' True and false spirituality '...

The conditioned mind, that is the God. That's God. Culturally that is God. To the point we don't even have news programs anymore, all we have are 2 idiots arguing their point of view. Right. Isn't that right? And somehow we think if we get 2 extreme idiots and they both expound their points of view somehow we're supposed to find the truth in all that. Do you see what I mean? We grow up in that culture. One idiot talked that way, the other idiot talks that way and somehow we're supposed to derive something that's non-idiotic.

We're taught that. That's what we're taught. Go to college you'll be taught it. They'll teach it to you. They might not put it that up front but basically that's what you'll be taught. Gather all points of view then make up your own then that's what's true. So this is part of our consciousness. It's funny but it's also significant when you start to see this is the way most human beings are locating what's true for them. What I think and interpret about things. My judgments about things and people and events and oneself. That's this is where human beings place, that that's where their reality is.


Spirituality in it's true sense is really seen as a threat...by the conditioned mind. False spirituality is seen as no threat. False spirituality just becomes more ideas. More things to believe in. But true spirituality undercuts--holds a mirror up---doesn't write on the mirror, doesn't write anything on the mirror like 'here's what to believe, here's what to think, here's what to'....that's all false spirituality. True spirituality just shows a mirror. It puts it in your consciousness so we see...'oh, this is insane. I'm insane.' And so the orientation is to the unconditioned. There is no creating the unconditioned. You can't manufacture it. You can't derive it. You can't make it. It is there. As I say many times the quickest touch point for the unconditioned is Awareness itself.



-- Adyashanti at Mount Madonna Retreat 5-29 to 6-3 2007