The Aloneness of Awakening (Excerpt)
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- Adya describes the aloneness that arises when we awaken from the idea of ourselves and how in that aloneness, we can experience oneness, the greatest intimacy of all. Excerpted from August 2, 2009, Palo Alto Meeting, “Reality-Oriented Spirituality”: bit.ly/3Q9TSV9
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Quote from this Video: “Enter into your aloneness, and what you realize is your absolute intimacy with all things.” adyashanti.org
I was always scared of being alone so I hung on for a lifetime to crappy lonely relationships. Almost 6 yrs alone and I have more peace and feel less lonely than ever!!🤗
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That’s wonderful! You’ve probably realized that in essence you’re never alone and that feeling lonely was not even necessary because you were accompanied all along by your source!
Feeling peace and comfort is not the point. This is one chapter of the denial stage where someone denies to participate in expressing her/himself fully as some form of protest for having their ego dissolved
@@bitkurd I went alone off grid to understand and heal my ego self. I needed to get away from everything and everyone so I couldn't distract myself from myself. I had to face a lifetime of unresolved pain I'd been trying to run from. I was too exhausted and couldn't run anymore. THAT was terrifying HELL at times. But as time went on I noticed there was less and less need to even operate from "little sue". I live in a sort of timeless state and do whatever I feel like doing at any moment. I am aware of her thoughts and feelings popping up, but don't operate from her small neurotic personality....most of the time.😉 I do have a hard time maintaining peace and oneness with all when I interact with other people. I morph back into small stressful personality most of the time, but am getting better with practice. I wish everyone could spend time alone in nature with NO distractions like TV, phone, Internet, to figure their shit out....and after ALL that work, you suddenly laugh and realize "OK, You finally understand. ..so what?? It's not that important and doesn't really matter anyways!!"😅😄😃😄
Not talking about being physically alone…
At one of these early Palo Alto meetings, Adya said: "Thinking is the ultimate addiction". It's been with me all these years. And when I was going 'half-nuts' during post-awakening integration, I was here in Berlin laying on the floor in the middle of the night, listening to Adya's audio. Again anf again - night after night ... after night.
His work on post-awakening integration might have saved this form... so that it now, finally, can serve its divine purpose.
I have been alone as Long as I can remember. Understanding finally this is who I am. Silence and aloneness comfort me deeply.
The issue is that people emphasize human relationships over any other ones. But, in fact, we are in relationship with all life around us and with ourselves all the time. So you are never actually "alone" and fostering relationship with Nature, God, with oneself can be deeply gratifying and fulfilling. I love being "alone" but I'm never lonely. As my wise Mother would say, "How can you be alone when you are surrounded by such beauty?" She was very much connected to Nature, which was her deepest and greatest relationship.
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My relationship with nature is the most important relationship in my life too. Love ❤️ and peace ❤️ 💕
You are blessed to have a mother so wise. Thank you for sharing. I found your mother’s words immensely helpful.
Aloneness = All oneness
Yes!
This is exactly what I needed to hear today ❤
Yeah,that I can dig
Together Here as the Unique Energies within our One Source Core 🐘💙😊✊🏽💯
Lovely.. Just saw this so true.. Aloneness = All Oneness.
At the age of 75 I have come to realize that I don't "think" like almost everyone around me. I DO understand that my mind, my awareness has not been captured by the cultural narrative that has been fed to me. I feel benignly alienated from, and non-conversant with, most others, knowing that we speak "different languages". I don't feel lonely, just sad because of it.
Same with me😢
The relationship you have with yourself is the only one that truly matters
Since having my out of body experience in 2014, (I stopped breathing, long story) - I came back to my body knowing things I never knew before. For example I know 100% that all humans are my close family, and we are all one and a part of All That Is. You can never be separated from God - it's impossible. Since then I have never felt so alive, and I really enjoy being with myself and communing. As someone who had no interest in the Bible I began to read it. The Bible really came to life, and I came to understand that the stories of Jesus and the apostles and the prophets of the Bible, are all parables that explain the ascension of man. They are not meant to be taken as literal historical accounts, but explanations of our states of growth.
