Interviewees

Adyashanti

Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 at the request of his Zen teacher, with whom he had been studying for fourteen years. The author of Emptiness Dancing, The Impact of Awakening, and My Secret is Silence, Adyashanti offers spontaneous and direct nondual teachings that have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages.

Videos featuring Adyashanti

  • Losing Identity

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes the illusory sense of a separate self as part of the natural development of human consciousness. And, he says, once we become aware of the whole, we begin to uncover the fear of losing that individual identity.

    (3 min 23 sec)

  • Heads and Tails

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti points out the difference between being motivated by fear, which keeps us operating with the same old state of consciousness, and by love, which comes through us as we face our fears.

    (3 min 6 sec)

  • Love Is Indiscriminate

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes the inclusiveness of love and how actions motivated by love have the power to unite and to change consciousness.

    (3 min 46 sec)

  • Time is Running Out

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes how reaching a point of crisis can lead to a shift in consciousness, both individually and collectively, and acknowledges the pressure on humanity to awaken before time runs out.

    (3 min 47 sec)

  • Transcending Personal Concerns

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti suggests that our desire for change has to transcend our personal concerns. Only then, he says, can we access the infinite transformative power we need.

    (3 min 50 sec)

  • It’s All the Same Substance

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti acknowledges that we are all made of the same substance, though we express the One in individual manifestations.

    (1 min 48 sec)

  • What Is Spirituality?

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes spirituality as not being separate from existence; although, he suggests, much of what we call spirituality primarily serves the dream state.

    (1 min 51 sec)

  • Do You Want to Find Out?

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes the process of letting go of collective consciousness and the fear that causes us to cling to it.

    (4 min 3 sec)

  • Adyashanti: Complete Interview

    Spiritual teacher Adyashanti describes how in the development of human consciousness, there comes a shift from a sense of a separate self toward the experience of unity. He points out that the fear of losing our individual identity keeps us from making this shift, and by confronting our fear we come into love. Adyashanti also suggests that reaching a point of crisis can allow an opportunity for consciousness to shift, individually and collectively.

    (24 min 41 sec)
"Until everything is possible, we’re not even actually inquiring into what’s true."
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