One heck of a book I have ever read! It covers most of the things like enlightenment, pain, fear, time, death, happiness, relationships, root cause of problems and most importantly how you can work towards enlightenment while you live in the Now, not one fine day, but right NOW!
He begins by reminding us that Enlightenment cannot be expressed by explaining what it is. It can only be expressed by ruling out what it is not! And as to enlightenment what it is.. You have to arrive at it. To quote Eckhart Enlightenment is “The knowing of which the mind knows nothing”.
The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind. The mind can never find a solution, nor can it afford to allow you to find the solutions, because it is itself an intrinsic part of the ‘problem’. Pain is something that you create in the Now and that lives on in the mind and body! As for Ego- to be wrong is to die!
Death is stripping away, of all that is not you. The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ and find that there is no death.
Similar to this is what I learned about death from J Krishnamurthy.
I have re-told a few wonderful lines from the book. My intention was to show how deep this book can reach you. Even if enlightenment is not what you seek, this book can tell you things that make your everyday beautiful and filled with happiness.
If not enlightened, we will at least be aware!
The book gets 5/5.
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