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The End Of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk On The Nature Of Enlightenment (2008)

by Adyashanti(Favorite Author)

4.53 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1591799457 (ISBN13: 9781591799450)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Sounds True

review 1: A Buddhist teacher suggested this book to me. We had just met, and she basically said- by the way, I think you might like this book. Wow- was she right.I must have something like two hundred spiritual books on my bookshelves. Admittedly, I haven't read all of them all the way through. I am at the point with these books that if, quite undeservedly, some Shams like character showed up and said "Let's burn up all your books and just drink the wine of experience!" I would be up for it. I might give away most of the books, if not all, at some point. This is to say that the idea of reading another book about enlightenment was not at the top of my list. But I did it anyway. Within a few pages I knew that I was reading something quite special, and beautiful in the sense... more that I was absolutely sure that it was TRUE.This is a real common sense book about the process of awakening from the dream of everyday life and what comes after that awakening. Adyashanti details the places your ego can trip you up. I also really appreciated that he did not seem to be pushing an agenda. Reading the book, through his words, I felt that I could get some sense of his presence and was calm and kind. It is the same inner presence that is inside you and me as well.This book was like a kind and generous friend. It felt like the way water feels when it slips through your fingers, glistening with light, returning to the river. I found that I read it slowly.
review 2: I took the webinar with Adya in March of 2012 using his book: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment. This was with many people from around the world. The entire book is a book carrying the energy of pure awareness and deep insights to awakening. It naturally but directly reveals illusive and often hidden mental programing that Adya calls living in the dream state; a state of illusion that most people don't even realize they are in. Instead of our conditioning defining us, the book takes you, or took me to the liberated place of the unknown which is realizing reality each moment, each moment, each moment. There is no fixed place but instead fluidity. There are no words to explain the experience of reality, but if anyone does a good job at explaining truth, reality, awareness, and the process of enlightenment, Adya more than explains it; he invites you to experience it by letting go of fear based beliefs, ideas, agendas and attachments. His message of pure awareness brought me back to accepting living here on the earth plane with no fear based judgment. He talked about radical honesty which I appreciate awakening to where he says..."It is that which divides us inside that needs to be healed. What is required after a glimpse of awakening is radical honesty, a willingness to look at how we unenlighten ourselves back into the gravitational force of the dream state, how we allow ourselves to be divided."Don't get this book unless you're ready to take it all the way as the book is very powerful. If you want to know the truth (not as an opinion or belief) but as the absolute and if you are willing to let go of attachments embedded in egoic consciousness, and you sense that you are called to liberation from illusion, then this book is for you.Blessings, Susan Nancy Wight less

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