Regardless of Adya's personality, you have made this argument before, that you wouldn't go for enlightenment if it was based on the personalities of Maharishi, or Adya, or some of the posters here. You've also said that you have not awakened to enlightenment, and that the only teacher that you liked in that regard was Lenz.
It leads me to conclude that you aren't all that interested in liberation. The expression "where there is a will, there is a way" comes to mind. However you seem determined to make your lack of liberation other people's fault, based on their inability to model enlightenment successfully for you - not good enough, too boring, control freak, abberant personality, not enough fun, etc. Your excuses seem endless and self-serving. Your business is your own, in every domain. Its just that you seem to have constructed the perfect out for yourself regarding your lack of progress towards liberation. Reminds me in a small way of my mental process yesterday upon arriving home and seeing a lot of dishes to wash. First I began to think up an excuse to tell my wife, and then I realized I was already spending energy not washing the dishes, so I just turned that energy into productive action and washed them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Still pondering my reaction to the videos of Adyashanti > I've watched recently, I have a question for those who > have seen him in person. Is he always this serious, and > (dare I say it) seemingly joyless? > > While I think that much of the content of what he said > was interesting, I found *him* almost completely uninter- > esting. If I had to put my finger on why I felt that way, > it's that there seemed to be very little "happy" there. > "Blissy," maybe. Non-attached, maybe. But for me the only > thing that would attract me to a spiritual teacher is if > they seem genuinely, no-artifice, no-bullshit happy, much > of the time. Adya seems to come across more like other > Zennists I've met -- so serious that one is tempted to > mistake it for depression. Think Leonard Cohen. > > Part of the reason I feel this way is that, unlike many > in the TMO, I place very little value on being able to > "talk the talk" of spirituality. As Curtis has pointed > out, almost anyone who gets the "lingo" down can do that. > What is tougher is to walk the walk. For me Adyanshanti > didn't walk the walk. > > Call me spoiled by Rama -- at least in the early days of > his teaching -- but I'm just not attracted to serious. > Nothing in me wants to achieve more seriousness. My gut > reaction to both Rick's video and better quality videos > of Adyashanti was, "If this is enlightenment, I don't > want it." No offense intended to those who like him, and > I understand that it may just be an issue of personality, > but I don't find myself able to identify with an image of > enlightenment or realization or awakening that isn't > cracking up all the time because life is just so funny. >