Si. Curioso que él haya hecho referencia a "Jesús y sus discípulos" como sujetos históricos. Hace pocos días me encontré con un vídeo de Ryan Mcmahon y su lectura de la biblia, novedosa para mi, y muy cercana a lo que decís acá. Xoxo
We know!! Thats why all religions can co-exist. They serve that same purpose.
So I assume it's a positive thing? I've been feeling more and more that things, myself, and the world aren't "real" and it's such a heavy pointless feeling
I also find that when I am absolutely alone, non-attached to Anything, there is such a sacred , deep feeling of connectedness to all life , it's like the smell of freshly baked bread or cake , like coming home to a hot cup of tea and the fireplace lit in winter and it's always new and fresh, sacred and full of subtle joy.
"Alone" is derived from "all one"; the company of God is all I need to fill my heart.
Jesus would say you need both... God and others. "Love God with all thy heart, strength, should and mind. Lover your neighbour as yourself". All the great saints like Jesus, Neem Karoli Baba, The Buddha stressed relationally as being fundamental in some way.
@@dellwright1407God, others... Same difference
@@tylerpantalone8470 yes and no really.
Forced solitude...healed me of my need, codependency of people. I feel so free. Amen.
❤ Sweet aloneness! I can go months without seeing or speaking with another human being. Pure bliss!
People often ask me.
Iwhere are you going where have you been.
I tell them that life is not about going somewhere doing something as Adyashanti says it's simply about being
I feel soooo fine being alone! A happy and in peace, hermit.
"Come ye from among them and be ye separate" ~Jesus
“Culture is not your friend.” -Terrance McKenna
We are all equals. It's just that the ego can't see it, because it must be special!@@StarHuman-ii4re
Interesting! It would be so much better had people let Jesus be who he was and not twisted the concept around to suit their agendas.
I love the comments here. It's encouraging to know that others get it, that we're never alone...because ultimately there's no separation.
It can be hard to daily witness the suffering and anger of others. So many live that way, but when we're awake we can share our joy at merely being, and it does seem to be contagious. 🥰
Your comment indicates you may not get it and the opposite of what he’s pointing at. 🙏
There is no-one who is spending time alone, because there's absolutely no one there. No person that is to say. You are pure awareness and the light of the world, no thing is separate from anything else...❤
word salad.....
I started to realise I am all around me. When I awakened for the 5th time I realised my environment was mirroring me, my speed, my level of calm, everything. I don’t know if I am now in charge of my waking reality - it’s a big responsibility but I also feel like there’s no one just me, everyone is “me” at different levels of consciousness. Now time means nothing to me, the time of reality is determined by me.
What a beautiful way of explaining it! It’s such a luxury and blessing to yearn for aloneness and intimacy with the sacred and the divine, especially in a confusing, polarizing and chaotically divisive and traumatizing world.
Thank you for sharing this, Adya!🙏
Hearing this lead to understanding "alone" as "all-ONE", being connected and whole with all that is.
There is no back button, just an understanding that the path must be walked- picking up those priceless treasures revealed.
30 years to figure out they don't know anything 😅
That got me so good.😂 i feel so seen i want to lough and cry
Sound is our mind , Silence is our being , dont try to become , just Be ..... Osho
Thanks to all for sharing love, truth, pointers and guides. Love and courage to all called, to come and be here.
I graduated from seminary, knowing so much more than when I went in, and it wasn't until I was done that I understood I knew less than when I started. The world is black and white and so easy when you're young and idealistic, but as you age, and develop wisdom, you understand at last, just how much you don't know. And now, more than thirty years later, I'm finally at a place where I'm pretty sure I know a few things.
I hope I can get there too. I realized the other day just how much I don't know 😕
Another Gem! I get what I need when I need it. Thank 🙏 You Adyashanti for sharing your simple yet profound pearls of wisdom ❤️🔥
The One is not alone... the One is all one.
