jordangould1541]

Adyashanti helps me realise that it's okay to have your personhood completely melt away. What else is the spiritual path for than to dissolve all ideas of individual self? Embrace and experience the beauty inherent in letting go

[@CathyBallard]

Thank you, I so needed this today following return from Vipassana and trying to get back to my business. Lost interest and identity - spot on! Really helpful

[@philbeaulieu4398]

+Cathy Ballard My god, same for me I just came back from Vipassana. It's a great challenge. All my best wishes to you in this process.

[@micheilakarringten7804]

Yesss!!! I found myself in a very isolated location when the lockdowns started and had already been here and not super happy about it. With being very cooped up and totally alone I became extremely upset and sad (samsara). Finally one day I just surrendered it all and began meditating and from here my true happiness grew daily. I can't tell you how trapped I felt and unable to change much about my life. But here is where I found my spiritual freedom.

[@bluesage1528]

Oh I love every word of this video!!! I experienced this fierce grace several years ago. I was angry, scared, desperate, and above all - unloved by existence itself. I studied psychology at the time and they talked about experiments developing "learned helplessness". I was reading about it and crying in complete desperation (and helplessness) because I saw that it was exactly what existence was doing to me - whatever I did (or did not do), I was "punished" by life, nothing worked. My negative, positive, or neutral responses - all were wrong. At some stage I even thought that life was pushing me towards suicide because it just did not want me here. I could see that other people were making severe mistakes and yet they were supported by life, while I was painfully punished for everything. As Adyashanti says - everything "unceremoniously is taken away". But yes, I can see now that it was an act of a great compassion and so his words sounded like music to me.

[@aquietsky]

This gives me hope. Thanks for sharing.

[@Anthony-jp2zm]

What happens when you come through the other side? Are you free to do what brings you joy and happiness? Does one have to go through to the other side in order to come out a free being where your will is in control of your life again? No matter what I do, everything is failing :( your words are true to me. I hope you can share your thoughts. Regards, Anthony

[@sharonsaunders6895]

Well said, describes my life

[@kimberlyherrmann6324]

🙏💜🙏

[@fabjustfab3264]

@Sean what you wrote to anthony should be an asterisk to the video. Its true yet so hard to accept. Ive been resisting surrender for so long, yet I still refuse to let go. I feel entitled and want to continue being entitled. I want an ego, to be immature, but I know too much and cant go back, I cant pretend, it just feels pointless. I crave feeling passionate; Im equating it with aliveness. A large part of my identity growing up was feeling like I didnt have enuf of an identity. I feel too immature for truth, as if I sidestepped my ego somehow instead of finding out what my dreams are and following them. I wanted truth because I didnt want to deal with my ego. Now my ego seems to have lost a chunk and I feel like im at a fork in the road, between ego and truth, and I want truth to choose, not realizing that that is a choice and I can let go. I know these are mind games, me holding on, wanting control. I dont seem to let be or have interest in practicing the art of being. If anything comes up for you to share now that its been some time since your last share, I would appreciate hearing it. Thank you

[@commoveo1]

[@samsworld1770]

It's the falling away of desire wich triggers some part of your true self : emptiness, love spontaneous act... thanks

[@luistirado88]

That's exactly the order, too.

[@PresenceParadigm-24]

So many people find themselves at this point now that old structures fall away by themselves as new energies arrive. It s like death because it simply is. Our death and birth at once. This should be more explicit more often but also I don’t see often this being co weaved simultaneously with the healing on the body level and mind level , or else we go in circles , weaving this loss of home back in the heart and knitting it back in the house of God- within- is what helped me find my feet again, amidst motherhood and three kids .

[@squamish4244]

From my own experience, it is important to distinguish genuine clinical issues from increasing insight into no-self (though all illness is an opportunity to gain insight). Once I received proper medical care for my mental issues, my moods stabilized and I felt more alive. The anxiety of seeing into impermanence is still there, but I can integrate the feelings better without the chemical imbalance in my brain.

[@rogeredwards4871]

what's crazy is when you continue thinking i can do it , i can control it, even after years and years of experience shows otherwise.

[@soundvillage001]

Enjoying everyone’s comments and sharing. Thank you. Is there a forum where I can connect into a community who are sharing about this process? 🙏

[@MusicianNine]

Thank you for posting this video! It's extremely helpful.

[@timotoole8725]

No I don't think things are falling apart. You can't lose something you haven't got.

[@squamish4244]

This last year has been a case of losing my spiritual identity, the idea of "what a good meditator/practitioner I am" and so hearing talks like this is very helpful.

