Inaccessibility And Intent

Adam Wes Namaste. Welcome, everybody.

Before we start, I'd like to renew the context of what we're supposed to be trying to do here. There is the teaching of enlightenment, and there's a certain magic to it. So we want to try to connect with that feeling and that intention, which is to progress along the path to enlightenment. This is the way that I'm trying to convey it, and to really revel in the teachings.

These teachings are non-denominational, eternal, liberating, bliss-bringing, love-awakening, intelligence-begetting teachings. They're truly the joy of life. That's how I feel about it. That's why I do this. I absolutely love enlightenment, and I love the teachings.

So when we sit down here and cover a particular topic, to me, the various dimensions of enlightenment, the X, the Y, the Z, the W, the T, we have many constituent frequencies that, in their aggregation, constitute the teaching as a whole. Each of these dimensions is the whole teaching refracted into its rainbow spectrum of components. That's why, with the book, I've got the 52-plus sermons. Each of them is very relevant, but they all have a cohesive place in the whole.

I love the one today, and it's actually quite different from anything we've discussed. I've been planning to cover it at some point. It is inaccessibility and intent.

Shakespeare said something beautiful. To say it without his old-fashioned language, essentially, don't wear your heart on your sleeve. The great thing about Shakespeare is, as far as I can tell, he was a mystic. He was on this path and quite far along the way, perhaps going into samadhi. That's why he was so absolutely incredible in his creations, connected with his dharma, writing in that particular way, but always transmitting the wisdom of life. In a way, he was a teacher. He was like the first PBS, public educational broadcasting.

That statement, let's say, is from Othello: "But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at." Daws are crows. If your heart is on your sleeve, they're going to peck at your heart, right?

Then there's intent, which is an absolutely indispensable part of spiritual practice, very closely related to karma and overtly discussed by the Buddha. So we'll get into that and their integration, because they're related.

All right. I've got probably six or seven pages here, so I will just try to hit the points in 20 minutes. We could talk about it for three hours.

Inaccessibility essentially means that you're personal, individual. This is a description not of an opinion, but an actuality that one must be aware of in interpersonal relationships. If I make myself super accessible to just everybody indiscriminately, I have to deal with the repercussions of that. So there's an art to accessibility, intimacy, and inaccessibility. Everything is involved in that. This is about connection and protection.

Let's start here with creativity. If I have a piece of art that I'm creating, and I'm inspired, and I can see it, and it's coming from the depths of my heart, if I share that with somebody, I have polluted the waters of my own inspired purity. There's a purity to my inspiration. It's not necessarily that the mixing has been a bad pollution, but it is an interference.

If I were going to show you something I was doing, say, Ariella, and when you saw it you had all these ideas, we're all very psychic, so I would feel all your ideas, your impressions, and the things you liked about it. Now, Ariella is an exception in a lot of ways because she's extremely loving and very spacious inwardly, so she wouldn't have that many opinions, just lots of positivity. Those are the kinds of people it's easier to share with.

If everybody was extraordinarily loving and had their mind in a state of absolute spaciousness and freedom, it would be less of a concern. But that's not the condition of humanity as a whole.

Also, it's nice to keep these things to yourself because there's a personal relationship one has with a sort of creative inspiration. We want to give birth to it first so that it comes out the way it was going to come out, without interfering with its creation.

So there's the creative element of it. Another one is that inaccessibility has a lot to do with helping to educate people on how to have a degree of etiquette, honor your freedom, and treat you in a certain way. We see this with Zen masters and sages, and I've encountered it with various people who very masterfully let you in to an appropriate degree. But they also have places where it would be inappropriate, and they draw that line very skillfully and harmoniously with you. They're, in a sense, educating one as to the degree to which they're allowed to get into their personal life and their personal process.

One form of inaccessibility is not to share everything. If somebody says, "Oh, what are you doing this weekend?" it's not necessary to say, "Okay, well, I'm planning this, and I'm excited about this," because when we do that, we open ourselves up completely to them. They might say, "Whoa, you're a student. Why are you doing that? You should be studying, or you should go to sleep early."

