LittleKid
USA
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Posted - Jul 20 2015 : 12:50:02 PM Show Profile Email Poster Edit Topic Reply with Quote View user's IP address Get a Link to this Message Delete Topic
Adyashanti - Being Alone
I really like Adyashanti. He has a way of explaining things sort
of like Osho. This is rather long but good. He talks about our
self created illusions and the destruction of all thought.
https://youtu.be/oJixbi1QrKoBodhi Tree
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AYP takes a much more proactive and wholesome approach to enlightenment蓉sing thought as a tool for enlightenment through the practice of samyama. Adyashanti is mainly concerned with the witness state, whereas the full-scope approach of AYP will help move a practitioner far beyond the witness stage and into unity.
In order to reside in stillness and be overflowing with divine love, one will have to use thought, and the ego, as vehicles for divine expression. Simply recognizing that the source of all thought is nothingness will not be sufficient for a full flowering of self-realization溶ot by a long shot. We have to engage our thought process and refine those subtle vibrations.
There is no destruction of thought or ego, but rather an illumination of them. The teachers who preach otherwise are stuck in a mental space, which in AYP we call "the illusion of attainment", i.e. "I have arrived." It is a clinging to the witness stage, and being lost in abstraction.
True enlightenment is touching stillness, and then knowing how to bring that stillness into manifestation in very creative and benevolent ways. Detachment is only a preliminary part of the equation and requires significantly more momentum to make awakening authentic and meaningful.