[@loganurro4890]

ohhhh right, its like I thing I should and have to do this, but while im trying to do it energy is just not wanting to do it at all

[@afriend621]

yes. exactly. update please.

[@squamish4244]

Ah I see. Finding the motivation to keep seeking the truth has been key for me when the nihilistic feelings such as you describe come billowing up. I remind myself that there is no way out but through, as this is the state of the universe for all things to arise and pass. And also that it is indeed possible to integrate such an apparently monstrous realization, by listening to inspirational teachers such as Adya, who excels at describing the richness and freedom of the awakened state.

[@LaVidaEs2009]

Thank you Adya - always right there and on the case.

[@ammusi]

Personal will - I'm starting to get that it's a crock. It's been draining out of me like a tire with a small hole in it. And he's right, it's not romantic. I don't want this or that, but I should. I don't want to achieve whatever is supposed to be worth achieving. Ego tells me that I just need to fall in love with someone - as if that would do it. I don't even have enough to want to snap out of it. How long does this last??????? IT'S A DRAG.

[@satyajeetprabhu]

Wow, on point!

[@survivingawakening700]

@ammusi Are you better now ?

[@kneza96BG]

it's been 7+ years, how are you now?

[@windmonk3233]

It lasts as long as you allow it. It stops when you shift awareness to itself, and thats no other place but here, and no other time but now. ;)

[@sohara....]

2024. All of this is going on for me ... for years & years. I have a lot of resistance. Huge. Over-thinking. How's everyone now? On another thread, a Commenter said tgey were business owber with families to support, their own plus families of dependants ... and was not in position to let go financially, it'd be selfish they said . Anyway, one reply gave info: Adyashanti had read their comment and recommended a talk by Sean McGrath, ex-monk on topic: *"the self that cannot help itself "* kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZfMloSqapyohKssi=HAHZloh86osq5e7p

[@soundvillage001]

Thank you. I’m smack bam in the middle of this 🙏

[@GurpreetSingh-xe2pz]

thank you ..love you

[@barbarapayne5982]

Thank you so much Adya. 🙏

[@waldirenealmeida7167]

I LOVE YOU ADYASHANTI !!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

[@aprilbrandao4925]

Well I see myself as a great artist and I love my work which I do from my heart , my work is a very important part of me it tells me my life story as well, and the story of humanity...and with my works sucess I want to be able to provide for the homeless people in the world as well... Does it means I must or should stop doing what I love , give everything up, go and live under the bridge...?? 😳😥My work is a God gaven talent and I can not just give it up this is a part of my life...! Thank you God for my amazing talents...Thank you for the video and interesting info...Namaste!!❤

[@carmenl163]

I think the whole issue is that the I must or should not do anything, other than allowing to do whatever comes up in the moment. I imagine when you make music, that is just what is happening, you are not in charge, there is no I, there is just music. So I would suggest that you try to be even more in that state! And thank you for being one of those incredible people that give us art.

[@LelaStrika]

@Andrew Fury Thank you so much. You are kind to send me a message .not many ppl care even thou they are massive in spiritual mastery...makes no sense at all...

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

“Immediately after the interaction with the police officer I just wanted to get out of there. It just wasn’t me,” he said. “I’ve always been regretful and ashamed of being there, not because I’m in trouble but because I saw what happened and it was disgusting.” Rich is usually filling vanity.

[@lizr8484]

oh yes it is really is im in that place now i dont know what to do wih myself feel like a lazy slob but i have zero motivation and it seems to be lasting forever dont know what to do ammusi have you got your motivation back yet???

[@ZoyaStreet]

Oh thank goodness Google recommended this today. Right on time.

[@iconicshade]

Namaste 🙏

[@Niro989]

So beautiful...

[@andreac647]

Well I'm in a sort of limbo for years now...But it changes constantly. Everything changes all the time, personality falls away then changes then falls away again...Maybe there is a huge resistance here or there is just an enjoyment of suffering. Or just is what it is, it's irrelevant anyway :)

[@always_b_kind]

Do you think the Ego and drive melting away is common with aging in general?

[@ksale22]

Thank you

[@irenemagill4890]

❤❤❤

[@squamish4244]

How does one differentiate loss of personal drive from apathy or cynicism?

