By Stephan Bodian — 2004
One of the most popular Buddhist teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area these days is not a Tibetan lama or a traditional Zen master but an unconventional, an American-born lay teacher named Adyashanti.
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Do you remember that famous scene in the movie Rocky, when he ran up seventy-two steps to the top of the Philadelphia Museum, and once he got there he raised his arms triumphantly? That’s you on the path of self-realization.
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Self-realization is one of those phrases that we hear on the spiritual path that goes in one ear and out the other. We don’t give it much thought, yet it’s at the very heart of EVERYTHING.
When people allow themselves to connect with what their spiritual life is about for them—what their deep questions are, what their deep yearning is—then they have all the vitality they need