The Shift of Identity (Excerpt)

Recounting a humorous memory from backpacking in the Sierra Nevada, Adya stresses the importance of the shifting and falling away of our identities in the process of awakening. Excerpted from January 16, 2011, Palo Alto Meeting, “The Dissolution of Identity”: bit.ly/49EgHZa
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Quote from this Video: “When your identity shifts, you realize everything shifts along with it. Your entire worldview shifts-your thoughts and views on everything shift.” adyashanti.org
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[@cacidoo]

“No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.” ~ Adyashanti

[@boddhitara730]

Thank you, beautiful Adyia

[@phoenixrising1221]

I love your stories & teaching 🙏🏻 the encounter with the old man served the purpose both directions. He had an aversion to Buddha as well so his reaction is part of his anti-Buddhist identity

[@kiplambel4052]

If you meet the Buddha on the road, let him pierce your identity

[@Islaras]

good one

[@LudvigCimbrelius]

👌

[@asheavyrain]

Whose to say any one of us would recognize the Buddha (or Christ or any other great being) if he appeared before us as a stranger? That is a major pitfall, believing we could recognize such beings. But then, they’re also around us and within us always. And we don’t recognize that either.

[@kiplambel4052]

@@asheavyrain It sure looks like you missed the point. Did you watch the video? Adya "Met the Buddha" on a backpacking trip, and allowed the experience to kill the Buddha in his identity.

[@asheavyrain]

@@kiplambel4052 Haha.

[@nbenda]

Lovely story!

[@rul4522]

So right! Even experienced this myself!

[@gameofthrones5655]

When u dream different...some different comes out...its rather that simple. As its said: The mind creates what is....whatever play u play.

[@yogiearth]

Thanks again Adhya

[@oolala53]

Are we in control of whether this shift happens or not? Is letting go a conscious thing that someone can do?

[@ashrafulhaque8759]

🙏 thanks

[@vivianeteresinhadossantos5736]

❤

[@raycallie637]

Robin Williams had a joke like that, punchline was I knew Gandhi he was a jackass

[@Watercolordragon]

beautiful story. Thank you strange guy

[@Islaras]

❤❤❤

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🙏❤☮

[@FermiDeck]

I have come to put into my map of reality that there are as many paths to enlightenment as there are sentient beings. And god (God, Vishnu, Great Spirit, Dao, Tao, Allah, etc) would have it no other way. Could have it no other way. And anyone teaching that a specific way of meditation, orientation, ritual, understanding or lack of understanding is nothing more than identity. Not a bad thing. Just a thing. It is my way of remembering that everything is a sacred expression of the divine. Then i forget again and look upon a broken and self destructive human civilization and feel sad.

[@noel3830]

So why did he feel that way about Buddha?

[@RogerioLupoArteCientifica]

probably he was intentionally putting Adya's identity upon a challenge. Defying Buddha's authority inside Adya's heart, undermining all idolatry, and also showing that all of us can have good critical thinking and question even the highest authorities.

[@Islaras]

I wish that's always the case, but often times people just have opinions.

[@rumui4498]

Maybe coz he left his wife

[@user-dy2mz9lq2n]

@@RogerioLupoArteCientifica That's right, what you're saying is right Adya is trying to say, "Identity is a joke. " There's a story in Buddhism that goes something like this: "There was a man who insulted the Buddha, and the Buddha didn't care at all, and he told the man, Who's being insulted, who's being insulted?" I'm using a translator and I hope you can understand thank you 🙏🙏

[@johnm1030]

I get the part concerning your Buddhist identity. That’s good. Are you assuming though that this was his intention ? If not then the question is why was Buddha an asshole ?

[@RavenDawnMcKenzie]

Sounds like a Jed McKenna comment. “Buddha was an asshole.”

[@Debbie13399]

Thanks Ady ❤

[@HiluT]

❤