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I have heard about Adyashanti and enjoyed listening to some of his videos on youtube, but don't know very much about him. I hadn't heard of the new book but now that you've brought it to my attention I will look it up. 

Thank you!

Nicole

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The beauty of Adyashanti's teachings is that they are more important than he is.  He is a realized/awakened being whose name was Greg.  His teacher told him, after he had a series of profound experiences with awakening that he needed to teach and she retired in 1996.  He started out with just a few students and he's steadily had more people come to listen to him.  I've been to Sat Sang with him about a dozen times now and one of the things I've found amazing is that when I try to concentrate on his face everything around him starts to move and fade and the room begins to become brighter as if someone had turned up the lights slowly.

One thing he's said is that “Full Awakening comes when you sincerely look at yourself, deeper than you've imagined, and question everything.”

I've studied his book “Emptiness Dancing” and it is a good place to start.  His new book, “The End of Your World” deals with that profound question which comes when you awaken… “Now What?”

I am only a student and I really don't feel qualified to teach anything about anything but I do know that if he's called you… follow.

One time he said to me, “Once you begin to see that this life is only an illusion, there is no question whether you will awaken.  The only question is how deeply will your nails scratch the edge of the abyss as you are pulled towards your awakening.”  His gentle humor and kind teaching is very profound.  Looking at his eyes is like falling into a space with no limits.

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Not to assert that “I am right” (the ego just love it!), but Adya was given the birth name of Steven Gray. You might want to check out his entry on Wikipedia (Danger! Controled Mindspace!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyashanti for a little background.

Key Pointers that I've found very helpful: “That which is Awake is already awake within you,” “Consciousness is Self-Liberating,” “Every Ego has its dance to do, it just has to dance it all the way out” - Adya credits the last to his primary teacher, Arvis Justi.  Namaste, Enjoy Yourselves!

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Check!  Steven… I had another “senior moment” there.  I do that lately.  The point being that he (and we) really shouldn't get hung up on the names game.  Adya is so gentle and kind about that… he uses his new name because it suits the role he plays now but he's not hung up on it.  He makes no game about trying to forget that he was born in the USA and has a “history” which is rather normal.

I agree with Bruce.  Wikipedia is a fairly decent place for information but the place is truly controlled by some very rigid minds which are more interested in old-world thinking than in becoming free of the “One World Government” which is attempting to shut down the coming awakening.  It may, in fact, be a tool of that same “One World Government” group.

Anyway…

Peace and Pizza to you all!

Namaste`

Samiyam

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Fascinating! Thank you,

Nicole

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I love the quotes, thank you Bruce and Samiyam!  What a perfect description too, “falling into a space with no limits.”