Adyashanti

Adyashanti

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.

Adyashanti's story is the longest on this site …. 50 pages. It is provided in Adobe Acrobat form.   Click on Adyashanti's picture to open the file.

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I'm reading this now. did you? His prayer in Bishop, Ca, sounds very similar to a certain prayer a certain friend of mine made once, telling God to “Bring it on, motherfucker!”

And that certain someone get his ass kicked by that prayer being answered. Cool.

Liz

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Um…you're thinking about me, right?  I was just kidding, God…you know I'm such a kidder, hehehe…

Adyashanti is based in the Bay Area, where he gives frequent Satsangs; here is a calender of events.

arthur

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I just discovered that there are many Adyashanti clips on YouTube.  I'll be adding some links here over time; please feel free to add clips of you own to this thread (or quote or link to other Adyashanti material).

When Truth Takes Over (1:55)
I Want to Wake Up (2:27)
The Undivided Self (1:30)
Being Alone (3:47)
Turn Around of the Heart (5:10)
Welcome to Reality (9:12)

spiral out,
arthur

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see also Cafe Dharma

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On August 19th, Liz and I are going to an Adyashanti satsang in San Francisco.  Anybody else going?  Or, have you been to an Adyashanti satsang and would like to comment on it?

spirals,
arthur

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Alas, Liz and I won't be able to make today's satsang!  :(  We'll have to wait until September.  BTW a shout out to Integral Aussies: Adyashanti has three events in Australia in October.

-r.thor

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Well, we finally went to the satsang yesterday. What a beautiful day it was, and we found parking within a few feet of the Unitarian Universalist Church where it was held. What a beautiful church! I grew up going to a UU church that was very mid-century modern, and I didn't expect a full-on cathedralish place with a rose window and everything. If you're a youngster whose never heard of UU, they were really the first folks to say “everyone has a piece of the truth.” It's the only kind of church where I truly feel at home. I guess childhood training runs deep. My kids will have imprinted on the local farmer's market, instead…

Anyway, Adyashanti was quite wonderful. He didn't say anything I haven't heard before, but he really shines in the question and answer period after the talk. (Next time, yours truly will have her hand up for sure. I couldn't think of a question this time.)  His humor and compassion are palpable. One young man really seemed to be in a dark night, and Adyashanti was so kind to him, without sugar-coating the reality of the situation. He spoke with each person in an unhurried way, making sure that their questions were answered to their satisfaction. He didn't gloss over anything or rush anyone, nor did he have any personal agenda in evidence. That was so refreshing.

Liz

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Hey Liz.  Looks like we were in the same place.  ;-)  I finally made it to see Adyashanti at that satsang as well.  I loved his interaction with the petite woman about hope. 

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D'oh! You should go with us next time! Save on gas, we go to a nice restaurant….

About “hope”: Yes, indeed. Again, that's the kind of thing I've heard before, but repeating it, as he does from such a deep place, is very good to hear.

Liz

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RADIO ADYASHANTI— September 20 BROADCAST (free broadcast)

Dear Friends of Adyashanti,

We are excited to have expanded our capacity to provide Radio Adyashanti to as many people as possible. In this email you will find important information about Radio Adyashanti and Adyashanti's online Cafe.

1. Radio Adyashanti—News and Updates
2. Radio Adyashanti-Next Broadcast September 6
3. Radio Adyashanti—Listener Instructions—Arrive Early
4. Radio Adyashanti-Caller Instructions
5. Cafe Dharma
6. Cafe Dharma-Featured Downloads

Best regards,

Adyashanti.org website team
Open Gate Sangha

“What is it that is listening?”     ~ Adyashanti

1. RADIO ADYASHANTI-News and Updates

Thank you to everyone who has participated in our previous Radio Adyashanti broadcasts. Based on your feedback, we recommend using the following browsers to listen to our program: Internet Explorer on Windows and Safari on Mac.

We will continue to offer a free download of the radio program to anyone who encounters technical difficulty. Just email us at cafedharma@adyashanti.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> cafedharma@adyashanti.org with a description of what happened and we will provide a copy of the download to you. Please include the name of your browser software and operating system in your email. Also let us know if you can be available by phone for our technicians to explore in more detail some of the issues that are still preventing a 100% quality experience to our listeners.

Thanks again for your continued feedback as we bring the technical part of the radio program up to the highest level possible.

