Adyashanti - You Are Awareness

adyashanti.org - How do you rest as awareness? Do you have to do anything to rest as awareness? Adyashanti invites you into this exploration of what it means to ‘rest as awareness.’ As you relinquish the mind’s desire to constantly be doing or understanding something, you can step out of the egoic mind state and into all-inclusive awareness.
Video Excerpted from “Rest As Awareness”(DVD #48):
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Quotes from this Video:
“’Resting as awareness’ isn’t a state of doing, it’s a state of being.”
“Awareness isn’t being the watcher and it’s not really being the witness -- both of those are things that egos do.”
“If resting as awareness actually happens, then at some point it will dawn on you that you and awareness are not two different things.”
“Awareness is much more what you are than all the ideas that you ever had about yourself in your life.”

[@michaellacy6047]

There was a time when thought was effortless and awareness was the effort, now awareness is effortless and thought is the effort

[@cynthiamcmillan688]

I love that!

[@brambroccoli4414]

He hits the nail on the head. Existence exists without your help. So resting as awareness doesn't mean that you are doing anything. I've always seen it that way. Glad to hear someone articulate it this well

[@emmanuelweinman9673]

awareness is restful because awareness is fully at rest and the ego is restless because the ego wants to rest less.

[@michaellacy6047]

Once awareness comes,it's seems so obvious now, Awareness was never born nor will it ever die it's always been here indeed and it will always be here it wasn't created and it can't be destroyed This is my experience

[@azimshabestary6411]

Awareness is passive knowingness and consciousness is active knowingness.

[@AnanyaChattopadhyay09]

Let it be, evry thing whr it's at...it's all in d right balance... everything is perfect..we r perfect.. guru pranam from India..

[@Herkimerdiamond]

Adya explains everything so clear.

[@swinnyuk6584]

So in other words, awareness is not of the mind. I can see that. The mind can only ever refer to the past. I love that he brought up that sense of nervousness that the mind feels at this suggestion, since that's exactly what I was feeling at that moment. I figure that that's a good kind of nervousness to have, it means I'm on-target. I feel like if he didn't put this out, that would have remained a subconscious nervousness, for me. The fact that he pointed it out really gave me the opportunity to spot it and notice that it is a good thing.

[@swinnyuk6584]

@@josephoutward Obviously you haven’t experienced it. You’ll never believe it until you do. Nothing I say can change that. Personally, last May I was having an anxiety attack, I searched KZbin for a random meditation and accidentally ended up discovering that I am not the mind. Not only am I not the mind, but the mind in itself is not an entity. I saw this directly, and walked around for 8 whole days in clear knowledge of this. I had no idea that this was even a possibility until it “happened” to me. I’ve never felt so peaceful in my life. Now I’m just trying to get back there. I’ve had at least another 5 experiences every bit as reality-shattering as this since last May. So, do I believe this stuff? Belief has very little to do with it. I have experienced the truth of the matter directly and whatever beliefs I held at the time had absolutely no bearing on it.

[@swinnyuk6584]

@@josephoutward The meditation that led to my initial discovery is called Natural Noticing, by Mooji. I was only trying to calm my anxiety. I got more than I bargained for, lol. It changed my life completely. I was an atheist up until that point, too.

[@SuperVancelot]

I am seeing the magic of these insights played out beautifully in the dark souls one universe. The initial prison cell, the walls and halls of the asylum, and the asylum boss all as images of the doing mind and the ego awareness as the "chosen one " It holds up all the way to the end game and new game plus. What a fabulous zen koan they snuck into adolescent minds

[@swinnyuk6584]

@@SuperVancelot it’s true, this is why I have the nondualistic dark soul/humanity as my avatar :)

[@swinnyuk6584]

@@SuperVancelot you’re the first person I’ve ever met that picked up on that. Funny, with the whole Dark Souls lore community how this has gone unnoticed.

[@lukystaify]

Amazing, thank you

[@varunl6948]

The concept is soo perfectly explained. Thanks!

