When I am talking about control, I am talking about everything. The most obvious kind of control occurs when human beings are trying to control each other. If you think back to any particular conversation you had today, chances are you will find in it some element of trying to control. You were trying to control someone's mind so they would understand you, agree with you, listen to you, or like you. This may not be true for all conversations and people, but probably is for quite a few.
I am talking about everything from the most obvious forms of control and power to the more subtle forms of control. In these, we try to change our experience of right now. One of the most common questions I get goes something like this: ''Adya, I've had some sort of spiritual awakening thing happen, at least I think I have, and even though it has happened, I don't feel like it is totally complete. I don't really feel like I'm totally free. I may actually have awakened to what I am and who I am, and that's been very beautiful and profound but, Adya, something hasn't totally completed itself." What follows is, "What do I do?" I have yet to see a single case of someone who is in that predicament who isn't dealing primarily with the issue of control. Not one, because everyone is dealing with the condition of control unless they are totally liberated from the desire for control.
In a very simplistic way, the difference between those people who have had deep and profound spiritual awakenings to their true nature and those who are actually liberated and free is this very simple matter: those who are liberated and free have totally and absolutely let go of control.
- Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing
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