The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

by Adyashanti

Overview

More and more people are waking up spiritually. And for most of them, the question becomes: Now what? “Information about life after awakening is usually not made public,” explains Adyashanti. “It’s most often shared only between teachers and their students.” The End of Your World is his response to a growing need for direction on the spiritual path. Consider this Adyashanti’s personal welcome to “a new world, a state of oneness.”

Adyashanti begins by describing the “I got it/I lost it” phenomenon that perplexes so many of his students—the fluctuation between what he calls “nonabiding” awakening, and the ultimate state of “abiding” enlightenment. With straight talk and penetrating insight, Adyashanti then points out the pitfalls and cul-de-sacs that “un-enlighten” us along the journey, including the trap of meaninglessness, how the ego can “co-opt” realization for its own purposes, the illusion of superiority that may accompany intense spiritual breakthroughs, and the danger of becoming “drunk on emptiness.”

“Full awakening comes when you sincerely look at yourself, deeper than you’ve imagined, and question everything,” teaches Adyashanti. The End of Your World is your invitation to join Adyashanti for an honest investigation of what you really are—and how to live once you discover it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591797791
Publisher:	Sounds True
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	464,727
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Adyashanti is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating at the core of all existence. His books include Emptiness Dancing, The End of Your World, True Meditation, The Way of Liberation, and Falling into Grace.

Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open to all and found within all." For more information, please visit adyashanti.org.

Editorial Reviews

This is a wise and beautiful book- offering all who read refreshing spiritual clarity and a free heart.” —Jack Kornfield author of A Path with Heart

“A powerful and profoundly affecting book by one of the premier spiritual teachers of our time.” —Reginald A. Ray author of Touching Enlightenment

From the Publisher

Spiritual teacher Adyashanti discusses a dozen topics related to the idea of awakening. He provides techniques for opening oneself to the realization that nothing exists but the experience of the moment. As one goes with the flow, one can be one with the flow, rather than separate from it. Sprinkling his ideas with anecdotes, Adyashanti speaks in an informal manner. Some of the topics are intense and invite private introspection. However, in general, the sessions are not particularly intimate in their presentation. In the final session, Adyashanti has a discussion with an interviewer in which his reframing of some of the questions asked is as instructive as his responses. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2008 - AudioFile