Some powerful yet down-to-Earth pointers from Adyashanti on Freedom from Separation.
The dream of separation is unenlightenment, is bondage, is error; wholeness is reality, now.
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Living Unbound: Spirituality Is For All Of Us
Living Unbound, the Freedom Beyond Imagination of our inherently fulfilled consciousness, aka spirituality, is for all of us, regardless of our religion or spiritual tradition, or our lack of one, or even lack of any previous inclination toward spirituality. Spiritual practices (prayer, meditation, devotional chanting and singing, directed breathing, contemplation, etc.) are universal practices, with millenia of proven effectiveness in facilitating Living Unbound. The effectiveness of these practices is now being verified by recent advancements in the ability of science to measure changes that take place in the brain, and therefore in our overall experience. Spiritual practices are to Living Unbound as diet and exercise are to physical health. Anyone who engages in effective, related activities, gets effective, related results.
“Yoga is not about belief; yoga is about practice.”
“My yoga is easy, and my burden is light.”
~Jesus Christ (~Matthew 11:30), with updated translation as noted, below.
Below, please find a Living Unbound video playlist, which showcases the reality that spirituality, and spiritual practices are for us all. The first video features some brief yet profound comments by “Silicon Valley’s resident enlightened guy”, Adyashanti (originally Steve Gray).
Note On Translation Of Matthew 11:30: The English Yoke derives from the Greek Zeugam, which derives from the Sanskrit Yugam, which is a verb meaning “to join”, so the English, Greek and Sanskrit terms are essentially identical. The modification isn’t intended to imply any endorsement by Jesus Christ of anything related to yoga, as that term is used in current times, but rather to highlight the universality of teachings related to spiritual union.
Quotes By Adyashanti
Adyashanti “The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.” ~Source: True Meditation, Page: 56
“Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.” ~Source: Emptiness Dancing, Page: 1
“Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. “ ~Source: True Meditation, Page: 7
“The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.” ~Source: Emptiness Dancing, Page: 32
“The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.” ~Source: Emptiness Dancing, Page: 5
Adyashanti “Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are enlightened and awake simply because they have had a very moving spiritual experience. They wear their enlightenment on their sleeve like a badge of honor. They sit among friends and talk about how awake they are while sipping coffee at a cafe. The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no one to claim it. Enlightenment is very ordinary; it is nothing special. Rather than making you more special, it is going to make you less special. It plants you right in the center of a wonderful humility and innocence. Everyone else may or may not call you enlightened, but when you are enlightened the whole notion of enlightenment and someone who is enlightened is a big joke. I use the word enlightenment all the time; not to point you toward it but to point you beyond it. Do not get stuck in enlightenment.”
“An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.”
“As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.”
Source for above quotes: Quotes by Adyashanti
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