There are a lot of thoughts and conditioned responses that we have to process at that point. There's a great deal of dissipation of energy and just energetic output required to say, "No, I know what I'm doing, and I'm going to do it. That's my plan."

A lot of times, when we share what we're planning to do, we change those plans. If I were to say, "I'm going to watch this great movie. I'm so excited about it," and somebody said, "Well, I watched that movie. It wasn't very good. I didn't like it," or, "I heard it was bad," then all of a sudden the movie is different. You just can't ignore this. The movie will be different.

If you're in touch with your own inner state and have a degree of sensitivity and awareness of how one is thinking and pulled, then the movie will be different. Perhaps you'll even want to prove that the movie is actually a good movie, right? Maybe you'll see the worst in the movie instead of the best in the movie. There are all kinds of things that happen.

That's just a very mundane example, but so many things are like this. Say you want to create a great business or start a spiritual community. There are just so many things. We have to be careful as to how much we expose those plans.

A lot of people are good and well-intentioned, but they have certain feelings. Imagine students, right? One student gets a better score, and they tell everybody. Another student is well-intentioned, but deep down there's a strong feeling of jealousy. It's better not to deal with all that. Your score is your score. Nobody needs to know it, right?

There's a lot of maturity in being comfortable not sharing everything. A lot of times, when we share, we're leaning on others. I think that's an interesting thing to look at. Why did I share in the first place? Did I want some sort of justification or some sort of support?

Now, there is a place to share, of course. My great value is to share magical moments in love with the people I love, in great, beautiful states of consciousness. That's what I care about. When we share with people who are complementary or resonant with us, then it has a positive effect.

Sometimes you may want to maintain your privacy. It's just you and the thing in the universe, and there's a beauty in that. But sometimes, when we do want to share, we can share with people who understand the paradigm. They have similar predilections. They can appreciate the things.

If I'm so epically excited about some mathematical concept and I go and share it with somebody who couldn't care less about mathematics, it's very deflating, right? But if I share it with somebody who's just like, "Oh my God, that's so great. That's amazing. I love that," then together we are buoyed into this beautiful state of appreciation.

That's one of the reasons why I like to teach math to people who love math. It's painful to teach math to people who don't love math, because I'm constantly being deflated by their misunderstanding of what math can be. I'm not talking about being good at math. I'm talking about being interested in math, seeing the beauty in it.

So when we do share, we can share with the right people. There are aligned, complementary, or resonant people. Then there are also just spacious people, like Ariella. They're very loving. They have no inner agenda, no subconscious programs running that are constantly, egoically, creating forms of dissonance.

A very loving individual is very safe to share with, but very few people have the capacity inside themselves to be that empty. Love means we're very empty, very full of love, and very empty of self, of ego.

Somebody shares, and they're just happy for you. Or they're interested in what sparks your inspiration around what you're sharing. They may not understand, but they certainly have a very open mind. It's a very loving orientation.

Let's talk about intent. Intent is a precursor to action. If I give somebody a gift and my intent is to see them smile, that's different from my intent being to have them become more codependent with me: "He gives me lots of gifts, and I get this," or, "You owe me," tit for tat, right?

Or is it simply, "I don't know what the future holds. I just want to see you smile. I feel that you are my very self," and I give you the gift with that purity? There are different kinds of intent.

My intent in speaking a truth may be to empower another. Like, "Mom, I'd love for you to know these things so you can protect yourself in your life, have the most beautiful inner state, not dissipate or give away any of your precious energy, or give it to the right people." If my intent is truly that, and I care about the teaching, that's a different state than if I'm not connected with that.

Intent is something that one can walk around and ask about every action: "What was my intent with that statement?" I love this. When somebody says something, why did they say that?

Say somebody says something and it doesn't feel good. On the surface, it's relatively benign, but it doesn't feel good. That's because their intent wasn't particularly considerate. Or they say the exact same thing and it feels beautiful. Their intent was holistic. It was in consideration of the whole, of you. They were connected to the effects of what they were saying.

When we do something, it's important to look and say, "What is the intent that I have?" Because that intent is the actual energetic repercussion. It's the karma.

