Intimacy with Your Being

What does it mean to be intimate with your own being? In this talk, Adyashanti illuminates the truth of our being as a vast field that is totally aware and completely intimate with existence. He shows us how to experience it as an immediate, intuitive understanding that sees itself everywhere, in and as everything. In answers to emails, he addresses the desire to be recognized as special, how to move from the conceptual to the experiential, and how to release our darkness into the light.

Topics Include:

• Falling Away and Vitality
• The Space of Sound and Silence
• The Unseen, Unimagined Self
• How to Uncomplicate Yourself
• Saying “I” with Undefined Awareness
• The Desire for Recognition
• The Self-Destructive Impulse
• The Irreducible Quality of Your Being
• Seeing and Releasing the Dark Stuff
• The Love that Originates at Your Core

Quotes from this Talk:

“No one ever gave you yourself. You were born being what you are.”

“You lose every definition when you come into absolute intimacy with your being.”

“Your whole life history doesn’t tell you anything about yourself. It tells you about what happened, but not who it happened to.”

“Every moment of your life belongs to the Infinite.”

“No revelation is given to us simply for our own benefit.”

“One of the greatest reliefs is when you realize, ‘It’s not about me.’”

“You can always return to ‘I,’ during the day or when you’re meditating. You’re experientially returning your awareness to what ‘I’ is.”

“A natural outflow of love and compassion remains faithfully vigilant and lovingly present, as darkness unfolds from your unconscious into your conscious mind and releases.”

“Our two greatest commodities are our time and our attention. If you want to see what’s important to you, see what you give your time and your attention to.”

“The great, shining light of divinity is not a light you can see; it’s a light that sees.”

Recorded on December 18, 2013.
© 2013 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.