Summary: How long does it take to become spiritually awakened? Does it take hundreds of hours of dedicated meditation—or can it really happen in an instant? When Tami Simon recorded Adyashanti’s new audio learning course Falling into Grace, she asked him to shed light on this enduring puzzle of awakening. Adya’s response was more than she even hoped—the insights he offers about the nature of awakening are direct, lucid, and powerfully transformative. In this excerpt, Adyashanti talks about the essential moment in which we “die before we die,” when we completely and wholly surrender to the unknown.