It's interesting. Sometimes I do something with lots of love, and somebody projects that I did something else. They missed my intent, but because I know my intent, it doesn't get to me. I knew why I did it, and that's what matters.

What matters is that one has honorable intent, loving intent, that one honors another, honors their freedom and sovereignty, and does something with consideration of their well-being. That's essentially honorable intent.

When we're accessible, the intent that another has matters. If you're very accessible to somebody and they don't have honorable intent, you're going to have to protect yourself. You're going to battle in a subtle way, in this energetic, paradigmatic, psychic space. If they have beautiful intent, it's totally fine.

You may prefer to be alone and solitary with something. When we don't share something, there's more space around it. It's like being in a forest by yourself and creating art. There are no minds, just yours, perhaps not even yours. There's a beautiful quality to that. So sometimes we don't share anyway.

It's very important for each of us to tend to our own garden of intent, to parse through, "Okay, why did I say that? Maybe I'm a jerk, at least when I say that." Or, "Wow, I like how I said that. That was really beautiful. I had beautiful intent right there."

Really go through and mold the intent, carve it, and transmute it into something more beautiful. This opens the heart. This brings the light.

Somebody with a lot of negative intent, selfish intent, is not going to be able to go into light very easily. People with love go into light more easily because their field has no center of self, so the radius has expanded to a circumference that's very large. There's no resistance against reality. That love is that, and therefore one dissolves into light and is moved by the universe, not by the ego.

It's good to be somewhat enigmatic. The mystery is beautiful. If you're on a first date and you expose everything at once, you lose the magic, right? You lose the mystery, the unfolding, and the discovery process.

It's not just about a first date. It's about being somewhat anonymous. There's a quality of dignity in having a little bit of spaciousness around you, not being a completely open book indiscriminately. Of course, when you're very close and have a husband or wife, family, or friends, that's a different story.

All right. I feel like it's a little bit of a tough lesson or sermon, because I wonder how many of you are like, "Damn, that's cold, man." It's not cold. It's just navigating the physics of psychology. This is a part that's there whether you like it or not.

All of us have dealt with that. I think school is a perfect example. When you're in school and there are other kids, there are all kinds of things going on, right? All kinds of psychic, psychological mechanisms and gears moving. Most people just weather it. You go through it and weather it.

But there's a wisdom to this. There's a reason why the Zen master holds himself or herself in a particular way. They have an understanding. There's a wisdom to not wearing your heart on your sleeve. There's a wisdom to knowing when to share and when not to share, whom to share with and whom not to share with.

This is an important part of the practice because, ultimately, we're trying to get our inner state in absolute, impeccable order. These impressions are deeply impactful and are important to consider because we're trying to make the mind so pure that it becomes enlightened.

Only a handful of people in the world can ever achieve that, or at least progress along the path to that, which brings love and peace and strength and clarity and truth. All of these things come from this.

All right. Namaste. Any questions?

I'd love to hear from you, Ariella. Thanks for listening so beautifully.

AriellaShira L There we go.

Adam Wes You don't have to share anything if you don't like.

AriellaShira L Yeah, it's a lot to take in.

Adam Wes Yeah. I think it's important to let everybody know that I studied this with my teacher. He actually taught me this.

Over many years of learning and carefully tuning this, I learned, "Whoa, I just shared that, and ouch, it hurt." When you walk around with a very open heart, you start to feel things more.

Of course, you could say, "Well, you don't need that," but how open is your heart? If one feels that these are not considerations, I would check in and ask, "Is your heart open? Are you fine-tuning the inner state of your mind, or are you just letting it become a mess?"

Remember, what we focus on, we become. What we expose ourselves to informs our state of mind.

Hi, Mom.

Colleen Hi. I know that you share things with me, and I often give opinions, so I have a better understanding of what you go through. Thank you.

Adam Wes Thank you.

Colleen We'll try to do better. Ariella, I think you've experienced this a lot because you have this wonderful gift where you've done something that most people don't ever experience in a lifetime, and you've shared it and gotten negative responses.

So I hear what Adam's saying. You want to share because you're excited about it, and then somebody says, "You're different. It's not possible," or whatever they tell you.

