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The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
by
Adyashanti
For those serious about enlightenment, author and teacher Adyashanti has some advice: better know what you're getting into. Because with spiritual awakening, you find that the strongly held beliefs and perceptions you've taken to be 'you' and 'your world' vanish into the unmanifest nature of all that is. The End of Your World presents a landmark six-CD course on the realit...more
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Published
May 1st 2008
by Sounds True
(first published December 1st 2004)
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I took the webinar with Adya in March of 2012 using his book: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment. This was with many people from around the world.
The entire book is a book carrying the energy of pure awareness and deep insights to awakening. It naturally but directly reveals illusive and often hidden mental programing that Adya calls living in the dream state; a state of illusion that most people don't even realize they are in. Instead of our conditio...more
The entire book is a book carrying the energy of pure awareness and deep insights to awakening. It naturally but directly reveals illusive and often hidden mental programing that Adya calls living in the dream state; a state of illusion that most people don't even realize they are in. Instead of our conditio...more
A most excellent teacher. His words are very clear, down to earth and to the point, its not hard to hear what he is saying and the Zen Buddhist concepts are presented in a very understandable ordinary way, which makes it extraordinary. His insight is penetrating and sharp. It was easy to read and yet I found had to read it twice. Like all of my dharma books, it is one that I will return to again.
The main insight that I came away with was a new awareness of enlightenment, or 'waking up' and that...more
The main insight that I came away with was a new awareness of enlightenment, or 'waking up' and that...more
The turnabout in consciousness known as Enlightenment is often badly misunderstood these days and poorly described in much spiritual literature. Among the ancient and early modern texts that do contain accurate descriptions and valid reports, the linguistic style and cultural overlays make it difficult for most modern readers to gain a true understanding of what is being discussed. Too often, readers come away with a mythologized view (because the old texts used myths as metaphors). So people to...more
Watered down, ego-driven, derivative material that fails to cite any of its obvious influences. Adyashanti pontificates at great length on what his definition of "enlightenment" is, and whether or not he'd give you that label. He doesn't link his concepts to well-known/accepted terminology for this domain; instead he makes up all his own definitions to ensure the reader is kept in his microcosm. There's a feel-good bent to it that hooks the reader into seeking his approval. Reading this made me...more
Mar 24, 2012
Vesela
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone interested in a true and wholehearted life
I have the good fortune of living in the San Francisco Bay Area where Adya also resides and often holds public gatherings. I've just reread this book as part of a course I'm taking with him that focuses on this work. I find that when he "points to the moon," it shines ever more brightly before me. With clear, unadorned prose, he goes to the core of the spiritual journey, honestly reporting from his experience. It can be a demanding journey; these are not fluffy promises. I value Adya's wisdom an...more
This is, in the dimension of awakening, just the most helpful and practical thing I have ever read. I could not get enough of it. He bestows perspective on what it is to flash awake and what people go through after they do...perspective that I have been trying to gather (not too successfully) myself for years. In a very strange way, this was like a deep breath of fresh air. I will read this over and over again.
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This is the first Adyashanti book I have read, and it was exactly what I've been looking for. Awakening comes before enlightenment, and I knew I was on the brink of some type of realization. Adya put the process into simple experiential words that helped me drop several preconceptions and refuse to form more. This is one I will read again and again for quite a while.
Oh. My. God.
I read this on the way back to India in 2010. I'd been on a Path since 2000 and FINALLY I see a western Teacher owning up to the crap that happens to you when you even think about getting your feet wet in the spiritual realm.
They told us this stuff in India. Good to see it surface here.
I read this on the way back to India in 2010. I'd been on a Path since 2000 and FINALLY I see a western Teacher owning up to the crap that happens to you when you even think about getting your feet wet in the spiritual realm.
They told us this stuff in India. Good to see it surface here.
Profound wisdom! ....and he sounds far too young to be so wise. His teachings are somewhat of a Buddhist hybrid. Only four stars because for just a couple short periods it became a little too esoteric (probably more my failing than his) - but I enjoyed listening to this to the end.
'Make no mistake about it- enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true'
Looking for enlightenment? Bring your own cookies! My review of Adyashanti's The End of Your World is on Elephant Journal.
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/0...
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/0...
It's not every day you find a book on a topic you've never seen addressed before. This book is filled with personal advice that, at least for me, rang true - and offered valuable encouragement I've reflected on again and again.
You can never go wrong with Adyashanti. Bookmarked and will re-read repeatedly the bit on "flow"... so good, so true, so practical.....
Second time through. Amazing reminder of the pathless path. Very helpful clues on the journey and warnings of the way the ego can sneak into one's experience and infect clarity of mind and experience. Good stuff. Adya is always clear, concise and a joy to listen to. (audio book)
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Insightful view into truth, conciousness and spirituality. A repetitive read that is very dear to my heart.
I listened to this entire book on YouTube. I love Adya - everything he says and writes.
I am listening to this in the car. This is about awakening and realizing we are not our emotions, our body or our mind. We are something much bigger than that. Fascinating.
Adyashanti shares personal stories from his youth about his own awakening and the pitfalls, challenges and joys that happen.
I love the perspective it gives me on life.
Adyashanti shares personal stories from his youth about his own awakening and the pitfalls, challenges and joys that happen.
I love the perspective it gives me on life.
awesome. Really great
Brilliant...
excellent
I love Adya. I love his raw honesty about the awakening process. I love his clarity. This was an excellent read because it was more than a read; it was an experience. There were so many sentences that blew my mind, brought me pause, and opened me up. Not many books can do that.
This book is the straight and clear understanding of awakening/enlightenment that we each experience in different ways. I am really glad to have read this to release the past understanding of how this should happen. Freedom in allowing. Great teacher.
Simple and Clear Teachings...Awesome Methods of Contemplation...
Very helpful. Adya is plain speaking, down to earth and supportive.
good education for Nondualists in awkward teenage stage of back and forth between abiding and non-abiding awareness. can feel very lonely without a li'l help.
The practical side of Awakening. What it is, what it's like, and what comes next. Love it.
Remarkable book. Highly recommended. It's going on my list of favorites.
Excellent, excellent down-to-earth book on Enlightenment. It does help to have at least a passing familiarity with Buddhism, but this is remarkably free of any jargon. One of the few books that talks about what to do after a moment of enlightenment. Adyashanti neither talks down to his audience, nor does he give in to over inflating anyone, himself included. Highly recommended for those who like their spiritual practices without much talk of metaphysics and plenty of discussion of what real life...more
May 24, 2013
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Adyashanti is an American spiritual teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area who gives regular satsangs in the United States and also teaches abroad. He is the author of several books, CDs and DVDs and is the founder of Open Gate Sangha, Inc. a nonprofit organization that supports, and makes available, his teachings.
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“We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.”
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