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The End of Suffering: Fearless Living in Troubled Times... or, How to Get Out of Hell Free
The hopeful teaching of this book is that while everybody suffers, most of this suffering is unnecessary--it can be overcome. The legacy of Aristotle is that we think that things must be either true or untrue. Thus we tend to think in terms of polarities: good or evil, right or wrong, Democrat or Republican. This friend-or-foe approach may seem to make life easier, but Russell Targ and J. J. Hurtak in The End of Suffering, assert that this worldview only increases our experience of suffering.
In an effort to overcome the polarity of opposites and the accompanying suffering, Targ and Hurtak combine the wisdom of the East with the finding of quantum physics and uncover a middle ground that shows opposing sides are really the same.
Buddha taught us to live a helpful and compassionate life and to surrender our ego to the peace of spaciousness. The middle path of Buddhism shows that things may also be neither true nor not true, or both true and untrue. Remarkably, recent discoveries in modern physics echo these ancient teachings.
The End of Suffering puts these perceived opposites--Buddhism and physics--together and shows, step-by-step, how we can learn to surrender the story of who we think we are and experience an end to our suffering.
In an effort to overcome the polarity of opposites and the accompanying suffering, Targ and Hurtak combine the wisdom of the East with the finding of quantum physics and uncover a middle ground that shows opposing sides are really the same.
Buddha taught us to live a helpful and compassionate life and to surrender our ego to the peace of spaciousness. The middle path of Buddhism shows that things may also be neither true nor not true, or both true and untrue. Remarkably, recent discoveries in modern physics echo these ancient teachings.
The End of Suffering puts these perceived opposites--Buddhism and physics--together and shows, step-by-step, how we can learn to surrender the story of who we think we are and experience an end to our suffering.
208 pages, Paperback
First published February 27, 2006
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June 26, 2014
After so many years of spiritual, physics, and psychic study, I rarely encounter new concepts. It is more likely that the concept will touch me in a new way by showing me something new because of the timing of my current exposure to it. What makes this book exceptional is that it taught me new ways of thinking.
I learned who Russell Targ is, as well as the fact that he is a talented physicist, when I read Jim Schnabel's book on remote viewing. Targ has been part of psi research for decades, and has personal success with earning money using quantum physics combined with remote viewing. He impressed me, which is why I added him to my author list and sought out this book to read more of his work.
There is a lot of rewarding reading in this book. J.J. Hurtak, Ph.D., is an expert in ancient Asian history. The details he provided into the cultures that birthed so many spiritual concepts added amazing depth to the book.
Standout features of the book are that it lives up to its title; if you follow the practices in the book, you can end your personal suffering. Another standout feature is the clear writing style the authors have. In different hands, this could have been a dry, confusing, vague read. Perhaps my favorite feature in the book was reading about psychic studies which were new to me. A true treat. Without the glossary in the back, and the word etymology the authors included, I wouldn't have been able to make connections between concepts and cultures the way I did because of their thoroughness.
I highly recommend this book to spiritual seekers, fans of quantum physics, and those interested in psychic studies. If you have read it, I'd love to hear your opinion.
I learned who Russell Targ is, as well as the fact that he is a talented physicist, when I read Jim Schnabel's book on remote viewing. Targ has been part of psi research for decades, and has personal success with earning money using quantum physics combined with remote viewing. He impressed me, which is why I added him to my author list and sought out this book to read more of his work.
There is a lot of rewarding reading in this book. J.J. Hurtak, Ph.D., is an expert in ancient Asian history. The details he provided into the cultures that birthed so many spiritual concepts added amazing depth to the book.
Standout features of the book are that it lives up to its title; if you follow the practices in the book, you can end your personal suffering. Another standout feature is the clear writing style the authors have. In different hands, this could have been a dry, confusing, vague read. Perhaps my favorite feature in the book was reading about psychic studies which were new to me. A true treat. Without the glossary in the back, and the word etymology the authors included, I wouldn't have been able to make connections between concepts and cultures the way I did because of their thoroughness.
I highly recommend this book to spiritual seekers, fans of quantum physics, and those interested in psychic studies. If you have read it, I'd love to hear your opinion.
