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Adyshanti – Beyond Ego
December 27, 2008 by Ray Baskerville
After Christmas dinner with friends the conversation turned to spiritual matters. Sadly from my perspective it got stuck in ‘talk’.In my experience it is very difficult when there are more than 2 people to not get caught up in projecting or defending the egoic mind self. One on one I have had some profoundly deep conversations with spiritual friends, sharing insights and understanding of our process. Something clicks in these moments and no one is trying to prove anything.
What has this to do with Adyshanti, well, lucky guy that I am my wife gave me a place on a retreat with Adyashanti in March. I am so grateful and happy. Meditation is much more of a luxury now living a family life and 5 days meditating with Adya, well that’s pretty exciting to me. So here he is talking about the egoic mind, see, it’s all tying together now. Enjoy.
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Wishing you the best in your search for awakening….How wonderful that your wife provided the opportunity to go on retreat. I wonder though, if you could have the same experience in the presence of your family. Not leaving them for a “retreat experience,” but having the same experience – oneness, presence, meditative practice – in the course of your day-to-day “family” activities. Might this be possible? What an example for your children you would set!
Hi Perry
thanks for your good wishes.
For myself I am not on a “search for awakening”, my experience is awakening is a process, ever present now, so nothing to search for. So yes I live this process with my wife and child and they are very much teachers and participants in my process. My son is still a little young to begin yoga or meditation, but he see’s me doing them every day and in time it will be a natural and normal part of his own life.
Being of a contemplative nature, retreat will give me something that will be of benefit to me in my process and in turn benefit my family. I don’t see this as an either or situation, otherwise I wouldn’t have a family and still be living in India as a monk.
My wife has also lived as a monk and presence, introspection, self inquiry and authentic relating are what we model for our son.