Adam Wes Yeah, absolutely. I think it's very relevant to Ariella.

Let me make sure there aren't a couple of things I missed that I should quickly touch on.

Sometimes, when we say too much, we kick ourselves, right? You see that in movies especially. Sometimes it's better not to say so much, or to be very discriminating in what one says.

There are a lot of reasons for this. If you say a lot of things, even right now, I'm quite exposed. I said a lot of things. How does Christina think about it? How does Scott think about it? I'm exposed, right?

It may be perfectly, beautifully coherent within me, but a lot of times, when we say things, people project or attempt to assess what that thing actually is. I might say, "Oh, I love math." Somebody might say some negative thing or some positive thing, or ask, "What does that mean?" They have all kinds of projections and associations from their lives.

When we're very psychically sensitive, sometimes we can get a lot of negative energy thrown at us just because somebody has categorized us in a particular way. "Oh, that guy's spiritual. He's a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Obviously, that's ridiculous to us, but to some people it's not ridiculous. It could mean a lot of things, and they might send negative energy.

We're very psychic. We're very sensitive. If somebody sends a lot of beautiful energy to you, it affects you. If somebody sends a lot of negative energy to you, it affects you to the degree that you have allowed yourself to be exposed to it. So there's a whole inner, energetic dimension at play here that is worthy of consideration.

If you go around telling everybody your political views, the things you love, and the things you're scared about, most people will form a very crystallized projection of you that you'll have to push away so you're not an illusion. Or you may get actual negative energy from them that could be very much unintentional.

They might be a very good, well-intentioned person. They just don't have the capacity to say, "I don't know much about spirituality and meditation. I'm sure there's something good to it." That takes a very mature, spacious inner state, so a lot of people aren't in that kind of command of themselves.

All of us are trying to cultivate that command. That's part of the practice, right? I hope I don't project onto people and have judgments. It's all self-serving, egoic nonsense, right? All that hurts us. It's very hurtful to ourselves. Bad karma and bad intent hurt us.

Colleen So what if somebody tells you something and you have an opinion, but you're going to keep quiet because it might be something the other person doesn't want to hear? What do you do then?

Adam Wes It can get a little messy, because why did the person tell you in the first place, right? Are they looking for advice? Do they need support? Are they just trying to gain clarity? Do they just want to be seen and understood by you? Do they want you to accept them as they are? Do they want you to help them clarify some degree of confusion that they have?

A lot of times, people don't even know the intent with which they share. What would be great is to see, "This person shared for this reason. This was their intent." That takes a lot of perception.

Therefore, I'm going to respond in a way that, while considering me and my integrity, supports them or is neutral with them in a way that's appropriate.

Sometimes opinions are really invited and asked for. Sometimes they're not. How do you know? You can listen to the intent of others. It's an interesting way to live. Forget all the words. What is the intent below the words?

Everybody's walking around with kinds of intent. You can see, "That person's not very nice," or, "That person's so nice." They're very intent-based orientations. Did that help?

Colleen Yeah, but, and I'm saying yes, but, I'm hearing you. I'm just a little confused because sometimes, if I keep quiet, I'm thinking about what the person says. The person wants an answer right away, and they think that I don't agree with them because I'm quiet. So it's sometimes a little bit tricky.

Adam Wes The words you're using, "opinion" and "agree with," I think all of that is divisive and difficult. The truth is singular. It's better to see just the truth.

It's my opinion that chocolate is more delicious than vanilla, or that vanilla is more delicious than chocolate. That doesn't matter. What matters is that chocolate is chocolate and vanilla is vanilla, with their ineffable qualities. What matters is that so-and-so likes chocolate more. Therefore, that's a relevant piece of information and a fact, but not an opinion. Their predilections can be part of the realm of fact.

Sometimes, when we have opinions, people will lean on us in a way that's not healthy, right? They might say, "Just agree with me on all these things, because I want my opinions to be supported," and they're not rooted in truth anyway. Truth doesn't need that. Truth has a strong bedrock of foundation. It doesn't require people to lean on.

We'd have to look at a specific example, perhaps.

Colleen Thank you.

