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Beyond Awakening:
the end of the spiritual search
Jeff Foster
£7.95/$13.95
160pages, p/b, Isbn: 978-0-9553999-7-8
A
welcome follow-up to Jeff's acclaimed fist book, Life Without a Centre.
Further reflections, refractions and dialogues on the play of
appearances.
Please visit Jeff's new website : http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART 1
A Walk In The Rain 1
PART 2: Reflections
Just a Thought 15
This is It! 18
The End of Spirituality 21
The Seeking Game 25
The Message of Nonduality 28
Contradictions 30
Vicious Circles 32
A Deadly Message 34
The End of Suffering 36
The Myth of Choice 39
The Elephant 42
PART 3: Dialogue
PART 4: Refractions
Pain 67
What We Really, Really Want 71
Allowing Individuality 73
Death 76
Perhaps This Is Love 78
Who Cares? 82
Full Stop 85
Silent Sermon 87
PART 5: And There Was a World
Genesis 93
Nothing Ever Happens 97
Coming Home 99
The Mystery of Things 102
Wherever You Go 107
There Is Nothing to Understand! 109
The Kingdom of Heaven 112
The Robin 117
The Play of Appearances 120
Love 123
An Evening Walk 125
Night 128
Into The Void 131
Sunrise 135
The Secret 140
The Secret
What a miracle it is to be alive right now, on this new day, on this day
of all days! What a gift, what indescribable joy! To eat breakfast. To go
to the toilet. To shower. To put on clothes. To walk out into the fresh
air. To experience pain and pleasure, happiness and sadness, even though
it’s all a play of consciousness, even though everything happens for
nobody…
To live, even though life is not separate from death. To move about this
beautiful, fragile, transitory world, to meet yourself again and again in
a thousand different places, to enjoy everything that life has to offer,
even though you know you will eventually die; even though this body will
be ravaged by cancer, or the heart will fail, or the limbs will be mangled
beyond all recognition in a car accident…
To love others with all your heart and all your soul and all your might,
to love them without conditions, to love them fiercely, passionately, to
love them until it hurts, even though you know they will all die, all of
them, every single one…
To go on, to insist on life and nothing less, even though every experience
you ever had will fade into Nothingness, even though one day you will
struggle to remember if any of it really happened at all…
Yes, at last, here’s the secret: this moment is life’s only meaning.
The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
- Li Po
(p.140)
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