Essay Edition
Impeccability as Spiritual Practice
Impeccability is very central to spirituality and practice, an ancient principle that echoes through many disciplines, many expressions of spirituality, in many cultures and many ages, and is egregiously lacking in the modern age.
To be impeccable is more than decoration, more than obligation. It is an energetic practice that lifts our consciousness into the higher echelons and toward enlightenment, when it is done properly.
Impeccability expresses itself in a number of ways in our life. We can be impeccable in the way we walk, in the way we talk, in the way we eat, in the way we make the bed, in the way we organize our finances, in the way we stand, and in the way we interact with others. When we bring a degree of refinement to all of those things and make them absolutely impeccable, we are doing a number of things spiritually.
Imagine dressing impeccably. It may seem extraneous. In some ways, you might even say that it does not sound spiritual. It sounds egoic. If it is egoic, it is certainly not the impeccability I am talking about.
These actions become devotional. They are consecrations to life. They are not egoic, but rather the abnegation of the self. We cease to do things for the results of the actions, but rather do them for the actions themselves, for the precision, for the mindfulness, for the intentionality. We are not acting on behalf of the ego and its wants, its desire for results. We are surrendering to destiny in perfection.
When we are impeccable, we also practice an inner impeccability. The inner and the outer are reflections of each other. It is the warrior's spirit. It is the intentionality of an artist. It is the understanding of a mathematician, a computer programmer, an engineer, or a scientist. It is a practice in energy.
Let us say I am going to fold my blanket. I could just throw it on the couch, but this creates a messy, sloppy life energetically. Why am I going to sit here and fold my blanket perfectly? How is that going to bring me happiness? Well, it does.
Something in us has to click as to why it matters. Ultimately, it comes down to happiness. You can practice impeccability on a leap of faith, or you can practice it based on seeing that it is potent. That is even more powerful, when you see it for yourself.
It is like the Zen master taking one rock and putting it in the right spot so the garden is perfect. Without it, the garden was not quite right. That is the Zen garden.
If I fold the blanket with intentionality, I am practicing not only getting the blanket just right, but also the principles of gentleness, kindness, and the inner state. When I do it, I get to invoke a state of mind that is more desirable, more aligned with spirituality, and more aligned with happiness.
Then I get to be in an environment that is orderly, and this brings a sort of peace to it. If you are in a big, messy place, everything is all over the place, and your computer is a mess, it is a very different feeling from having an impeccable environment and an impeccable computer. On January 1st, you can just download the spreadsheet and pay your taxes. It takes two seconds because it has been organized.
You are working toward an actual embodiment of impeccability. Am I impeccable in every single way? Sometimes I reach higher levels and lower levels in different parts, but I am always striving for that. There is no reason to feel judgmental or critical, but rather to keep trying to get to that impeccable space.
Presence, Refinement, and Energetic Order
When we practice impeccability, we are also learning to become very present. It is the art of intentionality. We are very intentional in everything we do.
There are ancient practices, like the Japanese tea ceremony, where they go really slowly. It takes many hours to have a cup of tea. How many hours could it take to have a cup of tea? The whole point is not getting the tea drunk. You want to enter into presence.
When you are impeccable, everything becomes presence. Every footstep becomes an act of devotion. For real, every footstep. Walk with the power of a philosopher king. Boom. Boom. Clarity, grace, gliding through life because you are present with every micro-action.
Impeccability means that we revere the mundane. It is not about being impeccable when you get to the golden temple. You are impeccable when you are brushing your teeth. You are impeccable in everything you do, because it is hard to separate. If you spend your life one way, you cannot really move into a different mode. You have to do it all the time.
This gets into the concept of karma. Karma means action. Every action we take affects and informs our state of mind. Impeccability is a formal practice in karma, but it goes further, into refinement. Dust your windowsill and organize your spreadsheets. There is an impeccability there that is more than karma.
By having everything in such order, you empower your life. Instead of making efforts in all sorts of directions and scattering your energy, you take the light of your energy and focus it so it is like a laser. Therefore, we do not waste any of it. Every effort is powerfully directed. When we have an orderly life, we can do that. It allows us to be in enough power that we can meditate more deeply and live with that effortless grace of somebody who has entered into the sagacious lifestyle of a spiritualist.
Impeccability also requires us to be autotelic. We need to constantly be on the edge of our ability. We keep pushing that boundary so that we do not fall into habitual mindlessness, and instead stay in expanding mindfulness. We want to keep revising and refining things. That challenge is what makes it a continued practice and keeps our attention.
It is also a joy. You can do things with joy, like folding that blanket. You are loving the blanket. You caress the blanket. You make it into nice proportions that are pleasing to you. You take a sort of pleasing joy in the mundane, whereas somebody might just throw the blanket in a pile. You probably folded the blanket three times today because every time you used it, you refolded it.
One of the fun things about impeccability is that it can become part of your style. The style in the way you speak, the style in the way you walk, the style in the way you eat, the style in the way you dress, the style in the way you keep your space, and the way you drive your car.
Without intentionality, you just flow into the unrefined gray space of bland, unrefined energy. But when you are impeccable, everything can become precisely what it should be for you. That is what I mean by style. How do you want to be? Refine that.
