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Adyashanti
Last post 04-18-2008, 11:29 AM by adastra. 28 replies.
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markw1000
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Here Here. I just heard the Adyashanti dialogue and I agree that it is one of the best I've heard of any of the IN dialogues.
I've watched a few of his teachings videos at a spirituality group near where I live and I was really impressed by what he had to say and his manner and style of presentation.
I'm pleased that he seems to embrace, at least in principal, the AQAL approach to spirituality, especially the difference between stages and states, and I like his comments on spiritual 'fundamentalism' (or was it materialism?), that is, the way that someone experiencing higher states can become dogmatic and really stuck in their relative philosophy, because of the apparent certainty and lack of doubt that these states have as one of their characteristics. My own experience is certainly that the mind is very inclined to hold dogmatically to certain pet ideas and theories after such extraordinarily strong immersion experiences. And further, that reading Wilber and studying Integral and AQAL has really helped me to expand my mind in the best sense.
I was pleased to mention this talk to a spiritual seeker friend who has taken the teachings of Adya and Eckhart Tolle and become unbearably anti-intellectual (and almost Ken Wilber hating). We'll see what his reaction is.
Anyway, I highly recommend the dialogue to anyone interested in spirituality and spiritual life.
"The god you don't believe in I don't believe in either" - paraphrased from a statement by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi - directed at Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and those holding similar views/beliefs.
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LIghtfield
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I am And I am Not
In Duality or Not
Already there or Not
Empty or Fulfilled
All the same and Not...
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09-16-2006, 8:41 PM |
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kelcrowe
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Right on!
Spent 5 days in Silence with Adya recently--very glad to hear him on IN--
I head Father Thomas Keating speak today and found his references to silence in his centering prayer reminiscent of Adya's relationship with silence. . .
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09-17-2006, 9:31 AM |
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kelcrowe
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Adya called it "non-dual fundamentalism," a very interesting concept, I think. ( I don't know if that term is original to Adya, but I hadn't heard it.
I have seen this phenom happen to friends who routinely, and sometimes for prolonged periods, experience sublte, perhaps, causal states. They withdraw into themselves, intensifying UL and ignore much of the rest of thier lives-- shadows . . .
Which Adya says in the audio he sees in his students--
His humor didn't come through as much in this piece as I've heard it in others--and I think that is an important element of his teachings.
In any case I reccomend Adya's teaching. "The Direct Approach," as he calls it, is very straight forward, accessible to anyone with an interest in awakening. Which is sort of his taglline.
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balder
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Bert Parlee is a psychotherapist and a life coach who has also traveled the world and done "monkly" things. He was one of my professors at JFKU.
May the boundless knowledge that time presents and space allows illuminate the native perspectives of your original face.
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