[@markrene6108]

I read Emerson translated by Sam Torode into the sayings, language of today, not as flowery, but the message behind the poetry is exposed. Jesus, Buddha & many other known & unknown to history & what they believed is the same message. What l really agree with because l had the same view is Jesus didn't actually see the universal mind, God. It is a knowing, a switch after that realisation of conscious awareness, our true selves, it's a different vibe, a dropping of the luggage we hoard during our lives & try on 1000's of times even though we hate them & don't fit, but try not to wear their wardrobe out for everyone to see & judge, comment & so have a different set of clothes for each occasion & how we want ourselves viewed. Just be your self & we don't need to be a Buddha, even though he wanted & knew we all could be. If we live true to ourselves and follow the one Commandment, treat others as you would like to be treated, Commandments aren't from God for we are born innocence, aware & the commandments we know without being taught for the Universe asks nothing of us, good, bad, indifferent, free will to choose your life. Why does God let bad things happen, she doesn't, it happens because of us, not God, free will, we reap what we sow, not from God, the devil, us. We have no sin & we are lost, a lost child when found is enveloped in Love, care & is made to feel safe, not punished for that would be cruel to punish a lost now found child. 🙏

[@kippapao]

Love!!!!!!!

[@chechoguzman7571]

You're that which sees. Trust yourself.

[@jkd6969]

Thank you Adya for this clear instruction 👍🏼

[@jamesthomas1244]

Love this.

[@mokuho]

Is the teaching and the method, rest as awareness isn’t a state of doing is a state of being 🙏♥️

[@mokuho]

Awareness consciousness is letting be...everything right now

[@consideredwhisper]

Thank you, Adya

[@Eric_Cartman001]

Best of the best

[@JatinderSingh-cs8dt]

Best video on Awareness. Thanks Adya.

[@bornuponawave]

Look up Rupert Spira

[@user-nl8ow3jo8f]

Thank you ❤

[@renakmans3521]

Nailed it!! Thank you.

[@SommySeven]

Thank you!

[@jmb3266]

I like that, "REST...".

[@michaellacy6047]

What seemed so un attainable now is so obvious

[@yifuxero9745]

Right! To tap into and merge with Pure Awaareness, access "Mahamritunjaya Mantra - Sacred Sound Choir", and also "Om Namah Shivaya - Shivananda Adi". Listen to each for 5 min per day for two weeks. Relinquishing the doer doesn't mean you can't go to the supermarket. It's an ontological state, no matter WHAT you do, a state of Sat-Chit-Ananda..

[@spotable2]

I awoke about three weeks ago. I love Adyashanti's way of describing awakening/consciousness as resting in awareness....myself I describe awakening as being "aware of awarness" and what existance then reveals.

[@renakmans3521]

He says Rest As Awareness not in Awareness which would connote a separation of you. As he also said you are not just the observer or witness, you are indeed the Awareness. Blessings…

[@spotable2]

@@renakmans3521 Yes the awareness of awareness.

[@panzerd18]

Adyashanti is a Master

[@clydemorris8644]

panzerd18 , he simply is. labels engages ego, separation. you and him and I are part if the same isness, oneness.

[@onekin7025]

egos can become skilled at being fake spiritualists, saying all the right words, but that is not what we are talking about or focusing on in this moment of teaching here. being real and natural without applying a practice to achieve perfect best functional success in this moment. choosing a spiritual community to be a part of and be inclusive within and grow. and sustain your own personal life as the exoteric practice with this community and in the esoteric realm participating in the community meditation and reading and satsang.

[@luckyyuri]

I listened to Allan Wallace the other day and i couldn't but cringe every other 2 minutes, the amount of unjustifiable leaps in logic in that man's mouth. And while saying all those things, with a perfect bold and clear face he kept asking the audience: "Isn't it perfectly logical? You see this is science of the soul, like Galileo did with the starry sky". The sad thing is that he's a very pleasant and charismatic person, making his talks very enjoyable, but if there's anything that opposes enlightenment that's dogma, superstition, intellectual dishonesty and most of all charisma. Truth doesn't need charisma, confabulations and lies do. Adyashanti, on the other hand is one of the most lucid and profound bearers of eastern wisdom there are. He cuts straight through every ego-friendly superstition and other adornments enjoyed so much by the ego, which doesn't make his talks so appealing but they more than make out in honesty and clarity.

