Beyond Awakening: The End of the Spiritual Search
by Jeff Foster
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Author: Jeff FosterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-14
ISBN: 0955399971
Number of pages: 141
Publisher: Non-Duality Press
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Book Review: A confession of what is
Summary: 5 Stars
The hallmark of Neo-Advaita, or whatever you want to call this genre, is confession of what is. The confession falls into itself leaving nothing.
There is nothing to confess, therefore there is nothing but confession.
Or as Jeff puts it: "Everything is empty, and so everything is divine. Everything is illusion, and so everything matters absolutely." Living that truth, all you can do is confess it or claim it to be so, in an infinity of ways.
What's keeping you from seeing that? You won't know until you see it. You can do things to come close to that perception, such as meditate, do self-inquiry, engage body work, do Yoga, surrender to God, take psycho-active substances. You could have that perception for days, months, or years.
However, grace descends on some people - whatever that means -- and they come to see and know that "Everything is empty, and so everything is divine." They know it so fully that there is no one to know it.
Jeff describes this descent of grace upon him, though I don't know if he would call it that: "I was walking through the rain on a cold autumn evening in Oxford. The sky was getting dark; I was wrapped up warm in my new coat. And suddenly and without warning, the search for `something more' apparently fell away, and with it all separation and loneliness."
If the grace never comes down on you, you can at least recognize what it means when it does, and live from that disposition. That is, you can know non-separation and live out of the intelligence of non-separation, even if that life is not fully dissolved into the immediacy of what is arising.
Read Beyond Awakening and you will come to know what non-separation is like to someone - or no one - who lives in the recognition of it.
Jerry Katz
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