"Until everything is possible..."

"...we're not even actually inquiring into what's true." - Adyashanti, Transcending Personal Concerns

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.


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.


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


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


He 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.


He 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.


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


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


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

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