If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
– Adyashanti
Adyashanti is here talking about realization and embodiment.
This has several parts.
One is to notice our nature, what we are in our own first-person experience. This can be relatively simple and doesn’t need much time or preparation, especially with the support of guided inquiry like Headless experiments and the Big Mind process.
Another is to keep noticing in daily life and through more and more situations and independent of experiences and states. This takes some intention and effort. It’s an ongoing practice.
Then we have living from this noticing. How is it to live from this noticing, in this situation? How does it look?
How can I support living from this noticing? What in me – beliefs, identifications, hangups, wounds – stops this from happening? What do I find when I explore unquestioned painful stories? How is it to find love from unloved parts of me? How can I invite healing for this human self? How can I prepare the ground for maturing of this human self?
By necessity, living from the noticing lags behind the noticing itself. It’s natural and inevitable, and there is nothing inherently wrong with it. The question is, how can I reduce the gap between the two?
And all of it – the noticing and living from it and the healing and maturing – is an ongoing process. There is no finishing line.
In Ken Wilber’s terminology, this is about waking up, cleaning up, growing up, and showing up.
INITIAL OUTLINE
Realization + embodiment
Notice, continue to notice, explore how to live from this noticing
All of it, an ongoing process, no finishing line
By necessity, embodiment lags realization
Can work intentionally to close the gap a bit
Healing is an important part of this process
Ordinary healing and maturing as a human being