There is something about you brighter than the sun and more
mysterious than the night sky.
Who are you when you are not thinking yourself into
existence? What is ultimately behind the set of eyes reading
these words? In
Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti invites
you to wake up to the essence of what you are, through the
natural and spontaneous opening of the mind, heart, and body
that holds the secret to happiness and liberation.
From the first stages of realization to its evolutionary
implications, Adyashanti shares a treasure trove of insights
into the challenges of the inner life, offering lucid,
down-to-earth advice on topics ranging from the ego,
illusion, and spiritual addiction to compassion, letting go,
the eternal now, and more. Whether you read each chapter in
succession or begin on any page you feel inspired to turn to,
you will find in Adyashanti's wisdom an understanding and
ever-ready guide to the full wonder of your infinite
self-nature.
Contents
- Awakening
- Satsang
- Openness
- Innocence
- Harmonization
- Freedom
- The Radiant Core
- Silence
- Conciousness
- Depth
- Ego
- Love
- Spiritual Addiction
- Illusion
- Control
- Letting Go
- Compassion
- Fire of Truth
- Enlightenment
- Implications
- Dharmic Relationship
- Fidelity
An Interview with Adyashanti
Excerpt
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment—awakening from the
dream state of separateness to the reality of the One.
In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you
are. You may find other elements in my teaching that
simply arise as a response to people’s particular needs of
the moment, but fundamentally I’m only interested in you
waking up.
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then
being that. Realize and be, realize and be.
Realization alone is not enough. The completion of
Self-realization is to be, act, do, and express what you
realize. This is a very deep matter, a whole new way of
life—living in and as reality instead of living out the
programmed ideas, beliefs, and impulses of your dreaming
mind.
The trust is that you already are what you are seeking.
You are looking for God with his eyes. This truth is so
simple and shocking, so radical and taboo that it is easy to
miss among your flurry of seeking. You may have heard
what I am saying in the past and you may even believe it, but
my question is, have you realized it with your whole
being? Are you living it?
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how
to dream better. You know how to dream better.
Depending on what you mental and emotional state at the time
is, I may be very gentle and soft with you, or not so gentle
and soft. You may feel better after talking with me, but that
is incidental to awakening. Wake up! You are all
living Buddhas. You are the divine emptiness, the
infinite nothing. This I know because I am what you
are, and you are what I am. Let go of all ideas and
images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even
generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your
imagination when reality is for the realizing right
now?