[@talkinghead22]

Beautiful and true

[@Shefabby]

Thank You ❤

[@nikkic83]

It’s like quicksand

[@leofeza9325]

Having a hard time with Spiritual contradictions. On the other hand somebody else will tell you you are God and you can change your life with the right application of your mind. By raising your vibrational frequency you can make the law of attraction work for you, vla vla vla !!! So which one is the truth? Surrendering/giving up on everything or trying to change everything?

[@nancyanderson8903]

From my perspective, it depends on the person, timing, etc. You have to follow your OWN path and inner compass -- and when you do that, there are no hard and fast rules.

[@JanetSmith900]

Leo Feza best thing I’ve ever read is The Lazy Mans Guide to enlightenment. These teachers do contradict themselves. They tell you the way to go but it’s not the way they went. Etc. but ‘the guide’ really helped me. It’s much more simple than we make it out to be...in my opinion.

[@chriskingston1981]

Leo Feza I was stuck with this for years, I was using law of attraction, to escape looking at the shadows. It drove me to insanity, only way out was step out of life in my head. Byron Katie's 4 questions, really helps me looking at where my ego goes insane, when I feeling all my falling away passion/interest is beeing used by the ego as attack.

[@windmonk3233]

* Neither of them is the truth: - The second option "trying to change everything" is ego driven, which will most likely (not always) bury you much deeper into the egoic state of consciousness. - The first option "surrendering/giving up on everything" could be used as a pointer to the truth, but not the truth itself, and this first option could be horrendously misinterpreted by the egoic mind. Here's the direct answer that spiritual teachers want you to find out for yourself, but never voluntarily gives it away because Ego's will definitely reject it, and consider it crazy or stupid, or the more intelligent egoic minds will call you a person who has a "god-complex delusion", LOL, that last one always makes me laugh xD Here it is - the truth is: - The main and most basic, innermost, actual core-self, or the "true self", is pure awareness, pure consciousness. The direct perception of the 5 senses, with no interpretations of the mind on what the 5 senses is perceiving, taking it all in as it is. And this pure awareness/consciousness is beyond ego, beyond the body and mind. Even if our planet dies of old age, and kills all of existence along with it, there's still awareness of the entire cosmos. And this awareness is essentially the exact same thing as the awareness of each individual human being has access to. We do not possess our own awareness, instead, our brain allows access to the already existing infinity of pure awareness, thru our 5 senses of course - therefore being limited to awareness only in relation to where your body is located, most times addressed as "the here, and the now".

[@Harshalove]

🙏🏻OSHO ❤

[@almafernandez5715]

Thank you! thank you.

[@always_b_kind]

Anyone feeling this in southern NH? I feel like possibly becoming friends with a like-minded individual might help me.

[@SadhuHacker]

no energy to study or doing homework....

[@Dogquack]

+SkySound lol you're just lazy, stop using spirituality as an excuse

[@SadhuHacker]

+Dogquack lol i guess :v

[@bob40179]

+SkySound That's why I clicked on this... although the woman is aiming for different goals

[@BeOutstanding]

Keep going U create ur own suffering The more u try to get out, the more trapped. Let go

[@DesertSmeagle]

how can i we have a true self, AND all be one?

[@stephilosophy]

he went on to make his point with that parable, even though he said it backwards.....xxx

[@LelaStrika]

Does that include not getting a job? I am out of regular work for 5yrs. Do i stop looking??

[@DecipherBorn]

Lela Strika Did you find work yet? :)

[@ammusi]

Pick up an activity that feeds your spirit like yoga, meditating, or a martial art and make those activities your focus. Everything else is just everything else. I've come to the point where I know that until I dissolve all of my false beliefs, chasing this or that is stupid. Good luck lizr8484 - at the very least, you know you're not the only one in that place.

[@afriend621]

Thank you.

[@stanimirstanev9302]

Hello all! I am at a place where I lay in bed most of the time not wanting to do anything but rest as awareness. It's been that way for a few months. Adya says that as the personal will disappears a new energy come to drive our lives but I don't feel it. I need some help and guidance.

[@ordinaryguy815]

It might be like that the rest of your life. Look at Ramana Maharshi for example. I have the same issue. I almost dont have a drive to go to work and make a living anymore. Just wanna BE.. Sick and tired of being in the wheel. It’s hard to give any guidance because everyones path is different

[@stanimirstanev9302]

Sometimes energy comes and motivates me but generally I don't feel like doing anything but rest in being... Anytime I force myself to do out of duty or necessity I start suffering... Wish I was more productive because I feel guilty for laying around all the time...

[@afriend621]

@@stanimirstanev9302 how do you pay the bills?