July 4, 2007
basically, the book uses buddhism and physics to prove that 'seperation is an illusion.'
the authors (a co-founder of the remote viewing programs used for military intelligence and a spiritual teacher) abandon aristotelian duality to explore Nagarjuna's tetralemma, a practice of creating one-ness by allowing several truths to coexist.
while the discussion of buddhism in this book is simplistic and redundant, it is a necessary base as the conversation carries over to the realm of quantum theory. they explore suffering, psychic experience, and non-locality, the most profound idea in metaphysics.
a long review but a very quick read :)
the authors (a co-founder of the remote viewing programs used for military intelligence and a spiritual teacher) abandon aristotelian duality to explore Nagarjuna's tetralemma, a practice of creating one-ness by allowing several truths to coexist.
while the discussion of buddhism in this book is simplistic and redundant, it is a necessary base as the conversation carries over to the realm of quantum theory. they explore suffering, psychic experience, and non-locality, the most profound idea in metaphysics.
a long review but a very quick read :)
January 23, 2016
I thought I was reading a Philip K. Dick book when I flipped this open to the chapter about the CIA secret-project that succeeded (!?) in applying psychic non-local viewing powers to Cold War data collection of a Soviet research site.
This is an exerpt from Russell Targ's author biography:
"At the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s, Targ and his colleague Harold E. Puthoff co-founded a 23-year, $25-million program of research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence. These abilities are referred to collectively as "remote viewing". Targ and Puthoff both expressed the belief that Uri Geller, retired police commissioner Pat Price and artist Ingo Swann all had genuine psychic abilities. They published their findings in Nature and the Proceedings of the IEEE. From 1972 to 1995 the program was classified SECRET and compartmentalized with Limited Access. That is to say, the program was not only classified, but every single person who was informed about the program had to personally sign a so-called bigot list, to acknowledge that they had been exposed to the program data."
I question whether it was kept secret because it held valuable and sensitive information, or if it was rather out of sheer embarrassment that such a program was actually funded.
This is the kind of book that makes me vomit. How did it end up in my library pulls?
Then the next chapter offered a very compelling critique of Aristotle and a sober application of the thought of Nagarjuna and Einstein's musings on the interconnection of consciousness and the universe, so maybe I'll keep reading?
I just hope they don't say AIDS and Cancer are false manifestations of Aristotelian logic (as though Bowie wasn't an enlightened man). Kill me now, Cancer is more real than J.J. Hurtak's two Ph.Ds
Update:
While there was nothing offensive here, the authors continuously backed off from the title. The suffering they refer to there is more the emotional or existential suffering we get from thoughts like, "why is everyone against me? Why am I not successful?" and so on.
There was a lot of fluff here. Essentially Aristotle teaches us of the excluded middle. Everything is either black or not black. This leads, the author says, to slavery/racism and strange political claims like when Bush says, "you're either with us or your a terrorist". Nagarjuna, an ancient Buddhist philosopher, claims that there is no absolutely true or absolutely false - everything is middle ground. It follows that there is no Me and Them - everyone is in this together and we are all connected. The authors then make an extraordinary leap into some hocus-pocus about curing all diseases.
Next time perhaps the authors could publish a pamphlet.
This is an exerpt from Russell Targ's author biography:
"At the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s, Targ and his colleague Harold E. Puthoff co-founded a 23-year, $25-million program of research into psychic abilities and their operational use for the U.S. intelligence community, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Intelligence. These abilities are referred to collectively as "remote viewing". Targ and Puthoff both expressed the belief that Uri Geller, retired police commissioner Pat Price and artist Ingo Swann all had genuine psychic abilities. They published their findings in Nature and the Proceedings of the IEEE. From 1972 to 1995 the program was classified SECRET and compartmentalized with Limited Access. That is to say, the program was not only classified, but every single person who was informed about the program had to personally sign a so-called bigot list, to acknowledge that they had been exposed to the program data."
I question whether it was kept secret because it held valuable and sensitive information, or if it was rather out of sheer embarrassment that such a program was actually funded.
This is the kind of book that makes me vomit. How did it end up in my library pulls?
Then the next chapter offered a very compelling critique of Aristotle and a sober application of the thought of Nagarjuna and Einstein's musings on the interconnection of consciousness and the universe, so maybe I'll keep reading?
I just hope they don't say AIDS and Cancer are false manifestations of Aristotelian logic (as though Bowie wasn't an enlightened man). Kill me now, Cancer is more real than J.J. Hurtak's two Ph.Ds
Update:
While there was nothing offensive here, the authors continuously backed off from the title. The suffering they refer to there is more the emotional or existential suffering we get from thoughts like, "why is everyone against me? Why am I not successful?" and so on.
There was a lot of fluff here. Essentially Aristotle teaches us of the excluded middle. Everything is either black or not black. This leads, the author says, to slavery/racism and strange political claims like when Bush says, "you're either with us or your a terrorist". Nagarjuna, an ancient Buddhist philosopher, claims that there is no absolutely true or absolutely false - everything is middle ground. It follows that there is no Me and Them - everyone is in this together and we are all connected. The authors then make an extraordinary leap into some hocus-pocus about curing all diseases.
Next time perhaps the authors could publish a pamphlet.
