Adyashanti: mind misinterprets it as depression but in the moment, "I forget to be depressed" (Q&A)

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Adyashanti: mind misinterprets it as depression but in the moment, "I forget to be depressed" (Q&A)

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The participant talked about her experience related to personal will ebbing away and some other experiences in life that might have contributed to her feeling depressed...
Adyashanti: "...you can have both of these experiences-the mind's experience-its interpretation because remember your mind is just a conditioned instrument and it's interpreting it in the way it's conditioned to, which will be a very negative way in this mindstream and in many mindstreams, probably most, but at the same time, the actual happening of the ebbing away of the personal itself is freedom, in the moment itself, it's peace, it's happiness, that's what it actually is..."
excerpted from "Beyond the Personal Will (2006)"
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About "Beyond the Personal Will (2006)":
In this classic recording, Adyashanti discusses what happens when the motivating force of personal will starts to erode. “Realization of ‘no self’ is one thing; having personal will wither away into nothing is another.” It is only in the ebbing of this will that we come to know what the spiritual journey is about: the flowering of truth.
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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 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."
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@marlaadamson1633 8 ай бұрын

Dear listener, My mind had similar difficulties. Once I started thanking it for trying to look out for me and imaging that I could hold it like a child, things settled down very quickly. We are one, Rest easy

@bethhayes1 8 ай бұрын

Yes! I can totally relate to this. Not an easy place to be!

@flaviusdumitrescu7756 8 ай бұрын

It's horrible, actually 🙈 And it's seems endless at some point.

@shaneh1003 8 ай бұрын

The reality of this for me has been the comfort and peace in suicidal thoughts, or dying in general, and being depressed even with all the awareness, awakening, spiritual wisdom, and whatever else you choose to refer to it as. Knowing how incredibly blessed I am, while having complete realization of the impossible magnificence and abundance with every glance and moment down to the smallest scale of energy vibrations that is everything. Yet, still plagued by the depression and thoughts of wanting to either only go backwards, or be completely done. I can’t understand why people want to live past ages after raising their own children, or experiencing all there is to experience besides old age decrepitude, when every single thing worth living for is in the past. Just seems like insane addiction to being alive, or fear of dying, etc., that makes people live on, because it’s literally pointless after a certain period. Anyways.. short version of my thoughts on this. Being awake, but being depressed while being aware of why you should always feel amazing.

@orangoetan2967 8 ай бұрын

Did this woman ever start a group? I want to join!

@blessos 4 ай бұрын

Me too!

@JFairhart 8 ай бұрын

Do they ever get to acceptance of depression? Cause acceptance of it is the only cure.

@bridietulloch1520 3 ай бұрын

I’ve given myself so many labels over the course of my life but I think the one thing that has continued to happen during this process has been the falling away of any identification with a label. Intuitively, none of the labels I have attributed to myself quite seemed to fit. They have also all been as impermanent as the personal identity.