Purpose Guides Institute Presents:
Purpose & Soul
Awakening and the Search for Meaning
Adyashanti
This past May 2020, spiritual teacher and author Adyashanti’s first online book club took place. We studied, dialogued and engaged with Adya’s new unpublished essay, Purpose & Soul: Awakening and the Search for Meaning.
Adyashanti guided our book club readers to:
- Embrace a life of meaning and consequence as an expression of the spiritual instinct.
- Experience the limitless quality of being AND the laser focused quality of becoming.
- Experience two guided purpose discovery meditations.
Book Club Contents
PREVIEW CALL - Recorded May 7, 2020
- Watch the 1-hour introductory recording of Adyashanti teeing up our group exploration of soul-level purpose in preparation for our deep dive into the 2-session book club.
- Hear the story of how Adya’s teaching career started with a strong emphasis on awakening the undivided and then slowly expanded to include the realm of soul-level purpose.
- In this preview call, you will be introduced to:
- Adyashanti and his evolving relationship to purpose,
- the brand new essay Purpose & Soul,
- and the book club community.
SESSION #1 - Purpose & Soul - Recorded May 21, 2020
(Reading for Session #1 - Purpose and Soul: Awakening and the Search for Meaning, by Adyashanti - Part 1)
Topics for session #1 include:
- Acknowledging the layers of conditioning that conceal our purpose, including:
- Stories we inherited from society about what is worthwhile
- False goals or “default purposes” we acquired in childhood
- Inauthentic beliefs, ideas and identities that obscure our purpose
- Opening to the twin poles of the spiritual instinct:
- The undivided transcendent pole
- The pole of human connectivity to life and purpose
- As we discover that these two poles are not separate, we grow in our ability to express the infinite in a unique and purposeful way.
SESSION #2 - Purpose & Soul - Recorded May 28
(Reading for Session #2 - : Awakening and the Search for Meaning, by Adyashanti - Part 2)
Topics for session #2 include:
- The temporary phenomena of personal purpose fading from experience
- The reemergence of authentic meaning and world-centric purpose in life
- Recognizing the deeper structure of purpose as an aspect of awakening, equal to the experience of timeless freedom
SESSION #3 - Purpose & Soul - Recorded June 4
(Reading for Session #3 - Discovering Purpose: Soulwork & the Purpose Octagon, by Jonathan Gustin - Part 1)
Topics for session #3 include:
- The 3 Worlds of Purpose
- The forces working against purpose discovery
SESSION #4 - Purpose & Soul - Recorded June 11
(Reading for Session #4 - Discovering Purpose: Soulwork & the Purpose Octagon, by Jonathan Gustin - Part 2)
Topics for session #4 include:
- What is Soul and Soul-level Purpose?
- The Purpose Octagon
What you will receive:
- Adyashanti’s brand new unpublished essay, Purpose & Soul
- Two recorded Book Club sessions and the recorded preview call with Adyashanti
- A recorded purpose-discovery meditation
- Video and Audio recordings of all meetings
- Membership in an online community hub for group interaction for current and past book club members.
Bonuses
- Full length interview with Adyashanti exploring soul-level purpose
- Two bonus meetings with the host of the Book Club and Purpose Guides Institute Founder, Jonathan Gustin
- Reading for Sessions 3 & 4: Discovering Purpose: Soulwork & the Purpose Octagon
Purchase now and receive instantly:
- The recorded 1-hour preview call with Adyashanti to introduce the Book Club
- Adyashanti’s brand new unpublished essay, Purpose & Soul: Awakening & the Search for Meaning
- Video and Audio recordings of Session #1 and Session #2 of the Book Club with Adyashanti
- Video and Audio recordings of Session #3 and Session #4 of the Book Club with Jonathan Gustin
- Jonathan Gustin’s article, Discovering Purpose: Soulwork & the Purpose Octagon
- A 2-hour video interview with Adya on meaning and purpose
I believe that tuning towards the soul’s calling is what focuses our lives in a meaningful direction and brings out the best in a human being.
In our search for authentic meaning and purpose, two of the most important questions we can ask ourselves are:
— What is worthy of orienting my entire life around?
— What is worth suffering for?
Praise for Adyashanti
“One of the premier spiritual teachers of our time.”
— Reginald A. Ray, author of Touching Enlightenment
“Central to his (Adyashanti’s) journey and ours is the question he offers as our constant guide: ‘How can I be a living expression of what I love?’”
— Mark Nepo, author of The Book of Awakening
“Adyashanti offers the blessing of pointing us toward the reality awakening through us right in this moment.”
— Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
“It’s crucial to recognize that, even in the domain of spirit, our orientation to purpose is indispensable.”
— Adyashanti
About 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: The Most Important Thing, Emptiness Dancing, The End of Your World, True Meditation, and The Way of Liberation.
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."