Radio Adyashanti/Cafe Dharma Technical Team

2. RADIO ADYASHANTI-Next Broadcast Sept 20

Please join Adyashanti on Sept 6 for his next internet radio program, Radio Adyashanti. This will be a free live broadcast beginning with a talk by Adyashanti followed by call-in questions from people around the world.

Radio Adyashanti

Thursday, Sept 20, 2007

5–6pm Pacific Time-Pre-show Music

6pm–7:30pm Pacific Time—Radio Satsang

If you would like to email a question for Adyashanti ahead of time, send it to radio@adyashanti.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">radio@adyashanti.org. Please limit your question to 2 or 3 sentences.

This live broadcast is FREE. If you wish to purchase current or past radio programs, they are available to download for $10 each on the Cafe Dharma Radio page. The current broadcast becomes available a few days after the program has aired.

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6. Relax and enjoy the satsang!

5. CAFE DHARMA

Radio Adyashanti is just one part of a whole media site called Cafe Dharma—dedicated to offering immediate access to Adyashanti's teachings.

Cafe Dharma currently provides access to the radio program and to full-length satsang recordings in the audio download area. You will also notice video and podcast pages—these will be activated in the future.

If you'd like to give us feedback on the radio program or audio download area, you can email cafedharma@adyashanti.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cafedharma@adyashanti.org . Please keep in mind that many areas of the site are not yet active.

6. CAFE DHARMA—Featured Downloads

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• Enlightenment Straight Up: Awakening revealed, straight to the heart. This satsang classic was recorded in 2003. Download FREE for a limited time!
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I just wanted to remind people that the free Adyashanti talk is being webcast tonight - see previous message for details.  My mother and sister are off on their own mall-shopping (eww) so I might actually get to listen to it.  :)

cheers
arthur

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Liz: D'oh! You should go with us next time! Save on gas, we go to a nice restaurant….

I agree!  Next time, btw, is going to be November 11th.  Who wants to meet us there?

The talk that Liz and Travis and I went to on September 9th is available for download on Cafe Dharma; I just downloaded it and listened to it again; it was very cool to revisit it and remember being there with Liz.  (What's not to love about the wonders of modern technology?)

The particular talk is available in the audio library section of Cafe Dharma for $10 if anyone is interested in hearing it; it's entitled “No Self No Problem” and described thus: “Is there any real substance to that thing I call 'me'?”  (Short answer: no)

spiral out,
arthur

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I tried to schedule my trip to see Adya…and Liz/Arthur. Next time around I will hopefully get to see everyone.

I have read “Emptiness Dancing” and am reading “True Meditation”. Great great stuff.

Lots of free downloads (video, audio and writings!) at Adya's website!

Eckhart Tolle is a disappointment. Everything costs money with him now, in the past at least he had some written material free…now thats gone and replaced with Ophra's Corporate logo.

You guys are spoiled! Adyashanti on your doorstep.

Dan

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Hi Daniel

The more I read and listen to Adyashanti, the more respect I have for him.  Making so much of his material available for free is really cool.  He has a live broadcast coming up in just a couple of weeks:

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Future Broadcast ~ November 15, 2007

Thursday, November 15, 2007
6.00pm-7.30pm Pacific Time

This live broadcast will begin with a talk followed by 
call-in questions from people around the world.

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“Many spiritual seekers get “stuck” in emptiness, in the absolute, in transcendence. They cling to bliss, or peace, or indifference. When the self-centered motivation for living disappears, many seekers become indifferent. They see the perfection of all existence and find no reason for doing anything, including caring for themselves or others. I call this “taking a false refuge.” It is a very subtle egoic trap; it's a fixation in the absolute and all unconscious form of attachment that masquerades as liberation. It can be very difficult to wake someone up from this deceptive fixation because they literally have no motivation to let go of it. Stuck in a form of divine indifference, such people believe they have reached the top of the mountain when actually they are hiding out halfway up its slope. Enlightenment does not mean one should disappear into the realm of transcendence. To be fixated in the absolute is simply the polar opposite of being fixated in the relative. With the dawning of true enlightenment, there is a tremendous birthing of impersonal Love and wisdom that never fixates in any realm of experience. To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true nonduality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true Emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream. I say, Wake up! Then, your heart will be flooded with a Love that you cannot contain.”

-Adyashanti

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Please join Adyashanti on Thursday, December 13 for another free live internet broadcast of Radio Adyashanti. The program will begin with a talk followed by call-in questions from people around the world.

