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Acceptance of What Is...A Book About Nothing
Nada es forma... forma es Nada «Cuando la Aceptación llega, elimina toda implicación, y entonces hay paz. No es la paz momentánea que sientes cuando consigues lo que deseas, y tampoco es la paz del olvido; más bien es la paz que hay en el centro del ciclón, en el ojo del huracán. Estás totalmente rodeado por el torbellino de la vida y del vivir; aunque el tumulto de la vida es, sólo en el ojo de la tormenta hay paz, hay quietud. Esta Aceptación a la que estoy apuntando es sinónima de esas paz y quietud.»
298 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2000
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November 2, 2012
One of the finest books on Advaita by a friend, student, colleague of Ramesh Balsekar. It is profound and witty and eminently readable. Anyone who doesn't know about advaita could very well start here. I constantly return to this book.
July 29, 2015
As I've come to expect, Wayne makes his points with enormous charm, wit, and incisiveness.
May 17, 2022
Un enfoque distinto de en que consiste la existencia. Mantenerlo en la práctica puede ser costoso, pero seguro que ofrece una sensación de paz.
June 10, 2023
This is only the second time I have ever reviewed a book. But sometimes the connection I've made with an author through following the trail left by his thoughts on paper has created such a change in my life that I'm left ever after with the desire to somehow repay the benefit he gave me. That is the motivation behind both these words and the other review I attempted.
Wayne Liquorman has many qualities that I find attractive :
[1] He is alive, (unlike many other spiritual teachers). Therefore you can go to his talks in person, question him, watch his videos... see where he is coming from with your own eyes.
[2] He is a Westerner - part of our own culture. So he both knows exactly where we're coming from, and his familiarity with our ways of thinking and living allows him to shed some light on the pitfalls lining a Westerner's quest for awakening,... from the inside. Otherwise, in a field which is heavily skewed with Eastern masters, the inescapable impression is that the only practitioners who ever truly attain the goals they seek come from India, Tibet, pre-communist China, or Japan.
[3] He has an absolutely outrageous 'wit' which somehow manages to be, at the same time, both breath-takingly funny and as precise as a surgeon's scalpel. Actually, the term 'sense of humour' is far too ordinary to even begin to describe the prepostrous stories and analogies he spins in this, the first published story of his life experiences.
[4] And finally,... he was an alcoholic and drug user for the 19 years of his life immediately preceding the highly unusual beginning of his spiritual transformation. For me, once again, this helped remove the idea that somehow only "saintly people" had the remotest chance of winning the spiritual lottery. As a fellow 'child of the sixties' and a participant in all the varied experiences that came along with those times, it helped me feel a shared life-connection with him rather than feeling I was only able to sit child-like at the feet of some 'remote-but-wise' Eastern guru.
I won't write anything more about his book here. In the spirit of what Wayne himself wrote on its back cover, (the place traditionally reserved for publishers to print praise from the popular press and extol how long it has been on the 'Best Sellers List'), I'll leave you with his personal suggestion on the matter :
"Read the book and form your own godamned opinion !"
Personally, I don't think you will regret the experience.
Wayne Liquorman has many qualities that I find attractive :
[1] He is alive, (unlike many other spiritual teachers). Therefore you can go to his talks in person, question him, watch his videos... see where he is coming from with your own eyes.
[2] He is a Westerner - part of our own culture. So he both knows exactly where we're coming from, and his familiarity with our ways of thinking and living allows him to shed some light on the pitfalls lining a Westerner's quest for awakening,... from the inside. Otherwise, in a field which is heavily skewed with Eastern masters, the inescapable impression is that the only practitioners who ever truly attain the goals they seek come from India, Tibet, pre-communist China, or Japan.
[3] He has an absolutely outrageous 'wit' which somehow manages to be, at the same time, both breath-takingly funny and as precise as a surgeon's scalpel. Actually, the term 'sense of humour' is far too ordinary to even begin to describe the prepostrous stories and analogies he spins in this, the first published story of his life experiences.
[4] And finally,... he was an alcoholic and drug user for the 19 years of his life immediately preceding the highly unusual beginning of his spiritual transformation. For me, once again, this helped remove the idea that somehow only "saintly people" had the remotest chance of winning the spiritual lottery. As a fellow 'child of the sixties' and a participant in all the varied experiences that came along with those times, it helped me feel a shared life-connection with him rather than feeling I was only able to sit child-like at the feet of some 'remote-but-wise' Eastern guru.
I won't write anything more about his book here. In the spirit of what Wayne himself wrote on its back cover, (the place traditionally reserved for publishers to print praise from the popular press and extol how long it has been on the 'Best Sellers List'), I'll leave you with his personal suggestion on the matter :
"Read the book and form your own godamned opinion !"
Personally, I don't think you will regret the experience.
October 13, 2022
This is a transcription of Wayne's talks about enlightenment, the "Understanding" and being a mind-body earthling after experiencing it. It's divided into topics and is a 290 page Q&A. It is a rather tedious read, somewhat repetitive and laden with dad jokes. The people asking the questions seem to adore him, he is probably much more interesting in person for like a 90 minute talk or something. I don't know. The material isn't necessarily bad, I just don't think he needed to print every. single. word.
October 20, 2009
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