A Revolutionary Transformation

In this talk, Adya invites us to move beyond not only our personal perception of separation, but also the conditioned consciousness of humanity as a whole. He points to the world being a result of our collective consciousness and the resulting inadequacy of using thought to change it—we must make real change through a revolutionary transformation of perception and action. In dialoging with callers, he explores the rudderless feeling we might experience when the center drops away, true meditation, and acting from what you’re for rather than what you’re against.

Topics: 

• Going Beyond the Perception of Separation
• Changing Our Consciousness Changes the World
• Feeling Rudderless When the Center Drops Away
• Letting Go of the Hungry Ghost

Quotes:

“The problem isn’t that we haven’t found the right system. The problem isn’t that we haven’t found the right religion or the right form of spirituality. The problem isn’t that we haven’t found the right philosophy. All these things have been tried for hundreds and hundreds of years. The problem is that most humans—99.9% of human beings that walk the planet—see themselves as separate from each other, separate from the world, separate from their environment.”

“If we’re ever actually going to meet the challenges of our own existence, of human existence, of existence here and now in the world as it is, there’s got to be a way in which we break free of the prison of our own conditioned consciousness, and not only our own conditioned consciousness, but the conditioned consciousness of the collective of humanity as a whole.”

“For most people, thought is not a tool they use, but thought is a cancer that’s completely taken them over.”

“There must be an innocence of heart, a humility of mind, and an unambiguous intention toward truth, toward what’s really real. These qualities are the most important qualities to possess, spiritually speaking. This is the whole path of spiritual inquiry.”

“What we see in the world is a reflection of our state of consciousness, and if we don’t wake up from this limited, isolated, divided state of consciousness, then nothing is going to change, no matter what new system, ideology, belief, spirituality, or religion we impose upon the world.”

“Spiritual awakening is when you realize that you are not separate from the whole, so that when you look around—and this isn’t a theory, it’s not an idea—when you actually look around, you start seeing that what you are is the same as everything else.”

Recorded in San Jose, California on October 2, 2008
© 2008 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.