Relinquish Your False Identity

We derive our entire sense of identity from our narrative—who we imagine ourselves to be. Whether we consider ourselves good/bad, worthy/unworthy, or loving/distant, our sense of identity only exists if we think it into existence. In this 3-download set of the 2016 Los Angeles Intensive, Adyashanti invites you to deeply inquire into the content of what actually constitutes your false identity, and discover the greater context of being that you truly are.

Talk Topics Include:

• What “Being in the Present” Really Means
• The Practice of Leaving Everything Perfectly Alone
• Recognizing the Context of Awareness
• Dealing with Obsessive Thinking
• Casting Off the Narrative about Yourself
• The 5-Second Rule
• The Power of Acknowledging
• The Question Mark in the Middle of Your Being
• The Calm of the Unknown
• Letting Reality Find You 

Q&A Topics Include:

• A Deeper Domain than Will-Power
• Relating to World Suffering
• The Nature of All Dimensions of Consciousness
• Whether or Not to Meditate
• Accessing Deep Self-Compassion
• Dealing with Being Energetically Sensitive
• The Non-Resistance of Awareness
• How “I Am” Cuts through Unworthiness
• Losing Your False Identity
• Waking Up to Who You Really Are
• Facing Rage and Terror

Quotes in this Download Set:

“Reality doesn’t need you or I to be thinking about it for it to be there. Illusion absolutely requires us to be thinking about it for it to be there.”
 
“My hope is not that anybody accepts what I say, but that the words actually help engage in a more direct way the fundamental question of your own existence.”

“Simply by letting all the content of experience be the way it is, the context of awareness will come into view, not as something you can see, but more as the seeing itself.”
 
“Your narrative about the past is causing 95 percent of the problem from the past.”

“Any experience that we’re not able to fully experience and embody at the time that it happened gets trapped in our physiology.”
 
“Imagine a universe where worthiness and unworthiness didn’t actually count.”
 
“Reality isn’t something that comes into being and goes out of being.”

“What’s common to every single state of consciousness we ever find ourselves in?”

“Resistance will make your whole energetic system like flypaper -- sticky, sticky, sticky.”


Recorded in Los Angeles, California on February 27, 2016.
© 2016 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.