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. HuntDorothy 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. AdyashantiAdyashanti 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.


Book Information
ISBN 9781683640639
Author Dorothy Hunt
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Sounds True Inc
Publisher Sounds True Inc