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Dorothy Hunt on The Heart of Awareness

October 2, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Dorothy Hunt serves as the spiritual director of the Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching the spiritual lineage of Adyshanti. She is also the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy where she has practiced since 1967. She has several published works, the most recent being her book, Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness. We think you’ll find her teachings profound, liberating and refreshing. In this episode, she and Eric discuss what it means and looks like to awaken to our true reality. She dropped some truth bombs on us and if you listen to the conversation, we think they’ll land on you as well.

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 In This Interview, Dorothy Hunt and I Discuss…
  • Her book, Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness
  • How we carry the seeds of everything within us – which do we water with our attention?
  • That everything is an “inside job”
  • Her focus of awakening to our true reality
  • What spiritual ambition means
  • The role of self-inquiry in awakening to who/what we really are
  • A unified reality
  • Desire, effort, and grace
  • Intensity taking the place for ambition
  • Staying put in the not knowing
  • Staying put in the silence
  • Expansion and contraction in life
  • The error of thinking that our spirituality has to look a certain way
  • Alternatives to silence as your soul food
  • Asking ourselves the question: What is the deepest desire of my heart?
  • Asking the follow-up question: And what will that bring? to get to the deepest desire
  • Following your own inner teacher, your inner guidance
  • That happiness is temporarily stopping wanting to be somewhere else
  • That Adyashanti gave her nothing
  • The sword that cuts through illusion
  • When truth is moving it’s not asking permission
  • When we want the truth more than we want life to look a certain way we find it

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229: Adyashanti 2018 Part 1

May 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

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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.

 

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In This Interview, Adyashanti and I Discuss…

  • Eric’s awakening experience
  • The awakened state in perpetuity
  • The shift in perception that happens with awakening
  • The paradox of wanting something like awakening yet wanting it stands in the way of having it
  • Will gets you to the cushion and once there, it’s important to let go of it
  • Does one need a spiritual teacher when seeking awakening?
  • The teacher evoking something from vs the teacher giving something to the student
  • How people work with unconscious patterns
  • How you can’t not be awakened – even if you don’t feel it, it’s there
  • Emotional conflict
  • Paying attention to what’s recurring in you
  • 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?”
  • Being fine with being sad
  • Let everything be exactly the way it is
  • How dealing with life’s experiences as they come transforms you
  • A clinched fist vs an open hand metaphor
  • “Let” vs “Let go”
  • If you can’t let it go, can you let it be
  • Failure as part of triumph
  • Failing your way through something consciously can cause a sort of transformation
  • What it looks like to build a spiritual practice
  • Daily quiet meditation, Engage in some precise self-inquiry (a wonderment of “being”)
  • How spirituality is the direct investigation of YOUR experience
  • The only way to get self-inquiry wrong is not to be ruthlessly honest about what’s happening in your experience
  • The fear of getting something wrong
  • Think of your spiritual teacher kind of like a college professor

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