Awakening from the Past

Adya explores the meaning of spiritual awakening, pointing out that “to awaken” implies we must awaken from the cloak of time. He invites us to be grounded in the freshness of this timeless moment instead of reaching back to illusory memories or projecting forward to a non-existent future. This clear perceiving opens us to see reality, and he points to the unity that comes from seeing things as they are.

Topics include:

• The Repetitive Loop of the Dream State
• Be Still and Receive
• No Option but Now
• Giving up the Linchpin of Control

Quotes from this Download:

“There actually isn’t a past and there actually isn’t a future. You see that all there actually is, all there ever was, is now—this present instance. Now comes into and goes out of existence instantaneously, and when it goes out of existence, it goes entirely out of existence.”

“The difficulty isn’t that you have memory; the difficulty comes when you perceive through memory—two very different phenomena.”

“That’s what enlightenment is—to perceive this moment as it is. When we’re no longer caught in time, in the past, in the future, then we see things as they are. We see the reality of everything—self, others, everything. We see the reality of it, and the reality of it is that it has a singularity to it. There’s a unity to it.”

“Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity has nothing to do with something lasting infinitely. Eternity means no time, and no time is actually the reality that is. It’s the reality you are. It’s the reality you’re living in. To wake up to that fact, to perceive that as your own being, as the source and substance of what you are, is to be awake. That’s what it is to be awake.”

Recorded in San Jose, California on February 18, 2009.
© 2009 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.