If you would like to email a question for Adyashanti ahead of time, send it to radio@adyashanti.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">radio@adyashanti.org. Please limit your question to 2 or 3 sentences.

This live broadcast is FREE. If you wish to purchase current or past radio programs, they are available to download for $10 each on the Cafe Dharma Radio page. The current broadcast becomes available a few days after the program has aired.

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Wow. Every fiber of my Being resonates with every thought of that quote just above. It moves me to tears. I rarely find so much insightfulness strung together consecutively, in one place. Thanks, arthur, for calling this guy to our attention.

I also read the “poem” this thread started with, and I can see he's really “got it.” Such as “this is not an experience, this is me.” Such as “Nothing has changed, but I am awake.”

There's another not-too-old American guy who appears to have gone through a similar awakening and can talk about it in similar ways we can relate to: I forget his regular name, but one can look up “Anubuddha.” Dan somethingorother.

[But I suspect he is making the above error, to some extent. (Or let's just call it stopping to tarry at a point on the road.) I am always suspicious of any spiritual teacher who stops short of full engagement with life. This idea means to me that after awakening we get to specify the kind of Quality of Life we choose, and manifest it. No more asceticism necessary. No more just drifting with “what is.” We partake of the Creative Power, to our limited extent, and we can exercise that if we choose. Acceptance and Creation are not antithetical, in the awakened consciousness. Or, in my lingo, judgment and preference are entirely and totally different things. I have written a paper about this, and when I evolve technologically sufficiently, I shall share it. LOL.]
 
And it's clear (from my perspective) from both of them that while they might have been “doing” a lot of “striving” for “enlightenment” (note all quotation marks) the shift in awareness, the literal jump/expansion in consciousness, the awakening as from sleep, “just happened”, not the result of any immediate ego effort or control. This is a crucial aspect of the whole thing, to me. I call it Divine Grace, one can choose any label.

And yay, satsang, go for it. IMO “enligtenment” is contagious, directly through the vibrations being emanated. No chanting, no texts. You can “catch” it like a cold, LOL.

Blessings, OM Bastet

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1Vector3: And it's clear (from my perspective) from both of them that while they might have been “doing” a lot of “striving” for “enlightenment” (note all quotation marks) the shift in awareness, the literal jump/expansion in consciousness, the awakening as from sleep, “just happened”, not the result of any immediate ego effort or control. This is a crucial aspect of the whole thing, to me. I call it Divine Grace, one can choose any label.

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Yar!  As The Great Kendalini points out, realization is an accident - but long-term meditators are more accident-prone.  (Or was that “meditation is an accident, but long-term realizers are more accident-prone” - which would explain a lot about my ILP to date…)  In any case, preparation or striving - I'm provisionally semi-convinced - is of great importance in laying the groundwork prior to the weird figure-ground reversal of Awakening. 

1Vector3: And yay, satsang, go for it. IMO “enlightenment” is contagious, directly through the vibrations being emanated. No chanting, no texts. You can “catch” it like a cold, LOL.

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Hee…I am risking contagion as much as I can manage.  :)

Following a mysteriously piratical sabbatical, Adyashanti is back, baby!  He's doing a satsang in Oakland on April 12th. Liz and I will be there.  Anybody in the Bay Area who's going, if you want to meet up and have tea, contact Liz or myself.  :)

(Also, just between you and me - don't tell Adya - I'm considering the Oakland satsang foreplay for the Gangaji retreat I'm doing in Ashland a week later.  Mum's the word.)

spiral out,
Arthur

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Radio Adyashanti  ~  World-Wide Access Through Online Radio

Next Live Broadcast ~ Thursday April 17

6-7.30pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Click the scheduled links for details.

Live broadcasts begin with a talk followed by call-in questions from people around the world. Please join us for this exciting new program.

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The audio satsang is happening tonight; I'll be tuning in.  Here's the link again.

Also, on Cafe Dharma there's a talk recorded on April 12, 2008 called ”Perceiving Thought Clearly,” which is one of my favorite talks of his.  In the dialog part Adyashanti addressed concerns about moral relativism, judgment vs. being judgmental, and the role the mind plays in Awakening (as well as in an Awakened consciousness).  It may not be posted indefinitely, so grab it now if you want it. 

cheers,
Arthur

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So, I got on the show and asked Adya about transmission.  This internet thing is cool (telephones are nifty also).

Strangely, despite talking directly to Adya, I'm not fully Awakened.

Must ponder this.

Arthur