Adam Wes That was helpful. Thanks for asking.

All right, Scott, what do you think? Anything relevant there to you? I know you're really into your energy practice. I think this could be very powerful for your energy practice. This is a part of it, absolutely.

Scott J Yeah, totally. I definitely resonated with what you're saying about the aspect of projection and certain words, especially when people call it the "I." I feel like people who are more, I don't want to say necessarily spiritually in tune, but that could be the right way to describe it, or maybe more educated in the language around that, when they hear "I," there typically is a self-association.

As you project your own feelings about something, we all have our own specific relation to that. I really like your description of it as a psychic battle. That's a good way to describe how the currents of energy are moving around all of us, and we're all grabbing at the same idea at around the same time.

What you were saying, Colleen, about when you could be the bearer of bad news in some cases, I feel like a lot of times, and I guess it is really dependent on what you're talking about in your specific situation, it's better to be honest or be blunt, or just have your first intuitive reaction.

But then again, I've been in cases where that was obviously not the right idea either, so patience definitely comes with it too.

For me right now, with a lot of my understanding of energy and this love frequency that we tune into when we really connect to other people and can see and feel other people, it's definitely interesting. As you pointed out, I am practicing and working on jumping between the two. But there's really a lot of mental action that goes on, and once it's silent, I can sit in the heart and feel other people.

Feeling the whole room consistently, or everyone's feelings, is not necessarily what I have worked on yet. Over Zoom, it happens randomly, but in person it's more consistent. It's definitely a very interesting experience and practice.

Adam Wes Thanks for sharing, Scott. You made me realize something important, which is that one way to apprehend intent, both of oneself and of others, is through the heart.

The heart is the faculty of knowing that ungraspable reality. So feel the heart. Ultimately, when we're in an interaction with another, if we're in our heart rather than in our head, thinking, "I should respond this way," we oftentimes give them what they need. Not necessarily what they want, but what they need, because we're stewards.

We're being a steward to humanity, and whoever is before us, we love. We don't pick and choose. We love based on what's around us. We are stewards, and when we're in our heart, we have the capacity to be a steward.

Whatever you say, if you're clear, if you're in your heart, if you know the other and you know yourself, then you can do the right thing. You don't have to think about it.

People won't always like it, but they're bringing in a sort of discord from within themselves that needs to be processed. Or maybe there's a neutrality that you have. That might be the right thing, right? Generally, maybe they like it on some deeper level. That's why they came to you.

All right, let's meditate. Thanks for partaking. I love this teaching, intent and inaccessibility. Thanks, Kimberly.

What is the correct song for the energy?

Why The Last Samurai? Because the samurai has honorable intent, and because the samurai knows when to be inaccessible. They're warriors, stewards.

All right, let's go into light. Twenty minutes of stillness.

When we begin meditating, really start by bringing attention to your heart, bringing attention to what you need, what perhaps you've been neglecting within yourself, in your energy, in your mind.

Really, it's all about love. The heart is the source of the energetic, phenomenal reality.

To really activate the potency of the astral heart center, the energetic heart, anahata, or the middle dantian, it helps to bring the causal luminosity, the gold light, colored light, clear light, or blue light, a sapphire-blue light, into the body.

It's a very high-frequency energy that activates the energetic biology, the astral body.

So go into light. Bring your heart.

The light makes us inaccessible, purifying the mind. Tethers of influence drop away.

Merge. Essence, or the quintessential, unreachable and eternal.

But know, when we meditate on the heart, we can gain the faculty of perception. It allows us to manage intent.

Bring your attention to the third eye. When we bring light into the third eye, the frontal lobe in the head as a bulb, we cultivate the capacity to perceive truth without distortion.

The mind becomes still in a state of nirodha, nonattachment.

You can sort of look at your third eye. This holds the mind steady. Even with your eyes closed, you can maintain a steady visual orientation. This maintains the mind in a state of abeyance.

Feel that you are in command of your own thoughts, bringing the third eye into light.

Bring your attention to the center of the head, the pineal gland, or the crystal that is apparently at the center of the head. As an energetic center, it's like an energetic chakra.

Let's fill that spot. It produces a different energetic purification and cultivation than the third eye.

