Purpose Guides Institute Presents
Purpose & Soul
Adyashanti
Invite your friends to explore Adyashanti’s powerful teachings with you.
“The path to enlightenment today is cluttered with concepts: Adyashanti cuts through them with a sword so merciless and tender that only space remains.”
— Meg Lundstrom
In Purpose & Soul, Adyashanti introduces a fresh path to discovering and embodying your life purpose. In Adyashanti’s view, purpose inquiry is the portal into the deeper layer of your soul, “The way I look at this, the deeper question is to ask what’s worthy of orienting your entire life around. I’d also add to that, what is worth suffering for?”
An excerpt from Purpose & Soul
The timeless dimension of being and the human dimension of form are what I refer to as the two worlds of spiritual instinct. Soul is what connects and interfaces between these complimentary realities. These two worlds (or poles) are quite different in their orientations. The timeless dimension is completely transcendent. This pole wants to wake up from its identification with time, space, and form and transcend its compulsion toward accomplishment and success.
The human dimension of the spiritual instinct involves soul’s orientation toward embodying and expressing the infinite in a unique and purposeful way. This aspect of the spiritual impulse is primarily oriented toward feeling authentically connected to an inspiring purpose and the feeling of aliveness at a human level.
Join us for this LIVE and intimate opportunity to dialogue with Adyashanti in person through an interactive video conference. Adyashanti will introduce us to some of the core teachings from his new essay: Purpose & Soul.
“It’s interesting to recognize that there is a meaningful orientation to purpose in the domain of spirit. With a lack of purpose we just don’t tend to do well individually or culturally, which has a lot to do with where we are right now as a society.”
— Adyashanti
In this special 60-minute event you’ll:
- Hear Adyashanti share the two soul-level core values that he orients his life around.
- Receive an understanding of soul as a psychic process that’s interfacing between the timeless dimension of being, and the human dimension of being.
- Learn how soul is a bridge, that connects the timeless with form.
Sharing moving episodes from his own life as a student and teacher, Adyashanti will show us how purpose can be awakened and embodied in this lifetime.
You will also hear about the upcoming two-session Book Club with Adyashanti, which he will personally host on Thursday May 21 and Thursday May 28. In this book club we’ll be taking a deep dive into the material presented in Adyashanti’s new essay Purpose & Soul: The Journey Towards Spiritual Embodiment .(NOTE: This essay is presently available only through the Book Club.)
In Purpose & Soul you will learn how to embody the soul’s orientation, bringing the infinite into embodied form and expression.
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
I believe that turning 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?
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."
