Post by Reefs on Jun 7, 2024 11:41:01 GMT -5
I didn't know Adya was suffering from PTSD, I thought he was suffering from some kind of allergy that left him in physical pain for 20 years? Interesting. PTSD is overthinking, monkey-mind, SVP stuff, isn't it? If that's true, then Adya would be just another Jeff. Interesting who physical ailments keep humbling these teachers of lofty truths about the end of suffering etc, isn't it?
But good question. Keep in mind that there is conditional peace as there is unconditional peace. Conditional peace depends on what you do with your focus, where you put your attention, i.e. this is subject to LOA (or the gunas or karma). Unconditional peace does not depend on what you do with your focus, where you put your attention, i.e. this is not subject to LOA (or the gunas or karma). I don't think you have to identify one specific belief. You see, when you don't understand what emotions are and what negative emotion means, when you instead ignore or learn to tolerate negative emotions, at some point it takes its toll on the body. And advaita teaching is an open invitation to that, I'm afraid. So the specific belief doesn't seem to matter, the placement of your predominant mood on the emotional scale is what matters. And that can show up in many different bogus beliefs.
Now, assuming what you say is correct about Adya, then he must have neither conditional nor unconditional peace. RM and Niz though, they seem firmly rooted in unconditional peace, but it seems to me they were totally oblivious to their inner guidance. At that may be due to some religious beliefs like the body is just a collection of dirt etc.
Also notice how RM and Niz never played the "I'm just human and weak and fallible like everybody else" card. Jeff likes to play that card. It resonates with others who are suffering. Not sure if Adya has played that card lately. But if you start playing that card, you're back to seeker status.
But I'd like to see some proof, some actual link to a public statement from Adya that he suffers from PTSD before I believe that. Because Adya has been one of the clearest and most consistent voices out there. His realization always seemed genuine. However, he could have just been speaking from memory for the last 20 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyashanti#:~:text=In%20April%202014%2C%20he%20appeared%20in%20an%20interview,a%20very%20long%20period%20of%20intense%20physical%20pain.
So it's true then? Rather sad and also disappointing, I have to say.
Here's a longer quote from Abe, which should answer your previous question:
Abe: Any illness, or departure from physical well-being, begins at a cellular level—but the overwhelming propensity of your cells is that of thriving. All day, every day, your cells are reclaiming balance at such refined and subtle levels that most people are completely unaware of the power and intelligence of their cellular bodies.
This continual realigning and rebalancing process hinges on cellular communication: communication from one cell to another, and Vibrational communication between the physical and Non-Physical aspects of those cells. And when you are feeling negative emotion, you are in the state of hindering that cellular communication.
While your physical body is extremely resilient—and has evolved to maintain significant balance even while communication is hindered—the evidence of chronic worry or anger or overwhelment does show up in the form of diminished physical well-being.
Most people never put themselves into the dramatic situation where they are without water or food to the point of doing damage to their physical bodies; however, it is not uncommon for people to deprive their bodies of something equally important: alignment with Source Energy.
Often people develop patterns of thought that hold them steadily in a state of negative emotion. And even though they grow accustomed to the feelings of overwhelment, anger, worry, blame, guilt, and so forth, the chronic negative emotions indicate strong patterns of resistance that are hindering to natural Well-Being.
The better you feel, emotionally, the more you are allowing your alignment with Source. The worse you feel, the more you are resisting Source. When no resistance is being offered by you, your natural state of alignment resumes—and so does the alignment between your cells and their Source.
Your sophisticated physical body exists because of the intelligence of your cells. And the intelligence of your cells exists because of their Connection to Source Energy.
When doctors and scientists try to find cures for diseases without taking into consideration the Vibrational relationship between the physical Being and Source Energy, they are looking for cures in all the wrong places. If the resistance that disallowed the Well-Being to begin with is not released, it will show up in the form of another and another disease. Dis-ease is the disallowing of ease. Dis-ease is the disallowance of Well-Being, which is always indicated, pre-disease, in the form of chronic negative emotion.
Your cells, because of their connection to the intelligence of Source Energy, know exactly what to do in order to become the incredible variety of functioning cells in your magnificent physical body. And in the absence of the hindrance that is caused by your resistant negative thought, that communication stays open to clear, up-to-the-moment interaction, keeping your physical body at peak and perfect performance.
In the absence of negative emotion—and therefore the allowance of complete alignment and communication with Source Energy—your physical body can reclaim its balance and recover from any imbalance. And once balance has resumed, it is easy to maintain with consistently good-feeling thoughts.
In the same way that a complete understanding of electricity is unnecessary in order to flip the switch and receive the benefit of it, you do not need to understand the complex inner workings of your physical body. You only need to understand the simple process by which you allow your intelligent cells to do their work.
As you find and practice resonance with the Vibration of the Source within you, communication between the cells of your body flourishes, as does your entire physical body. And it all begins with the simple focusing upon your breathing to “flip the switch” of absolute physical well-being.
Since every disease or unwanted condition exists because Well-Being is being disallowed, then, in the absence of that disallowance, Well-Being will return.
Your physical body is truly a reflection of the thoughts you think, but not only of the thoughts you think about your physical body. And so, understanding the Vibrational basis that supports your physical body is important to your maintaining of a healthy physical body. A regimen of physical actions is not enough. Your body is a pure reflection of the balance of the thoughts that you think.
