Adyashanti
Author of Emptiness Dancing
About the Author
Adyashanti is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to the awakening of all beings. His teachings are invitations 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, and The Way of Liberation. show more 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, visit adyashanti.org. show less
Works by Adyashanti
The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment (2008) 183 copies, 3 reviews
Meditación auténtica: Descubre la libertad de la conciencia en estado puro (Espiritualidad) (Spanish Edition) (2008) 2 copies
Adyashanti : An Interview by Bob Cowart [video recording, streaming] (2002) — Featured — 1 copy, 1 review
The Light of the World: The Nondual Teachings of Jesus Christ Part 2 [sound recording] (2009) 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Adyashanti
- Other names
- Gray, Steven
- Birthdate
- 1962
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- Spiritual Teacher
- Organizations
- Open Gate Sangha
- Short biography
- Adyashanti (“paix primordiale”), auteur en langue anglaise de Falling into Grâce, True Méditation, et The End of Your World, est un enseignant spirituel d’origine américaine. Ses enseignements, libres de toute tradition ou idéologie, sont une invitation ouverte à enquêter et à reconnaître ce qui est vrai et libérateur à la base de toute existence. Il enseigne en Amérique du Nord et en Europe. Basé en Californie. Adyashanti vit avec sa femme, Mukti, ils ont fondé Open Gâte Sangha, association à but non lucratif soutenant les enseignements d’Adyashanti et Mukti. Lire en français : Conscience pure et méditation véritable. Ed. Ariane.
Site internet : www.adyashanti.org - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cupertino, California, USA
- Places of residence
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
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This is a clear-eyed and compelling collection of reflections on what is essential about life. Adyashanti comes at this topic from different angles using personal anecdotes, exploration of the teachings of others, and evocative metaphors to distill the knowledge that all life is interconnected; that there is a state that exists beyond our descriptions, stories, or conditioning; and that taking the time to step back from our assumptions and narratives, we can see this essential nature of life show more and gain comfort and peace. His teachings are independent of any religious view, but are frequently tied into Buddhist, Christian, and secular perspectives with an emphasis on meditation as a means for connecting various spiritual paths. Not the self help kind of book somewhat implied by its title, this is more of a gentle series of spiritual talks coalescing around the big topic of searching for meaning in one's life. (Big thanks to my friend Kathy for the gift of this book!) show less
'There is something about you brither than the sun and more mysterious than the night sky.'
Who are you when you are not thinking yourself into existence? What is ultimately behind the set of eyes reading these words? In Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti invites you to wake up to the essence of what you are, through the natural and spontaneous opening of mind, heart, and body that holds the secret to happiness and liberation.
From the first stages of realization to its revolutionary implications, show more Adyashanti shares a treasure trove of insights into the challenges of the inner life, offering lucid, down-to-earth advice on topics ranging from the ego, illusion, and 'spiritual addiction' to compassion, letting go, the eternal now, and more. Whether you read each chapter in succession or begin on any page you feel inspired to turn to, you will find in Adyashanti's wisdom an undrstanding and ever-ready guide to 'the full wonder of your infinite self-nature.'
Adyanshanti began teaching in 1996 after a series of transformative spiritual awakenings at the request of his Zen teacher with whom he had been studying for 14 years. Adya's teachings have been compared to some of the early Ch'an (Zen) masters of china as well as teachers of Advaita Vedanta in India. The author of The Impact of Awakening and My Secret Is Silence, he resides in Northern California.
There is a saying in Zen, 'when the realization is deep, your whole being is dancing.' For realization to be complete it has to hit on three levels-head, heart, and gut. You can have a very clear, enlightened mind, but your being won't be dancing. Then when the heart starts to open along with the mind, your being starts to dance. Then everything comes alive. And when your gut opens up, there is that deep, deep, unfathomable stability where that opening, who is you, just died into transparency. You are dancing-the emptiness is dancing.-Adyashanti
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduciton
Preface
1 Awakening
2 Satsang
3 Openness
4 Innocence
5 Harmonization
6 Freedom
7 The radiant core
8 Silence
9 Consciousness
10 depth
11 Ego
12 Love
13 Spiritual addiction
14 Illusion
15 Control
16 Letting go
17 Compassion
18 Fire of truth
19 Enlightenment
20 Implications
21 Dharmic relationship
22 Eternal now
23 Fidelity
An interview with Adyashanti show less
Who are you when you are not thinking yourself into existence? What is ultimately behind the set of eyes reading these words? In Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti invites you to wake up to the essence of what you are, through the natural and spontaneous opening of mind, heart, and body that holds the secret to happiness and liberation.
