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Which of the Ultimates Is Ultimate, Part 2

By A.H. Almaas — 2014

There is no end to realization, kinds and types of awakening, or enlightenment and completeness.

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In the Moments of Non-Awakening

Larry Yang takes an honest look at what it means to be a dharma teacher who hasn’t been, and doesn’t imagine ever being, enlightened.

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Larry Yang
2021
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Self-Realization.

Question: How does a person know when they are fully self-realized?

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Deepak Chopra
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Which of the Ultimates Is Ultimate, Part 1

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.

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A.H. Almaas
2014
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My Awakening: Spiritual Teacher Adyashanti Describes the Day He Awakened

Before I had my final awakening years ago, I was crazed for enlightenment. You have to be a little crazy to seriously study Zen. My teacher used to say, “Only the crazy ones stay.”

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Adyashanti
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The Taboo of Enlightenment

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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Stephan Bodian
2004
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The Way of Silence: An Interview with Adyashanti

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

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Sam Mowe
2017
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Wherever You Are, Enlightenment Is There

In our practice the most important thing is to realize that we have buddhanature. Intellectually we may know this, but it is rather difficult to accept.

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Shunryu Suzuki
2017
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Enlightenments, Not Enlightenment

Awakening is not the same for everyone—even spiritual masters manifest their wisdom differently and took various paths to get there.

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Jack Kornfield
2018
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Forgiveness: The Bridge Between Self & Soul

Forgiveness is an interesting phenomenon. As you learn to forgive and to say, “Of course you’re human,” or, “We all do that,” you open up your heart to embrace the person or the situation back into you.

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Ram Dass
2015
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Creating Your Own Enlightenment

Enlightenment . . . consists of waking up to new possibilities, including the possibility of an “I” that isn’t defined by your story.

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Deepak Chopra
2017
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