Adyashanti: Q&A—find unity through aloneness...what consciousness touches, it frees (such as fear)

**excerpted from "Seeing Nothing and Everything (2011)": https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org...    • Seeing Nothing and Everything  (Full-Lengt...   "We're going to find unity through completely stepping into our aloneness... People open up; they see things; they experience things, and then later it says it's disappeared...In a certain sense, it's calling you to go with it. In other words, it's calling you to go into a very subtle quiet place. If you don't go, you start to feel like you've lost something because we relate to a certain experience as its obviousness, its power, its beauty—all of that. And unconsciously we think that's beautiful and that's how I know I'm in the truth and that's how I know—that's how I recognize it, right? But that's not necessarily what existence has in mind. In other words, it's extraordinarily intelligent. It knows exactly what to do to get your attention... What most of us do is we stay right where we were, right where we are, and go 'oh my God! It's disappearing.' Did it ever occur that you could actually disappear with it—go into the subtlety, into the quietness, into the stillness because I can guarantee you everything you've ever realized is actually still completely present at this instant as much as it ever was... The only thing that it wants—the only thing that's necessary is to let it all arise, all come up in the light of Consciousness... That's what Consciousness does: what it touches, it frees. So when it really touches fear without us grasping and trying to hide, it frees the fear; it liberates the fear, you know. It's one of those unexpected parts of spirituality that people don't count on..." ~ Adyashanti from the excerpt ~~~ About "Seeing Nothing and Everything (2011)": In this talk, Adyashanti illustrates how our essential being is simultaneously a profound, silent “nothing” as well as everything within existence. He first guides us beyond the illusive, divided ego to our fundamental nothingness. He then explores the infinite potential of this nothingness and how it can be more fully manifested by our moving from this absolute presence. Topics Include: The Source of the Spiritual Impulse Authentic Silence Ego Is a Patterning The Nothing that’s Everything How Stillness Moves Living the Truth Posing Questions to Stillness Fear Is a Waking Nightmare ----------------------- 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 American-born 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 American-born 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." For more please go to his website: https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/ Free teaching materials, including videos, audios, articles, and free PDF of The Way of Liberation: https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org... Adyashanti youtube channel:    / @adyashanti   --------------------------- Our facebook group page "The Direct Way by Adyashanti (Spiritual Awakening & Awakened Living)":   / directway   My post re: How I experience or relate to Adyashanti's Retiring from Live Teachings   / 715965296582243