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Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti
    #15854278 - 02/23/12 07:13 PM (11 years, 11 months ago)

I sat with Adya in 2010. He cracked a joke about a banana being God. I laughed histerically and awakening happened for a full 30 seconds, but it didn't happen "to me."

Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti

Safransky: One of the ways into that heaven realm for some people is consciousness-altering drugs. Have you had any experience with those?

Adyashanti: In my younger days I tried them a couple of times. It was interesting, but I had the sense, even then, that I was sneaking into the temple without permission. I’m not saying it’s wrong to take drugs. Some people have transformative experiences; for many it starts them down the spiritual path. But I instinctively knew that this wasn’t the real thing, but rather just an interesting vacation. My subsequent experiences showed me that you can enter similar realms through various disciplines and practices, but those realms, too, are impermanent. They come and go. They have the sense of ultimate reality, but they’re not. There is something deeper that is manifesting them. Both drugs and spiritual experiences are easy to get caught up in. There are probably as many spiritual-experience junkies as there are other kinds of junkies. They will spend all their money and follow any goofball anywhere if that goofball promises them the experience they crave. So spiritual experiences are fine. They’re part of the path, and they’re very pleasant, but don’t mistake them for reality.

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Re: Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti [Re: Middleman] * 1
    #15854346 - 02/23/12 07:23 PM (11 years, 11 months ago)

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Mr. Middle said:
So spiritual experiences are fine. They’re part of the path, and they’re very pleasant, but don’t mistake them for reality.




How aren't spiritual experiences reality?  :confused:


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Re: Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti [Re: deCypher] * 2
    #15854367 - 02/23/12 07:26 PM (11 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti [Re: Middleman]
    #15855011 - 02/23/12 09:18 PM (11 years, 11 months ago)

I'd :hugitout: with him

Is that gay?


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Re: Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti [Re: Middleman] * 1
    #15855110 - 02/23/12 09:37 PM (11 years, 11 months ago)

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Mr. Middle said:In my younger days I tried them a couple of times. It was interesting, but I had the sense, even then, that I was sneaking into the temple without permission.




I know it's a metaphor, but do we really need anyone's permission to enter this "temple"? Screw that.  I'm on my own and I'll go where I please.


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Re: Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti [Re: Middleman]
    #15856204 - 02/24/12 03:04 AM (11 years, 11 months ago)

wow, that's an amazing Adyashanti quote. It makes me realize how many of my ideas about awakening are completely tied up with theories born from the Acid or Mushroom experience. Cause yeah , It's entirely possible to get into "spiritual" states and maintain one's ego just by controlling energy and attention I suppose. But then there's a space beyond the mind and even the intellect/ego itself that is truly whole...


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Re: Who Hears This Sound? - Interview w/ Adyashanti [Re: g00ru]
    #15856294 - 02/24/12 04:26 AM (11 years, 11 months ago)

Great article, thanks.

I was just thinking of my grandmother and her extensive book collection, and then I clicked on this link. The Sun is one of her favorite literary magazines.


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