Adyashanti - The Way of Liberation

www.adyashanti.org/wayofliberation/

A free e-book, pretty short and to the point. I really liked the epilogue.

Nice! Thanks Eric.

Thanks Eric

Had to share some quotes of pure truthful beauty. This book carries a transmission open your hearts and drink.

"Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing."

"Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True Meditation is effortless stillness, abidance as primordial being. True Meditation appears in consciousness spontaneously when awareness is not being manipulated or controlled."

"In True Meditation all objects (thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories, etc.) are left to their natural functioning. This means that no effort should be made to focus on, manipulate, control, or suppress any object of awareness. In True Meditation the em- phasis is on being awareness'”not on being aware of objects, but on resting as conscious being itself. In meditation you are not trying to change your experience; you are changing your relation- ship to your experience."

Beautiful words! Now if only the habit of sitting and putting them to practice would come back. It would be even better, Actually sat half an hour today. If i do it tomorrow I have a trend rollin again

Good night
Erik

I'm a big fan of Adyashanti. He was very influential for me at a certain phase in my practice. There's a really open conversation with him about his personal experiences and such on batgap.org which I also enjoyed.

Thanks Gira! Will look in to it later no it's time to roll in to town for some "new age" new years meditation. Gotta have some fun right?

And shakti kept me awake half of the night so I sat another half hour. I guess that is a trend

Thanks Gira
batgap.com/adyashanti/

This might have been up before. But also two great podcast's with Aya interviewed by Vincent Horn about his training in Zen and how his own teaching evolved.

www.buddhistgeeks.com/2010/03/bg-164-now-thats-zen/

"Thanks Gira! Will look in to it later no it's time to roll in to town for some "new age" new years meditation. Gotta have some fun right?

And shakti kept me awake half of the night so I sat another half hour. I guess that is a trend "

You know, I get some pleasure out of random group stuff like that myself. If a friend invites me or is hosting some type of event that's not my style, it's still interesting and often pleasant to join in and experience it. I once spent three solid hours at a boy scout awards ceremony for a friend's son (mostly because our travel plans made it relevant to meet them there before going to their house), and although it was three hours of overly long laudatory speeches I enjoyed watching how it all happened, as if I were an anthropologist on Mars. There were interesting interactions between people, subtexts in the speeches, the shenanigans of bored kids in the audience, and if nothing else I could stare into space and "meditate." After enough practice even a six hour delay at an airport is interesting in its own way.

"After enough practice even a six hour delay at an airport is interesting in its own way."

I once attended a Dharma talk given by a monk where he recounted getting stuck with a bus load of fellow passengers, and having to spend the night sleeping on the floor in the bus terminal with nothing but his outer robe for a pillow. He told us of how upset many people were, and all the whining and complaining. Then he said "That's the great thing about this practice....happy here, happy there."

Thanks gira and cloudsfloatby I could have been happy in both situations as well. It's easy for me as long as I'm the witness and don't have to participate and socialize too much at the gathering. Something to work on. Ended up not going to the mediation yesterday because in an ecstatic shakti moment the night before I decided to turn it in to a date as well and invited a yoga girl i chatted to online. We had coffee before and it was really weird. I was not ecstatic today more in some kind of yogic comedown with a grinding knot in my belly. Feeling very detached and not quite present somehow. We ended up chatting too long, thereby missing the meditation, even though there was a heavy sense of unease and I could feel my energies making her very uncomfortable .

Well, well was feeling if not exactly happy about the situation so at least accepting. It was how those moment's unfolded. Laughing thinking about it now. I hope the poor soul can shake off the encounter with this weird yogi hi hi