“Redemptive love is the means through which we embody and express the transcendent wisdom of spiritual awakening.” ~ Adyashanti

How does it feel to give all of our lives as acts of love? How can we fully accept the love that heals all hurts and redeems all our confusion? This course consists of five parts. Adyashanti This is a transformative journey that leads to redemptive love, grace, and the innate freedom that allows us to experience the fullness of our incarnate existence. Transcendent wisdom is achieved by letting go all attachments to body or mind. It is redemptive, loving and caring in a way that allows us to see the hidden love running through all of creation.

This study course includes a series of talks and dialogues, weekly exercises, and a 58-page study guide (printable PDF) with written Q&A between Adyashanti The original course participants.

THEMES OF EXPLORATION

SESSION 1

Topics: Transcendent & Descendent Awakening/The Origin of Redemptive Love / Redemptive Love as a Movement of Grace/ Relinquishing Ego’s Resistance to Suffering/A Sacrificial Act of Love / Cleansing From The Inside Out / Transforming Identity & Victimhood/ What’s Beyond Our Will? / Perceiving Wholeness through the Eyes of Eternity. Caller 1: How people see you / Caller 2, Grounding Intense Energy/ Caller 3, Opening Beyond Your Boundaries

Quotes: “When redemptive love blossoms within you, it’s as if everything is suddenly made right. The beauty of existence starts to shine forth.” • “Redemptive love is an act of grace. We cannot make it happen.” • “Redemptive love can only be experienced when ego has completely relinquished resisting its own suffering or the suffering of others.” • “By pushing against suffering, you’re actually holding on to it.” • “You can experience the suffering of humanity without it causing you to suffer.” • “You cannot fake redemptive love. You can open yourself to its mercy.” • “Redemptive love knows that there is nothing to cleanse. There is nothing to forgive, because everything is forgiven from the beginning. It knows that everything is made whole by seeing that it always was and is whole.” • “I’m not talking about replacing bad stories with good stories; redemptive love cleanses you of stories. It allows you to start to perceive life as it actually is, to perceive life through the eyes of eternity.”

SESSION 2

Topics: The Myth We Are Flawed / Commentary On Rilke’s Poem “You Darkness, That I Come From” / The Unseen Dimension Of Life / Allowing life to find you / Revelation is Born in the Dark/ Relinquishing your Old Story / Yearning to Fear the Void/ The Vitality of Not Knowing / Caller 1 / Nurturing Silence In Small Moments / You Are Redemptive Love

Quotes: “Unworthiness is the pandemic of Western culture.” • “All essential inadequacy is an illusion, but redemptive love has the power to cut right through that illusion and dissipate it.” • “The redemptive quality of love comes from the dark womb of the unknown.” • “Spirituality is the art of allowing yourself to be found by the greater dimension of existence.” • “By directing the light of consciousness beyond the current frontier of our knowing, we allow the unknown to find us.” • “We are here to be free in this world, and to love in a way that your presence redeems the sorrow of life.” • “When there’s absolutely no story, there’s nothing to confine the dynamic of love.” • “When we connect with the greater dimension of life, what we come to see is that old way of looking at life was like the tiniest speck within an eternity which is trying to reveal all of itself through you, in you, as you, and take the shape of your incarnate existence.”

SESSION 3

Topics: Embodying Redemptive Love Redemption and Sacrifice/ Expressing Your Innate Dignity & Suficency / Turning Comppassion Within / How The Radiance of Love Motions / The Perspective Redemptive Love / How To Stay in Nirvana/ Transforming Myths We Live by / Caller 1. Seeing What the Word Love Evokes/Caller 2: Seeing through the Myth of Unworthiness

Quotes: “To Experience Redeem is To Feel Your Inborn Value”
Your natural, true inner dignity.” • “A dramatic experience does not necessarily have more depth than something more subtly experienced.” • “It’s okay to feel compassion and to offer it to those who are seemingly broken.” • “Redemptive Love never associates with illusion. It works from a place of wholeness.” • “You can stay in nirvana if you give nirvana to everyone you meet and as quickly as you get it.” • “Their unconscious mythology is what causes so much suffering in the world. It disconnects them both from their lives and each other.” • “Watch your mind. You will hear the story of your myth. It can be rewritten.” • “Try to find love even when it isn’t there.

SESSION 4

Topics: Being a loving presence in the world / Transformative attitude / Relating to Our Shared Presence/ The Happiness that Comes From Contributing / Ego’s Engagement Strategies Love’s Engagement Strategies/Moment-to-Moment Honesty/ Redemptive Love Takes Courage/Being Free of Freedom States/Operating from Love Ego Patterns vs. / Caller 1 : Bringing Redemptive Love To Inner Contraction/Caller 2: Love That You Are / Caller #3: Agape or. Redemptive Love Caller 4: Enlightenment In The Small Moments

Quotes: “When you stop resisting the limitations of the ego, it becomes porous. Your boundaries start to become pliable. You can experience something coming in from a different dimension of experience.” • “Love’s basic stance towards life is that it accepts life as it is.” • “True creative engagement, true relating from non-separation, arises from acceptance.” • “Love isn’t interested in getting what it wants; it’s interested in being what it is.” • “Redeeming love comes from a state of the overwhelming power to restore something to its original nature or being.” • “Sometimes it takes great courage to live a life of freedom and liberation.” • “We’re liberated from the concern about whether life is easy or difficult.” • “Liberation also means we’re liberated from wanting to feel really free. There’s something more important, a more fundamental agenda.” • “It’s one thing to experience redeeming love or deep awakening. It’s something else to really live it, to allow it to inform the way you relate.” • “When your center of regard is relaxed, it gets vast and wide, and the old ways of relating don’t seem compelling anymore.” • “On a deeper level, there is a kind of love that is not something you receive, but something that you are. The love that you are isn’t something that can be given or taken away; it’s an aspect of the truth of your being. It’s a love that is innate to you.” • “If there’s a withholding of truth, there’s withholding of love.”

SESSION 5

Topics: Letting go of the Myth of Inadequacy/ What are You Offering? Receiving Love Full / The Perspective on Real Love / Caller 1: The Transition From Mind to Heart / Caller 2: The Profound Aloneness Of Eternity /Caller 3: Getting off the Roller Coaster/Caller 4: Meeting your Humanity Head-On/Caller 5: Getting out of the Way/Caller 6: Redemptive Love No-Self

Quotes: “Everything arises from the ultimate core of your being. Tap into that resource over and over again, because that’s your heritage. That’s what you’re given.” • “When you leave the old story of inadequacy behind, you don’t just leave it behind for yourself; you leave it behind for all the generations that may come.” • “When you get stuck in judgment and self-criticism, you’re in service to judgment. You’re giving it the most important things you have, which are your energy, attention, and action.” • “Whether it feels like it’s poured in or arises out of you, redemptive love is redemptive love. What matters is the coming alive of it.” • “Love listens first. It really wants to understand.” • “We’re not given the gift of revelation simply for our own enjoyment. We’re given it so that we get on with the business of being it.” • “If you want love, then be it. If you want understanding, then be understanding. If you want deep acceptance, then be acceptance.” • “Sometimes love stretches you and sometimes it fulfills you. Sometimes it takes great fortitude to follow through on acting on that love.” • “Love doesn’t move away from suffering; love turns toward it.” • “When the self really falls away, the only thing that moves life about is a force or an energy that could be called selfless. It’s a force of love.” • “Go out there and be a loving presence in the world, and abide in the presence of your being.”