At just the right time, I discovered Asyashanti. As I get older, I miss being married and start feeling lonely. His videos have been a blessing to me.🙏
I feel like Mary was deeply involved in the process of the resurrection, more than anyone ever talks about. Thank you for bringing this up in me♥️
Mary Magdalene, right? Yes! To me, it's obvious. If there was a resurrection, it was Mary M., his favorite and best disciple, to whom he gave many secret teachings. He had taught her to do what he had done. And was the only one documented in EVERY account to have been there at the "discovery" of the resurrection.
Yur purdy.
Thank you Adya, for sharing yourself with the world. 🙏
Nice. Made big sense.
Loneliness and alone are way different. I will use the word solitude instead of alone. Solitude has spiritual connotation than alone. Solitude is always and always an option. Loneliness is imposed, there is deliberate attempt to make one person helpless.
Most people we know do not choose solitude. You need a rare strength to opt solitude. Among the many strengths humans and animals possess, the choice of solitude stands taller. We are given groups to feel consoled, to feel less miserable. In opting the group we are accepting a defeat, the acceptance of a crutch by the disabled person, this group is not evolved or wise most of the times. When two people who are solitude friendly meet, there is bigger fun than the other guys have. It is because they do not seek other as a means to avoid fear and misery. Why is not solitude boring???? Each wise men fills it with a different ingredient. A nature lover will sense a great fulfillment in his solitude, he would not speak for hours, his silence is full, talk here has no enough vocabulary. By choosing it again and again he is choosing august company.
Likewise, the emptier of his small longing, the monk kind, who has actually had a gregarious life prior, is attempting to be bigger. This bigger persona will give him freedom, he has been having conversation that has nothing to offer, in this deep silence he has to draw ftom the unsaid. The world words can not conjure. The world of permanence and assurance.
You are very wise that was a pleasure to read
Well said. loner by choice is not lonely
Clicked this expecting to have a laugh, but actually it wasn't bad. Enjoyed it.
Alone, Allone , All One, All is One!' If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.'
John Paul Satre.
Aloneness is allONEness❤
I really needed to hear this. I’ve been most alone for a year on my journey. Periods of content understanding and SelfJoy, and periods facing the Bored Emptiness of my Self.
Thank you so much
It's a circle . We are one . Nothing matters .
I can relate to every single tiny word ... I've always loved Adya's eloquence.
There isn't anyone to be alone. Keep going.
Al one - how beutiful is this speach🙏🏼❤️
There's a book called 30 Days to Overcome Loneliness by Harper Daniels that teaches nice mindfulness lessons.
Papaji said one 1 secomd. That is all it takes.
Glimpses--just lovely lovely glimpses...
Exactly!!
such a beautiful, yet dreadful description of my momentary state of mind...
I'm alone but not lonely and I love it..🎉
And I’m lonely when you’re around,, never lonely when I’m by myself…
This reminded me of John Mayer's song Something's Missing from 2003. "I'm not alone, I wish I was... something's missing, and I don't know what it is..." He didn't know he was talking about consciousness but I bet ya he does now. I'm autistic and love how the Maori describe being autistic, "in your own time and space." Me and my dog, nature, all we need.
A taste of this aloneness is even better than a healthy solitude
I would like to drink a cup of tea with this man
Adya! Thank you again.
"Illusion needs company" ..yes ..I am peaceful and happy being alone ..no tv for few years of mass media , or group socialising . Bliss emerges
If this is illusion then everything and everywhere is an illusion therefore you will always and forever be escaping something that doesn’t exist
@@bitkurd I didnt say TV was illusion . I was quoting the video
Wow, thank you, so good to hear ❤
I’m 34 and most of my friends are in their 70s. I love them and I wish I could find at least one person my age that I could connect with.
Well sure -?- am getting Onenesd oddness of j Krishnamurti's I"I don't mind & it does not matter" Yet, key word, as, as moment by moment, yes, things are adding finally at 75 adding UP-?-Mostly by subtraction & too, choice less awareness-?- even the trusty mind & this aging can/body gone, yes far beyond fo & too empty ness.
Somehow, unborn, so can't die & now only a prayer Dancer am I & the Allness of the Beloved, where even lover's disappear.