From the first stages of realization to its revolutionary implications, show more Adyashanti shares a treasure trove of insights into the challenges of the inner life, offering lucid, down-to-earth advice on topics ranging from the ego, illusion, and 'spiritual addiction' to compassion, letting go, the eternal now, and more. Whether you read each chapter in succession or begin on any page you feel inspired to turn to, you will find in Adyashanti's wisdom an undrstanding and ever-ready guide to 'the full wonder of your infinite self-nature.'
Adyanshanti began teaching in 1996 after a series of transformative spiritual awakenings at the request of his Zen teacher with whom he had been studying for 14 years. Adya's teachings have been compared to some of the early Ch'an (Zen) masters of china as well as teachers of Advaita Vedanta in India. The author of The Impact of Awakening and My Secret Is Silence, he resides in Northern California.
There is a saying in Zen, 'when the realization is deep, your whole being is dancing.' For realization to be complete it has to hit on three levels-head, heart, and gut. You can have a very clear, enlightened mind, but your being won't be dancing. Then when the heart starts to open along with the mind, your being starts to dance. Then everything comes alive. And when your gut opens up, there is that deep, deep, unfathomable stability where that opening, who is you, just died into transparency. You are dancing-the emptiness is dancing.-Adyashanti
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduciton
Preface
1 Awakening
2 Satsang
3 Openness
4 Innocence
5 Harmonization
6 Freedom
7 The radiant core
8 Silence
9 Consciousness
10 depth
11 Ego
12 Love
13 Spiritual addiction
14 Illusion
15 Control
16 Letting go
17 Compassion
18 Fire of truth
19 Enlightenment
20 Implications
21 Dharmic relationship
22 Eternal now
23 Fidelity
An interview with Adyashanti show less
Having had awakenings, spontaneous in the sense that I wasn't in some official path, I'd been confused as to what exactly happened to me. Was I now "enlightened?" And if so, why was I so often dealing with trivia, confused about life and the so-called "spiritual," a term I'd never liked?
Finally, someone had answers for me (and if I was enlightened, why did I need any?). This was the first book that gave me the perspective I didn't think I was supposed to need anymore.
Though it was at times show more repetitive, at other times it was completely original, bypassing the spiritual cliches that have dominated the field for so much of my lifetime (possibly because of the nature of publishing and how information flows through society.) I no longer feel so alone in my plight, even if, in another way, I feel more alone than ever.
"Those who know, do not say, and those who say, do not know," turns out to be untrue in the case of this book, while at the same time, it remains true that the tao that can be published is not the real tao. show less
Finally, someone had answers for me (and if I was enlightened, why did I need any?). This was the first book that gave me the perspective I didn't think I was supposed to need anymore.
Though it was at times show more repetitive, at other times it was completely original, bypassing the spiritual cliches that have dominated the field for so much of my lifetime (possibly because of the nature of publishing and how information flows through society.) I no longer feel so alone in my plight, even if, in another way, I feel more alone than ever.
"Those who know, do not say, and those who say, do not know," turns out to be untrue in the case of this book, while at the same time, it remains true that the tao that can be published is not the real tao. show less
Utterly exceptional.
Having just finished this book, I wholeheartedly recommend it both to those seeking and to those who think they're done seeking but intuit that something still remains to be done. (Hint: what needs to be done can be done from being.)
Having just finished this book, I wholeheartedly recommend it both to those seeking and to those who think they're done seeking but intuit that something still remains to be done. (Hint: what needs to be done can be done from being.)
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