Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic

by Adyashanti

Overview

For almost two millennia, the story of Jesus has shaped the lives of countless people. Yet today, even though the majority of us grew up in a culture suffused by the mythos of Jesus, many of us feel disconnected from the essence of his teachings. With Resurrecting Jesus, Adyashanti invites us to rediscover the life and words of Jesus as a direct path to the most radical of transformations: spiritual awakening.
Jesus crossed all of the boundaries that separated the people of his time because he viewed the world from the perspective of what unites us, not what divides us. In Resurrecting Jesus, Adya embarks on a fascinating reconsideration of the man known as Jesus, examining his life from birth to Resurrection to reveal a timeless model of awakening and enlightened engagement with the world. Through close consideration of the archetypal figures and events of the Gospels, Adya issues a call to “live the Christ” in a way that is unique to each of us.
“When the eternal and the human meet,” writes Adya, “that’s where love is born—not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.” Resurrecting Jesus is a book for realizing this union in your own life, with heart and mind wide open to the mystery inside us all.

With an all-new foreword by Episcopalian priest and scholar Cynthia Bourgeault.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781622031627
Publisher:	Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	490,463
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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 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.

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 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Editor's Preface xiii

Prologue: Jesus the Spiritual Revolutionary xv

Part 1 Encountering Jesus

Chapter 1 My Connection to Jesus 3

Chapter 2 The Jesus of the Gospels 15

Chapter 3 The Deep Truth of Myth 27

Chapter 4 A Map of Awakening 37

Part 2 The Jesus Story

Chapter 5 Birth and Baptism 55

Chapter 6 Trials and Tribulations 65

Chapter 7 The Healing Ministry 81

Chapter 8 My Name Is Legion 101

Chapter 9 Teaching in Parables 111

Chapter 10 Miracles and Transfiguration 123

Chapter 11 The Last Supper and the Garden 143

Chapter 12 The Trial of Jesus 161

Chapter 13 The Crucifixion 171

Chapter 14 The Resurrection 187

Part 3 Disciples of the Eternal

Chapter 15 Archetypes of the Jesus Story 197

Chapter 16 Living the Christ 225

Acknowledgements 235

About the Author 237

Editorial Reviews

Adyashanti's teachings point us toward what we most yearn for: realizing and embodying the love and awareness that is our natural state.” —TARA BRACH, author of Radical Acceptance

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