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Friends, I wanted to share with you a free chapter from Adyashanti<\/a>‘s inspiring (and very provocative) book The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More and more people are waking up spiritually. And for many of them, the question becomes: Now what? \u201cInformation about life after awakening is usually not made public,\u201d explains Adya. \u201cIt\u2019s most often shared only between teachers and their students.\u201d\u00a0The End of Your World<\/em>\u00a0is his response to a growing need for direction on the spiritual path. Consider this Adya’s personal welcome to \u201ca new world.”<\/p>\n

Here is the excerpt, entitled “Exploring Life After<\/em> Awakening.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a phenomenon happening in the world today. More and more people are waking up\u2014having real, authentic glimpses of reality. By this I mean that people\u00a0seem to be having moments where they awaken out of their familiar senses of self, and out of their familiar senses of what the world is, into a much greater reality\u2014into some- thing far beyond anything they knew existed.<\/p>\n

These experiences of awakening differ from \u00a0person to person. For some, the awakening is sustained over time, while for others the glimpse is momentary\u2014it may last just a split second. But in that instant, the whole sense of \u201cself \u201d disap- pears. The way they perceive the world suddenly changes, and they find themselves without any sense of separation between\u00a0themselves and the rest of the world. It can be likened to the experience of waking up from a dream\u2014a dream you didn\u2019t even know you were in until you were jolted out of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the beginning of my teaching work, most of the people who came to me were seeking these deeper realizations of spirituality. They were seeking to wake up from the limiting and isolated senses of self they had imagined themselves to be. It\u2019s this yearning that underpins all spiritual seeking: to discover for ourselves what we already intuit to be true\u2014 that there is more to life than we are currently perceiving.<\/p>\n

But as time \u00a0has passed, more \u00a0and\u00a0 more \u00a0people are coming to me who have already had glimpses of this greater reality. It is because of them that I am giving the teachings in this book.<\/p>\n

The Dawning of Awakening<\/em><\/p>\n

This discovery I\u2019m talking about is traditionally referred to as spiritual awakening, because one awakens from the dream of separation created by the egoic mind. We realize\u2014often quite \u00a0suddenly\u2014that our \u00a0sense of \u00a0self, which\u00a0 has \u00a0been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs, and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us; it has no center. The ego may exist as a series of passing thoughts, beliefs, actions, and reactions, but in and of itself it has no identity. Ultimately all of the images we have about ourselves and the world turn out to be nothing but a resistance to things as they are. What we call ego is simply the mechanism our\u00a0mind uses to resist life as it is. In that way, ego isn\u2019t a thing as much as it is a verb. It is the resistance to what is. It is the pushing away or pulling toward. This momentum, this grasping and rejecting, is what forms a sense of a self that is distinct, or separate, from the world around us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But with the dawn of\u00a0 awakening, this outside world begins to collapse. Once we lose our sense of self, it\u2019s as if we have lost the whole world as we knew it. At that moment\u2014 whether that moment is just a glimpse or something more sustained\u2014we suddenly realize with incredible clarity that what we truly are is in no way limited to the small sense of self that we thought we were.<\/p>\n

Awakening to truth or reality is something that is very hard to talk about because it is transcendent of speech. It is helpful, nevertheless, to work with some sort of a guidepost. The simplest thing one can say about the experiential knowledge of awakening is that it is a shift in one\u2019s perception. This is the heart of awakening. There is a shift in perception from seeing oneself as an isolated individual to seeing oneself, if we have a sense of self at all after this shift, as something much more universal\u2014everything and everyone and every- where at the same time.<\/p>\n

This shift is not revolutionary; it\u2019s the same as looking in the mirror in the morning and having an intuitive sense that the face you are looking at is yours. It is not a mystical experience; it is a simple experience. When you look in the mirror, you experience the simple recognition, \u201cOh, that\u2019s\u00a0me.\u201d When the shift of perception that\u2019s called awakening happens, whatever our senses come into contact with is experienced as ourselves. It\u2019s as if we think with everything we encounter, \u201cOh, that\u2019s me.\u201d We don\u2019t experience ourselves in terms of our ego, in terms of a separate someone or separate entity. It\u2019s \u00a0more a feeling of the One recognizing itself, or Spirit recognizing itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spiritual awakening is a remembering. It is not becoming something that we are not. It is not about transforming ourselves. It is not about changing ourselves. It is a remembering of what we are, as if we\u2019d known it long ago and had simply forgotten. \u00a0At the moment \u00a0of this remembering, if the remembering is authentic, it\u2019s not viewed as a personal thing. There is really no such thing as a \u201cpersonal\u201d awakening, because \u201cpersonal\u201d would imply separation. \u201cPersonal\u201d would imply that it is the \u201cme\u201d or the ego that awakens or becomes enlightened.<\/p>\n

