Enter the "Ordinary State" of Enlightenment
Many of us share the belief that enlightenment is rare-that true spiritual awakening only happens for extraordinary people. According to Adyashanti, this idea may actually be the most powerful impediment to our awakening. On Spontaneous Awakening, he invites you to inquire into the "ordinary nature" of enlightenment-and the profound truth of who you really are.
"Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special-it's not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred," teaches Adyashanti. So where do we start? With the desire to look fearlessly at and inquire passionately into truth, explains Adyashanti. "When you stop resisting experience, what remains is the bliss of sheer nothingness. And everything that is possible lives in that nothingness."
With more than seven hours of teachings, two guided meditations, and an exclusive Sounds True interview, Spontaneous Awakening is an eye-opening program that explores topics including:
The self-authenticating nature of spiritual discovery
• The link between personal awareness and awareness itself
• How attachment can lead to complete freedom and unattachment
• Why genuine spiritual knowing requires mental subtraction-not addition.
Adyashanti
Adyashanti 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. His books include Emptiness Dancing, The End of Your World, True Meditation, The Way of Liberation, and Falling into Grace.
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 information, please visit adyashanti.org.
