About this book
These lively talks and dialogues are about seeing through the illusion of separation and waking up to the boundless wholeness that is all there is. Joan's approach is open and explorative, questioning all attempts to conceptually grasp and frame the movement of life. She talks about seeing through the stories and beliefs that create our human suffering and waking up to the simplicity of what is. This book beautifully dissolves the apparent dichotomy between the uncompromising "this is it, just as it is" message of radical non-duality and the emphasis on "being here now" that is found in many meditation teachings. Joan has an affinity with Buddhism, Advaita, and radical non-duality, but she belongs to no tradition. In these talks and dialogues, she takes on such perennial questions as, Is there a way out of personal and global suffering? Can we choose to stop addictive and destructive patterns? Does being awake take effort, vigilance, and practice, or is it effortlessly and unavoidably always already the case? What happens when we die?
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Notes on the Text
- The Simplicity of What Is
- The Movie of Waking Life
- It’s Hopeless
- You Can’t Not Be It
- Is Anyone Directing the Show?
- Why Sit Quietly?
- The Pathless Path Through Suffering
- Conversation with a Friend
- Miss Scarlet in the Billiard Room with the Wrench
- Beyond the Conceptual Divide
- The Imaginary Vantage Point
- Seven Steps to Dissolving the Imaginary Problem
- A Useless Message
- You Can’t Get Any Closer to Here than Here
- Not Making Something Out of Nothing
- How Free Are We?
- Cosmic Play
- Nonduality: What Is It?
- You’ll Never Get It
- There’s No Way Out of Totality
- Email Correspondence with George
- Beyond Belief
- What Dies? What Wakes Up?
- Is India More Nondual than Chicago?
- The Truman Show
- Wearing Out the “Yes, buts”
- Acknowledgements