Get Up and Get Out

"It's funny that when people actually get to this particular place in their spiritual evolution, when they have had some deep awakening, and yet they are really dealing with the essential issue of control, they often ask, 'Do you think I should go to someplace like a monastery? I wish I could just go on retreat forever, and do you think that's a good idea?' And I always say no. Is that going to solve your problem? Absolutely not!

You've got to get up and get out. And you are going to have to let go of control to do it. This is a very profound and very deep movement. It's really a mutation at the very core of your inner self. It's not necessarily a revelation, a spiritual attainment, or a realization. It is a fundamental mutation in the way that we exist -- to live free of the will to control. When you come to the core of control, most likely you will feel like you're going to die. Most people do, because in a certain sense, you are going to die. To have life become suddenly and totally not about control, even at the most fundamental level, is a death.

For most of us, our whole life became about control by the time we were about a year old. You can see children even at two years old trying to control their mother, ordering and manipulating mommy and daddy. It starts so young, this urge to control, this sort of biological sense that I'm going to survive if I can control. This is really a fundamental transformation. That's why I say that we can have a very deep and profound realization of the truth and, in the end, the final real freedom doesn't necessarily come about through a realization. It comes about through a deep surrender at the deepest seat of our being. Of course, most people are going to need a profound realization of their true nature in order to be able to surrender naturally and spontaneously. But it completes itself with a blind and unpredictable release of control.

Of course the thing that people ask me about this point is, 'Now, how do I do that?' And all I can say is that question itself is your control. Control is trying to do its thing. The question of how is always about control. It may even be useful at times to have a how, but ultimately it's about control. There is no how. Just let go."

~ Adyashanti

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