Fwd: Adya : Purity of 'intentions'.

[Guest guest]

GuruRatings , " adithya_comming "

<adithya_comming wrote:

 

So some of the things I started to understand

which really became the foundation of

my teaching, and its not something I knew before

I started to teach, but that I saw was so

important afterwards, which was the purity of

your intention, which was what do you want " ?

What does your heart yearn for more than

anything else ? " Because what I saw, and I

didn't know before. When I looked backwards

over my journey, I saw that there was this intention.

This wanting to know what's true and

I knew what I wanted.

 

 

I knew it from the ? almost from the beginning.

Not in the absolute beginning but it became

clear relatively quickly and that was always

like an arrow which directed me unknowingly

through everything. It enabled the cutting

through to happen and what I found is

that one of the differences between me and a lot

of people on the spiritual path, that most spiritual

people did not know what their true yearning

was. It was something sort of vague. It was

there but it was a cloudy feeling or sensation

and there wasn't much clarity about it. Most

people really don't have much clarity about it.

 

 

People can meditate for 20, 30 years and not

really know what the hell they are doing and

why they are doing it.

 

 

 

In fact, I met a lot of them that do that. And

some of them think that's really good. A lot

of them think that's good. Like, \you know

I just meditate for no reason anymore " And

that's fine if you are free. But if you're not

free, that doesn't work.

 

You know, whatever

man " You know, I feel great when I meditate "

Yeah, well how is your life ? Well its sucks and

its screwed up and I'm confused and miserable,

but you know, as along as I am in this room

by myself, its okay.

 

 

 

So this purity or clarity

of your intention, I found that the more that

that's focused, then you know where you are

going and I found that this is actually in the

heart of every single person. They will put in

different words, but ultimately, but if you follow

it backwards, follow your yearning backwards

into yourself, far enough, you come into

something that is common to everybody; from

the junkie on the street putting heroin in his

arm because he wants to be free of his mind

and his turmoil, from the spiritual practitioner

who is sitting and meditating for exactly the

same reason and there is no difference in the

reason, because they want to be free of the turmoil.

 

 

Now the spiritual person may or may not

have a little more clarity about what they are

doing, but its still the same thing. And I found

if you following any desire backwards, back to

its source, there is this tremendous yearning to

know what is true, to know God, to be free,

however it speaks in your own being, but its

something that is very common and once you

know that, to come to know it, you have to allow

yourself to experience it. And I also found

by working with people, was that most spiritual

people were afraid to experience it because intuitively,

somewhere in the back of their mind,

they knew that if they let themselves experience

it, it was going to be something very powerful.

 

 

 

Now they don' t know this consciously,

but there are all these barriers because they

know if they go back far enough, this is something

that they might just tap into that is not

in their control and most spiritual people (like

everybody else) above and beyond everything

else, they want to remain in control and the

yearning is there and they don't want to go

some place where they suddenly find that its

out of control.

 

 

Like it was for me when I was sitting around,

wandering the streets, wondering, \what is this

? " \What is this yearning ? " . \What is this ? "

\What is this ? " \What is it ? " It was out of

control and most people don't let it get that far

because they are afraid, what will it do to me

? Where will it take my life. You know will I

have crazed ? You know ?

 

 

So I found unless this is there, not that they

have to be half crazed, but there has to be some

clarity that nine times out of ten, not much

is going to happen that is truly profound. It

doesn't have to be that way, but if we are playing

the odds, which a good teacher plays the

odds; these are the odds. You've got to know.

The odds are much better if you know.

And the other part after that, that I came

upon, which was also very challenging to people,

maybe not challenging to the people in this

room but which was the part of my teaching

that I call \let everything end " . Because this

also came out of my own experience, that I

spent a few hours describing, which was the

true liberation came and the depth of it depended,

depended entirely on how much I was

willing to let go of my ideas and my beliefs

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " adithya_comming "

<adithya_comming wrote:

>

> GuruRatings , " adithya_comming "

> <adithya_comming@> wrote:

>

> So some of the things I started to understand

> which really became the foundation of

> my teaching, and its not something I knew before

> I started to teach, but that I saw was so

> important afterwards, which was the purity of

> your intention, which was what do you want " ?

