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The Lazy Man's Way To Enlightenment: What You're Looking For Is What Is Looking
Who are you? I mean, who are you Really? Are you the ego-personality with a history, the one who was born, given a name and birth date, taught right from wrong, good from bad, spiritual from unspiritual? Are you the body you move around in, you know, that thing that will surely die, because it was born? Are you absolutely at peace with your eventual demise?Are you the mind that compares, judges and resists? Are you the mind that's in a continual state of grasping and avoiding? Are you really a separate person amongst other separate persons, living in this world for a period of time? Can you be who you think you are? Can thoughts or words even approach what you are?There's a lie right in the center of your consciousness. It's the belief in the 'me' as a separate individual, a mere thought that causes so much angst and dis-ease. There is so much suffering in identifying as a separate self, in believing that the story of you and your life has any substance worth holding onto. This creates misery and disconnection, not only in the mind but in the body too, because the body follows the mind, does it not?Hell is not some place we might go when we die some day. Hell is right here, right now, believing the stories the mind spins. Hell is the belief in separation, and for the one who believes he is separate from the One. Relief from Hell, expulsion from Hell, is in the seeing that there is no one here to take anything personally. If no one is present, how can there be any separation? If no one is present, how can suffering arise?Might you be the Aware Presence, the Loving Consciousness that witnesses all that? Could you be the timeless and eternal space of welcoming awareness - the Spirit - that never enters the stream of time? Who you take yourself to be has everything to do with whether you live a life filled with peace and happiness, or a life fraught with pain and suffering. Identify yourself as the body and mind that lives in time and you inevitably live out that limited perspective. "The Lazy Man's Way To What You're Looking For Is What Is Looking," is overflowing with direct, end-of-the-road pointer to spiritual freedom. It's a guidebook that goes far beyond what you've been taught, beyond religion and philosophy, to discovering Who You Really Are, not who you think, assume or believe you are. It's about stripping away all that is false, until only what is true remains. And in that stripping away, freedom is found. In the end, what can matter more than realizing who you really are?
- GenresSpirituality
179 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2012
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June 14, 2013
This is a very well written book on metaphysics. I've enjoyed reading every page.
March 24, 2016
This is a great book if you want to find out about what enlightenment is.
It is not a how to book, but more a description of the enlightenment experience.
He covers it from a lot of different angles: it is the same thing but here described from the point of view of Awareness and there from the point of view of the mind/ego trying to make sense of it. In the process, there are a lot of pointers to pitfalls to e.g. not quite getting it as well as pointers to how to see things right. For instance, he points out one of the great (in my view) obstacles to Awareness, namely the mind - the i - thinking it is real and thinking it (the i) is experiencing.
The writer's style is very direct and personable. It is as if he is talking to you (say in a pub ;-) ) and indeed doing his best to make you SEE. He does not use heavy language or confusing words that I have found in other books (words you don't *really* know the meaning of - but pretend to yourself you do).
Just before writing this, I re-read one of the chapters, and I don't usually re-read, but on the second reading some of the issues I had been working on were there and made sense the second time around. So, it is one of those books that I think needs to be read, thought about, then read again, and so on - until Enlightenment strikes you!
I was going to say: I will write a post-script to let you know when I reach Enlightenment. But it may be that in that state I won't feel the need to write any of this stuff anymore..... (watch this space)
It is not a how to book, but more a description of the enlightenment experience.
He covers it from a lot of different angles: it is the same thing but here described from the point of view of Awareness and there from the point of view of the mind/ego trying to make sense of it. In the process, there are a lot of pointers to pitfalls to e.g. not quite getting it as well as pointers to how to see things right. For instance, he points out one of the great (in my view) obstacles to Awareness, namely the mind - the i - thinking it is real and thinking it (the i) is experiencing.
The writer's style is very direct and personable. It is as if he is talking to you (say in a pub ;-) ) and indeed doing his best to make you SEE. He does not use heavy language or confusing words that I have found in other books (words you don't *really* know the meaning of - but pretend to yourself you do).
Just before writing this, I re-read one of the chapters, and I don't usually re-read, but on the second reading some of the issues I had been working on were there and made sense the second time around. So, it is one of those books that I think needs to be read, thought about, then read again, and so on - until Enlightenment strikes you!
I was going to say: I will write a post-script to let you know when I reach Enlightenment. But it may be that in that state I won't feel the need to write any of this stuff anymore..... (watch this space)
September 16, 2014
Easy to read, well written, and quite a good summary of modern nondual teachings and approach in general. Leans to the Neo-Advaita side of things, with no real practices or explorations, but rather just hammering home the idea of things being already perfect (ultimately or on an absolute level), and there being nothing left to do but absorb and accept that 'fact'. Joins the hordes of other books written with a similar aim and thrust on this subject. Personally, I don't see the point of more and more books being written which basically describe the same idea and go about explaining and approaching this idea in pretty much the same way. May be of interest to those new to 'nonduality'.
April 5, 2024
Fantastic Read. For the first time I have really understood “Non-Duality” and I have a full library of spiritual books!
Thank you David🙏
I have purchased your other two books, so on to them…
Thank you David🙏
I have purchased your other two books, so on to them…
December 26, 2025
Amazing!
An amazing read, that should be read by everyone seeking truth. This book showed me a different perspective on and a beautiful understandibg of enlightenment.
An amazing read, that should be read by everyone seeking truth. This book showed me a different perspective on and a beautiful understandibg of enlightenment.
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