"A healthy ego, a more integrated ego, is not possessed so much. They have their thoughts instead of their thoughts having them; and they have their emotional experiences instead of their emotional experiences overwhelming them and possessing them... the kind of stability that's often built through meditation, not only through meditation, I think vast majority of people that I see I've often thought 'gee I'd love everybody to be in really good therapy for a year or two before they come to me. Psychotherapy would be really really good for them'...
So that kind of stability comes in handy as we go into the deeper realms and especially when we go into the the numinous ground because from the mind's point of view it is a kind of abyss of nothingness, which can be very frightening for a lot of people...actually the unknown is just the ground of your being. It's freedom itself...when you have a kind of stability, it's easier to let go...
It takes a pretty strong empirical self (whatever you're going to call that) to actually embody the depth of our being. It takes a stable human being to successfully embody your own realization...the positive part of ego is a function and to have that differentiating discriminating strong function is really useful in spirituality...
The closer we get to reality, the more paradoxical it gets. And so our mind has to become a mind that can embrace paradox rather than always trying to come to some final conclusion on one side of an opposite or the other side...and yes then they eventually sort of enter into the undifferentiated state of being at the ground of our being prior to the opposites, but we will always be functioning in the world of opposites and the embodiment seeks a way so that which is not in opposite can be embodied in the world of opposites."
~ Adyashanti
~ excerpted from "A Revolution of Being 2018: Embracing the Challenge of Awakened Living"
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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."
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