Table of Contents
Foreword Adyashanti xi
Introduction xiii
Part I Beginning The Search 1
Poem: Excerpt from "The Invitation"
Chapter 1 What Ends the Search Begins the Search 3
Chapter 2 Spiritual Impulse and Spiritual Ambition 11
Chapter 3 Silence and Stillness: The Greatest Teachers 21
Chapter 4 Paths and Practices in the Search for Truth 29
Chapter 5 Peace, Ego, and Inquiry 43
Part II Seen And Unseen 57
Poem: "The Footprint of the Divine"
Chapter 6 Background and Foreground 59
Chapter 7 The Heart of Awareness 71
Chapter 8 Presence and Personhood 81
Part III Caught In The Jaws Of The Tiger 95
Poem: Excerpt from "The Invitation"
Chapter 9 Caught in the Tigers Mouth 97
Chapter 10 Dying for Truth, Yet Afraid of Disappearing 105
Chapter 11 Enlightenment Cannot Be Bought or Sold 119
Chapter 12 Burning in Loves Fire 133
Part IV The Search Ends In What Never Ends 141
Poem: Excerpt from "The Invitation"
Chapter 13 The End of Seeking 143
Chapter 14 Awakening Is Only the First Step 155
Chapter 15 Resting the Mind in the Heart of Awareness 161
Part V Undivided Love 167
Poem: "Until we have fully"
Chapter 16 Love Flows from Emptiness 169
Chapter 17 Love Contains Both Joy and Suffering 177
Chapter 18 Fierce Grace 185
Part VI Living Awake, Living Now 193
Poem: Excerpt from "The Invitation"
Chapter 19 Embodiment Unfolds Itslf 195
Chapter 20 Living Awake Is Living Now 205
Chapter 21 Awakening and Surrender 215
Chapter 22 Freedom from Freedom 225
Chapter 23 Myths of the Spiritual Life 233
Chapter 24 An Afterword about Words 237
The Invitation 243
Acknowledgments 247
Notes 249
Bibliography 255
Permissions 257
About the Author 259