' Deep Spiritual Experience '...

In deep spiritual experience, the boundary lines fall away, and we have a boundless—or, more accurately speaking, a boundaryless—experience of being.

This brings an extraordinary sense of freedom and well-being and intimacy with the total environment and with our oneness with all things.

These are not just nice-sounding spiritual platitudes or simple or fancy concepts that one is supposed either to agree or to disagree with; they are attempts to give words to actual perception, to recognize existence in a particular way—in a truer way.

The ego mind is created through memory and concepts, and concepts by their nature create boundaries, because every time we call something a name, it is relevant only in relationship to what it is not.

As I have said, part of awakening is to begin to see and experience life directly, not through all these boundaries that are created by language and memory.

Deep spiritual revelation shows us that we are not separate from all that is, that life itself has no beginning or end, and that it is always changing forms.

Water turns into a vapor or steam, falls to the ground, gets cold, becomes ice, gets heated up, melts, turns into a gas, and so it goes.

A tree falls in the forest, and its elements decay back into the ground, releasing nutrients and giving rise to new trees and new elements, and the new trees fall, and life does not end; energy is conserved, life changes form, and there is never more or less of it.



-Adyashanti, from The Most Important Thing