Adyashanti Talks About His Retirement

Adya had a debilitating and rare condition in his bladder that brought him mind-splitting pain. Fifteen years later, after almost two decades of brutal pain, he discovered the cause of this condition—an allergic reaction to the aluminum in his deodorant.

With that deodorant in the dustbin, his condition was immediately resolved. Pretty neat. Yet the intense trauma from those years stayed with him and lingered as PTSD. In his retirement letter he describes:

“The effects of such a long and exhausting ordeal, however, have been significant on both my body and mind. While the core of consciousness (awareness) is forever free and untouched, the body-mind has its own reality as well. And this reality contains, in potential, all the body-mind’s strengths and vulnerabilities.”