http://www.lifedivine.net/spirituality/teachers/adyshanti-beyond-ego/ Consciousness Evolving - how to integrate spirituality and personal development into everyday transformation and living. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.lifedivine.net/spirituality/teachers/adyshanti-beyond-ego/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Ray Baskerville Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:02:55 +0000 http://lifedivine.net/?p=414#comment-143 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. 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.

]]> http://www.lifedivine.net/spirituality/teachers/adyshanti-beyond-ego/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Perry Gruber Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:05:37 +0000 http://lifedivine.net/?p=414#comment-141 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! 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!

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