Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 after a series of transformative spiritual awakenings. His teachings have been compared to some of the early Ch'an (Zen) masters of China as well as teachers of Advaita Vedanta in India. "Make no mistake about it: Enlightenment has nothing to do with what you add unto yourself or whether you're more or less happy. Enlightenment is, in the best sense of things, a destructive process: it's the crumbling away of untruth," he says on this seven-and-one-half-hour Sounds True Learning Course on six CDs. It contains teaching stories, insights, and an exclusive interview with Adyashanti.

People looking for a spiritual awakening get caught up in all kinds of techniques and methods to achieve liberation. Adyashanti believes that "effortless effort" leads to the objectless Freedom of Being beyond the tyranny of the ego-personality. This learning course is divided into sections on:

• The Dawning of Awakening
• Non-abiding Awakening or "I Got It, I Lost It"
• Coming Completely Out of Hiding
• No Center
• We Come to Nirvana by Way of Samsara
• Common Delusions, Traps, and Points of Fixation
• Life Itself Holds Up a Mirror for Our Awakening
• The Energetic Component of Awakening
• Letting Truth Penetrate All of Our Life
• When Awakening Penetrates the Mind, Heart, and
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• Naturalness — The Undivided State
• Life As It Is

Adyashanti celebrates the freedom that comes with the dissolution of your personal will and explores what it means to "live without a center." Our natural tendency is to awaken; this spiritual teacher admonishes us to let go of control and let everything within us reveal itself. Adyashanti maintains that once the ego dissolves, we are ripe with new energy and the rewiring of the mind. He concludes that our awakening is our greatest contribution to humanity.