Appreciate always your plain languaging exquisite clarity of revealing Essence of being & embodying Consciousness
True! Since I am 80 I feel alone. Why? Nobody understands you and what’s more, I even don’t try.
Thankyou Adyashanti - That was lovely to listen to and so true - you have a lovely calming voice.
As a friend reminded me that I was alone so they popped in now and again
Truth be know till that point I had never felt the impact of being alone to that of loneliness
It was a passage of awakening
I felt one with nature and the mundane tasks of the day
Time slipped away in orchestrated of rhyme and rhythm
Weaving a tapestry of life
Has anyone out there experienced the intimacy? That ‘closer than close’ feeling, accompanied by something best described as intense Love, (God), flowing through absolutely everything? Those few moments that change everything. Please share.
More and more often as I get better and better in my long road of awakening clarity. It’s so overwhelming that it has to be let go, and there’s a life that is being lived that prevents the eternal status of this experience. I was deep into this yesterday out on the ranch where I work amongst the incredible manifestations of everything around me; life, and seemingly non-life that also seemed so alive. I had to be pulled out of it so I could continue with my work and life, and stay on the synchronized path I seem to always be on now. I told it I didn’t want to leave, but I had to keep going on my linear timeline. As I walked away from the visibly vibrating atmosphere I was entranced by, I had to shake off the immersion making it all seem so unrealistic. Every step and movement and thing around me, all as one, keeping each other from falling through the nothingness allowing us all to be. Oh, I can go so in-depth, but I have to go right now. I do know of what you speak of, and am getting closer to maintaining a daily connection with it. It takes a lot of reprogramming and practice, but I’ve been given absurd amounts of proof of the reality of it all. I may talk more about it if I get a notification.. really gotta go. Happy trails, and grateful abundance.
That’s a wonderful description - thank you - I would love to hear more when you have the time. How long has it been since your initial seeing? All the best buddy.
Excellent understanding. And yes, this is Reality. This is Truth. shimmering, yes. Onward....namaste@@shaneh1003
@@shaneh1003 Fortunately there is nothing at all you have to do, you are already that!. It will deepen all on it's own as wonder becomes the new normal.
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Thank you for sharing
Well spoken. As Michael Valentine Smith said, "I grok that thou art God." Namaste❤
I had my awakening in 2011 in Sedona, Az. Lots of karmic relationships happened while remembering past lives, up until 2020. Been happy and at peace since 🙏✨
The brain is a complex system which expands and, if allowed, folds in on itself, creating enlightenment as described by gurus. The system must experience specific knowledge or become sick-like and discontinue its expansion. This knowledge is very dharma like - no central leader, etc. A thorough study of complex systems and the realization that the disharmony of your system is the only reality in which you have ever experienced. This, accompanied by continuous study of spirituality to turn away the disruptive thinking that is already present (Vedantic) can lead to complete harmony.
People often say Simon why don't you go out there and do something.
I say to them you go out there and when you find out wherever there is bring it to me to see.
They just give you the look.
They think that voice in their head is who they are when it's mind's imaginations
So true. In aloneness you discover that you are not who think you are. The difficulty is that you cannot know who you really are.
Who you really are begins to come to your awareness in the process of letting go.
You don't have to "do" anything to attain it. It's just a recognition of who you were all along.
@@Mantras-and-Mystics Yes, it's more like no need for an identity except for communication and human interaction.
@@Mantras-and-MysticsSure except there are certain realities like having enough to live on and when you are a young 74 retired professional 3 times around and you can't just relax because of the uncertaintiy and who wants to reinvent themselves AGAIN.........doing nothing only works for awhile.
Profound teaching 🙏🏻
I am Alone. I am whole and complete. Lacking nothing. I am everything and, at the same time, nothing.
i suggest take a nice bath and try to breath underwater for a minute or ten see how one you are with your environment.
Fabulous presentation of this truth🎉
Very simple and clear message Adyashanti ! Greetings from Western Australia. 🎆
Very beautiful subject.Gentleness of the extremity of wise diamond ...thank you beautiful being.
