(part 2 has been added here now:    • Adyashanti: to transmute an emotion—t...  )
excerpted from Uncensored Straight Talk (audio course 2012)
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**There is also a single talk entitled "Transmuting the Human Stuff" by Adya
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"This is an act of love. This is bringing liberation to everything."

"To transmute an emotion, as I said, you can't have the motivation to get rid of something, to transmute an emotion is an act of love, and maybe that'll become a little more clear as I describe this.

So when you reverse the normal conditioned trajectory, which is to move away from something that's unpleasant, instead of moving away from unpleasant emotion or energy, actually the opposite trajectory is a trajectory where you're moving towards it or into it. I think of it as you're in an attitude of greeting it. You don't greet something you want to get rid of...It's an act of love to greet something, to open to it, to welcome it. It starts to close the distance between you and the emotion and the feeling. So to have that attitude of greeting it, you're allowing it into your atmosphere; you're allowing it into your company... They may be overwhelming you, but the overwhelm is actually because somewhere at a fundamental level you're rejecting their base energy...

So to greet an emotion is to start to collapse that distance...then you start to experience that as a type of energy. You get very intimate with the actual experience of it. And the actual experience of an emotion is actually the experience of the energy of it...

There's nothing analytical about this. It's not an intellectual process...

So when you can fully greet it, then you actually literally allow yourself to become it...I do not mean that by becoming it, it means you're going to express it. I also don't mean by becoming it that you're of course trying to get rid of it. I think that's obvious, but sometimes when I say to become an emotion, people then think 'okay, that means I'm going to express it. I'm going to yell. I'm going to be rageful.' When you do that, you're actually trying to let off the energy, you're actually trying to get away from it.

To greet something is to completely close the distance. When you completely close the distance in such a way, in a sense you become that energy, but you're becoming it consciously, instead of unconsciously. That's the key...

So to have the capacity to greet it is a very intimate thing. You have to have the capacity to be quite still and quiet, and have a precision about greeting it. There's nothing haphazard about it. This is very precise...In the way I'm talking about, actually the energy of the emotion becomes conscious...This is an act of love. This is bringing liberation to everything..."

~ Adyashanti
excerpted from Uncensored Straight Talk (audio course 2012)
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Based on his book The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

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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