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This Brilliant Observation About Meditation Unlocks the Key to Life - I'll Tell You How to Use it

This Brilliant Observation About Meditation Unlocks the Key to Life - I'll Tell You How to Use it

It’s about the simple vs. the complex.

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Adyashanti, formerly known as Stephen Gray, is one of the foremost spiritual teachers alive today. He lives near San Francisco and draws on a potpourri of traditions, chiefly Buddhism, but also Hinduism and Christianity, for his teachings.

What I love about Adya, as he’s known, is his approach toward meditation. He emphasizes relaxing into the natural state of awareness that is always present in us but is obscured most of the time by our chattering minds.

My favorite idea of his came from a talk I listened to a few years ago. It was an overview of the meditation process. It’s fantastic and I highly recommend listening to it. Here’s the link.

In the beginning Adya talks about the education process for learning meditation. He said it’s the exact opposite of traditional education. Here’s what he said:

“In meditation the rudimentary stuff is the advanced stuff. It isn’t like learning something in school where you work yourself up to the PhD program. It’s the opposite. You’re trying to work yourself backwards, down to kindergarten. Down into simplicity, not into complexity.”

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is not just the key to meditation, it’s the key to life: Going from the complex to the simple.

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