For a moment, bring your attention to the navel center, just for balance, the lower abdominal area.

Then back to the heart, always starting and ending on the heart.

Bring the whole body into light.

Namaste.

All right. Just a quick share, since it's 7:01 or something. Mom, how was your experience?

Colleen It was different. I didn't get drowsy, and I didn't start with the red color that I usually start with. I started with a medium green. Then there was white as well. The usual thing is, when you go there, my temples pull in. They're drawn in.

Thank you. It was very nice.

Adam Wes You had the temple pull, or did you not have it?

Colleen I always tend to, yeah.

Adam Wes Nice. Namaste, Mom. Good job. Way to see the green and the white. Beautiful.

A nice white outfit. It's always good to come to these wearing white, by the way, if anybody is open to that.

Colleen I should have changed. I was in black.

Adam Wes Yeah, good. There's a different energetic state. There's a community called the Kundalini Yoga community, and they all wear white. There's some truth to that. In India, there are a lot of places that do that, and in some Muslim countries too.

Colleen Maybe that's why my visual colors were different today.

Adam Wes Yes, could be.

Colleen Thank you.

Adam Wes Thank you, Mom. Just one quick share from Ariella, and then we'll hop off. You're muted.

AriellaShira L What you were saying about wearing white, I wear white on Saturday.

Adam Wes Nice. Love that.

AriellaShira L I was at an event where they asked us to wear white. The whole group was walking toward where the conference was going to be, and it was just such a powerful energy. I decided I wanted to keep feeling that, so I wear white every Saturday.

Adam Wes Beautiful. Well, maybe do it on Tuesday nights too, if you're up for it.

AriellaShira L Okay.

Adam Wes By the way, look, I'm literally wearing all white stuff.

AriellaShira L Yay!

Adam Wes Ariella, just a quick share of your mystical experience?

AriellaShira L Oh, yes. I was just experiencing the white light. There was a space where I spaced out completely, but then I came back and was able to follow your directions.

Adam Wes Okay, wonderful. Well, it's nice to see all of you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for reveling in the teaching with me. I hope it touched you or meant something to you.

I am being accessible as a teacher, and that's one of the things that I didn't like doing for a long time, but it's in a selective way. Sharing magical moments centered on the things that I love is a way to connect with resonant, complementary individuals. That's what we're doing here.

I'll see you next week, or some of you tomorrow. Namaste. Thank you, Mom. Thank you, Kimberly, Scott, and Dad. All right, bye, guys.

AriellaShira L Thank you.

Honorable intent and wise inaccessibility support connection and protection, preserve the inner state, and cultivate perception through the heart.

• Inaccessibility is an art of connection and protection.
• There is maturity in being comfortable not sharing everything.
• Privacy can preserve creative inspiration, personal freedom, energy, dignity, and mystery.
• When sharing, aligned, complementary, resonant, spacious, and loving people can receive what is shared without imposing an inner agenda.
• Intent is a precursor to action and the actual energetic repercussion, or karma.
• Honorable intent honors another person, their freedom and sovereignty, and their well-being.
• Discernment includes listening for the intent below the words and recognizing whether opinions or advice have been invited.
• Responding from the heart supports clarity, integrity, and stewardship toward whoever is present.
• What is focused on and what one is exposed to informs the state of mind.
• Meditation on the heart and light supports perception, purification, stillness, and the management of intent.

Tend to the garden of intent by noticing what lies beneath statements and actions, then allowing intent to be molded, carved, and transmuted into something more beautiful, loving, and honorable.

• Awareness of when to share, when not to share, and whom to share with.
• Attention to whether sharing is seeking justification, support, advice, clarity, or understanding.
• Sensitivity to the intent beneath another person’s words before responding.
• Consideration for another person’s freedom, sovereignty, and well-being.
• Attention to what is being focused on and allowed into the mind.
• Bringing attention to the heart at the beginning and end of meditation.
• Bringing the heart, third eye, center of the head, navel center, and whole body into light.

• What may be asking for more privacy or spaciousness?
• What intent is beneath the words?
• What is known when attention rests in the heart?