"What Is Enlightenment?" Adyashanti

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Many people think that enlightenment is an altered state of consciousness. Actually, what we perceive every day through the distorted lens of ego is the truly altered state -- we see things that don't exist, we believe things that aren't happening, and we live in a false world of our own creation. In this direct and practical satsang, Adyashanti opens the door into the clear seeing that is our natural state of enlightenment.

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Uploaded: October 31, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Author: Adyashanti

Length: 00:09:56
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Tags: advaita vedanta enlightenment zen truth awakening adyashanti spiritual liberation nondual dharma meditation

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rjenk7 (November 18, 2008 at 6:42 am)
Thank you for this, brother. Love to you!
Sectorsophia (September 16, 2008 at 1:15 am)
"Crucify the ego!" They chant with peaceful intonation.

I've had what you describe as the "awakening." The moment when ego fades away. It changes you for a couple hours until hunger pangs set in and you realize that alas, there's no escape from one's subjective nature(ego).

Enlightenment is not "to think without the ego". It's more along the lines of: "to think without the limitations of words and other such pre-conceived notions."

You're on the right path, young man.
ricoholic (September 3, 2008 at 1:50 pm)
Thought from the eye closes the understanding, but thought from the understanding opens the eye. E.S.
fangolden (September 2, 2008 at 12:38 am)
fuck! this guys words have a very powerful energy that strike into me...
aberduuu (October 26, 2008 at 10:54 am)
yup cause the come from Being. Same thing with lectures of Tolle. So powerful
goodlookinginger (August 20, 2008 at 3:05 pm)
couldnt it be that tis trying to extend wot we are,likemaybe thats what we are here for?
Rysuko (August 18, 2008 at 5:30 pm)
I figure the brain and the mind are two different things. The brain serves physical functions both conscious and unconscious, and the mind is an abstract creation made of thought processes. Only the mind is capable of the analytical doubt that's holding you back. Enlightenment (to me, and IMO at the moment) is not the eradication of thought and mind, but it is the 'freedom' from it.. to be at peace with whatever answers you may find in your inquiries. Belief isn't necessary.. it's just thoughts.
Rysuko (August 18, 2008 at 5:32 pm)
So, the real question, are you free from it, or entrapped by it? What's the greater trick of the brain.. natural enlightenment, or entanglement with thought?
robertlam18 (August 17, 2008 at 11:01 am)
How does he know what he is doing is enlightment?
mesa134 (September 23, 2008 at 2:18 pm)
There is no benefit of knowing this.Don't make it an object as though you can reach out and obtain something or become better..You are enlightened and what stops you from seeing it is your mind filling it up with some story.