The Dilemma of Self-Awareness

In this talk, Adyashanti reveals how our human capacity for self-awareness is both a blessing and a curse. Though the process of self-awareness can bring about a fully liberated consciousness, it more typically results in confining, abstracted ideas about ourselves and life that lead to the experience of separation. Adyashanti points to the kind of self-consciousness that sees through this crystallized abstraction and awakens to the unity of all existence.

Topics Include:

• The Blessing and Curse of Self-Awareness
• The Solution to the Dilemma of Self-Awareness
• The Search for Life’s Meaning
• Awakening from Abstraction
• Obvious Unity
• Compassion for Ego Drama
• Slaying Roles

Quotes from This Download:

“When self-consciousness turns inward to our imagined world, we become unaware to the outer world and the deeper world within us.”

“Our story about spirituality is as much an abstraction as our abstract story about ourself.”

“When you notice there’s life outside your abstracted ideas, then ideas cannot confine you.”

“When we see the world, that’s the world seeing itself.”

Recorded in Santa Cruz, CA, on August 27, 2011.
© 2011 by Adyashanti. All rights reserved.