Today, in this video, we are going to talk about Adyashanti, putting him into perspective so that you can get the most from his team teachings. We’re going to talk about a bunch of different things, like why I’m able to talk about this in the way that I do. But that’s not very important. So we’re going to jump right in and start putting it into perspective.
First, I’ll talk about why we’re having a wave of enlightenment on the Earth right now. I’m going to talk about people arguing for or against Adyasanti and how we can put that in perspective. I’m going to talk about Adyasanti’s enlightenment story, because it’s a really good story.
And I’m going to talk about the people that have become enlightened through Adyasanti’s teachings, with the point of having one of those people be you. And then finally, I’m going to put Adyasanti and his teachings and his way of teachings into deep time so we can get the full perspective of what this means for humanity, for all of humanity. So that’s a lot of stuff.
Let’s get right to it.
A Wave of Enlightenment
First, we are having a wave of enlightenment on the planet, and there are a lot of things contributing to this. Most important is what enlightenment is, because it’s simply becoming yourself.
It’s simply stepping into the real. It’s knowing who you are. We have so many things contributing to this right now.
We don’t have as much superstition as we used to have. Like, we know what germs do. We can fly a rocket to the moon.
We have really interesting stories that are shaking up people’s idea of who they are, things like The Matrix, right? Do you take the red pill or the blue pill?
We have Alice in Wonderland. She falls into the hole following the rabbit. So all these things kind of have our perception of our false self a little shaken up to start out with. There’s many people who are going say, “Wait, there’s something more.”
Adyasanti points to this something more.
So when I do videos like this, people come in and they argue for or against, like the thing that matters the most is whether or not they like him. And really, that that’s not the most important thing.
The most important thing is, is he changing your perception of yourself so that you can start seeing you yourself clearly? So we’ll get two main comments. One will be people arguing for Adashanti and claiming that they understand what he’s talking about.
I’d like to throw a little wrench into that idea. If you actually understood what he was talking about, you would be an awakened being yourself. If you are an awakened being, then you actually understand what he’s talking about.
Otherwise, the big problem is, is that he’s so beautiful and he speaks so wonderfully that it can easily turn into a way to make your ego more comfortable. Especially, it can make your ego more comfortable because you think that you know something. There’s also a big problem with saying, I don’t understand what he’s talking about.
It doesn’t make sense, because then you’re putting yourself into a hole. So tricky, right? You can’t say, I get it, I understand everything he’s saying.
And you also can’t say, I don’t understand. A teacher like Adyashanti, you just simply need to listen to. And the big advantage of Adyasanti is that people do believe that he knows what he’s talking about.
And he has a very calm knowing aura about him. It’s real easy to listen to him. So spend time just simply listening as much as possible. Don’t project, I know, or I don’t know, onto what he’s saying.
And that’s probably the main thing we can do to put him into perspective. Trust what he’s saying and just listen. So why do I know all this?
It’s because I listened. I listened to my teacher, who was Osho, and ended up discovering who I am. And it was partly because of him, but it was mostly because I was willing to step fully into myself.
But here’s the trick. Once you know who you are, then other enlightened people totally make sense. I remember I woke up January 19th, 1990, if you want to know the date.
First of all, I was amazed at how simple it was. And then, second of all, I went back and started reading the things that he’d been saying all along, that I hadn’t really been understanding. And I was like, oh, of course that makes sense.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Oh, what a great way to describe it. See those two perspectives between not knowing and actually knowing.
Adyaanti knows. So listen to him with the most relaxed being that you can be, and you will have a transformation from that. Adya Shanti has a great enlightenment story.
It’s very pertinent for people today. It’s very typical, because he was a serious student and he studied with various different teachers. The story I’ve heard from him is that he was going in and out of these feelings of bliss, of these episodes of ecstasy.
He was going in and out of grasping who he was and the immensity of the unity that exists there, and then falling out of it and coming back into his seeking self. So it’s like in and out, in and out, and then solidified, and he stayed. This is a really good story because it fits the way most people are experiencing their spiritual life.
You have amazing moments of clarity, and then you’re back to what we would like to call real life, but it’s actually ego-driven life. So he was in and out and in and out like that. This is why it’s so valuable to listen to him speak, because he has the ability to take you slowly and gently there.
So let’s talk about people who have actually become enlightened because of Ai. Of course, I don’t know everyone. Oh, and what would be really cool is if people down in the comments introdroduce me to Adya Ashanti’s students that have actually become enlightened. I think there’s way more of them than we know.
One is Suzanne Marie, and I will put a link to her website and her work down in the description of this video. What is so amazing about Suzanne Marie is that she has stepped beyond the way that Ai figured out to speak about enlightenment, and it is putting her own twist on it that’s really powerful and good. Most important, she is very accessible.
You can join monthly talks. You can go to retreats. She’s not hugely famous. She’s got the time and the space to work individually with people.
I totally recommend going to her if you enjoy Adi Ashanti. So now let’s put Adianti completely into perspective using deep time. Think about humanity.
We have been around for a really long time. It’s fascinating to study archaeology. The thing that I’m loving the most is, like, in the past 10 years.
It’s like, okay, humans were around with our full brain, like maybe 80,000 years. And then it went to 100,000 years. And now they’re saying, wow, look, a million years ago, we were more developed than you’d think.
And they keep finding information and finding information about how did we grow from little monkeys in the trees to what we are now. There is no way we would have survived unless we were using our full mental capacity. You can look at it two different ways.
We would have never evolved this big boy brain and this thing we call consciousness if we weren’t using it. There is no way a million years ago some monkey decided, you know, I’m going to evololve me a really big brain so that in 2026 people can destroy themselves and be really unhappy. I mean, obvious, obvious, right?
But what’s really cool about it is that we have all sorts of indigenous voices speaking up today, people who are still living basically in the same mental constructs that humanity had to live in for 100 thousand years. And they’re saying, we live already in the non-dual state, and that this non-dual state is the natural state of human beings. So this takes all Eastern mysticism and just throws it on its head.
Actually, it takes all of Eastern mysticism and proves it, because all of enlightenment teachings are teaching us that enlightenment is our birthright. Our enlightenment is our birthright from 100 million years ago. Put yourself into this deep timeline and you’ll see that all of your ancestors and all of my ancestors were all living in a non-dual state.
They knew and understood how how the Earth worked. They did not feel separate from the Earth itself. They didn’t feel separate from the sky and from all of our other relations who are living on the planet.
All of the animals and the plants have always been fully conscious, and we are living fully conscious within that same field of life itself. So human beings have always known this. So what happened?
Why did we get nuts? It’s because we started believing in duality. And then we started forcing it on it each other.
And it turned out that people who are living in a real dual fixed state are easy to control, and so then they’re easy to turn turn into armies and conquering hordes and all sorts of things that ended up taking over the whole planet with this perspective of duality and destruction. Okay, now we’re back to my original point, that we are having a wave of enlightenment. And Adya Shanti has been a huge contributor towards this.
His beautiful descriptions of what being awake is like can bring many, many people into this field themselves. And then, final point. Now it’s time to take what Adyashanti’s been teaching and teachers like him and open that up into this deep, deep time understanding.
It’s very much like now we understand that germs cause diseases, lots of diseases, right? And so we kind of know what to do about it, and we know how to avoid germs. Now we have this deep time perspective that we can put enlightenment in.
And the most important thing is, you put yourself into this deep, deep time and you’ll see that this really is relaxing into your natural being. And you’ll know that you can be talked into this. You are talked out of it when you are a child.
Now you can be talked back into it. And this is what teachers like Adyasanti, Suzanne Marie, and maybe even me are trying to do for you.