All Adya/(-ology), is Destiny?

...Tami Simon: When you describe the rocket ship, you use the metaphor to talk about nonabiding awakening versus abiding awakening, with the idea that abiding awakening means you are permanently outside of the gravitational field of the dream state, outside of our habitual tendencies to constellate as a separate self. Are you outside of that gravitational field?

Adyashanti: I always hesitate to answer a question like that, but I’m going to try to answer it. I don’t feel that I can say, “Yes, I am outside of the gravitational force.” It’s not really like that. That’s where the metaphor breaks down. All of these metaphors, all these ways of explaining things, they’re just that—they’re metaphors, and they do have certain limitations.

I would say that my experience is that I no longer believe the next thought that I have. I’m not capable of actually believing a thought that happens. I have no control over what thoughts appear, but I can’t believe that the thought is real or true or significant. And because no thought can be grasped as real, true, or significant, that itself has an experiential impact; it is the experience of freedom.

If somebody wanted to call that “being beyond the gravitational force of the dream state,” fine, but I am always hesitant about claiming something. I always remind everybody I talk to that all I know is right now. I don’t know about tomorrow. Tomorrow a thought could come by that could catch me, Velcro me, pull me into separation and delusion. I don’t know—maybe it will, maybe it won’t. I have no way of knowing that. All I know is right now.

That is why I hesitate to say, “Oh yes, I have crossed a certain goal or finish line,” because I don’t see it that way. It sounds like that when I’m teaching, but that is the limitation of speech. What I really know is that I don’t know. What I really know is that there are no guarantees. I don’t know what may happen tomorrow, or the next instant, whether I’ll be deluded one instant from now. What I do know is that I can never possibly know that...

This is an excerpt from a candid interview with spiritual teacher Adyashanti, titled The End of Your World - Sounds True Interview: The End of Your World with Adyashanti

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