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The Most Important Thing, Volume 2: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life
From esteemed teacher Adyashanti, an eight-hour audio learning series on the search for the ultimate reality beneath the narrative of our lives
"Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos." —Adyashanti
For Adyashanti, every ripple of light across a lake, friendly gaze, and reassuring word from a mentor presents a potential gateway to a deeper connection with all of life. With The Most Important Thing, Volume 2, this esteemed teacher presents a series of talks on what it means to peer through these gateways and into a universe of infinite possibility.
In this second collection of deep-dive audio sessions, Adyashanti offers evocative teaching stories and anecdotes pointing you toward the ultimate reality that exists beyond the bounds of storytelling.
Whether questioning the cultural identities we adopt or recalling the events that set him on the seeker’s path, Adyashanti devotes these talks to pulling back the curtain of our assumptions to reveal that none of us is alone and no one is ever truly isolated from the whole of existence.
These selections consider:
Exploring the meaning of birth, life, and death
• The nature of ego and the ways it manifests
• Meditation as the art of "listening with one’s entire being"
• Embodying your innate and inextricable connection with the total environment
• Examining the patterns of conditioned thinking around "I"
• Why our most nourishing stories embrace uncertainty and paradox
• Embracing the natural awe and wonder of existence
• The ultimate simplicity of consciousness
• "Know thyself": the cornerstone of all spiritual inquiry
Ideal for anyone wanting to delve beyond the surface of their spiritual journey, The Most Important Thing, Volume 2 offers portals to that which is already alive and waiting within: the truths that fuel the most authentic expression of your life.
"Our inner lives are every bit as astonishing, baffling, and mysterious as the infinite vastness of the cosmos." —Adyashanti
For Adyashanti, every ripple of light across a lake, friendly gaze, and reassuring word from a mentor presents a potential gateway to a deeper connection with all of life. With The Most Important Thing, Volume 2, this esteemed teacher presents a series of talks on what it means to peer through these gateways and into a universe of infinite possibility.
In this second collection of deep-dive audio sessions, Adyashanti offers evocative teaching stories and anecdotes pointing you toward the ultimate reality that exists beyond the bounds of storytelling.
Whether questioning the cultural identities we adopt or recalling the events that set him on the seeker’s path, Adyashanti devotes these talks to pulling back the curtain of our assumptions to reveal that none of us is alone and no one is ever truly isolated from the whole of existence.
These selections consider:
Exploring the meaning of birth, life, and death
• The nature of ego and the ways it manifests
• Meditation as the art of "listening with one’s entire being"
• Embodying your innate and inextricable connection with the total environment
• Examining the patterns of conditioned thinking around "I"
• Why our most nourishing stories embrace uncertainty and paradox
• Embracing the natural awe and wonder of existence
• The ultimate simplicity of consciousness
• "Know thyself": the cornerstone of all spiritual inquiry
Ideal for anyone wanting to delve beyond the surface of their spiritual journey, The Most Important Thing, Volume 2 offers portals to that which is already alive and waiting within: the truths that fuel the most authentic expression of your life.
9 pages, Audio CD
Published January 8, 2019
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Adyashanti
134 books580 followersAdyashanti is an American spiritual teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area who gives regular satsangs in the United States and also teaches abroad. He is the author of several books, CDs and DVDs and is the founder of Open Gate Sangha, Inc. a nonprofit organization that supports, and makes available, his teachings.
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February 8, 2023
Although I have my critiques of Adya, and think his shelteredness and privelaged life gets in the way of his teachings in extreme ways, he is still the most awake and in truth teacher I know, and, the only person who’s been able to push my own awakening into actualization, to the point where I am now consistently grounded in awakeness, not intellectually, but in my perception and embodied experience and heart. He’s the only teacher who matches my spiritual path, there is such a difference between wellbeing meditators and retreat buddhists and someone who is actually awake.
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