By Robert Epstein — 2002
The Road Less Traveled may well have been a life-changing work and one of the best-selling books of all time.
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We can temporarily push our ego away or try to rearrange our personality to be happier, freer, or more realized. But ego comes back. And that’s where Diamond Approach inquiry comes in. We all have awareness and inquiry helps us harness awareness to dissolve ego instead of pushing it away.
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We live at a time when all spiritual traditions and contemporary inner work schools are available to the interested seeker. However, many of us rest in the comfort of believing all spirituality and spiritual teachings lead to the same place and aspire to the same awakening.
There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.
During our weekly meetings in the Sun office, editor Sy Safransky and I occasionally stray into philosophical territory. One day, knowing that I’d once studied meditation at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, Sy handed me a couple of videos of talks by the spiritual teacher Adyashanti.