The Core of You

Adya invites us to let go of our ideas about spirituality and look into our own experience, look into what we really are, promising it’s actually a simple thing. He explores ever-present awareness and the simplicity of seeing that we are already that awareness. Dialoging with callers, Adya applies this basic tenant of being to various situations and unpacks living out true nature after awakening.

Topics include:

• The Pointer Is Not the Truth
• The Simplicity of Seeing What We Really Are
• The Collapsing of Duality
• Avoiding the Spiritual Shipwreck

Quotes from this Talk:

“It might as well be this moment that we can put this pursuit of images and ideas and concepts aside and instead be open to a few pointers—not something to chase, not something to try to attain, but just a way of directing your attention, directing your consciousness in an innocent way.”

“Your thoughts change, yet you remain. Your opinions change, yet you remain. Maybe you’ve changed your spirituality, maybe you’ve changed religion, maybe you’ve changed gurus, maybe you’ve changed all sorts of things about your existence, and yet the core of you always remains.”

“Consciousness, awareness, presence exists, whether you understand it or not. It is there.”

“The mind thinks in some way that the ultimate reality, or the ultimate truth, or enlightenment—whatever you want to call it—is some sort of ultimate position. But it’s just the opposite. It’s the relinquishing of fixation in any position.”

Recorded in San Jose, California on January 9, 2009
© 2009 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.