~ excerpted from "Big Sword Swinging (2005)" [ Ссылка ]
"...I don't care if somebody wants to be special. It's totally okay. It just has nothing to do with the truth... the deepest yearning for truth...it's not asking for anything...

'Do I really want the truth or do I want my version of the truth?'

...the truth is a process of disillusion...it's seeing who we are...no idea about what that's going to be—no negotiation. Otherwise we can't see what we are. We literally can't as long as we have an inner expectation...

...Can you just slay all the authorities completely just for a moment? So it doesn't matter what anybody says. It doesn't matter what I say...Only when you can stand in the nakedness of your own being, where there's nothing you're supposed to want, nothing you're not supposed to want, can you feel what's authentically there for you? no shoulds, no shouldn't, no nothing, just you alone and all the universe...

... the fullness of emptiness cannot display itself until we've really let our spiritual immaturity be crushed by the silence and emptiness...we can't be everything until we've really been nothing..."

~ Adyashanti
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About "Big Sword Swinging (2005)":
In this delightful 4-download classic from the 2005 Santa Monica Intensive, Adyashanti says, "This is like spiritual triage. You're being exposed to an awful lot in two days. I've got the big sword swinging." Indeed, these exceptionally fresh talks and honest dialogues cut through the concepts of both new and seasoned listeners, going deep into the simple presence of being.

Topics Include:
Getting Beyond "What Do I Do?" to "What Am I?"
An Investigation into Doing vs Not Doing
Understanding Where Intentions Come From
Letting Go of the One Who's Letting Go
Living in a Virtual Reality
The Only Power of the Manifest Is to Put Us in Trance
Consciousness Is the Transformative Agent
The End of Being Special
How Spirit Moves from Overflow
The Transparency of the Heart
The Wisdom of the Void
The End of Spiritual Immaturity
The Movement from Personal to Impersonal Motivation
Children: Imposing Values vs. the Unspoken Power of Love
Choice and Free Will
Fear Is Resistance
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Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.

Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an American-born spiritual teacher. Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all."

For more please go to his website: [ Ссылка ]
Free teaching materials, including videos, audios, articles, and free PDF of The Way of Liberation:
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Adyashanti youtube channel: [ Ссылка ]
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