This guy is legit. Enlightened.
There is no I There is but the hole in the donut. Very freeing... Indeed.
At 48 years old, that person was me saying "ok Ive been doing this for so long and dont know what I am doing" Next thing I know, I hot railroaded with an earthquake ego deathand awakenning all at once. It was like a roller coaster from hell and they forgot to strap on your seatbelts. Hold on tight!!! 😢
I Love being Alone with My GOD Presence 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
You do not have, you are.
The heart is awake, the mind sleeps. There is always a part of us awake here right now and a part sleeping in time consciousness outside. ✊🏽😊💙🙏🏽💎
When and how did Bill Burr become so chill
Lonely huh?
Thank you. Crystal clear. Perfectly accurate. Exactly "my" experience. 💚🙏
The world goes in a continuous loop of corruption, greed, and misery. While it was such a blessing to awaken it is also tragic to experience life in a world full of people that are unawakened and choose to remain dormant due to what they perceive as a normal style of living and the choice to feel safe with what they know and are taught throughout life. I feel alone in this regard as someone that wants to help others but people instantly see spiritualism as weird and different which is outside their normal so they auto shut anything down in relation to it. I forgive them though as I know how they feel but I do wish they could experience life what it was meant to feel like. Even if the world was very cruel to me growing up I always still have their best interest in mind and want to help them as much as I can.
I'm 67 and believe that we can't lead others. We can only model the joy we feel ourselves. I often wonder how others can't see how outrageously beautiful life is, and marvel at its diversity, but I think it's true that when the student is ready the teacher appears.
Beautiful! 💜
You become every thing in the room when you’re alone, when you’re out of the room you see everything is you.. it’s sameness 😢❤
@@perprerpI've never had French fries, but I love fried potato sticks!
@@perprerp before seeking this Eternal Bliss you speak of, one must not only learn to cook the potato in the many various ways but set amongst time to learn how to grow the potato. Then one will know how to grasp the Eternal Bliss that is within all of us. Sprout of a potato is an allegorical reference for our own lives, only once one grasps this concept then they will grow into this Eternal Bliss just just as the potato once did.
Perhaps when there is full realization, there is not loneliness, but as the illusions die and one begins to enter into the Void (which is not empty), there can be crushing loneliness as well as aloneness.
You can't experience aloneness without ever having experienced (but not known is loneliness) a certain amount of relationality. Paradoxically. I'll tell you what this newfound earth, world, is about: it's a newfound sweet sharing.
A sense of aloneness is just another dream. It’s still holding on to a sense of oneself. Just wash the dishes and take out the trash. A feeling of aloneness like all feelings come and go. There’s nothing special about it.
Wow, Bill Burr has quit comedy and became a guru.
He's more on it than these ego heads😂
Practice being alone while being in stillness/silence. Sustain it. Without any need of distraction from that aloneness.
So healing ty
Thank you
I LOVE BEING ALONE
I don't feel more alone in my understanding of reality because I realize there is no other condition. What I mainly feel is that my view is different in both mundane and fundamental ways from all others and theirs' differs from mine. But I am like all other humans in the most important ways: my needs, my motivations, my emotions. We are not alone in our humanness.
I was listening and contemplating and I realize that what is being spoken about here is the biggest taboo in our society. All of them are against me(and themselves too) in this, like in Truman show.
Yes. Have noticed this belief within myself. 😊 I guess when the fear in the belief of separation is relinquished, there's no "other" to be afraid of - including that which appears to oppose our reunification within ourselves (ego).
Thanks for your comment! ❤️
@@Mantras-and-Mystics Thank you! It's heartening to realize that you are not alone in your fears and hangups. On the other hand, as you said, you cannot be alone or not-alone since all are one) This separation (or illusion thereof) is indeed a big barrier. I started to see this separation in me, when I remembered that when I was a child, I did not feel myself as separate and was actually open to the world. This has been the biggest revelation for me, to tell the truth.
