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~ excerpted from "Meditative SelfInquiry" (2019). The full talk video is currently available on Adyashanti official youtube channel FREE (UNTIL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2023):    • Video  

"There's often various fears about really letting go because really letting go is a very intimate revealing internal gesture or act...What do you do when you have certain fears?

Well, you let yourself have the fear. That doesn't mean you give yourself to the narration in your mind about the fear because that will just create more and more and more and more and more fear. But when I say you let yourself have the fear you let yourself have the raw feeling of it...

...part of doing deep spiritual practice, you'll run into fears where there really isn't any danger..

...this has been studied very very deeply in psychology that the best way of dealing with fears and phobias and all these kind of things are voluntary, which is the key, voluntarily encountering your fear, voluntarily encountering what you're afraid of. So I give you an external version of this but it can work internally, too..."

~ Adyashanti
excerpted from "Meditative SelfInquiry" – Prerecorded Broadcast with Adyashanti (from 2019)

Topics:
Turning Back to the Source
The Deeper Dimensions of SelfRealization
Transforming Your Relationship with Fear
The Psychological Gravity of the Psyche
Exploring the Levels of Consciousness
An Inward Arc of Inquiry
Peering into the Unknown
The Realm of Thought
Our Unconscious Domain
Embodied Expression
Email 1: Our Relationship with the Mind and Thoughts
Email 2: Fear that Accompanies Realization
Email 3: Dislodging the False Identity
Email 4: The Desire to Communicate Your Realization
Quotes:
“To live with a question is an underappreciated art and skill in spirituality.”
“If you understand that a question is meant to redirect awareness to a deeper dimension, then it can be immensely effective.”
“Spiritual inquiry is redirecting your attention outside from your thoughts to the source of them.”
“Meditation is letting your attention sink into what you’re usually not consciously aware of.”
“The deepest dimension of spiritual awakening is when the Source of being becomes conscious—when that which wasn’t conscious through you suddenly becomes selfaware.

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Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an Americanborn spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.

Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an Americanborn spiritual teacher. Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all."

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