"... The Jesus story can come to life in a way that’s truly meaningful for us. Of course, for many people this may be quite challenging. For some, it may even seem blasphemous to really embody the story in the way that I’m suggesting. But I think that all of the invitations to do so are right there in the story itself. When I really listen to what the stories have to say, it’s as if Jesus is saying, “Come, come into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven exists on the face of the earth, and men and women do not understand it.” It seems to me that the presence of Jesus is a living embodiment of eternity, an embodiment of what exists within our own selves. The Jesus story is a mirror that helps us to see ourselves more clearly. The primary function of mythic storytelling is to render life transparent to the underlying transcendence that shines through it. This is the power of storytelling. Storytelling invites us into a creative relationship with the story. We can’t just be onlookers at a distance; we must throw ourselves into the story so that we start to become the characters. We must allow ourselves to see life with the eyes of Jesus, with the eyes of Christ, to see the world through the eyes of the disciples, through the eyes of those who were healed and made whole and redeemed by the Christ presence..."
- Adyashanti, Resurrecting Jesus
Can we have a collective story that truly serves our liberation?
According to Swami Chetanananda, "The Jesus story has been used to manipulate people for thousands of years.. it is so tainted that it now time to move on from it and make a new story... a true story..."
Adyashanti invites us to rediscover the life and teachings of Jesus as a direct path to what may be the most radical of transformations: spiritual awakening.
Jesus crossed all of the boundary lines 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, Adyashanti asks us to consider the man known as Jesus as an exemplar of the realized state and a model of enlightened engagement with the world. He examines the story of Jesus from his birth to the Resurrection to reveal how the central events in Jesus' life parallel the stages of awakening that we may be called to experience ourselves. Adyashanti then illuminates five central archetypes of the Jesus story -- Peter, John, Mary Magdalene, Judas, and Pontius Pilate -- and the key insights they hold about the way we may relate to the spiritual impulse within.
"When the eternal and the human meet," writes Adyashanti, "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, from one moment to the next, with heart and mind wide open to the mystery that lives inside us all.
Jesus crossed all of the boundary lines 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, Adyashanti asks us to consider the man known as Jesus as an exemplar of the realized state and a model of enlightened engagement with the world. He examines the story of Jesus from his birth to the Resurrection to reveal how the central events in Jesus' life parallel the stages of awakening that we may be called to experience ourselves. Adyashanti then illuminates five central archetypes of the Jesus story -- Peter, John, Mary Magdalene, Judas, and Pontius Pilate -- and the key insights they hold about the way we may relate to the spiritual impulse within.
"When the eternal and the human meet," writes Adyashanti, "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, from one moment to the next, with heart and mind wide open to the mystery that lives inside us all.
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