The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Awakened awareness practices focus on dis-identifying with the conceptual mind, specifically the false self or ego that we imagine ourselves to be. To call the ego a “false self” is not to disparage it or even judge it. It is to name it as what it is: a psychological process with which we have become overly accustomed to identifying. The false self
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Notice that silence is the presence of absence.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Jesus taught, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” To be poor in spirit is to be empty of ideas and images as well as assertions and denials regarding point of view. It is to enter our empty, obscure, and dark core that is in direct contact with the mysterious and unknown dimension of Being. We can take no previous
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Inherent in the view of enlightened relativity is the understanding that spiritual insight is only as relevant to our human lives as our ability to embody it in our humanity and everyday living and relating. If we imagine that spiritual awakening is about having a powerful experience that we put in our pocket and then go on with our life with a sen
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You may feel hesitant about this, or fearful. You’ll encounter different emotions each time, so let them arise; open your heart to those too. Open your heart to your fear, open your heart to your anxiety, open your heart to old thought patterns that insist you have to protect your heart at all times. This is important, because being in a state wher
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Therefore, from the Ground of Being each moment is experienced directly, with no distorting lens of past conditioning and no sense of time. Because it is a timeless state of only the eternal Now, the Ground of Being sees through the eyes of eternity and feels through the constant renewal of the senses. Each moment is as a birth moment, with all its
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Your focus should be on direct experience and natural awareness rather than on trying to make something happen or to philosophically ponder.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Become acutely aware of who or what it is that is aware. Notice that it is not your idea of yourself that is aware, but rather it is awareness recognizing itself as awareness—your fundamental Being.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Remember that when you do this, you are not engaging in a spiritual practice for some future payoff; instead, you are beginning to become conscious of a fundamental aspect of your true being. You are experiencing yourself as awareness itself.