Adyashanti - The Way of Liberation
A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
This is the latest book from Adyashanti.
From the Preface:
This book is a clue left behind, a means of remembrance, and a guide to waking up from your imagined status as a person to what you really are. The teachings contained within this book are a condensed version of my core teachings. In order for the teaching to have any effect, you must apply it with utmost dedication. Be forewarned, applying these teachings may be damaging to your beliefs, disorienting to your mind, and distressing to your ego. From the perspective of waking up to reality these are good things to be cultivated. From the perspective of ego they are to be avoided at all costs. The choice is entirely yours.
From the Introduction:
Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness. . .
The Way of Liberation is a call to action; it is something you do. It is a doing that will undo you absolutely. If you do not do the teaching, if you do not study and apply it fearlessly, it cannot effect any transformation. The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice. In this sense it is entirely practical. . .
We are no doubt at a very critical point in time. Our world hangs in the balance, and a precarious balance it is. Awakening to Reality is no longer a possibility; it is an imperative. We have sailed the ship of delusion about as far as she can carry us. We have run her ashore and now find ourselves shipwrecked on an increasingly desolate land. Our options have imploded. “Wake up or perish” is the spiritual call of our times.
Contents:
Chapter One - The Five Foundations
• Clarify Your Aspiration
• Unconditional Follow-Through
• Never Abdicate Your Authority
• Practice Absolute Sincerity
• Be a Good Steward of Your Life
Chapter Two - Three Orienting Ideas
• The Question of Being
• The False Self
• The Dream State
Chapter Three - The Core Practices
• Meditation
• Inquiry
• Contemplation
This book is available as a free download from here:
http://www.adyashanti.org/wayofliberation/
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