At the root of your physical condition is the condition of your cells. At the root of the physical condition of your cells is a Vibrational pattern. At the root of that Vibrational pattern is alignment with the Well-Being of the Source within you.
Unwanted diseases or conditions do not suddenly leap into your body or experience, but come about gradually, over time, as a result of your steady deprivation of Energy.
In other words, if every day you are worried about something, or angry about something, you are depriving yourself of the alignment with Source that keeps your physical body in balance and feeling good. And if you are not responding to your negative emotions as they occur and are making an effort to refocus your thoughts to improve your emotional state of being, but are instead doing as most people do learning to “live with” the negative emotion, accepting it as “normal life in the modern world”—then eventually there will be a Vibrational tipping point, and the unwanted physical symptom will appear.
What you think (and how you feel because of your thoughts) and what manifests in your experience always match. You get what you think about, whether it is something wanted or unwanted, and that is especially true in regards to your physical body.
Your physical body is the truest reflection of the beliefs that you hold of anything in your experience. It is helpful to understand that a belief is only a thought that you continue to think—and since you do have control of the thoughts you think, you do have the ability to deliberately project thoughts that have a beneficial effect on your physical body.
This continual realigning and rebalancing process hinges on cellular communication: communication from one cell to another, and Vibrational communication between the physical and Non-Physical aspects of those cells. And when you are feeling negative emotion, you are in the state of hindering that cellular communication.
While your physical body is extremely resilient—and has evolved to maintain significant balance even while communication is hindered—the evidence of chronic worry or anger or overwhelment does show up in the form of diminished physical well-being.
Most people never put themselves into the dramatic situation where they are without water or food to the point of doing damage to their physical bodies; however, it is not uncommon for people to deprive their bodies of something equally important: alignment with Source Energy.
Often people develop patterns of thought that hold them steadily in a state of negative emotion. And even though they grow accustomed to the feelings of overwhelment, anger, worry, blame, guilt, and so forth, the chronic negative emotions indicate strong patterns of resistance that are hindering to natural Well-Being.
The better you feel, emotionally, the more you are allowing your alignment with Source. The worse you feel, the more you are resisting Source. When no resistance is being offered by you, your natural state of alignment resumes—and so does the alignment between your cells and their Source.
Your sophisticated physical body exists because of the intelligence of your cells. And the intelligence of your cells exists because of their Connection to Source Energy.
When doctors and scientists try to find cures for diseases without taking into consideration the Vibrational relationship between the physical Being and Source Energy, they are looking for cures in all the wrong places. If the resistance that disallowed the Well-Being to begin with is not released, it will show up in the form of another and another disease. Dis-ease is the disallowing of ease. Dis-ease is the disallowance of Well-Being, which is always indicated, pre-disease, in the form of chronic negative emotion.
Your cells, because of their connection to the intelligence of Source Energy, know exactly what to do in order to become the incredible variety of functioning cells in your magnificent physical body. And in the absence of the hindrance that is caused by your resistant negative thought, that communication stays open to clear, up-to-the-moment interaction, keeping your physical body at peak and perfect performance.
In the absence of negative emotion—and therefore the allowance of complete alignment and communication with Source Energy—your physical body can reclaim its balance and recover from any imbalance. And once balance has resumed, it is easy to maintain with consistently good-feeling thoughts.
In the same way that a complete understanding of electricity is unnecessary in order to flip the switch and receive the benefit of it, you do not need to understand the complex inner workings of your physical body. You only need to understand the simple process by which you allow your intelligent cells to do their work.
As you find and practice resonance with the Vibration of the Source within you, communication between the cells of your body flourishes, as does your entire physical body. And it all begins with the simple focusing upon your breathing to “flip the switch” of absolute physical well-being.
Since every disease or unwanted condition exists because Well-Being is being disallowed, then, in the absence of that disallowance, Well-Being will return.
Your physical body is truly a reflection of the thoughts you think, but not only of the thoughts you think about your physical body. And so, understanding the Vibrational basis that supports your physical body is important to your maintaining of a healthy physical body. A regimen of physical actions is not enough. Your body is a pure reflection of the balance of the thoughts that you think.
At the root of your physical condition is the condition of your cells. At the root of the physical condition of your cells is a Vibrational pattern. At the root of that Vibrational pattern is alignment with the Well-Being of the Source within you.
Unwanted diseases or conditions do not suddenly leap into your body or experience, but come about gradually, over time, as a result of your steady deprivation of Energy.
In other words, if every day you are worried about something, or angry about something, you are depriving yourself of the alignment with Source that keeps your physical body in balance and feeling good. And if you are not responding to your negative emotions as they occur and are making an effort to refocus your thoughts to improve your emotional state of being, but are instead doing as most people do learning to “live with” the negative emotion, accepting it as “normal life in the modern world”—then eventually there will be a Vibrational tipping point, and the unwanted physical symptom will appear.
What you think (and how you feel because of your thoughts) and what manifests in your experience always match. You get what you think about, whether it is something wanted or unwanted, and that is especially true in regards to your physical body.
Your physical body is the truest reflection of the beliefs that you hold of anything in your experience. It is helpful to understand that a belief is only a thought that you continue to think—and since you do have control of the thoughts you think, you do have the ability to deliberately project thoughts that have a beneficial effect on your physical body.
Now, interestingly, Satch once posted a quote from RM where he basically explained Abe's "flip the switch" theory and how he applied it in the past, he just used the term 'samadhi' instead of 'alignment'. So RM at least knew about this, but he obviously didn't really care.
