Eric Cantor: How would you think about building a practice? What would it consist of? How often or how long? I'm not looking for exact answers maybe as so much as a way to think through it. He says if somebody wanted to engage in this or probably any spiritual teaching, he'd suggest that they do some meditation every day. "For an old Zen guy, it took me for a while to like rediscover like actually sitting here could be really, really nice"
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Adyashanti is a renowned and gifted spiritual teacher. He's written many books, hosts meditation retreats and speaks around the world to large audiences at a time. With such a wide audience, it's amazing that when you experience Adya's teaching, it's as if he's speaking directly to you - to your very heart. Whatever your experience with or preconceived notions of spiritual awakening, allow yourself to re-engage with the idea through this interview. As you turn the inquiry towards yourself this time, you may be surprised, moved and/or transformed by what you find - if you are brutally honest in the process.our inner life.
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In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss...
- Eric's awakening experience
- The awakened state in perpetuity
- The shift in perception that happens with awakening
- The paradox of wanting something like awakening yet wanting it stands in the way of having it
- Will gets you to the cushion and once there, it's important to let go of it
- Does one need a spiritual teacher when seeking awakening?
- The teacher evoking something from vs the teacher giving something to the student
- How people work with unconscious patterns
- How you can't not be awakened - even if you don't feel it, it's there
- Emotional conflict
- Paying attention to what's recurring in you
- Anything that's happened to us that was too big for us to remain conscious while we experienced it, gets trapped in our system - turned into some other emotion or it just gets stuffed and is now just there waiting for you. The universe is now asking, "can you experience this now?"
- Being fine with being sad
- Let everything be exactly the way it is
- How dealing with life's experiences as they come transforms you
- A clinched fist vs an open hand metaphor
- "Let" vs "Let go"
- If you can't let it go, can you let it be
- Failure as part of triumph
- Failing your way through something consciously can cause a sort of transformation
- What it looks like to build a spiritual practice
- Daily quiet meditation, Engage in some precise self-inquiry (a wonderment of "being")
- How spirituality is the direct investigation of YOUR experience
- The only way to get self-inquiry wrong is not to be ruthlessly honest about what's happening in your experience
- The fear of getting something wrong
- Think of your spiritual teacher kind of like a college professor
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