[@luckyyuri]

@@josephoutward Like cognitive scientists John Vervaeke says, there are several types of knowledge, but the vast majority of people are hooked only on "propositional" knowledge. This is the kind of knowledge you’re encoding in symbolic statements. But however important, and it is important, this type of knowledge is very shallow. As a caricatural example think of someone who has read some new age article and took from it the following propositional knowledge "I am the universe!" (It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it will serve my point regardless). This knowledge won’t change them one bit, except giving them the temporary "good feels" whenever they think it. But give them cancer or just steal their bike and they’ll wail and mourn exactly like any other egocentric individual. Funny thing seeing the universe wailing that it got cancer. Might as well take that proposition and write it on a piece of paper and put it in the shirt pocket, instead of your memory, and it will have the same effect on your identity and experience. But then there are other types of knowledge like procedural, perspectival and participatory. The first one has to do with the non-explicit non-propositional instinctive way in which we know how to behave and integrate with the world-knowing how to swim, how to drive, how to kiss (your child, your wive, the one with which you’re having an intense sexual relationship). The other two are very hard to explain. Perspectival knowledge is also a knowledge that is NOT coded in language. It’s the instinctive knowing you have that changes the internal attitude/orientation you have within your experience, thus changing the "geometry" of experience. I remember being in the kitchen with my extended family reunited for the holidays, and even though we were all exactly in the same environment, due to their particular personal perspectival knowledge, everyone was experiencing that same environment as a different reality-each was relating to the same context in different ways based on their inner perspective. Important note here: you can educate these types of knowledge but they aren’t under your conscious will; most people don’t even realize they have these aspects of their minds. My nephews and parents had no idea about themselves deploying perspectival skills, just like an armadillo who has rolled up in a defensive attitude doesn’t have any idea that it deployed an evolved instinct-they just engage in those things reflexively, without any meta awareness. And the last one, participatory knowledge, is how you see/feel/know yourself to be part of Existence. Some feel themselves to be nothing more complex than "workers and family men" (like my dad), others feel themselves as children of God, others feel themselves to be manifestations of God, or one of the endless forms bustling forth from the great Dao, or physical mechanisms evolved by darwinian evolution, or being no one (having an enlightened allocentric conscious experience instead of an egocentric consciousness), etc. Imagine how different JD Rockefeller’s experience of who he was, was to Thich Quang Duc (the monk who immolated himself in protest of vietcong persecution). This fundamental way of experiencing who/what you are influences all other stances, goals, desires, reactions, etc you have. Participatory knowledge does evolve or changes drastically but to a much lesser degree. Precisely because these types of knowledge aren’t verbal types of knowledge, you cannot easily convey them to other people like you convey propositional knowledge. If someone enlightened tried to convey their participatory and perspectival knowledge to someone else they would have almost no other options besides language. And the minute they would engage in language they would be constrained by language. They would have to make a mockery of their experience by saying things like "i feel like i am the universe" which is a very misleading sentence. I’ve heard teachers that these teachings are like constant nudges, none of them individually accurate, but collectively trying to orient you towards realization-and once you have it you know that all the words used were terribly wrong. The best way of using words to point to these things is by being poetic, by trying to point to things beyond the words themselves. But people are habituated to clear concrete shallow straightforward propositions, so this vague nebulous poetic stuff appears as nonsense. Alan Watts said: *The Teaching is like a finger pointing to the Moon (which in eastern literature symbolizes the metaphysical truth/or mystery). But in order to see the moon your gaze must let go of the finger and see beyond it. The point is not in the pointing. People though are captivated by the finger, they admire it intensely, suck on it for comfort-that’s what Christians are doing with their bible and rituals. They never suspect the beyond to which those things are pointing.*

[@cynthiamcmillan688]

He is the real deal. I agree.

[@markjohnson543]

Wisdom.

[@Shanti0136]

Sadhu🙏Sadhu🙏Sadhu🙏

[@pfacontractor1573]

Thank you Steven.