Impeccability also goes into energy. It has a lot to do with the subtle intents within. It is important to know what your intent is when you take an action. We can be impeccable on the outside, but there is also an invisible impeccability.
Did my actions consider the other? Were my actions exploitative or righteous, loving or inconsiderate? If every action becomes deeply considerate, deeply oriented such that one sees the whole as their very self, then you are reinforcing the paradigm that you are not separate.
This is required in spirituality. We are trying to evolve our inner state. Enlightenment is not some thing that happens outside of you, like all of a sudden some altar manifests because you are enlightened. It is an inner state that you have curated and cultivated. It requires powerful attention and many lifetimes of revising and refining the topology, the manifold of your field, the way your attention works, the way you think of others, and the way you do everything.
Impeccability is also concerned with intention. What are my intentions? Are they honorable intentions, in the sense that they consider others, or are they selfish intentions, which ultimately hurt oneself?
Perhaps one of the most esoteric forms of impeccability is maintaining your chakras and your energy state, and cultivating them all the time. Are you feeling your third eye right now, and your heart, and your navel, and your root chakra, and your second chakra, and your crown chakra? Is your heart expanding in exactly the way you want it to?
There are a lot of things that can be attended to on the energetic planes to make your energy impeccable. It is obviously very much related to the outer expressions as well. But to walk around and feel your heart constantly requires a great deal of attention.
In time, these things become more natural, and you live on that autotelic edge. After ten years of feeling your heart with impeccability, your heart's baseline is going to be very, very beautiful. You grow. You accumulate the riches of impeccability until you are a rich state of mind that is beautiful, golden, and shining.
When we are not impeccable, we enter into a fogginess. We dissipate our energy. We enter into old habitual patterns consistently. We do not live in freedom. We can fall into fearful thinking. We can make a mess of our lives so that we are not able to direct ourselves, and we fall behind on things. There are so many reasons why not being impeccable is costly. Our love cannot be as radiant and powerful. It takes more effort to do things.
Impeccability ultimately helps us to be happy, and it is a worthwhile practice.
Awareness, Simplicity, and Daily Application
Impeccability is directly proportional to awareness. It is a two-way equation. More awareness means more impeccability, but more impeccability also means more awareness. If you want to increase your awareness, you can look around and start making things impeccable. That can actually make meditation easier. It works both ways. You will have a good meditation, and then you will notice that something has been like this for six months. If you clean your place, it cleans your mental space as well, and you can have a better meditation.
Impeccability also relates to simplicity. Everything is in place. It is a distillation of a kind. Greater simplicity means you can be more impeccable because you have fewer things to focus on, and you can do those things more precisely.
Sometimes, if you do not feel like showering, just showering makes your day more like the day when you would have showered. It is a better day, a more refined day. It is like honoring life.
Language is a very wonderful way to be impeccable. One thing you can practice is, in your text messaging, to say exactly what you mean, to use proper grammar, periods, and commas, and to say it in such a way that it pleases you.
You could just text and get it done with, or you could be very impeccable. Feel into how people will receive your text. There are so many dimensions. It can be the art of the language and how you enjoy saying it, and also how you feel it will be received. Then it does not make a mess. If you throw out a text and it upsets somebody, then you have a month of relationship renewal to do because you did not take two seconds, or five minutes, to make that text perfect.
It is good to slow down and increase the attention so that your texts are beautiful. In fact, every action we take is an expression of the state of mind we are in.
Sometimes it is good to practice akarma, which means not to take action. Otherwise, we perpetuate that state of mind in our life. If you are all frazzled and you need to send an important text message to important people in your life, maybe do not do it yet. Go meditate. Go for a walk. Then you do it from love and kindness, and that becomes the manifest expression of that state of mind. It strengthens that state of mind in your manifest life.
Impeccability means living without unnecessary mistakes. It means being honest with yourself, speaking truthfully, thinking clearly, and acting responsibly. It is about doing right even when no one is watching.
Impeccability has so much to do with what you do when nobody is watching. It is definitely not about people seeing how impeccable you are. You could take this in the wrong direction, so that is an important nuance. Your real test of how impeccable you are being is the impeccability you have when nobody notices except for you, because obviously you are watching.
Start with one tiny thing, or make a bigger change. Make one thing impeccable. It might be something in your schedule. It might be that pile of papers right there. Do something to open up the possibility. Just get a taste of impeccability and see how it feels. That might create an avalanche of impeccability.
Sit down and write out all the ways that you would love to be impeccable and what that would look like. It takes some energy to make the change, but the vision can be very inspiring. In business, that is the vision statement. It provides the inspiration for the daily activities.
If you can see something that really sounds beautiful, feel into it. What would your life feel like if all those papers were beautifully organized? How would your life feel if you had that after maybe years of accumulation?
Punctuality has a lot to do with impeccability too. Showing up on time is definitely a big one. Sometimes I have scheduled a call with somebody, and at 1:59 I will be looking and looking. As soon as it says two o'clock, I push the button. Those are fun little ways to be ultra-impeccable.
When things are organized or in place, it is a feeling of calm and peace. It is almost freedom. You can always do a lot better, but it feels good when whatever your standard is, is met. It gives you a feeling of peace of mind.
