Engaging with the Spiritual Instinct

What would it mean to be wisely engaged with the spiritual instinct and deeply committed to your spiritual practice? Adyashanti explores how to engage with the spiritual instinct in a way that goes beyond seeking and striving and delivers you in the eternal present. By entering the immediacy of this moment, you are able to experience reality as it actually is.

Topics Include: 

• The Evocation of the Spiritual Impulse
• How Striving Reinforces Seeking
• The Ego’s Mistaken Beliefs
• Knowing through Being
• Anxiety about Letting Go
• The Transformational Power of Inquiry
• Orienting toward the Present Moment
• Letting Go of the Past and the Future
• Email 1: Finding Balance within Your Spiritual Practice

Quotes: 

“Spiritual practice is an expression of true nature. It’s not a means to enlightenment—it’s the expression of enlightenment.”

“Spirituality is the exploration of the most fundamental experience of being.”

“Spiritual awakening occurs when you are fully in the present. To be fully in the present is to be spiritually awake.”

“If you’ve had a real glimpse of true nature, even a mild glimpse will show you that ‘We are what we are seeking.’”

“Part of the spiritual instinct is the instinct to experience a more fundamental way of perceiving life and self and others.”

Recorded in San Jose, California on September 18, 2019.
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