"Such a timely book! Amoda's clarity of writing makes the universal inner wisdom relevant and accessible to the seeker in these troubled times."
Falling Open in a World Falling Apart
The Essential Teaching of Amoda Maa
Description
This book offers the “jewel” of Amoda Maa's teachings—how to be fully awake and fully human, open in a way that's the key to freedom and to what's most needed in our troubled times. Unlike having no boundaries, this openness transforms reactivity, ends separation, leads us to our true authority, and guides us with the intelligence of love.
Reviews
"I love that Amoda Maa includes and works with our humanness, rather than attempting to ignore or by-pass the messiness and difficulties of everyday life. But she doesn't get entangled in the mess either. Instead, Amoda invites a falling open into "the groundless ground of unbroken presence," the openness that allows everything to be as it is. Paradoxically, this is exactly where genuine transformation happens. There is a gentle tenderness in this book. The words come from the heart, from clear seeing, and from the openness that the book invites the reader to discover.Amoda encourages "listening to the deepest truth in you, listening to that which is prior to narrative and prior to reactivity, listening to the silence within--and then moving from this silence. Or not moving at all." Falling Open is a beautiful book that I haver highly recommend. As Amoda says, "This book is a transmission. Do not read it. Feel it." Yes!
“The invitation to fall open and to embrace what appears to be falling apart has always been a vital part of the lived awakening experience. And now that the world is shaking and — dare I say it — in the process of transformation, there is an urgency to the task at hand. Amoda speaks to this directly, and stirs the heart. Her voice is eloquent and precise — a rich and extraordinarily valuable contribution to the current zeitgeist. I cannot recommend her — and this, her latest book — highly enough.“
"As this wise book eloquently reminds us, awakened living involves the boundless embrace of our precious, messy human experience in all its subtlety and complexity--the pain as well as the laughter, the confusion as well as the clarity--without either indentifying with it or pushing it away. This unconditional openness is not a practice, it's our natural state, our inherently awake true nature, the timeless presence that welcomes reality just as it is because it is essentially not separate from whatever arises. Amoda Maa has it right--embodied awakening is the seamless marriage of form and emptiness, human and transcendent, vulnerable and indestructible, which meet right here and now --as you!"
