Awakening: Meditations on the Fullness of Existence Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

A Sounds True Audio Original: Intimate, life-changing programs with the leading voices in spirituality, personal growth, and healingExperience great healing, joy, and peace as you open to the radiant shared oneness that is your true nature. When you hear the words “spiritual awakening,” what stirs within you? Perhaps you think of it as a sudden, profound moment in time that changes your life forever. Or maybe you sense it more as a gradual unfolding, a continual deepening of an expanded, intuitive presence that you return to again and again. “It may be different for all of us,” says Henry Shukman. “I prefer to think of it not as one goal or mountain, but as a mountain range—a variety of discoveries that guide how we heal, forgive, and care for ourselves and the world.”Here, Henry Shukman guides us in creating the groundwork for our own awakening through a series of guided meditations—a gateway to illumination. Weaving together personal stories, Zen teachings, poetry, and music, he reveals how evoking this state of awareness can profoundly enrich and transform our everyday lives. Each audio session peels back the illusion of self, bringing us home to the infinitely good, all-pervading, and all-encompassing love that is our true nature. These insights will nurture and support you in: Effortless Presence. Recognizing awareness itself as something that is ever-present and always available to you, without formality or lengthy practice. Non-Dual Awareness. Dissolving the illusion of duality and opening intuitive insight about who you are when you are not identifying as a separate self. Deep Personal Healing. Holding your wounds, vulnerabilities, and shortcomings alongside your joy and well-being, all with nonjudgmental compassion. Liberating Who You Really Are. Transcending limiting concepts and notions and awakening to the oneness that is found in the ground of being.The gift of these practices is their simplicity and accessibility. You don’t need a special setting, prescribed beliefs, or the perfect conditions—only a willingness to begin. Even the smallest glimpse can change everything—freeing you from the loops and dynamics of reactivity, into a place of lasting peace and equanimity. Read more