[@always_b_kind]

Same. I'm wondering if we've become super sensitive to other people's vibrations. Perhaps we need a job with happier or less people. I, myself, feel drained after socializing. One time I felt the need to take a shower in the middle of the night after a dinner party. Maybe, just maybe our hair is like a magnet to these vibrations and so maybe wearing a hat or coloring hair would help?

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

I wish god would stop using me to smoke cigarettes. It’s awfully costly on every level. God stopped once for 3 years and now god has been smoking again for the last 3 years. Serious but also not serious. 😂

[@stephilosophy]

that's right....it's easier for a camel to pass through....not sure why he didn't catch that. I love Adya.....

[@moonmissy]

stephilosophy Adyas is being his imperfect self hahahaha

[@fractuslav]

9:47

[@ALittleNobody]

I am resisting having unwanted throughts, as I want to live in a thoughtless state, which is my personal will..... The more resisting I am, the more I feel caught up, and very tired in this closed loop. This is exatly what Adya said.... I need to open myself to everything without a trace of resistence.... Live as a whole, not as a isolated me....

[@jondo6983]

Ming Yang "wanting to live in a thoughtless state" is a thought...do you see that...that causes the endless loop...i want to be thoughtless I want to be thoughtless I want to be thoughtless...thats the thought denying your desire

[@n.lyndley.9889]

Pay those thoughts no heed - they will drop away naturally. By resisting them, you give them attention and energy

[@squamish4244]

I only worry that Adyashanti's advice here may make people complacent about losing motivation and thereby ceasing practice, which has never resulted in awakening as far as I can tell.

[@MariaM-wi7ix]

So apathy when being stuck is....

[@MajorCulturalDivide]

So many comments here. Someone will reply to a comment by asking a question, but the original poster of the comment never replies. I wonder what happened to all of these people.

[@windmonk3233]

They probably realized their own ego is not what it seems, and no point in moving forward as the ego, except for practical purposes and hands-on responsibilities, like finding a job, or taking care of their family, etc.. 😁

[@thegloriousbothand]

please question the belief that you need to commit complete "spiritual suicide " in order to survive this life. to be human is to be susceptible to suffering, and without it could we really appreciate the joy? I can't believe that the point of being incarnated as a human is to become un-human, to destroy our separateness, there is such beauty in our individuality - self expression is beauty, interpersonal relationships are beauty just as much as they cause pain. have we given up on ourselves and on life after too much pain? so much so that we can no longer celebrate the joy of being separate and non separate at the same time? celebrate life! as an individual who is able to do such! know yourself not just as oneness but as separate too - i beleive its a grave mistake to devalue the "relative" and glorify only the "ultimate" ...and how can we help anyone if we are no longer "anyone" - we cant help if we arent also separate and one at the same time - boundaries are required for healthy interpersonal relationships and to support others - if we merge with others all the time, we are no longer able to do this. ask yourself if youre on this path to avoid the pain that is natural in life? we can instead face pain with grace, with self compassion - develop self compassion rather than self- annihilation - in the latter we are divided against ourselves - we can never GET RID of our ego - our egos are driving the spiritual path anyway - cultivating grace, acceptance, compassion that includes the relative self, warmth, gentleness with ourselves - this i believe leads to positive transformation that doesn't leave us stranded in the desolation of our individual expression, healthy desires, drives, etc. don't blindly follow those who "bulldoze your entire self and then stand on top of the rubble triumphantly"

[@sallyrose692]

IMHO it's not about not ever suffering again. It's about realizing how much we create our own suffering, and not attaching to that suffering.

[@martinratcliffe5987]

The fear of letting go

[@TheAmbamatamantrasvideos]

Naked is the Real Self. Totally stripped from illusion..it hurts, it hurts, it hurts...and then it won't 🙏🏼

[@squamish4244]

You need to make sure you're not confusing loss of motivation in material things with depression or apathy though.

[@squamish4244]

I'm not implying that you have clinical issues, btw. But often 'just sitting' or zazen is radically insufficient for true progress in insight. Adya's own experience was unbelievably easy compared to what most people go through, and I think that has leaked into his teaching, e.g. just sit long enough, do some self-inquiry, and BOOM, you'll wake up.

[@moonmissy]

valar I don't think his experiences were easy.... he went through debilitating temporary illness for 6 months being bed ridden twice, then went through a horrible relationship even after waking up... I never saw any of his experiences as being easy.... that's how he knows fierce grace.