> What does your heart yearn for more than

> anything else ? " Because what I saw, and I

> didn't know before. When I looked backwards

> over my journey, I saw that there was this intention.

> This wanting to know what's true and

> I knew what I wanted.

>

>

> I knew it from the ? almost from the beginning.

> Not in the absolute beginning but it became

> clear relatively quickly and that was always

> like an arrow which directed me unknowingly

> through everything. It enabled the cutting

> through to happen and what I found is

> that one of the differences between me and a lot

> of people on the spiritual path, that most spiritual

> people did not know what their true yearning

> was. It was something sort of vague. It was

> there but it was a cloudy feeling or sensation

> and there wasn't much clarity about it. Most

> people really don't have much clarity about it.

>

>

> People can meditate for 20, 30 years and not

> really know what the hell they are doing and

> why they are doing it.

>

>

>

> In fact, I met a lot of them that do that. And

> some of them think that's really good. A lot

> of them think that's good. Like, \you know

> I just meditate for no reason anymore " And

> that's fine if you are free. But if you're not

> free, that doesn't work.

>

> You know, whatever

> man " You know, I feel great when I meditate "

> Yeah, well how is your life ? Well its sucks and

> its screwed up and I'm confused and miserable,

> but you know, as along as I am in this room

> by myself, its okay.

>

>

>

> So this purity or clarity

> of your intention, I found that the more that

> that's focused, then you know where you are

> going and I found that this is actually in the

> heart of every single person. They will put in

> different words, but ultimately, but if you follow

> it backwards, follow your yearning backwards

> into yourself, far enough, you come into

> something that is common to everybody; from

> the junkie on the street putting heroin in his

> arm because he wants to be free of his mind

> and his turmoil, from the spiritual practitioner

> who is sitting and meditating for exactly the

> same reason and there is no difference in the

> reason, because they want to be free of the turmoil.

>

>

> Now the spiritual person may or may not

> have a little more clarity about what they are

> doing, but its still the same thing. And I found

> if you following any desire backwards, back to

> its source, there is this tremendous yearning to

> know what is true, to know God, to be free,

> however it speaks in your own being, but its

> something that is very common and once you

> know that, to come to know it, you have to allow

> yourself to experience it. And I also found

> by working with people, was that most spiritual

> people were afraid to experience it because intuitively,

> somewhere in the back of their mind,

> they knew that if they let themselves experience

> it, it was going to be something very powerful.

>

>

>

> Now they don' t know this consciously,

> but there are all these barriers because they

> know if they go back far enough, this is something

> that they might just tap into that is not

> in their control and most spiritual people (like

> everybody else) above and beyond everything

> else, they want to remain in control and the

> yearning is there and they don't want to go

> some place where they suddenly find that its

> out of control.

>

>

> Like it was for me when I was sitting around,

> wandering the streets, wondering, \what is this

> ? " \What is this yearning ? " . \What is this ? "

> \What is this ? " \What is it ? " It was out of

> control and most people don't let it get that far

> because they are afraid, what will it do to me

> ? Where will it take my life. You know will I

> have crazed ? You know ?

>

>

> So I found unless this is there, not that they

> have to be half crazed, but there has to be some

> clarity that nine times out of ten, not much

> is going to happen that is truly profound. It

> doesn't have to be that way, but if we are playing

> the odds, which a good teacher plays the

> odds; these are the odds. You've got to know.

> The odds are much better if you know.

> And the other part after that, that I came

> upon, which was also very challenging to people,

> maybe not challenging to the people in this

> room but which was the part of my teaching

> that I call \let everything end " . Because this

> also came out of my own experience, that I

> spent a few hours describing, which was the

> true liberation came and the depth of it depended,

> depended entirely on how much I was

> willing to let go of my ideas and my beliefs

>

 

Letting go of even the idea and belief in truth i presume?

Having intentions is a sure way of controlling any process, shutting

out all possibilities and reinforcing stress about outcome.

So much for teaching.

It has been asked before, why doesn't everyone who wants realize?