The Value of Silent Sitting (Excerpt)

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Жыл бұрын

Adya encourages us to drop the effort to become still during meditation and notice the inner stability that is already there. Excerpted from May 7, 2008, Palo Alto Meeting, “A Shift of Perception”: bit.ly/3UqO3nQ
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Quote from this Video: “True stillness doesn’t move when your mind moves-it is the space in which your mind moves.” adyashanti.org

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@luismoref Жыл бұрын

Today is going to be one of the hardest one of the year for me. For the last couple of days I sat down with my fears and anxiety. Watching the brain swirling around things that didn't happened yet. Now I'll sit again, not against my thoughts but welcoming them like a child with fear.

@Mimi-xs7gi Жыл бұрын

The stillness is already there❣️

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Жыл бұрын

Always and already here

@rul4522 Жыл бұрын

I love this: sitting in silence.

@awakenotwoke7949 Жыл бұрын

You cannot experience stillness, you can only be it

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Жыл бұрын

HA!! Love your handle. Ain’t that the truth. I just said that to somebody yesterday. I said awake and woke are light years apart.

@mokuho Жыл бұрын

This inner stability starting to sense and feel the silent that’s already there…

@missartistsky759 Жыл бұрын

this silence is helping us to hear ourselves , to realize how distracted we may be , and finally to accept our own voice .

@user-cc1kl2zf8k Жыл бұрын

Thank you, that made something very clear for me.

@julipozsar6597 Жыл бұрын

Yes, for me too.

@cps_Zen_Run Жыл бұрын

Meditation allows one to realize how busy the mind is. Quieting the mind, a beginner will notice they have dozens of thoughts per minute. With practice we quite our minds, and still discover that we have 100’ s of thoughts per minute. LOL. 😮

@gfullr Жыл бұрын

Adyashanti is the real deal. He knows. It's in his blood for his whole life. I love this video.

@lindaszlagowski8888 Жыл бұрын

To me it's recreation just sitting still letting come what comes and go what goes Being at work in challenging moments, sometimes one after the other kicks me out of tranquility right into feelings of impatience, rage, despair, within a split of a second. Finding the still point in midst of the hurricanes of life is more challenging than focusing, watching disconnecting or letting go on the cushion! Beautiful sharing, thank you! 🙏😊

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Жыл бұрын

Yes and part of what I’ve been taught is that meditation is designed to create that still point off the cushion so that we maintain a meditative state on or off the cushion

@DilbagSingh-sp2yp Жыл бұрын

Letting go of the cushion at last.

@mokuho Жыл бұрын

The sensation of inner stillness

@MarkKap Жыл бұрын

I call it "touching base." (something I've got to do from time to time to snap out of the coils of self-induced overexcitement or bout of self-pity or self-attack or etc.)

@julipozsar6597 Жыл бұрын

"Touching base", love your expression ❤ I also felt this, like touching the bottom of a deep ocean, when everything becomes absolutely still.

@MarkKap Жыл бұрын

@@julipozsar6597 kiülni egy parkba vagy egy kertbe, és csak figyelni órákon át a hangokat, és a rezdüléseket, a szüntelen mozgást, mígnem… but let me quote Adya here: "This is how I first got into spirituality, by immersing myself in nature and watching, watching very, very closely. When you do this for a long time something interesting begins to happen. You begin to sense and feel not only a deeper connection to the natural world but something even more subtle and alluring. You begin to intuit and feel a sort of subterranean movement in the world and within yourself. There is something, call it a sustaining generative power, a creative source, that begins to open its eyes within you." (az óceán képed btw Daniel Siegel leírására emlékeztet a Mindsight című könyvéből)

@julipozsar6597 Жыл бұрын

@@MarkKap thanks for your hungarian words ❤ I stay in my small garden more than in the house, by the moment I am there too 😊 I play all the time with these things, I started with looking at the clouds, until a strong wonderful silent feeling appears in my chest. Later I observed, that it works with threes, grass, flowers, stones, dog, cat too.....

@theresaquinn2979 Жыл бұрын

❤I love you all!❤

@B-.still6 Жыл бұрын

Thank you friend for sharing this peace ❤

@edveyer666 Жыл бұрын

Hakuin Ekaku concerns was the danger of what he called "Do-nothing Zen" teachers, who upon reaching some small experience of enlightenment devoted the rest of their life to, as he puts it, "passing day after day in a state of seated sleep". He stressed a never-ending and severe training to deepen the insight of enlightenment.

@timothyammons9011 7 ай бұрын

Rest into Stillness / Silence Otherwise we’re believing that we are prone to move and make noise… and will inevitably be refraining - straining We’ll naturally be sifted by what does and doesn’t serve Heart’s desire… so just relax into what’s holding everything… not even holding… even saying the connective tissue is too much… For what could ever be separate that needs to be connected? What needs to be integrated may be unlit as unconsciousness… but it’s Here just the same. Creation is done, complete, Whole… Indivisible and incomprehensibly Infinite What are we opening our palms to receive?

@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 Жыл бұрын

Often times when I (seem) to get deep in, (I use Adya’s guided meditations regularly) when he speaks after a period of silence I get incredibly startled. 😂 It bothers me that that happens. It’s as if I’m so anxious underneath that the slightest sound scares the shit out of me. Snaps me right out, although it’s relatively simple to get back in. A teacher I’ve practiced with for a couple years, Samaneri Jayasara, (she has the best channel on KZfaq by the way) noted that last weekend’s practice that the silence does the work. There is no me doing any work other than just sitting, awareness does all the work. I found some relief in that. The me that thinks it’s doing something, well, that would be quite a burden.

@drygordspellweaver8761 Жыл бұрын

You get startled because you are asleep at the wheel. That’s not meditation. Also- Stay away from false teachers.

@richardsrensen4219 11 ай бұрын

Silent sitting is the bedst way to letting go of anything it is my favorite practies

@malaselvarajah5398 Жыл бұрын

❤

@No-self_No-problem Жыл бұрын

🙏

@TheTestride Жыл бұрын

Well that's great BUT my stability is unstable it can be stable enough to be unaffected by almost any disturbance for months at a time and then for a week or so the slightest traffic noise causes me to be distracted. If you are morbidly obese and weigh 180kg and go on a diet and lose 60kg you have made great progress but are still overweight. That's the equivalent to my 30 year practice of meditation. Not very successful but I don't want to be 180kg again.

@KK-qd6ro Жыл бұрын

I don't have the resources to access the full talks. When I have found them, they are insightful. Your edited excerpts just don't hit the mark for me.