About this book
A compilation of expressions, questions and answers that came about in response to Leo's highly praised first book Awakening to the Dream. Leo writes with characteristic insight and uses metaphor to illuminate the paradoxical and apparently confusing nature of non-dual reality.
His original writing is reinforced by a vast knowledge of non-duality in other spiritual traditions and he weaves these together with his own direct path to present clear pointers to contemporary seekers.
An appropriately chosen quotation taken from various sources appears at the end of each short chapter. Also included at the end of the book is the full text of the Hsin-hsin Ming by the third Chan patriarch Seng-ts'an.
"The words in this book repeatedly point to the essence which knows the reading as it takes place. Rather than an encouragement to follow a lengthy path, it is an invitation to step off the path. It does not point to 'your' awareness, but to Awareness itself in which the idea of 'you' appears. It does not point to 'your' beingness, but to the undeniable Beingness that appears as you."
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. God’s toothache
- 2. How to deal with opposing approaches?
- 3. Splitting IT
- 4. My mind is always complaining
- 5. Near death experiences
- 6. What bothers me about Advaita
- 7. Is this witnessing?
- 8. About addiction
- 8. A False Sense of liberation
- 9. Time tested rules
- 10. Nothing happens
- 11. The final pinnacle of evolution
- 12. Looking for my bliss
- 13. Today there is freedom!
- 14. What is it that makes the ONE appear to be many?
- 15. Why?
- 16. Is there an even playing field for all?
- 17. Is being good or bad of any relevance?
- 18. The ultimate non-dual reality
- 19. What is the Dark Night of the Soul?
- 20. Is awareness dependant on a body/mind?
- 21. Five in one
- 22. The great paradox
- 23. Sadness and a steady diet of Advaita.
- 24. How to play the game?
- 25. Don’t worry, be happy
- 26. The real and the unreal
- 27. Be the way you are
- 28. Clarity, the senses and the brain
- 29. Acceptance of what is
- 30. Other people’s answers
- 31. No purpose or meaning
- 32. Why do I ask the question?
- 33. Who creates all the thoughts?
- 34. Science and the theory of evolution
- 35. How to stop thinking?
- 36. False lucidity
- 37. False lucidity, part 2
- 38. Understanding is everything
- 39. I am not the doer
- 40. Being close to awakening
- 41. I know
- 42. This crazy see-saw.
- 43. There is no separation.
- 44. Perhaps we need a new language?
- 45. This sense of self
- 46. A free hand to the bullies
- 47. Who knows?
- 48. Sadness and hopelessness
- 49. I feel like a dog chasing its tail
- 50. A real sense of being stuck
- 51. The presence of being
- 52. How might one achieve it?
- 53. The longing continues
- 54. Chasing realization
- 55. Obsessed with this search for truth
- 56. What do ’I’ do when awakening has happened?
- 57. Is awareness the ‘doer?’
- 58. This body will die
- 59. Can there be knowing without a body/mind?
- 60. Slightly out of focus
- 61. Choicelessly aware
- 62. Some hard questions
- 63. On having a distinctively troublesome mind
- 64. There is nothing else
- 65. Is this the same Advaita?
- 66. Why is there anything at all?
- 67. This sense of self
- 68. Trying to explain the unexplainable
- 69. It happens when it happens
- 70. Are awakenings happening now more than ever before?
- 71. From where do all those appearances arise?
- 72. What do we really know, for sure?
- 73. Why is this awareness restricted to one body/mind?
- 74. The seeking curse
- 75. The full significance
- 76. Ending my spiritual search
- 77. Being present
- 78. Mortality vs. immortality
- 79. Struggling with resistance
- 80. Doing something or doing nothing
- 81. What about this intellectual approach?
- 82. The central ‘I’ character
- 83. A state I yearn for
- 84. The body is an illusion
- 85. How can Awareness be present during deep sleep?
- 86. Nothing happened
- 87. One Source
- 88. Is there any spontaneity to life?
- 89. Boldly go where no ‘I’ has gone before
- 90. What about channelling?
- 91. How to go forward?
- 92. Journey’s end
- Afterword
- The Mind of Absolute Trust or the Hsin-hsin Ming
