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
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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Notice that silence is the presence of absence.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Remember, the true I AM is awareness recognizing itself as awareness. Not “I am this” or “I am that,” but the I AM of awareness recognizing itself. Feel the simplicity of this pristine I AM.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
The key to awakening as the formless being of awareness is to let go of grasping at it with your mind and relax into the simple, quiet, and open intuitive sense of awareness itself.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Taking the one seat begins with taking complete responsibility for your relationship with your experience. I didn’t say “taking responsibility for your experience,” because you don’t create your experience as much as it happens to you.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
1.Awakened awareness is essentially awakening from our identity experienced through the prism of thought, memory, and self-image. 2.Awakened Heart is awakening from our emotional sense of self, which is essentially defined by experiences in our past as well as our attachment to separateness in the present.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
one’s spiritual quest, it’s actually the end of the restless seeker but the beginning of exploring the infinite nature of the reality one has awoken to, as well as the inexhaustible journey of embodying that reality in the challenging terrain of your everyday life, through the priceless vehicle of your human incarnation.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
Become acutely aware of who or what it is that is aware. Notice that it is not your idea of yourself that is aware, but rather it is awareness recognizing itself as awareness—your fundamental Being.