I could go through my bookshelf. The books have moved around over time. If I took all the books off and put them back exactly as I want them, maybe took some off for good and put them in storage, that would be curating my bookshelf in such a way that it holds an energy.
When we store energy in physical things, there is a sort of storing of spiritual power when you do something, when you create something, especially if you do it with the right energy and right intent. That power helps you rise spiritually. It takes a lot of power to realize ultimate truth.
You have to be like a sports car that has refined its energy perfectly. Every gear is locked in just right, and you are using the best fuel, or maybe it is electric. You are not wasting and dissipating energy, so the ambient power of the universe can come through you. Storing energy is a part of that as well.
Mathematics is very much an impeccable practice, and coding is very impeccable. You get real-time feedback when you code. If you are not impeccable, it will not work. One semicolon missing, and it will not work.
I remember when I was fifteen and first coding. There was this giant page of things, and if one keystroke was off, the whole thing would not work. I was astonished by that because, in my life, I had never been required to meet an activity with such impeccability. Logic does not lie. It works or it does not work. Physics is similar.
Chakra Meditation and Energetic Development
In chakra meditation, we raise the baseline of our chakra radiance. It is a slow and steady heating of the pot. Each chakra is a little pot of water, and we are going to heat it up. Water has a high heat capacity. It is going to maintain that heat.
If every day you meditate on your chakras and keep them getting warmer and warmer, you transform your field and build a lot of power. You will be able to be more impeccable that way. In fact, the navel center especially helps with impeccability.
Let your powers of attention open the chakra, but it does not have to be forced open. You are sitting in the reverberation frequency of that chakra, in that place in space and time, in space most of all. You are training your attention field not to ignore it.
Bringing your attention to a chakra and beginning to feel it is like asking whether you are feeling your left foot. Now that I have said it, maybe you are feeling your left foot, but where were you? Have your attention be very aware of certain parts of your biological mechanism, the energetic aspect of the biological mechanism.
The first chakra is right underneath your butt, right at the bottom. There is a sense that there is an energetic vortex there. This is pure power, so we are meditating on pure power. Maintain your attention. Your attention is like the flame that heats the pot of water. Be patient. It is enough to become aware of the spot. That makes the shift in the energy already.
The second chakra is right where the genitals are. It is not just a sexual spot. It is also a place of creativity, family, and connection. It is a little bit underneath and inside the body. You can feel it there.
The navel center, Manipura, is one inch below the belly button, or half an inch below. Kundalini rises from the second chakra right up to the navel. This is willpower. This is related to impeccability. Feel the spot. Allow your attention to generate and charge it. You may feel yourself very powerful, very steady, dignified.
The heart chakra is right in the center of the chest, in the center of the sternum vertically and horizontally, where you would point to your center with your finger. Anahata. When we meditate here, we awaken the faculties of feeling, ineffable knowing, empathy, intuition, and true knowledge most of all.
The throat chakra is at the base of the throat. This is a center of expression and beauty. The third eye is the faculty of seeing. It is just a little bit above the spot between the eyebrows. Feel the charge, the magnetism, or simply feel this spot until something accumulates.
The crown chakra is right on top of the head. It is a little bit above the head, but you can feel it in the scalp as well. This chakra has to do with self-transcendence, divinity, and peace.
It is always good to end on the heart. Let all of these chakras be a foundation for the fullest, purest, brightest love radiating from our center. Three chakras above, three chakras below. The heart is in the center.
One of the apexes of impeccability is when all your chakras are activated and purified all the time. We can go through life with all our chakras aligned, seeing them all the time and guided by the heart.
Impeccability requires doing one thing at a time. Your intention has to be focused.
Full Transcript
Impeccability as Spiritual Practice
Adam Wes Namaste! Welcome, everybody. Thanks for being here. We're missing a couple people. I'm sure they'll arrive in a few minutes.
We'll do a 20 to 30-minute sermon and discussion, and then 20 to 30 minutes of meditation. We'll follow up with sharing after that, so we should be done by 7:15, giving us a little bit more space as part of the structure. It tends to be that every time anyway.
I'd like to talk about something very central to spirituality and practice, an ancient principle that echoes through many disciplines, many expressions of spirituality, in many cultures and many ages, and is egregiously lacking in the modern age. That is impeccability.
To be impeccable is more than decoration, more than obligation. It is an energetic practice that lifts our consciousness into the higher echelons and toward enlightenment, when it's done properly.
Impeccability expresses itself in a number of ways in our life. We can be impeccable in the way we walk, in the way we talk, in the way we eat, in the way we make the bed, in the way we organize our finances, in the way we stand, and in the way we interact with others. When we bring a degree of refinement to all of those things and make them absolutely impeccable, we are doing a number of things spiritually.
Just think about all those things that we can do to be impeccable. Imagine dressing impeccably. It may seem extraneous. In some ways, you might even say, "Well, that doesn't sound spiritual. It sounds egoic." If it's egoic, it's certainly not the impeccability I'm talking about, right?
These actions become devotional. They are consecrations to life. They are not egoic, but rather the abnegation of the self. We cease to do things for the results of the actions, but rather do them for the actions themselves, for the precision, for the mindfulness, for the intentionality.