But in a true awakening, it is realized very clearly that even the awakening \u00a0itself is not personal. It is universal Spirit or universal consciousness that wakes up to itself. Rather than the \u201cme\u201d waking up, what we are wakes up from the \u201cme.\u201d What we are wakes up from the seeker. What we are wakes up from the seeking.<\/p>\n

The problem with defining awakening is that upon hear- ing each of \u00a0these descriptions, the\u00a0 mind creates another image, another idea of what this ultimate truth or ultimate reality is all about. As soon as these images are created, our\u00a0perception is distorted once again. In this way, it\u2019s really impossible to describe the nature of reality, except to say that it\u2019s not what we think it is, and it\u2019s not what we\u2019ve been taught it is. In truth, we are not capable of imagining what it is that we are. Our nature is literally beyond all imagination. What we are is that which is watching\u2014that \u00a0consciousness which is watching us pretending to be a separate person. Our true nature is continually partaking of all experience, awake to every instant, to each and every moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In awakening, what\u2019s revealed to us is that we are not a thing, nor a person, nor even an entity. What we are is that which manifests as all things, as all experiences, as all personalities. We are that which dreams the whole world into existence. Spiritual \u00a0awakening reveals that\u00a0 that\u00a0 which is unspeakable and unexplainable is actually what we are.<\/p>\n

Abiding and Nonabiding Awakening<\/em><\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve mentioned, this experience of awakening can be just a glimpse, or it can be sustained over time. Now, some would say that if an awakening is momentary, it is not a real awakening. There are those who believe that, with authentic awakening, your perception opens up to the true nature of things and never closes back down again. I can understand\u00a0 this perspective, since ultimately the \u00a0whole spiritual journey does lead us to\u00a0 a full \u00a0awakening. Full awakening simply means that we perceive from the perspective of Spirit\u2014from the view of oneness\u2014all the time.<\/p>\n

From this awakened perspective, there isn\u2019t any separation anywhere\u2014not in the world, not in the universe, not in all the universes everywhere. The truth is anywhere and everywhere, at all times, in all dimensions, for all beings. It is a truth that is the source of everything that will ever be experienced\u2014in \u00a0life, after life, in this dimension or any other dimension.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From the perspective of\u00a0 the ultimate, literally every- thing\u2014be it at a higher or lower dimension, here or there, yesterday, today, or tomorrow, everything\u2014is but a manifestation of Spirit. It is Spirit itself that wakes up. So, ultimately, the trajectory every being is on, whether they know it or not, is a trajectory toward full awakening\u2014toward \u00a0a full knowing, toward a full experiential knowledge of what they are, toward unity, toward oneness.<\/p>\n

But the moment of awakening may or may not result in a permanent seeing. As I said, some people will tell you that unless it\u2019s permanent, the awakening is not real. What I\u2019ve seen as a teacher is that the person who has a momentary glimpse beyond the veil of duality and the person who has a permanent, \u201cabiding\u201d realization are seeing and experiencing the same thing. One person experiences it momentarily; another experiences it continually. But what is experienced, if it is true awakening, is the same: all is one; we are not a particular thing or a particular someone that can be located in a particular space; what we are is both nothing and every- thing, simultaneously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So, as I see it, it doesn\u2019t really matter whether an awakening is instantaneous or continuous. It matters in the sense that there is a trajectory\u2014nobody\u2019s heart will be totally fulfilled until that perceiving from the point of view of truth is continuous\u2014but what is seen is an awakening, whether it is sustained or not.<\/p>\n

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This glimpse of awakening, which I call nonabiding awakening, is becoming more and more common. It happens for a moment, an afternoon, a day, a week\u2014maybe as long as a month or two. Awareness opens up, the sense of the separate self falls away\u2014and \u00a0then, like the aperture on a camera lens, awareness closes back down. All of a sudden that person who had previously perceived true nonduality, true oneness, is quite surprisingly now perceiving back in the dualistic \u201cdream state.\u201d In the dream state, we\u2019re back in our conditioned sense of self\u2014in a limited, isolated sense of being.<\/p>\n