[@squamish4244]

@@moonmissy Pocket change compared to what many go through and don't wake up. I am a critic of neo-Advaita in general because it doesn't pay enough attention to the awesome power of our vasanas. Why do the traditional Buddhist and Vedanta paths have highly systematic methods to wake up, developed over millennia? If waking up was just a matter of looking within and that waking up is hard is a self-fulfulling prophecy, why didn't the traditional paths figure this out centuries ago? Surrender your personal self while you're vomiting into the toilet or the garbage can for an hour because terror and energetic disruptions are ripping through your body. It isn't so easy. Surrender when you call 911 because you are about to pass out from terror in the lobby of your condo. Our conditioning is really effing strong. Dear god is it strong, and we have many lifetimes of horrifying sh*t to burn off. Yes I have lived these experiences, and far, far more. I tried following Adyashanti's teachings fore many years. Through a year of terror so extreme that I could barely function. Through six months of terror where I suffered panic attacks every night when my cortisol levels surged as I woke up, drenched in sweat. Another eight months where I had several panic attacks a week and called a crisis hotline. They didn't work. Nothing changed. So sorry Adya, I'm just not buying it. Tami Simon once asked Adyashanti about his claim that enlightenment is not rare. He tried to slip out of answering the question, but she kept pushing him for actual numbers. Finally, he said, "Hundreds. Two hundred?" Well, by that point, 20 years ago, Adya had probably met about 10,000 students. A 2% success rate. Which is terrible. And I assume he meant people who had at least one awakening experience, but were not at his level. If they were, we would have hundreds of Adyashantis running around, and we would sure as hell notice that. I am getting focused ultrasound in about six months, a non-invasive neurosurgery that destroys a pea-sized area in both hemispheres that is associated with OCD, a terrible, perverted disease that I have suffered from for 30 years. 2/3 of the time it works, and if it does, the OCD reduces by an average of 40%. That's evidence. That's actual numbers. THAT'S the direction spirituality has to go in. Neo-Advaita has failed. It's on its way out. The future is scientific and technological means to awaken, or we are doomed as a civilization.

[@luistirado88]

​@@squamish4244 The belief that it is hard to awaken is a limiting belief and a self-fulfilling prophesy. It's actually ridiculously easy to surrender our personal will to our real self. What's difficult is living life in a constant struggle believing that we have to make everything happen on our own. Who is that "me" who believes that it's in control?

[@squamish4244]

@@luistirado88 I am a critic of neo-Advaita in general because it doesn't pay enough attention to the awesome power of our vasanas. Why do the traditional Buddhist and Vedanta paths have highly systematic methods to wake up, developed over millennia? If waking up was just a matter of looking within and that waking up is hard is a self-fulfulling prophecy, why didn't the traditional paths figure this out centuries ago? Surrender your personal self while you're vomiting into the toilet or the garbage can for an hour because terror and energetic disruptions are ripping through your body. It isn't so easy. Surrender when you call 911 because you are about to pass out from terror in the lobby of your condo. Our conditioning is really effing strong. Dear god is it strong, and we have many lifetimes of horrifying sh*t to burn off. Yes I have lived these experiences, and far, far more. I tried following Adyashanti's teachings fore many years. Through a year of terror so extreme that I could barely function. Through six months of terror where I suffered panic attacks every night when my cortisol levels surged as I woke up, drenched in sweat. Another eight months where I had several panic attacks a week and called a crisis hotline. They didn't work. Nothing changed. So sorry Adya, I'm just not buying it. Tami Simon once asked Adyashanti about his claim that enlightenment is not rare. He tried to slip out of answering the question, but she kept pushing him for actual numbers. Finally, he said, "Hundreds. Two hundred?" Well, by that point, 20 years ago, Adya had probably met about 10,000 students. A 2% success rate. Which is terrible. And I assume he meant people who had at least one awakening experience, but were not at his level. If they were, we would have hundreds of Adyashantis running around, and we would sure as hell notice that. I am getting focused ultrasound in about six months, a non-invasive neurosurgery that destroys a pea-sized area in both hemispheres that is associated with OCD, a terrible, perverted disease that I have suffered from for 30 years. 2/3 of the time it works, and if it does, the OCD reduces by an average of 40%. That's evidence. That's actual numbers. THAT'S the direction spirituality has to go in. Neo-Advaita has failed. It's on its way out. The future is scientific and technological means to awaken, or we are doomed as a civilization.