We're not acting on behalf of the ego and its wants, its desire for results. We're surrendering to destiny in perfection.
When we're impeccable, we also practice an inner impeccability. The inner and the outer are reflections of each other. It is the warrior's spirit. It is the intentionality of an artist. It is the understanding of a mathematician, a computer programmer, an engineer, or a scientist. It is a practice in energy.
Let's say I'm going to fold my blanket. I could just throw it on the couch, but this creates a messy, sloppy life energetically. It's an energetic practice.
I almost want to sell you guys on it, because it's funny. In the modern age, people are like, "No, no, it's not worth it to me. Impeccability? I'm too busy to be impeccable." Something in us has to click as to why it matters. Ultimately, it comes down to happiness.
But I think it's not really easy to connect why doing all these things, all this extra work that's not getting me anything, brings happiness. Why am I going to sit here and fold my blanket perfectly? How is that going to bring me happiness? Well, it does. We're going to try to make the connection here so that, if you practice impeccability this coming week, you can either do it on a leap of faith, right? "Oh, Adam says it's important, so I'll try it." That's a worthy way to approach it. Or you can do it based on seeing that it's potent. That's even more powerful, when you see it for yourself. "Okay, it's potent. I want to do it now."
Let's talk about it. I invite any of you to disagree, ask a probing question, or anything, so that we can hash this out and really come to clarity on impeccability, because you almost never see somebody being truly impeccable.
I know a few impeccable people. My mom's very impeccable. She likes to organize things. That's a very impeccable thing to do, the way you organize things and make them just feel right. It's like the Zen master taking one rock and putting it in the right spot so the garden's perfect. Without it, the garden wasn't quite right. That's the Zen garden.
There's a lot of nuance to this. It's worth really talking about for 20 or 30 minutes to get clear on what it is.
If I were to fold the blanket with intentionality, I am practicing not only getting the blanket just right, but also the principles of gentleness, kindness, and the inner state. When I do it, I get to invoke a state of mind that is more desirable, more aligned with spirituality, and more aligned with happiness.
Then I get to be in an environment that's orderly, and this brings a sort of peace to it. If you're in a big, messy place, everything's all over the place, and your computer is a mess, it's a very different feeling from having an impeccable environment and an impeccable computer. On January 1st, you can just download the spreadsheet and pay your taxes. It takes two seconds because it's been organized.
You're working toward an actual embodiment of impeccability. Am I impeccable in every single way? Sometimes I reach higher levels and lower levels in different parts, but I'm always striving for that. There's no reason to feel judgmental or critical, but rather to keep trying to get to that impeccable space.
Presence Refinement and Energetic Order
When we practice impeccability, we are also learning to become very present. It's the art of intentionality. We're very intentional in everything we do.
There are ancient practices, like the Japanese tea ceremony, where they go really slowly. It takes many hours to have a cup of tea. How many hours could it take to have a cup of tea? Well, the whole point isn't getting the tea drunk. You want to enter into presence.
When you're impeccable, everything becomes presence. Every footstep becomes an act of devotion. For real, every footstep. Walk with the power of a philosopher king. Boom. Boom. Clarity, grace, gliding through life because you're present with every micro-action.
Impeccability means that we revere the mundane. It's not about, "Okay, I'm going to be impeccable when I get to the golden temple." You're impeccable when you're brushing your teeth. You're impeccable in everything you do, because it's hard to separate. If you spend your life one way, you can't really move into a different mode. You have to do it all the time.
This gets into the concept of karma. Karma means action. Every action we take affects and informs our state of mind. Impeccability is a formal practice in karma, but it goes further, into refinement. Dust your windowsill and organize your spreadsheets. There's an impeccability there that is more than karma.
Another benefit is that, by having everything in such order, you empower your life. Instead of making efforts in all sorts of directions and scattering your energy, you take the light of your energy and focus it so it's like a laser. Therefore, we don't waste any of it. Every effort is powerfully directed. When we have an orderly life, we can do that.
It allows us to be in enough power that we can meditate more deeply and live with that effortless grace of somebody who's entered into the sagacious lifestyle of a spiritualist.
Impeccability also requires us to be autotelic. We need to constantly be on the edge of our ability. We keep pushing that boundary so that we don't fall into habitual mindlessness, and instead stay in expanding mindfulness. We want to keep revising and refining things. That challenge is what makes it a continued practice and keeps our attention.
It's also a joy. You can do things with joy, like folding that blanket. It's a joy. You're loving the blanket. You caress the blanket. You make it into nice proportions that are pleasing to you. You take a sort of pleasing joy in the mundane, whereas somebody might just throw the blanket in a pile. You probably folded the blanket three times today because every time you used it, you refolded it.
One of the fun things about impeccability is that it can become part of your style. The style in the way you speak, the style in the way you walk, the style in the way you eat, the style in the way you dress, the style in the way you keep your space, and the way you drive your car.
Without intentionality, you just flow into the unrefined gray space of bland, unrefined energy. But when you're impeccable, everything can become precisely what it should be for you. That's what I mean by style.
When Kira shows up at my place wearing crazy shoes I've never seen before, it's because she's applied a level of impeccability and intentionality to some aspect of her life. It's a really great opportunity. How do you want to be? Refine that.
