The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The silence and stillness of meditation is the bedrock upon which this teaching rests. It fosters an inward stability, objectivity, non-attachment, and depth of understanding unknown to the conceptual mind. Formal meditation is done best while sitting (or lying down if absolutely necessary) in a location where you will not be interrupted. The attit
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The false self is both an obstacle and a doorway through which you must pass on your way to awakening to the dimension of being. As you pass through the void of self, the identification with self dies, either temporarily or permanently, and you are revealed (reborn) to be a presence.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
What is is what’s happening before you have a thought about it. Notice the difference between what your mind thinks about this moment, and this moment as it is before you have any thought about it.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Inquiry is the art of questioning all of one’s assumptions, beliefs, and interpretations as a means of opening up space in the mind for intuitive wisdom to arise. Once space is opened up, simply rest the question in the stillness of conscious being.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The third Foundation is never abdicate your authority. This means that you take full responsibility for your life and never forfeit it over to someone else. There is no such thing as riding the coattails of an enlightened being to enlightenment itself. A failure to understand this can lead (as so many have been led) to cultish fanaticism, fundament
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The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe.
Adyashanti • The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Life will conform neither to the story you tell yourself about it nor your interpretation of it. Believe a single thought that runs contrary to the way things are or have been and you suffer because of it. No exceptions! This does not mean that you should not have any thoughts outside of what is. It only means that what is is the reality of now. If
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No spiritual teaching is a direct path to enlightenment. In fact, there is no such thing as a path to enlightenment, simply because enlightenment is ever present in all places and at all times. What you can do is to remove any and all illusions, especially the ones you value most and find the most security in, that cloud your perception of Reality.
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Following through has to do with what you are willing to do or let go of doing.