The Impact of Awakening – 3rd Edition: Excerpts from the Teachings of Adyashanti

Product Description

The Impact of Awakening presents a collection of dynamic excerpts from Adyashanti s satsang dialogues and lectures. The reader is guided from the initial impulse to be free, to its culmination in Liberation. Adyashanti also speaks about the role of grace, the student-teacher relationship and how to move beyond beliefs that distort our perception of the truth. This third edition includes a new introduction by Adyashanti.

From the New Introduction by Adyashanti:
The material for this book came from two consecutive evenings of discussions with a small group of about ten students who met at my wife Mukti s and my small cottage that we were living in at the time. We all barely fit into the tiny cottage and sat shoulder to shoulder in what turned out to be two very intimate and powerful evenings of inquiry and discussions. . . . I hope that you can enter into the inspired atmosphere that we all shared during those two evenings and join in the timeless present where everything happens for the very first time.

Reflections from Readers of The Impact of Awakening:

A life-changing book. I’ve waited my whole lifetime for this teaching.

I have honestly read this book 10 times at least. It is beautiful and each time I pick it up and read . . . I discover something new.

This is one of the very best books on the awakened state that I have read. It is simple, clear and easy to read. . . . It is filled with wonder and grace.

The twelve chapters of questions and answers found in this gem are destined to be seen as a spiritual classic for years to come.

Review

“Adyashanti’s ‘The Impact of Awakening’ is a guide that helps us see where we are on the ‘awakening’ map. It is a book that can be read and reread each time our location changes. Common misperceptions, beliefs, and ‘blind alleys’ are pointed out clearly and compassionately through a question and answer format. Through his writings, intensives and retreats, what impresses me most about Adyashanti is his integrity. This book contains as honest an explanation of what awakening is and is not as you will find anywhere. There are a few books that I consider spiritual treasures. This is one of them.” –Amazon review by reikimd

“Adyashanti spells out the ‘Impact of Awakening’ with incredible clarity and directness, and with an accessible and down-to-earth language and style that many will find a welcomed relief from the typcial ‘spiritual speak’. Whether one has had the good fortune to see him in person, listen to the many tapes of his satsangs and intensives or is meeting him for the first time through his books, the sublimity with which he cuts through the egoic trance is unmistakable, as is the authenticity empowering his words. Adyashanti genuinely embodies the non-dual awakeness of which he speaks and the twelve chapters of questions and answers found in this gem are destined to be seen as a spiritual classic for years to come.” –Amazon review by Roscoe

“This is one of the very best books on the awakened state that I have read. It is simple, clear and easy to read. I read the entire book in less than a few hours. Adyashanti speaks of the direct path to enlightenment, which is simple but profound. Come to realize that the limited ‘self’ does not exist by surrendering to complete emptiness. When we let conceptualization, judgment, attachments, aversions and the like go, when we let everything go, we find that there is only unbounded awareness. Life becomes effortless. It is filled with wonder and grace. Unconditional love flows freely. I love the line, ‘Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.’ Read the book to get a sense of the awakened state and then just yield to it.” –Amazon review by Brad VanAuken

Adyashanti spells out the “Impact of Awakening” with incredible clarity and directness, and with an accessible and down-to-earth language and style that many will find a welcomed relief from the typcial ‘spi