Impeccability also goes into energy. It has a lot to do with the subtle intents within. It's important to know what your intent is when you take an action. We can be impeccable on the outside, but there's also an invisible impeccability.
Did my actions consider the other? Were my actions exploitative or righteous, loving or inconsiderate? If every action becomes deeply considerate, deeply oriented such that one sees the whole as their very self, then you're reinforcing the paradigm that you are not separate.
This is required in spirituality. We're trying to evolve our inner state. Enlightenment isn't some thing that happens outside of you, like all of a sudden some altar manifests because you're enlightened. It's an inner state that you have curated and cultivated. It requires powerful attention and many lifetimes of revising and refining the topology, the manifold of your field, the way your attention works, the way you think of others, and the way you do everything.
Impeccability is also concerned with intention. What are my intentions? Are they honorable intentions, in the sense that they consider others, or are they selfish intentions, which ultimately hurt oneself?
Perhaps one of the most esoteric forms of impeccability is maintaining your chakras and your energy state, and cultivating them all the time. Are you feeling your third eye right now, and your heart, and your navel, and your root chakra, and your second chakra, and your crown chakra? Is your heart expanding in exactly the way you want it to?
There are a lot of things that can be attended to on the energetic planes to make your energy impeccable. It's obviously very much related to the outer expressions as well. But to walk around and feel your heart constantly requires a great deal of attention.
In time, these things become more natural, and you live on that autotelic edge. After ten years of feeling your heart with impeccability, your heart's baseline is going to be very, very beautiful.
You grow. You accumulate the riches of impeccability until you are a rich state of mind that's beautiful, golden, and shining.
When we're not impeccable, we enter into a fogginess. We dissipate our energy. We enter into old habitual patterns consistently. We don't live in freedom. We can fall into fearful thinking. We can make a mess of our lives so that we're not able to direct ourselves, and we fall behind on things. There are so many reasons why not being impeccable is costly. Our love cannot be as radiant and powerful. It takes more effort to do things.
Impeccability ultimately helps us to be happy, and it's a worthwhile practice.
Awareness Simplicity and Daily Application
What do you guys think? Any questions or comments?
Kira I've noticed that when I'm meditating, impeccability naturally increases. Sometimes, in the middle of meditation, I'll notice in my awareness, "Oh my gosh, there's a dust ball right there in my home that I didn't notice before." Or it will be, "Oh my gosh, there's a small bit of dirt underneath my fingernail," or something like this, and I must make it right before I can continue with the meditation.
The meditation is increasing awareness, and that awareness is almost like a prerequisite for impeccability. I don't think you can really have impeccability unless you have the awareness first in order to do it. Meditation can help.
Adam Wes Love it. Maybe a little mathematical equation is: impeccability is directly proportional to awareness.
It's a two-way equation. More awareness means more impeccability, but more impeccability also means more awareness. If you felt, "Okay, I want to increase my awareness," this is the opposite version of what you're saying. "I don't feel very aware, so I'm just going to look around and start making things impeccable." That can actually make meditation easier.
It works both ways. But it's funny how you'll have a good meditation, and then you'll notice, "Oh my God, this has been like this for six months? How?"
Kira Clean something up. Exactly! And then vice versa, if you clean your place, it kind of cleans your mental space as well, and you can have a better meditation.
Adam Wes Absolutely. Wonderful. Thank you, Kira. Nice sharing.
How about you, Andrea? So nice to see you!
Andrea P Hi! Sorry I have not been coming. I love this idea of impeccability. I think it goes together, at least for me, with simplicity. It's easier to be impeccable if your things, your house, your wardrobe, and your life are simple. It's easier to get to being impeccable.
I also love what you said about it being a way to be devoted to living a beautiful life with intentionality. That makes a lot of sense because, when you wake up feeling happy and really want to seize the day, you see these little things. You want to dress nicely, you take a shower, you go out, and everything is nicer. It makes a lot of sense in terms of living beautifully and intentionally.
Adam Wes I love it. It's like honoring life.
Andrea P Yeah.
Adam Wes Sometimes, if you don't feel like showering, just showering makes your day more like the day when you would have showered. It's a better day, a more refined day.
I like what you said. It does relate to simplicity too. Everything is in place. It's a distillation of a kind.
Simplicity is another part of that equation. Greater simplicity means you can be more impeccable because you have fewer things to focus on, and you can do those things more precisely.
I also think language is a very wonderful way to be impeccable. One thing you can practice is, in your text messaging, to say exactly what you mean, to use proper grammar, periods, and commas, and to say it in such a way that it pleases you.
You could just text and get it done with, or you could be very impeccable. Jenna's very impeccable with her texting, actually. I'm like, "Wow, Jenna, you put a lot of effort into making that precisely right." She feels into how people will receive her text.
There are so many dimensions. It can be the art of the language and how you enjoy saying it, and also how you feel it will be received. Then it doesn't make a mess. If you throw out a text and it's blah, and it upsets somebody, then you have a month of relationship renewal to do because you didn't take two seconds, or five minutes, to make that text perfect.
It's good to slow down and increase the attention, like Kira said, so that your texts are beautiful. In fact, every action we take is an expression of the state of mind we're in.
