Adyashanti: experiencing the raw energy of emotion...with courage and willingness...without judgment

"Once, at a retreat where I was teaching, a woman came up to the microphone and said, 'I feel such immense rage inside me...'" "One of the most vital steps in addressing our suffering and moving beyond it is first to summon the courage and willingness to truly experience what we’re feeling and to no longer try to edit what we feel." "In order to really allow ourselves to stay with the depth of our emotions, we must cease judging ourselves for whatever comes up." ~ Adyashanti, excerpted from "Falling into Grace - Insights on the End of Suffering" link to the paper book: https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org... *The audiobook is available free with audible trial on amazon.com ~~~ About the book: 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. After decades as a spiritual teacher, he has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to change our lives. In Falling into Grace, Adyashanti shares what he considers fundamental insights that will “spark a revolution in the way we perceive life,” through a progressive inquiry exploring: The human dilemma—the concept of a separate self and the choice to stop believing the thoughts that perpetuate suffering “Taking the backward step” into the pure potential of the present moment Why spiritual awakening can be a disturbing process Intimacy and availability—feeling absolute union with every part of our experience True autonomy—the unique expression of our own sense of freedom In the same way that we fall into the arms of a loved one or drop our heads on the pillow at night, we can surrender into the beauty and truth of who and what we really are. Falling into Grace is a book that gets to the core of why we suffer. It is Adyashanti's invitation “to be taken by a moment of grace and fall into a sense of life when it is not separate from you, when life is actually an expression of something indefinable, mysterious, and immense.” --------------------------- 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/ Free teaching materials, including videos, audios, articles, and free PDF of The Way of Liberation: https://adyashanti.opengatesangha.org... Adyashanti youtube channel:    / @adyashanti   --------------------------- Our facebook group page "The Direct Way by Adyashanti (Spiritual Awakening & Awakened Living)":   / directway   My post re: How I experience or relate to Adyashanti's Retiring from Live Teachings   / 715965296582243