[@squamish4244]

@@luistirado88 I am a critic of neo-Advaita in general because it doesn't pay enough attention to the awesome power of our vasanas. Why do the traditional Buddhist and Vedanta paths have highly systematic methods to wake up, developed over millennia? If waking up was just a matter of looking within and that waking up is hard is a self-fulfulling prophecy, why didn't the traditional paths figure this out centuries ago? Surrender your personal self while you're vomiting into the toilet or the garbage can for an hour because terror and energetic disruptions are ripping through your body. It isn't so easy. Surrender when you call 911 because you are about to pass out from terror in the lobby of your condo. Our conditioning is really effing strong. Dear god is it strong, and we have many lifetimes of horrifying sh*t to burn off. Yes I have lived these experiences, and far, far more. I tried following Adyashanti's teachings fore many years. Through a year of terror so extreme that I could barely function. Through six months of terror where I suffered panic attacks every night when my cortisol levels surged as I woke up, drenched in sweat. Another eight months where I had several panic attacks a week and called a crisis hotline. They didn't work. Nothing changed. So sorry Adya, I'm just not buying it. Tami Simon once asked Adyashanti about his claim that enlightenment is not rare. He tried to slip out of answering the question, but she kept pushing him for actual numbers. Finally, he said, "Hundreds. Two hundred?" Well, by that point, 20 years ago, Adya had probably met about 10,000 students. A 2% success rate. Which is terrible. And I assume he meant people who had at least one awakening experience, but were not at his level. If they were, we would have hundreds of Adyashantis running around, and we would sure as hell notice that. I am getting focused ultrasound in about six months, a non-invasive neurosurgery that destroys a pea-sized area in both hemispheres that is associated with OCD, a terrible, perverted disease that I have suffered from for 30 years. 2/3 of the time it works, and if it does, the OCD reduces by an average of 40%. That's evidence. That's actual numbers. THAT'S the direction spirituality has to go in. Neo-Advaita has failed. It's on its way out. The future is scientific and technological means to awaken, or we are doomed as a civilization.

[@acsentu8]

While listening to this, I felt a heavy pulling underneath my feet. Did anyone else have a feeling in the root chakra area?

[@afriend621]

If you read Adya's awakening poem you will understand the root energy. . . Today I awoke, finally I see the Self has re-turned to the Self. The Self is none other than the Self. I am deathless. I am endless. I am free. The birds outside sing .. The birds outside sing and there am I. The seeing of leaves on the trees, that seeing am I. The body breathes, breathing am I. I am awake and I know that I am awake. Seen from the old eyes, everything is asleep, a game, a delusion. But now I am awake. I am the play. I am the game. I am the delusion. I am the enlightenment I sought, looking everywhere. Nothing is separate, nothing is alone. I am all that I see. All that I smell, taste, touch, feel, think and know. I am awake and this awakeness is the same as Shyakyamuni Buddha's. Today the leaf has returned to the root. I am all name and form and beyond all name and form. I am Spirit, no longer trapped in a body. I am free. I am free because I am awake. So ordinary. Who would have thought? Who could have guessed? I am home. I am really home. Ten thousand life times. Ten thousand life times but today I am home. Ten thousand life times but today I am home. This is not an experience. This is me. I am awake. Finally, I am awake. Nothing has changed, but I am awake. Before I tasted the root many times and felt, how delicious. Today I became the root. How ordinary.

[@dianegriffiths4992]

🩵🙏

[@eternalnectar]

:)

[@frankbonanni257]

It’s “easier” for a camel, not harder. Just sayin

[@windmonk3233]

Oh yeah, didn't even realized the switch of words, I just understood it the same way as you said it haha.

[@Harshalove]

Without a doubt Wise but absolutely wrong about OSHO… Makes me question his enlightenment.. But then again he can be somewhat enlightened

[@harshkumar811]

Or it might be all you of you are just being lazy?? :)

[@lilia2440]

what is lazy.. being un-attuned to the natural spontaneous silence within. being mind controlled into thinking life is supposed to be a constant struggle. stop forcing yourself to do things out of alignment with your soul, meditate, use some gentle discipline and allow grace and the universe to do the rest

[@ahrimanic7]

Freakester now why didn’t I think of that? Thanks!

[@macparker3549]

This video was so deeply helpful when I first heard it years ago. Still is. Priceless pointing to an unglamorous but crucial aspect of all this. 🙏🔥🫥⭕️🌻💜

[@LelaStrika]

@Andrew Fury Thank you so much. You are kind to send me a message .not many ppl care even thou they are massive in spiritual mastery...makes no sense at all...

[@BrockLanders]

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