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How to actually walk the direct way
💡 Move slowly through the practices, let the domains cross-pollinate, and return often — until awakened presence becomes your everyday ground rather than a scheduled exercise.
So how do you use The Direct Way? Adyashanti suggests you don't binge it. Take the practices slowly, ideally in sequence — grounding in the body, opening the heart, clarifying the mind, resting in being — letting each one soak in before moving on. Depth, not coverage, is the point.
Return to whichever practices open you most, and revisit the whole arc over time; the same practice reveals more as you change. Because the domains interweave, a body practice can suddenly deepen your understanding of mind, and stillness can flood back into feeling. Trust that cross-pollination rather than forcing a rigid march.
Ultimately the book aims to make itself unnecessary. Its whole purpose is to hand you back to the awareness you already are, so that presence becomes not a scheduled exercise but the ordinary ground you live from — while washing dishes, listening to a friend, walking down the street.
Source: The Direct Way — Adyashanti