Title: Falling into Grace Pdf Insights on the End of Suffering
Author: Adyashanti
Published Date: 2013-01-01
Page: 234
AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.
—Geneen Roth, author of Women, Food, God
“The path to enlightenment today is cluttered with concepts: Adyashanti cuts through them with a sword so merciless and tender that only space remains.”
—Meg Lundstrom, author of What to Do When You Can’t Decide
“Adyashanti’s teachings point us toward what we most yearn for: realizing and embodying the love and awareness that is our natural state. Falling Into Grace is wonderfully lucid, simple, and powerful. It will remind you to stop the struggle and to relax back into what you already are.”
—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance
Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of mindfulness and spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery of our essential being. In his many years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. In Falling intoGrace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights that will spark a revolution in the way we perceive life—through a progressive inquiry exploring 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 mindfulness and spiritual awakening can be a disturbing process; absolute union with every part of our experience and true autonomy—the unique expression of our own sense of freedom.
Excerpt:
When I was a young child, about seven or eight years old, one of the things I started to notice and ponder as I watched the adults around me was that the adult world is prone to suffering, pain, and conflict. Even though I grew up in a relatively healthy household with loving parents and two sisters, I still saw a great deal of pain around me. As I looked at the adult world, I wondered: How is it that people come into conflict?
As a child, I also happened to be a great listener—some may even say an eavesdropper. I would listen to every conversation that went on in the house. In fact, it was a family joke that nothing happened in the house without me knowing about it. I liked to know everything that was going on around me, and so I spent a lot of my childhood listening to the conversation of adults, in my home and in the homes of relatives. Much of the time, I found what they talked about to be quite interesting, but I also noticed a certain ebb and flow to most of their discussions—how conversations moved into a little bit of conflict, then back away from it.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Human Dilemma
Chapter 2: Unraveling Our Suffering
Chapter 3: Awakening from the Egoic Trance
Chapter 4: Letting Go of Struggle
Chapter 5: Experiencing the Raw Energy of Emotion
Chapter 6: Inner Stability
Chapter 7: Intimacy and Availability
Chapter 8: The End of Suffering
Chapter 9: True Autonomy
Chapter 10: Beyond the World of Opposites
Chapter 11: Falling into Grace
"One of the best explanations of mindfulness I have ever come across."
—Janice Long (Amazon review)
A Feast for the Spirit I began reading Adyashanti's "Falling into Grace" with a soup spoon, taking big gulps, hardly chewing. Before too many pages went by, I switched to a tea spoon and went back almost to the beginning and took smaller bites and chewed Adya's words more slowly, allowing the nutrients he obviously placed with care to emerge with each bite. "What would happen if we were fully able to be with what is?" "Conflict isn't inherent in existence. Existence is just the way it is..." "As we begin to meet life as it is rather than as we think it should be, as we let go of our need to control and continuously interpret our experience, we start to open to life in a completely new way..." Two-thirds of the way through, I switched to chop sticks and as I saw the end looming, I'd grasp each underlined sentence and chew it until I was sure I'd gotten out of them what the author intended. Toward the end of the book, I was picking my way through with one of those tiny hors d' oeuvres forks. I literally wanted to read each paragraph twice before going on to the next. Amazing book!Every page is diamond like This is one of the clearest, most pithy introductions to the Perennial Wisdom I have come across in many years. It is one of the best contemporary restatements of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths I've had the good fortune to discover. I can't recommend this book more highly. Even after more than 50 years of study and practice, I found new insights in inspiration throughout the book. If you are a seeker do yourself a favor and read this amazing book. It can be especially helpful to people in recovery who, like myself, don't relate to the Judeo-Christian notion of a God or even Higher Power.Phillip Z. Author of A Skeptic's Guide to the 12 Steps.Transformative I listened to the audio version of this book before reading the actual text. Adyashanti speaks freely from a profound depth that resonates with his every word.He covers a vast range of perspectives that all point to the same awakening. As with many of his talks, though he repeats himself often, I would find it challenging to outline his points and quote what he said.This is to say that the experience of reading the book transcends the content itself. One is immediately transported to the living of it rather than the theory of freedom, his words constitute the path/technique/meditation in the moment.He manages to make clear and simple what cannot be made clear and simple. Moving through words to that which cannot be described with words.I experienced FALLING INTO GRACE as a meditation in and of itself.I recommend this book to readers with an open heart, whether they’re on a spiritual path or not.
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