229: Adyashanti on the Process and Experience of Awakening (part 1)

<p><a href="http://oneyoufeed.net/support" target="_blank">Please Support The Show with a Donation</a></p><p>Adyashanti is a renowned and gifted spiritual teacher. He's written many books, hosts meditation retreats and speaks around the world to large audiences at a time. With such a wide audience, it's amazing that when you experience Adya's teaching, it's as if he's speaking directly to you - to your very heart. Whatever your experience with or preconceived notions of spiritual awakening, allow yourself to re-engage with the idea through this interview. As you turn the inquiry towards yourself this time, you may be surprised, moved and/or transformed by what you find - if you are brutally honest in the process.our inner life.</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;Visit <a href="http://oneyoufeed.net/transform" target="_blank">oneyoufeed.net/transform</a> to learn more about our personal transformation program.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In This Interview,&nbsp;Adyashanti and I Discuss...</p><ul><li>Eric's awakening experience</li><li>The awakened state in perpetuity</li><li>The shift in perception that happens with awakening</li><li>The paradox of wanting something like awakening yet wanting it stands in the way of having it</li><li>Will gets you to the cushion and once there, it's important to let go of it</li><li>Does one need a spiritual teacher when seeking awakening?</li><li>The teacher evoking something from vs the teacher giving something to the student</li><li>How people work with unconscious patterns</li><li>How you can't not be awakened - even if you don't feel it, it's there</li><li>Emotional conflict</li><li>Paying attention to what's recurring in you</li><li>Anything that's happened to us that was too big for us to remain conscious while we experienced it, gets trapped in our system - turned into some other emotion or it just gets stuffed and is now just there waiting for you. The universe is now asking, "can you experience this now?"</li><li>Being fine with being sad</li><li>Let everything be exactly the way it