Sometimes it's good to practice akarma, which means not to take action. Otherwise, we perpetuate that state of mind in our life. If you're all frazzled and you need to send an important text message to important people in your life, maybe don't do it yet. Go meditate. Go for a walk. Then you do it from love and kindness, and that becomes the manifest expression of that state of mind. It strengthens that state of mind in your manifest life.
Vanamadi, it's nice to see you here. Namaste.
Vanamadi M Namaste, Guruji.
Adam Wes Nice to see you. You're in India, right?
Vanamadi M Yes.
Adam Wes What do you think of this talk?
Vanamadi M Guruji, impeccability means living without unnecessary mistakes. It means being honest with yourself, speaking truthfully, thinking clearly, and acting responsibly. It is about doing right even when no one is watching.
Adam Wes Beautiful. It sounds like somebody who's studied all of this very, very deeply. Wonderful. Yes.
I like that last one. Impeccability has so much to do with what you do when nobody's watching. It's definitely not about people seeing how impeccable you are. You could take this in the wrong direction, so that's an important nuance.
Your real test of how impeccable you're being is the impeccability you have when nobody notices except for you, because obviously you're watching.
That's beautiful. Thank you for that. How about you, Ariella?
Ariella Wow, it really has made me think. I have piles of papers in different places in my house. It's certainly not impeccable, and that's something I really would like to pay attention to.
Adam Wes This is wonderful. You're opening up the workshop aspect of this sermon. What can we do this week?
Maybe everybody can make at least one change, if you want to do this. It's not a requirement, but you can start with one tiny thing, or you can make a bigger change. Make one thing impeccable. It might be something in your schedule. It might be, "Hey, that pile of papers is right there. I'm just going to do that this week. There's one pile." Or maybe, "I'll do half the pile," if it's a big pile.
Do something to open up the possibility. Just get a taste of impeccability and see how it feels. That might create an avalanche of impeccability.
Here's another fun practice. Sit down and write out all the ways that you'd love to be impeccable and what that would look like. It takes some energy to make the change, but the vision can be very inspiring.
You might say, "I would do this. I would do that. This is what it would look like." In business, that's the vision statement. It provides the inspiration for the daily activities.
If you can see something that really sounds beautiful, feel into it. What would your life feel like if all those papers were beautifully organized? You go to Staples, buy a nice little container with sections, put the papers into the sections, have them nicely printed out, and organize all that. How would your life feel if you had that after maybe years of accumulation?
Punctuality has a lot to do with impeccability too. Showing up on time is definitely a big one. Ending on time too. We're going to end exactly at 7:15. Let's be impeccable today. That'll be fun.
Sometimes I've scheduled a call with somebody, and at 1:59 I'll be looking and looking. As soon as it says two o'clock, I push the button. Those are fun little ways to be ultra-impeccable.
Colleen Thank you for saying I'm impeccable. I don't think I am, but I do know that when things are organized or in place, it's a feeling of calm and peace. It's almost freedom.
Adam Wes Exactly. You're probably one of my original teachers in impeccability.
Colleen You can always do a lot better, but it feels good when whatever your standard is, is met. It gives you a feeling of peace of mind.
Adam Wes The way you organize things, get new things and fresh things, and spend a whole afternoon organizing, that's not unusual for you. A lot of people don't do that.
I could go through my bookshelf. The books have moved around over time. If I took all the books off and put them back exactly as I want them, maybe took some off for good and put them in storage, that would be curating my bookshelf in such a way that it holds an energy.
I should make one more note. When we store energy in physical things, there's a sort of storing of spiritual power when you do something, when you create something, especially if you do it with the right energy and right intent.
That power helps you rise spiritually. It takes a lot of power to realize ultimate truth. You have to be like a sports car that's refined its energy perfectly. Every gear is locked in just right, and you're using the best fuel, or maybe it's electric. You're not wasting and dissipating energy, so the ambient power of the universe can come through you.
Storing energy is a part of that as well.
All right. Hi, Jacob.
Jacob H Hey, Adam. How are you?
Adam Wes Good. Nice to see you here.
Jacob has cultivated quite an impeccable mind. He's a master's student in a physics program. That requires a very refined mind. Year after year, he keeps going on with it, teaching it, studying it, and doing experiments. There's impeccability in that practice.
Mathematics is very much an impeccable practice, and coding is very impeccable. You get real-time feedback when you code. If you're not impeccable, it won't work. One semicolon missing, and it won't work.
I remember when I was 15 and first coding. I was like, "Wow, there's this giant page of things. If one keystroke is off, the whole thing won't work." I was astonished by that because, in my life, I'd never been required to meet an activity with such impeccability.
Logic does not lie. It works or it doesn't work. Physics is similar.
Chakra Meditation and Energetic Development
Shall we meditate?
That was about exactly 30 minutes. Let me take a moment and get clear on the next phase.
Let's do an all-out chakra meditation today. In the chakra meditation, we go through all the chakras, which we almost never do. But we want to pay attention to what chakra meditation is. We're raising the baseline of our chakra radiance.
It's a slow and steady heating of the pot. Each chakra is a little pot of water, and we're going to heat it up. As Jacob knows, water has a high heat capacity. It's going to maintain that heat.
