The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
ADYA I will try to explain what happened experientially. At the moment of awakening, it was as though I was completely outside who I thought I was. There was a vast, vast, vast emptiness. In that vast emptiness, in that infinite emptiness, there was the smallest, smallest, smallest point of light you could imagine. And that smallest point of light
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So any idea of what an awakened life should look like is just an idea, just an imagination, and as long as we’re trying to make our lives look like anything other than what they are, then we’re lost. We’re just spinning in our own imagination. The true significance of any of our lives is something that’s very, very close. It’s in each breath you ta
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Awakening can be the ground from which we meet every person and situation. It can be the ground from which we relate to all the circumstances of life. But this takes a lot of courage and a lot of fearlessness. It also takes something I continue to emphasize: a very simple sincerity. This kind of sincerity arises from that which loves the truth and
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