This is true what he is saying, if I knew , I would choose red pill ;)
Thanks for all you do Steve! I appreciate how you don't fluff up "enlightenment" for the egoic sense of identity to be attracted and attached to. Thanks for talking about what happens after an "awakening" event and how the identity regroups and takes on new "enlightened" identities. There's a lot of new "non-duality" teachers popping up on RUclips, and it seems that many have not fully integrated the insights. It looks like a lot of the blind leading the blind, though I myself am not clear enough to judge.
Talk less, listen more.
@@dbuck1964 You sound like the bully on the 8th grade bus. Drift.
In the past 30 years I've had two partners. One for 20 years and then 11 consecutively. I would seek time to be alone and even expressed this to my partners and occasionally I would be able ro.
I broke up with my now ex partner 18 months ago. She had an horrific upbringing and would rage at least once a fortnight. Brought on by so many different triggers, too many to overcome. She was violent and would ride the cycle of good to i feel happy, to I don't deserbe this so let me sabotage it. I stayed to help. The moment she was no longer part of my life I knew immediately I will not be seeking out another relationship and I know it is for the rest of my days here
I stay in my room for 2 or 3 days,as alone as I can be with 2 roommates, don't eat much, I feel very well during the time, then I HAVE to get outta there!
I actually feel less alone during meditation. I feel the all encompassing oneness with everything around me.
Great talk ever ❤
I agree as I have been doing alone for a while now like for the last 30 years. I was always easily in visible circles, lived most of my life in larger vibrant metropolitan area but then I found myself in the Desert 19 years ago. If there are no accidents, then I chose this on the other side. I have gotten used to doing my solo journey but it is even harder when you are in an area of "not like-minded people" where you are forced to do the alone thing all the time. I keep busy and go out and about but I do get tired of this alone thing as this was not my nature at all.
The simple narrative of it all is, we are born alone, and we die alone. By alone, we are ourselves
. . . being alone is the creative use of personal space.
Being alone is the only way I have found to conquer alcoholism and addictions to cigarettes and marijuana. A spillover benefit is it like getting a raise of several hundred dollars a month. Finding an ISP that did not drive me crazy also helped.
I embrace and love being alone all my experience with people are bad even in my own family I truly don't like people so I do my own thing a stay in my own world
For the master at the time of passing, there is a moment of loneliness as one is separates from that has been known and loved in this life and the one realizes that it is the totality and has always been everything and then joy, peace, and expanding consciousness of eternal truth.
In buddhism the ok average person is regarded as roaming through life like hungry ghosts they think they are wide awake when in fact they are fast asleep.
If we are not experiencing it all first hand, there is a window or a middle-man inbetween us and it.
Either we are following teachers or scriptures, we are following just another feeling towards the same thing that we are experiencing ourselves right here in this now, in our slightly different but still same imperfect now.
And when learning any kind of passed down information no matter where on the spectrum of truth it is ranging, we are by doing so un-learning ourselves to put ourselves under & add on someone else's innerstanding, which with time are going to make us, our inner being, into more of a copy than an actual self.
Life is live, feel, learn and re-remember and the life that we live is the teacher itself, where by living it we should be growing into living books of knowledge, if we actually live it for ourselves. We are both the teacher and the student, as we are both the observer and the one who project the whole moving picture that we see infront of us and dive into each new day when we open our eyes and the camera is again for us, rolling. On top of this, we are each others mirrors as well, reflecting all that greatness but also all that inner work that we should be doing. So really, we should be grateful for all interaction with life as there is a teacher in absolutely everything.
When breaking it down, all we truly have is our energy and together with our energy all we truly need in this life is good health, good morals and a fine-tuned instrument, as in us, to express ourselves properly with, in order to free our minds.
Let the caged bird fly.
Follow no one who wishes followers but the one's who encourage you to live your life for you and to walk your own path.
Only by doing so we'll truly know who we are and what we are truly here for.
We have it all, need only ourselves and we need no middle-men to stay connected to source. We are all born out of it and were given a slightly different perspective to take in the experience with for a reason.
So not to fall for false light.
Saying that though, one can not escape what one are not first aware of.
We are all god's until it finds a way to change the mind. 💜