The good news is that once a moment of this clear seeing has actually taken place, the aperture of our awareness can never completely close down again. It may seem like it has closed down completely, but it never quite does. In the deep- est part of yourself, you don\u2019t ever forget. Even if you\u2019ve only glimpsed reality for a moment,\u00a0 something within you is changed forever.<\/p>\n

Reality is nuclear; it\u2019s incredibly powerful. It\u2019s unimaginably potent. People can experience a f lash of reality in the time it takes to snap your fingers, and the energy and the force that enters into them as a result is life altering.<\/p>\n

Just one moment\u00a0 of awakening begins the dissolution of one\u2019s false sense of self and, subsequently, the dissolution of one\u2019s whole perception of the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Awakening Is Not What You Imagine It to Be<\/em><\/p>\n

In a very real sense, it is much more accurate to talk about what we lose upon awakening rather than what we gain. We not only lose ourselves\u2014who we thought we were\u2014but we also lose our entire perception of the world. Separation is only a perception; in fact, when it comes to our world, there is nothing but perception. \u201cYour world \u201d is not your world; it is only your perception. So while it may seem negative at first, I think it\u2019s much more useful to talk about spiritual awakening in terms of what we lose\u2014what we awaken from. This means we\u2019re talking about the dissolution of the image we have of ourselves, and it\u2019s \u00a0this dismantling of who we thought we were that is so startling when one wakes up.<\/p>\n

And it is indeed startling: it\u2019s not what we think it\u2019s going to be like at all. I\u2019ve never had a single student come back and say, \u201cYou k now, Adya, I peered through the veil of separation, and it\u2019s pretty much what I thought it would be. It measures up pretty closely to what I\u2019ve \u00a0been told.\u201d Usually they come back and say, \u201cThis is nothing like what I imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is especially interesting since many of the people I teach have been studying spirituality for many years, and they often have very intricate ideas about what awakening is\u00a0going to be like. But when it happens, it is always different from their expectations. In many ways, it is grander, but also in many ways, it is simpler. In truth, if it is to be true and real, awakening must be different from what we imagine it to be. This is because all of our imaginings about awakening are happening within the paradigm of the dream state. It is not possible to imagine something outside of the dream state when our consciousness is still within it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How Does Your Life Change after Awakening ?<\/em><\/p>\n

With awakening there also comes a total reorganization of the way we perceive life\u2014or at least the beginning of a reorganization. This is because awakening itself, while beautiful and amazing, often brings with it a sense of disorientation. Even though you as the One have awakened, there is still your whole human structure\u2014your body, your mind, and your personality. Awakening can often \u00a0be experienced as very disorienting to this human structure.<\/p>\n

So it is the process that happens after awakening that I want to explore. As I\u2019ve said, for a very few people, the moment of awakening will be complete. It will be final in a certain sense, and there will be no need for a continuing process. We might say that such people had an extraordinarily light karmic load; even though they may have experienced extreme suffering before awakening, one can see that their karmic inheritance, the conditioning that they were dealing with, wasn\u2019t too deep. This is very rare. Only a few people in\u00a0a given generation may wake up in such a way that there\u2019s no further process to undergo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What I always tell people is this: don\u2019t count on that person being you. Better to count on being like everyone else, which means that you will undergo a process after an initial awakening. It won\u2019t be the end of your journey. What I will attempt to do here is to point you in a direction that may be useful and orienting as you embark on that journey. As my teacher used to say, it\u2019s like getting your foot in the front door. Just because you\u2019ve gotten your foot in the front door doesn\u2019t mean you have turned the lights on; it doesn\u2019t mean you have learned to navigate in that different world that you\u2019ve awakened to.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very happy that this book, which is based on a series of \u00a0talks I\u2019ve given, offers \u00a0me the opportunity to\u00a0 address this subject\u2014the question of what happens after \u00a0awaken- ing. The information that exists on life after awakening is not usually made public. It\u2019s most often shared only between spiritual teachers and their students. The problem with that approach is that, as I\u2019ve said, a lot of people are now having these moments of awakening, and there is very little coher- ent teaching available for them. In that sense, this book is meant to be a welcoming to that new world, that new state of oneness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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