Below are the best resources we could find featuring adyashanti about enlightenment.
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our version of reality is an illusion. It doesn't exist outside your head. Enlightenment is just seeing things as they are-all that's needed is a shift of perception. But beware, Adyashanti warns "there's nothing in it for the ego."
More and more people are waking up spiritually. And for many of them, the question becomes: Now what?
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The Impact of Awakening presents a collection of dynamic excerpts from Adyashanti's satsang dialogues and lectures. The reader is guided from the initial impulse to be free, to its culmination in liberation.
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
For almost two millennia, the story of Jesus has shaped the lives of countless people. Yet today, even though the majority of us grew up in a culture suffused by the mythos of Jesus, many of us feel disconnected from the essence of his teachings.
Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery of our essential being.
Human beings are storytellers. The stories we tell of ourselves are always about the past or the future -psychological stories are about the past while spiritual stories are about the future.
The Way of Liberation is Adyashanti's stripped-down, practical guide to spiritual awakening.
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An awakening is a fundamental shift in how we experience ourself.
During our weekly meetings in the Sun office, editor Sy Safransky and I occasionally stray into philosophical territory. One day, knowing that I’d once studied meditation at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, Sy handed me a couple of videos of talks by the spiritual teacher Adyashanti.
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