Ending the Search | Free Book
What is life when seeking ends?
Just what is, nothing more or less—
an ordinary person doing ordinary things,
not wishing to be more or less,
content to simply be herSelf.
—Dorothy Hunt,
Only This
Do you ever feel as if your spiritual search
is getting you nowhere? That despite sincere intention and effort,
you’re reaping frustration instead of fruit? In
Ending the Search, Dorothy Hunt unravels a dilemma that has
vexed countless people on a spiritual path. “You may have tried all
manner of practices, meditation, guru shopping, chanting, prayer,
and still you have not attained your heart’s desire,” she writes.
“This book is about the ego’s spiritual ambition, its search for its
idea of ‘enlightenment,’ its struggles and its eventual fate as
seeker becomes the sought.”
Ending the Search explores
the deep spiritual impulse to awaken and the ways a future-focused
mind “co-opts” or veils what is timelessly free, loving, and ever
present. Dorothy invites us to follow our longing for truth, love,
or enlightenment back to their source—the Heart that is beckoning us
beyond separation. While describing and honoring different practices
and paths taken in one’s search for Truth, she emphasizes the
practice of self-inquiry as taught by Ramana Maharshi. We are
invited to search not for an idea of something “out there,” but for
the true identity of the seeker, the unnamable Mystery that is
compassionately aware, existing right now in each of us. The book
also looks at the processes of embodiment and surrender, the need
for “ruthless honesty” without self-judgment, and in its concluding
section, shares a vision of life lived authentically.
“The
spiritual search is a call to remember who or what you essentially
are,” explains Dorothy Hunt. “What ends the search is actually
present from the very beginning, beckoning you to come Home. In
truth, you are what you seek, yet you must make the discovery for
yourself.” This is your invitation, with
Ending the Search.
Highlights:
• The nature of
spiritual ambition
• When practice becomes problematic
•
How the thinking mind separates us from the moment
• Silence
and stillness, our greatest teachers
• Ego and the trance of
separation
• The human heart as a doorway to the infinite
•
The freedom of Presence
• The price of Realization
• Gurus,
spiritual teachers, and charlatans
• Undoing core egoic
beliefs
• Resting the mind in the Heart of Awareness
About the Author
Dorothy S. Hunt
DOROTHY HUNT serves as spiritual
director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching in the spiritual
lineage of Adyashanti, who invited her to share the Dharma in
2004. She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for
Meditation and Psychotherapy and has practiced psychotherapy
since 1967. Her published works include Only This! and Leaves from Moon Mountain.
Adyashanti
Adyashanti is an American-born spiritual teacher devoted
to serving the awakening of all beings. His teachings are an open
invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize what is true and liberating
at the core of all existence. His books include
Emptiness Dancing, The End of Your World,
True Meditation, The Way of Liberation, and
Falling into Grace.
Asked to teach in 1996 by his Zen
teacher of 14 years, Adyashanti offers teachings that are free of any
tradition or ideology. "The Truth I point to is not confined within
any religious point of view, belief system, or doctrine, but is open
to all and found within all." For more information, please visit
adyashanti.org.
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