Adyashanti

A native of Northern California, Adyashanti is a teacher of growing recognition and popularity in the United States. He teaches extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering weekly satsangs, frequent intensives, and silent retreats.

Details of these events, as well as live webcasts and audio downloads can be found at Adyashanti's Web site.

We greatly enjoyed hosting Adyashanti and his wife, Mukti, in Perth, Western Australia in October, 2007.

Adyashanti has a penetrating way of engaging in dialogue with people, in which layers of false understanding drop away in the radiance of awareness, leaving the freshness and clarity of the living moment.

We can supply: Adya's Books, CDs & DVDs

Adyai's latest DVD talks etc. are usually shown in our satsang gatherings.

What Adyashanti Says About Satsang

"You wouldn't come to Satsang if you didn't have brief moments of something shining through the personal reference point. There's no way you'd end up somewhere like this even if somebody dragged you along and you think it's a big mistake.

Life is highly intelligent -- it wasn't your friend's decision to bring you to Satsang, Life moved through your friend, Life decided to bring you here and it's no mistake. You may never come back, but that's not a mistake either.

Nobody would ever be at Satsang if something hadn't shone through their personal reference point -- some precious moment, some beauty, some love, something amazing, something mysterious that you must know more about -- a glimmer of something that's bigger than the personal reference point of 'me' and my little concerns.

Actually, this Consciousness or Presence is constantly breaking through -- we just cover it up so quickly.

We keep running back to this personal reference point only because we identify with it and think it's who we are. But when we finally look and see that the personal reference point isn't who we really are, our reference point becomes Consciousness, which means it isn't a point at all. A point is only a thing, it's finite -- what we are is infinite, vast, spaceous awareness that is capacity for all things."

~ From: The Hypnosis of Control -- a talk given by Adyashanti at Palo Alto CA in 2005.

BTW: You may also like to read what Adya has to say about True Meditation.