
The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening

Your focus should be on direct experience and natural awareness rather than on trying to make something happen or to philosophically ponder.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
human capacity to embody the infinite in our human lives. Since there is no end to this process, there is, as the Zen saying goes, “No anxiety about imperfection,” and, I might add, no egocentric orientation toward achievement or final goal. We are always and already complete Buddhas in our absolute Ground and constantly becoming Buddhas in our hum
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Jesus taught, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” To be poor in spirit is to be empty of ideas and images as well as assertions and denials regarding point of view. It is to enter our empty, obscure, and dark core that is in direct contact with the mysterious and unknown dimension of Being. We can take no previous
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These are pathways through which insight can move into us, be embodied in our humanity, and then acted in the world of time and space. This is what spiritual awakening is all about. This is what enlightenment is about. It’s not about having big experiences. That’s part of the process and those experiences can be life-changing, but at some point it
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notice and acknowledge that there is background quietness and wakefulness that is already present in your experience before you search for
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Taking Responsibility for Your Relationship to Experience
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Turn within and notice that there is no I or me—no one is doing the looking. The silent and mysterious presence—the manifest expression—of Being looks out upon the world. Notice that this Ground has no name, no agenda, and nothing to gain or lose. It is the gaze of eternity looking into the world of time.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
With heartfelt devotion and focus, yet without referring to a thought, image, or idea to tell you who you are, rest in the always and already existing silent and dark void—the mystery of Being.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Awakening to this aspect of Being happens when awareness spontaneously dis-identifies from the content within awareness and becomes conscious of itself, as our own self nature. In other words, awareness is not something that we do, it is that which we are.