Adyashanti: Q&A "anything in ourself we have not acknowledged, we tend to manifest it all around us"

**excerpted from "Getting Beyond Ego (2008)": https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org... **full-length video available (FREE) at: https://www.cultureunplugged.com/stor... "I'm suggesting when you can see those same qualities in you that you have trouble with in another, when you can see them in yourself and really admit to them that they're there, you will have gone 95% of the way to the resolution of your conflict. And as long as you refuse to see that, you'll keep creating new bosses like that until you do see that in yourself... We all have infinite amounts of qualities, capabilities, capacities. We can be infinitely good and infinitely bad and everything in between...the difficulty is anything in ourself that we have not acknowledged, we tend to manifest it all around us..." "What is it in me that can't get along? Can I look at that?....then you start to have the power of your own happiness in your own hands."  ~ Adyashanti from "Getting Beyond Ego (2008)" https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org... ~~~ About "Getting Beyond Ego (2008)": The ultimate trick of egoic consciousness is to try to get beyond ego. Yet the more you try to get beyond it, the more you get caught up in it. In this enlightening talk, Adyashanti reveals the real meaning of "allowing everything to be as it is." He shows how this teaching, when understood fully, offers a way to go beyond the egoic state. ------------------------ 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