Your Authentic Being

Have you ever tried to be a certain way or conform to an idea of who you think you should be? Even within spirituality, most people pursue some idealized spiritual persona rather than allow themselves to be who they are. In this evening event in Maui, Adyashanti encourages an authentic turn within to discover the truth of your innate being that doesn’t need to be sought, because it’s already present. He also shows how to bring a child-like wonder to your deepest inquiries and directly experience the happiness and freedom that is beyond anything your mind can conjure up.

Talk Topics Include:

• The Pursuit of Spiritual Conformity
• The Double-Edged Sword of the Spiritual Drive
• How Teachings Become Ideologies
• The Significant Attitude of Wonder
• Discovering Truth for Yourself
• Authentic Honesty

Q&A Topics Include:

• Seeing Through Unworthiness
• Teachings from Adya’s Teacher
• Self-Trust with Discrimination

Quotes from this Download:  

“The more we try to conform to being the person we think we need to be, the more we feel inadequate.”
 
“Everything authentic that we’re looking for is already here.”
 
“Teachings can be beautiful until we turn them into an ideology.”
 
“Whenever we’re asserting a belief system, we’re becoming a fundamentalist.”

 “Our mind is looking for an answer but our heart is looking for a deep, direct experience with existence.”

Recorded in Makawao, Hawaii on October 2, 2015.
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