[@larzhillbot1443]

Fore sure the Ego mind will Always try to jump in

[@mokuho]

Awareness is the watcher not really being the witness

[@rul4522]

This all may take over 81 years, like me.

[@elisabethk7103]

❤🙏❤️

[@mangaldubey7616]

Awesome

[@AngelLightMeditation]

When we are Free, we are Divine in Everything! Thank you Adyashanti for being Free in Everything

[@GraceNow1]

This is one of my favorite Adya teachings. The seductress analogy is so darned SPOT ON! Has helped me a lot, it's easy to remember, helps me catch myself when the mind gets caught up in that "just learn one more thing, then you can rest" spiritual ego mantra. So grateful!

[@kippapao]

let go, sink into it

[@paulbrandon422]

Nice adjunct to Candice O’Denver’s teaching .........“Rest as awareness for brief moments, repeated many times”

[@nextari]

ahhh you stopped at the best part. j/k

[@DavidJohnson-dp2ew]

I Am

[@paulmetdebbie447]

Stop doing - and stop even that. What's left is it.

[@MrPrayuda]

🤣 thank you..thank you..thank you 🙏

[@mahaalsaadi8173]

I speaking with my self, iam asking i responded, how iam? The asker or the other and why?

[@Legion6363]

Self ref pt 04:03 05:40 06:24 09:27

[@mokuho]

My question is how do i resting in being? The way you do resting in awareness is you relinquish the doer -awareness is letting be -resting in awareness its also letting go of the neurotic need to do

[@brianlittrell797]

Listen to a lot of Rupert Spira videos. Maybe do some of his guided meditations. Listening to Eckhart Tolle is also very helpful too.

[@mokuho]

@@brianlittrell797 thank you 🙏🏼

[@brianlittrell797]

@@mokuho You're welcome.

[@churchofprometheus8898]

If we had no senses, nothing to think about, and just awareness, what would that be like?

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

In short, ever freedom!

[@chormpan2104]

Bliss, which has no polar opposite.

[@renakmans3521]

But even with all that, we still only have awareness. You are not senses or thoughts but they are there.

[@mattwilson2568]

has anyone ever been to one of his retreats? What was it like?

[@chrisjenamaste9954]

u can find all on his website (official one)

[@keepgoing2506]

Great.

[@kbell161]

Awesome

[@No2Blame]

i want to escape from myself and i know that is my ego... i dont know what to do now... Teacher can you help please?

[@harshkumar811]

No2Blame chill. :)

[@bornuponawave]

That’s like the sun trying to escape its own light. Just observe the mind, it’s thoughts, and rest as THAT which observes all. You are THAT. When you try to THINK.... of THAT, your back in the mind. You are THAT in which everything arises.

[@renakmans3521]

Rest As Awareness

[@Zatzzo]

I find it kinda weird that most of these people are so bad at explaining things. You have ALWAYS been awareness. You have ALWAYS been the one who is aware of your thoughts, which means you are not your thoughts. Which means YOU don't ever change, you already are "enlightened".

[@pdvidz2266]

Wouldn't it be the ego trying to get rid of the ego?

[@emmanuelweinman9673]

the ego wants to pull things it likes toward it and push things it doesn’t like away from it, while awareness is the space in which the process of push and pull happens. so to answer your question, the ego tries to get rid of the parts of itself it doesn’t like while holding on the the parts it likes.

[@user-zx3hf2gb6u]

So it’s a state ?

[@pdvidz2266]

Do you mean consciousness as the witness?

[@coenterhaar9183]

Yes, that which is not conditioned. Awarenes itself. Rest in that. Live from that. That which is beyond description, and which is always present and here. You are not a human being having a spiritual experience....you are a a spiritual being having a human experience. 😊

[@germantoenglish898]

But this is not a process or something that can be learned...right?

[@Joshua-dc1bs]

Do you do Satsang in Australia? :)

[@dimitrihernandez2658]

Brilliant

[@frankspencer8559]

Did you ever find out?

[@skoosh6208]

It's Irrelevant... A big grey thing with four legs and a trunk 😂😂

[@lordindigonnisvoldebeastal3796]

The technique of no technique.