Loosening the Structure of Ego (Excerpt)

Adya addresses a question about the challenge or “dark night” that often happens as we begin to see through the falseness of ego. Excerpted from March 9, 2016, Broadcast, “The Search for Meaning”: bit.ly/4bMOn7Z
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Quote from this Video: “When we start to have enough insight that we start to see the emptiness or the non-existence-the non-reality of these mental structures and emotional structures-it’s at once freeing, but often simultaneously, at the very least, you go through a phase where it’s quite disorienting because your conscious awareness no longer has the structures that it oriented its whole life around.” adyashanti.org
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Пікірлер: 27

  • @Always-There
    @Always-There5 күн бұрын

    Takes real honesty to find Truth. Honesty with others but more importantly honesty with yourself. It’s a giant leap when you’re ready to concede that you’re deceiving yourself. Ego is convinced that it’s always right and we believe it - and there’s the mask.

  • @MassiveLib
    @MassiveLib2 күн бұрын

    You can't pick apart an illusion, that's why it's an illusion. To say it doesn't exist or as wrong as saying it does exist.

  • @Flying_Dutchman66
    @Flying_Dutchman664 күн бұрын

    Non duality.. You pay 💰 I play 😁

  • @dirtyxwordxreich2114
    @dirtyxwordxreich21145 күн бұрын

    Thank you❤

  • @robertmcgrath7970
    @robertmcgrath79703 күн бұрын

    Does anyone's ego think that these types of videos give the brain and ego just more insight and ammunition to hold on in much clever ways 😂

  • @Zilvinas.

    @Zilvinas.

    2 күн бұрын

    Yeah, I keep coming backing to them just to hear same thing in a different way. Its like entertainment

  • @sandrag8656
    @sandrag86564 күн бұрын

    So precise, as allways. Thank you! ❤

  • @camilolarosa7398
    @camilolarosa73983 күн бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏❤

  • @terencehennegan1439
    @terencehennegan14393 күн бұрын

    Wise words indeed. Thank you for sharing.

  • @OurFamilyInMotion
    @OurFamilyInMotion18 сағат бұрын

    The question nondual teachers never address is this: who is making the choice between universal awareness and the separate self? The fact that there is a choice implies that there must be a third entity (decision maker) doesn't it?

  • @spicypotatosofttaco3227
    @spicypotatosofttaco32273 күн бұрын

    This is simply it. So much spiritual guidance focuses on that constriction as something to be aversive to, but in duality that makes it grip even tighter. It takes a surrender to the idea that you don't even have to operate within that mind structure, you can release it for a time and play outside of its definitions. We become so identified with our protections, and rightly so, that's their function.

  • @chinchilla_462
    @chinchilla_462Күн бұрын

    You have to leave the familiar.

  • @lurrr217
    @lurrr2175 күн бұрын

    I feel the contraction of the ego not in the heart region anymore, but in two of my toes. Is that possible? I also feel it almost exclusively in the body and not as thoughts anymore. The resistance of the ego in my root chakra is sometimes felt as very bad pain that captures me - so I guess it has orientated itself around pain and suffering.. and doubting myself and corrupting my true self. the few times I really realised that, made me physically sick. sending ❤ to everyone who are on the path of loosening the structure of the ego. just keep going.

  • @OnlyThisMoment
    @OnlyThisMoment3 күн бұрын

    The easiest way to let go, is to remember that you can’t hold on 🙏

  • @rul4522
    @rul45225 күн бұрын

    What’s real and what’s not nót real is I féél is loosing its grip. I, and I’m not sayng this for everyone, have te become old, almost 82, having no energy left to fight. Is this the same as surrender?

  • @Always-There

    @Always-There

    5 күн бұрын

    Yes, I would say that you’re experiencing the acceptance of allowing everything to be as it is and that’s certainly surrendering to Truth.

  • @rul4522

    @rul4522

    5 күн бұрын

    @@Always-There means so much to me, thank you very much for recognizing this.🌈

  • @user-xi1cm6py3m
    @user-xi1cm6py3m4 күн бұрын

    😊❤GVB 🎶🙏💕 It seems like the main educational experience most necessary for me has been not music, not spirituality. ...but the REPEATED OBLITERATION OF THE EGO. ❤ i just feel that to be of any positive use to G-d, it was necessary to bring the ego/me under submission for me to be "useful" to Higher Power.❤ For instance,if I had stubbornly exalted MY spiritual upbringing, I wouldn't have listened to Afyashamti andthe other teachers. ❤ We are All G-,dz children😊 tha ks.

  • @Flying_Dutchman66
    @Flying_Dutchman664 күн бұрын

    Holy shit..

  • @alfreddifeo9642
    @alfreddifeo96425 күн бұрын

    🙏🕉☮

  • @910loriify
    @910loriify5 күн бұрын

    🙏👣💜🕊🌏💜🐾🙏

  • @TDDmusique
    @TDDmusique11 сағат бұрын

    False teachings. The western infatuation with "ego" is not the way.

  • @chrisl3330
    @chrisl33305 күн бұрын

    I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not but I like to spread this idea around. Here goes. I think Israel is the biblical name for Africa. I think the exodus was from Africa. I think the eating of the fruit of good and evil represents the evolution of language. Adam's nakedness represents our loss of body fur and the development of agriculture. Being kicked out of the garden represents our loss of instincts. The Jews evolved language and agriculture. Jew is just an old word for humans with language. The lost tribes of Israel (Africa) were groups like the Neanderthals. God's chosen people are the people who evolved as opposed to those who went extinct. Everyone is Jewish. We all have language, we are all God's chosen people. I think a biblical day is equal to one/seventh of all of creation. We are still living within the seventh day. Or maybe it is just the funny hats.

  • @aurelienyonrac

    @aurelienyonrac

    5 күн бұрын

    When you think about those thoughts, what emotions sensations does it bring you? Once felt, the purpose of the thoughts is achieved. Thank you

  • @TheBeana71

    @TheBeana71

    5 күн бұрын

    The biblical account does very much sound to me like the expulsion from the Garden of Eden coincided with the agricultural revolution.

  • @malabuha

    @malabuha

    5 күн бұрын

    You just skipped the whole eon, going straight from Neanderthals to Jews 😅 A bit selective haha