by TCtroi

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Touched by an angel, or just touched?

Chapter 1: To eliminate suffering, eliminate wanting

Chapter 2: To eliminate wanting, eliminate separation

Chapter 3: Separation is … a narrowing of perception

Chapter 4: Why do we choose separation?

• Need to be unique and special
• Isolation confirms the small self existence
• We are afraid to be alone
• We create other to keep us company

Chapter 5: Duality is the association of opposites

• Who you think you are is the subject
• Take a look at yourself
• Subject becomes object
• Continue to drill down
• The subject of one level becomes the object of the subject in the next
• Go back until you run out of objects
• You run out of things to look at
• Who you are is not a thing

Chapter 6: Ultimate Subjectivity

• a subject that cannot be transformed into an object
• a subject that can never be perceived
• a subject that exists prior to thought

Chapter 7: There is only One

• Ultimate subjectivity projects itself as ultimate objectivity
• Ultimate objectivity is the whole world
• Ultimate is fundamental, the last in its progression
• Cannot have my ultimate and your ultimate
• Everyone must be experiencing the same ultimate subjectivity

Chapter 8: The notion of subjectivity collapses

• Ultimate subjectivity is reached when all objects fall away
• But can subjectivity exist without reference to an object?
• In duality, one cannot exist without the other
• Subject cannot persist without object
• Neither subject nor object, yet you still exist

Chapter 9: Existence is awareness

• Are you aware of this room, neighborhood, country, planet, universe, and beyond…?
• As perception expands, mind cannot grasp
• Subject cannot generate an object
• Yet awareness is present
• Perception without limitation

Chapter 10: Awareness is…

• Awareness is Infinite
  • Only objects have boundaries
• Awareness is Self-aware
  • Lucid and conscious
• Awareness is Non-local
  • Cannot point to where it is or is not
• Awareness is Empty
  • Contains no thing

Chapter 11: The Ultimate Allowing

• How to experience awareness
• Immediacy, come back to here and now
• Drop all questions
• Relinquish the doer
• Let everything be as it is
• Allow yourself and others to be as they are
• No negotiation, no agenda, no ulterior motives
• Rest in the open perception that is always there

Chapter 12: Jesus on the cross

• The ultimate allowing says all is OK exactly as it is
• Adyashanti’s interpretation of Jesus message
• "I know everything you've ever done ... and it’s OK.
      Now, can you accept that? Can you take that much love in?"

Epilogue: So, now what?

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"An Open Invitation" is a multi-part journey from the known into the unknown.

So, this is who you think you are?
Bam!!!
Oh look, who you thought you were is now shattered into a million tiny pieces.
Now what?