Adyashanti: Life holds up a mirror for our awakening...sharing his direct experience in his 20s/30s

"...As I said, I won’t bore you with the details, but through this process there was a deeper, more extraordinary dissolution of the egoic self than I had previously experienced...This was undoubtedly the most difficult period of my whole life. Through this process, though, I finally found the willingness to let go of everything I thought I was..."

"I saw that what happens in the body and mind can’t ultimately be avoided. Everything has to be dealt with— everything. Everything has to be seen through. If what was realized was to be embodied, to be fully lived, then this process, however difficult, was one of the most important processes of my entire life. It was like coming through those periods of illness I described; after it was over, I once again felt that I was nobody and nothing. This was not just on an absolute level, not just on an awakened level, but also on an embodied level, as a human being. I felt inside what it’s like to be nobody, to be nothing, as a human being. It may sound negative, but when it’s fully felt, it is extraordinarily positive—humbling in the most positive and beautiful sense of the word.

I tell this story because everybody has their own story. Everybody has their own ways in which life is attempting to hold up a mirror, to squeeze the conditioned self out of us, to squeeze out of us the holding and grasping, to squeeze out all of our beliefs and ideas and concepts and self-images.

If we are willing to look, we will see that life is always in the process of waking us up..."

~ Adyashanti
excerpted from The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
link to the paper book info page: https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/stor...
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About the book:
More and more people are “waking up” spiritually. And for most of them, the question becomes: now what? “Information about life after awakening is usually not made public,” explains Adyashanti. “It's most often shared only between teachers and their students.” The End of Your World is his response to a growing need for direction on the spiritual path. Consider this book Adyashanti’s personal welcome to “a new world, a state of oneness.”

Chapter Titles Include:
Exploring Life After Awakening
“I Got It, I Lost It”
Coming Completely Out of Hiding
Common Delusions, Traps, and Points of Fixation
The Energetic Component of Awakening
Effort or Grace?
An Interview with Adyashanti
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Adyashanti begins by describing the “I got it/I lost it” phenomenon that perplexes so many of his students—the fluctuation between what he calls “non-abiding” awakening and the ultimate state of “abiding” enlightenment. With straight talk and penetrating insight, Adyashanti then points out the pitfalls and cul-de-sacs that “un-enlighten” us along the journey, including: the trap of meaninglessness; how the ego can “co-opt” realization for its own purposes; the illusion of superiority that may accompany intense spiritual breakthroughs; and the danger of becoming "drunk on emptiness.”

“Full awakening comes when you sincerely look at yourself, deeper than you've imagined, and question everything,” teaches Adyashanti. The End of Your World is your invitation to join Adyashanti for an honest investigation of what you really are—and how to live once you discover it.

The End of Your World book is adapted from Adyashanti’s CD album of the same title, with additional material added.
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Adyashanti, author of The Direct Way, Sacred Inquiry, Emptiness Dancing, The Way of Liberation, Falling into Grace, True Meditation, and The End of Your World, is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence.

Adyashanti (whose name means “primordial peace”) is an American-born spiritual teacher. Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all."

For more please go to his website: https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org/
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