A little backstory and context for this anecdote from Falling into Grace: Insights in the End of Suffering, by Adyashanti: He was four years into his spiritual quest--one that took him into a monastic meditate all-all-the-time route. He got to a point where he thoroughly frustrated, and was now staying at a mountain hut. "And as I sat there in that moment of utter and absolute defeat--a defeat that was so total that I didn't even feel sorry for myself--right in the middle of that moment, my heart began to flower. It was like a golden love just was being poured right into my being. It was as if I could hear everything, and it was just singing with this love.
I went out of the hut, and everything I looked at was an expression of this love, a manifestation of this love. The whole universe was nothing but this immense, infinite love, which I was being bathed in. It was then that I heard a voice--which was very odd to me, because in my spiritual life, I wasn't prone to visions or hearing voices. I didn't know where it came from, but it just said, "This is how I love you, and this is how you shall love all beings everywhere." When I heard this voice, I knew it was true. This inner voice had told me something that I'd known all along, but I could never make contact with. What I didn't know is that I'd been showered with this love my entire life, but that I was never completely open to it. This love also put down a challenge to me. It said, "This is how you shall love all things and all beings.""
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