The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
We all have what you could call an energetic body, and the more present we are, the more we feel this subtle sense of aliveness. If you become truly present right now—and I don’t mean straining to be present or making effort, but simply opening all your senses, relaxing into a more open state of being—you’ll feel a subtle sense of presence.
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
We can’t dictate our next experience or even what the next thought is going to be, but we can become conscious of our relationship with whatever experience happens. So it’s important not to mistake taking responsibility with blaming yourself for how you feel. Nor are you to blame others for how you feel at any given moment. Rather, taking responsib
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Enlightenment is a way of viewing and experiencing life. These practices are meant to be one part—although a powerful and important part—of a comprehensive devotion to truth, love, and wisdom grounded in a moral and ethical landscape of selfless commitment to the welfare of all beings and undertaken in a spirit of appreciation for the great mystery
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The paradox of contemplative insight is that we come to a flowering of new identity by emptying ourselves of our old identity. This emptying is not something we do, it is something we allow to happen.
Adyashanti • The Direct Way: Thirty Practices to Evoke Awakening
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
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
Therefore, from the Ground of Being each moment is experienced directly, with no distorting lens of past conditioning and no sense of time. Because it is a timeless state of only the eternal Now, the Ground of Being sees through the eyes of eternity and feels through the constant renewal of the senses. Each moment is as a birth moment, with all its
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Your focus should be on direct experience and natural awareness rather than on trying to make something happen or to philosophically ponder.