Beyond Identity

In this live broadcast, Adya talks about the true nature of awakening. Acknowledging the impossibility of fully conveying the experience of awakening through words, he unpacks the experience and explains that awakening is not about developing a new “spiritual” identity but going beyond the need for any identification, beyond all notions of self. Dialoguing with callers, Adya talks of the nature of love that arises with awakening, the power of meditative inquiry, and noticing ever-present awareness.

Topics include:

• The Inexplicable Nature of Awakening
• The Transformational Effect of the Kiss of Reality
• Awakening from the Prisons of Identity
• Noticing the Ever-Present Awareness

Quotes:

“We can’t really know what spiritual awakening is until it actually happens. We have to experience it for ourself and have direct knowledge to have some wisdom about what it is.”

“Awakening means awakening to what you really are. It’s awakening to the reality beyond all notions of self, all notions of you or me. So the very language we use to describe awakening also distorts it and leads to certain misunderstandings.”

“Even a momentary touch, glimpse, kiss of reality can be more transformative than anything and everything that you do in your life to transform yourself.”

“Awakening is to be free of the psychological drive to identify.”

Recorded February 25, 2009 in San Jose, California.
© 2009 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.