Falling into grace: insights on the end of suffering

by Adyashanti

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"You've felt it your whole life. You've always known there's something inside of you that's sought to be born fresh and real-something far beyond your imagination trying to break out and be. Everyone feels this inside. But to allow life to express itself in that way, with that much abandon, requires a true surrender into the unknown." - 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 and show more expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. On Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights to "open ourselves to that mysterious element that enters in the hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution in the way that we perceive life." Wherever you may be on your own spiritual path, you will find in these sessions down-to-earth guidance on breaking the trance of ego, experiencing the raw energy of emotion, cultivating inner stability, transcending the world of opposites, and more. 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 program that gets to the core of why we suffer, and allows us to explore 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." Highlights: 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 Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 at the request of his Zen teacher of 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. His award-winning books include Emptiness Dancing, The End of Your World, and True Meditation. show less

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I'd say this is a good one to start with if you haven't read or listened to much of Adya's teachings before. (Not as great as Emptiness Dancing, but still good!) It's a beautiful book; full of relevant and clear pointers, all expressed in Adya's familiar, compassionate and heartful style.

However, for me personally it's not really plunging deep enough into the aspects I would have like it too... After reading his previous book The End of Your World - which truly touched and illuminated my heart in more ways that I could possibly say - I realise I was hoping for this book to penetrate even further in the same directions... but instead it's got a different, more general feel to it... seemingly speaking to a wider audience. I'm still show more enjoying it, just not in the same deep and intimate way I enjoyed some of his earlier ones. show less
Adya is so readable! _Falling into Grace_ literally expresses Adya's complete release into the grace that surrounds all of us, but that most of cannot fully surrender into. Although he provides the pointers for us to follow, he is not prescriptive in his teaching. Other than opening out hearts to love, there seems not to be a prescription.

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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. Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any show more 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

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Falling into grace: insights on the end of suffering
Original publication date
2011

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Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction, Health & Wellness
DDC/MDS
294.3ReligionOther religionsReligions of Indic originBuddhism
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BF789 .S8 .A39Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPsychologyPsychology
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