If every day you meditate on your chakras and keep them getting warmer and warmer, you transform your field and build a lot of power. You'll be able to be more impeccable that way. In fact, the navel center especially helps with impeccability.
Let's go through each of the chakras. We'll do about three minutes each, starting from the root and going all the way up to the crown.
Let your powers of attention open that chakra, but it doesn't have to be forced open. You're sitting in the reverberation frequency of that chakra, in that place in space and time, in space most of all. You're training your attention field not to ignore it.
When did you last feel your perineum? It's a funny comment. The perineum is right under your butt. It's right where you're sitting, especially if you're sitting in a half lotus. There's an energy center there. It actually sits outside of the body a little bit, but it connects with the body. That's the root chakra, and that's where your energy rises from.
Bringing your attention there and beginning to feel it is like asking, "Are you feeling your left foot?" Now that I said it, maybe you're feeling your left foot, but where were you? Have your attention be very aware of certain parts of your biological mechanism, the energetic aspect of the biological mechanism.
We're going to go through each one. We'll do three minutes each. I even set a timer. It's not really enough, but that's a good start.
When I first started working with my teacher, he told me that, during his really powerful awakening phase, every Saturday he would meditate on each chakra for an hour. That's seven hours of chakra meditation every Saturday. On the other days of the week, he did a smaller version because he had to work. These are the kinds of lengths that one can go to, to Ramana Maharshi it, or Babaji this mind.
I know Kira knows what I'm talking about. Vanamadi probably knows too. I think Jenna probably knows. Maybe you all know.
All right, let's hop in.
The first chakra is right underneath your butt, right at the bottom. You can find it. There's a sense that there's an energetic vortex there. This is pure power, so we're meditating on pure power.
Maintain your attention. Your attention is like the flame that heats the pot of water. Imagine it just sitting there.
Halfway through. Stay with your chakra. Be patient. It's enough to become aware of the spot. That makes the shift in the energy already.
Now the second chakra is right where the genitals are. It's not just a sexual spot. It's also a place of creativity, family, and connection. It's a little bit underneath and inside the body. You can feel it there.
Let's focus on that for three minutes. If you lose your attention, just refocus. If you get two out of three minutes, that's great.
Rise to the navel center, Manipura, one inch below the belly button, or half an inch below. Maybe even feel it. Kundalini rises from the second chakra right up to the navel.
This is willpower. This is related to impeccability. Feel the spot. Allow your attention to generate and charge it.
You may feel yourself very powerful, very steady, dignified. If you're experiencing light while you meditate, that's wonderful. That's the simultaneous presence of light. Experience the chakra as light.
Let's rise from the navel center below the belly button. We're going to skip the solar plexus, which is not one of the primary seven, and go up to the heart chakra.
It's right in the center of the chest, in the center of the sternum vertically and horizontally, where you would point to your center with your finger. Anahata.
When we meditate here, we awaken the faculties of feeling, ineffable knowing, empathy, intuition, and true knowledge most of all.
Wonderful. Then we move to the throat chakra. The throat chakra is at the base of the throat. This is a center of expression and beauty. It's above the collarbone, in the soft place.
Three minutes.
Now the third eye. The third eye is the faculty of seeing. It can actually help you see the light better if you meditate on the photon.
It's just a little bit above the spot between the eyebrows. Feel the charge, the magnetism, or simply feel this spot until something accumulates. Miraculous.
That's six chakras. We've got one more.
The seventh chakra is right on top of the head. It's a little bit above the head, but you can feel it in the scalp as well. The crown chakra.
This chakra has to do with self-transcence, divinity, and peace. Feel that spot. Sometimes use your finger to make a connection with it. It's quite a pleasant feeling, the crown chakra.
Wonderful. It's always good to end on the heart, so let's bring our attention to the heart.
Let all of these chakras be a foundation for the fullest, purest, brightest love radiating from our center. Three chakras above, three chakras below. The heart is in the center.
Just a minute or so.
Let's take a moment and notice the root chakra, activated, awakened. The second chakra, charged. The navel center, powerful. The heart center, alive. The throat chakra, activated. The third eye, powerful. The crown chakra, transcendent.
When you're ready, come out of the meditation.
Meditation Reflections and Closing Discussion
Good job, everybody. Thank you.
Now your consciousness engine has all seven chakra cylinders activated. A seven-cylinder engine.
Tough crowd.
I think it's funny. They don't make seven-cylinder engines, just so you know. Apparently God makes them.
Hi, Mom. Namaste. How was your meditation?
Colleen I know you want to know about all the lights. What's interesting is I've never seen blue before. Well, maybe I have, but I don't recall it. The throat chakra was blue. I think you would call it royal blue. Not navy blue, not sky blue, but royal blue.
Adam Wes A lighter blue, right?
Colleen No, not light.
Adam Wes Okay. How about that?
Colleen Bold.
Adam Wes Bold.
Colleen B-O-L-D.
Adam Wes Wonderful. It's amazing how connected you are to the vision with your astral body. It's really unusual.
Colleen With the third eye, every time I touched it, I would have two colors. Then I'd move my finger away, touch it again, and there was an egg. They're kind of in the middle and kind of on the outside.
Adam Wes What were the colors?
Colleen Lime green and purple.
Adam Wes The purple's the third eye. I've seen that too.
Colleen The heart chakra today was green.
Adam Wes You're literally seeing all the actual colors. It's really great. The heart chakra's green.
Colleen Everything below the heart was just a mush of purplish pink.
Adam Wes Nice. I think your upper chakras are a little bit more focused. It's good to have them all. It supports the heart. It supports everything.
Colleen It just happens the way it wants to.
Adam Wes Well, you can cultivate it.
Colleen I can try. Thank you.
Adam Wes Saturday, an hour on each chakra, okay? Namaste, Mom. Thank you.
Andrea, how about you?
Andrea P I wanted to tell you that David, the reason I came here, would have gotten your engine joke.
Adam Wes Nice. So you know David?
Andrea P Yeah.
Adam Wes Wonderful.
Andrea P He's the one who told me about you.
Adam Wes Wonderful. I love that. Do you know where he is?
Andrea P We have the same name.
Adam Wes Are you married or related?
Andrea P No! We are from different countries, but we have the same exact name. It's weird.
Adam Wes You say you're from different countries, but aren't you both in Mexico?
Andrea P Mexico. We're not related in any way.
Adam Wes Okay.
Andrea P It's weird. He's called Andres, and I'm called Andrea Parra, so we have the same name and last name.
Adam Wes Wow. Okay. How was your meditation?
Andrea P It was really great. At the end, I felt like I could see and feel all the chakras at the same time.
Adam Wes Whew!
Andrea P I've never felt that. I thought, from the talk, that if we live impeccably and intentionally, we can go through life with all our chakras aligned, seeing them all the time and guided by the heart. I felt that.
Adam Wes Love it. That's one of the apexes of impeccability, when all your chakras are activated and purified all the time.
Wonderful. I love that you felt them all at once. That's good. That means you've done a lot of practice, one way or another, because it's a more advanced technique to hold them all at the same time. Beautiful.
Andrea P I had never felt it like that. Thank you.
Adam Wes Yay. Namaste. Good.
Vanamadi, I'd love to hear how it was for you, if you'd like to share. Nobody has to share, by the way. You can just ignore me if you don't want to share.
Am I being ignored? Perhaps. Okay, good. Now we know.
How about you, Kira?
We have one minute to be impeccable. We might be slightly off impeccability.
I'd actually love to hear from Jenna. Jenna, are you available?
Jenna W Hi! Usually I have something to say. I'm just feeling inward, actually, so I suppose it was helpful. Thank you. I like the topic of impeccability and the alignment of the chakras. I appreciate being here.
Adam Wes Thanks for being here. Jenna's my sister, everybody. She's a lovely person. Hi, Jen!
Jenna W Hi. Nice to see you.
Adam Wes Nice to see you, Jen.
Jenna W Thank you.
Adam Wes Namaste.
Ariella? Ariella will be the last sharer, I guess, unless Kira wants to. She dropped out of Nirvana.
Oh, there she is. It's the Nirvana screen.
Kira I had to step away. I'm meeting somebody right around now.
Adam Wes Do you want to share really quickly before Ariella?
Kira I can. I'm happy to share.
Our conversation materialized. I don't know how else to say it. I was very much able to activate many of the chakras, but definitely the Sahasrara, the crown chakra, so powerfully, in an equal way to the other techniques that I'm used to.
Adam Wes Wonderful!
Kira That was really lovely. Thank you so much.
It's interesting. When that seems to activate, I almost get stuck there, in a good way. It's almost challenging if somebody says, "Okay, now come back down from there." I'm kind of like, "What?" It just sustains itself.
Adam Wes You're super crown chakra. That's really your energy field, more than most people. That's your defining characteristic energetically.
Kira Really?
Adam Wes Crown and heart. Maybe throat too.
Kira Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone.
Adam Wes Great, thank you.
Before anybody else drops off, I would be very grateful for any donations. Even a ten-dollar donation, within the three-to-thirty-three-dollar recommendation, would be really helpful for me at this moment. If you can, thank you. If you can't, this is freely available, so don't worry about it.
If you need to go, Kira, I understand. I want to hear from Ariella before we jump off.
Hi, Ariella!
Ariella This was really interesting for me because I do yoga, and we focus on the chakras for one minute, but it's also connected to your breath.
This wasn't, and being able to spend more time in each chakra was a wonderful experience.
Adam Wes Wonderful. How did you feel without the breath? You might have been doing your breath exercise at the same time intuitively.
Ariella It felt good that I didn't have to focus on the breath. I could focus on the chakra.
Adam Wes I prefer that too. Just feel the chakra, because the whole point is not to divide your attention.
Impeccability requires doing one thing at a time. Your intention has to be focused.
Ariella It felt more impeccable.
Adam Wes Nice. Namaste, everybody. Thank you for being here.
Andrea, Vanamadi, Vin, nice to see you. Nice to see you, Sam. We're three minutes over. I think that's reasonable. If anybody has a burning desire to share, you're welcome to, but if you don't, maybe we should hop off.
Okay, cool. Namaste, everybody. Thank you. See you soon.