July 12, 2015
Dealing primarily with a synthesis of Buddhist teaching and contemporary quantum theory, Targ (the original X-Files "David Duchovny" who worked on governmental Remove Viewing research in the 70's and 80's) and Hurtak (an eminent philosopher and futurist) show us a world of LIMITLESS MIND and EXPANDED NON-LOCAL AWARENESS and demarcates the co-arising consequences of such states of perception.
Following in the lines of the ancient Hindu Sutras (dating back to 4,000 BC) through Christ and into the the Buddhist teachings of Nagarjuna (from 2 century AD) on into William Blake, Aldous Huxley and contemporary quantum research and psychical investigators, Targ & Hurtak re-lay an age-old formula and foundation for the end of egoic "I-centered" suffering backed by the scientific research communities of Remote Viewing (astral projection) and Quantum Entanglement Theory.
If this book were a business card the "name" would read: I'm not me, and the "address" would read: Unlimited Naked Awareness. If such assertions seem daunting to the uninitiated neophyte, the back of the business card would read: Empty Empty Happy Happy.
Whereas some "New Age" Literature loses its empirical basis in the flowering of fancy unexplained rhetoric, Targ & Hurtak ground the astral potential of their insights in the modern scientific laboratory, and cross-pollinate these empirical seeds with the wholly pertinent and seemingly lost philosophies of the Sages, Yogis, and Mystics throughout all of time.
Boasting insights into how to create such supra-sensible abilities as distant healing or "Affectation at a distance" and remote viewing or "Observation at a distance" the author's steer us away from salivating over the potential of their ideas to instill in us "new powers" (that were already there) and instead wake the reader to surrender their story for a more integrated and interdependent consciousness which views separation as an illusion exercised by the egoic mind state (and all the "Dis-ease" that accompanies it).
I highly recommend this piece of fore-casting literature to anybody who desires scientific and empirical western mind-set grounded language alongside a reiteration of past philosophies that corroborate modern quantum discoveries. Russell Targ has a great interview on Coast to Coast FM and/or you can visit his website espresearch.com
Following in the lines of the ancient Hindu Sutras (dating back to 4,000 BC) through Christ and into the the Buddhist teachings of Nagarjuna (from 2 century AD) on into William Blake, Aldous Huxley and contemporary quantum research and psychical investigators, Targ & Hurtak re-lay an age-old formula and foundation for the end of egoic "I-centered" suffering backed by the scientific research communities of Remote Viewing (astral projection) and Quantum Entanglement Theory.
If this book were a business card the "name" would read: I'm not me, and the "address" would read: Unlimited Naked Awareness. If such assertions seem daunting to the uninitiated neophyte, the back of the business card would read: Empty Empty Happy Happy.
Whereas some "New Age" Literature loses its empirical basis in the flowering of fancy unexplained rhetoric, Targ & Hurtak ground the astral potential of their insights in the modern scientific laboratory, and cross-pollinate these empirical seeds with the wholly pertinent and seemingly lost philosophies of the Sages, Yogis, and Mystics throughout all of time.
Boasting insights into how to create such supra-sensible abilities as distant healing or "Affectation at a distance" and remote viewing or "Observation at a distance" the author's steer us away from salivating over the potential of their ideas to instill in us "new powers" (that were already there) and instead wake the reader to surrender their story for a more integrated and interdependent consciousness which views separation as an illusion exercised by the egoic mind state (and all the "Dis-ease" that accompanies it).
I highly recommend this piece of fore-casting literature to anybody who desires scientific and empirical western mind-set grounded language alongside a reiteration of past philosophies that corroborate modern quantum discoveries. Russell Targ has a great interview on Coast to Coast FM and/or you can visit his website espresearch.com
October 4, 2024
Mycke flum mycke nice mycke intressant mycke som jag inte förstod. En nice läsupplevelse generellt med lärdomar jag absolut kommer ta med mig och studera vidare på:)
September 14, 2017
I some what disappointed because half of the book is taken from Targ's book "Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness" which was written two years before "The End of suffering". I am wondering if Russell Targ actually contributed anything original to it or if they just pulled text from Limitless Mind and then added his name.
October 26, 2016
"The End of Suffering" is a challenging but thought provoking investigation into the "Global Truths" of Buddha, "The Spiritual Technology" of Nigarjuna and how they can effect the end of human suffering. The book centers around Buddha's "Four Noble Truths", "The Middle Ground" of Buddhism, quantum physics and includes an excellent discussion of Nigarjuna's "Four Logic System" as differentiated from Aristolean Duality. The central theme of this book is that nothing exists independently and that separation is and illusion. Furthermore, consciousness is "singular" of which "plurality" of things is merely a series of different aspects of the singular consciousness which may be viewed as a deception. The teachings of Nagarjuna very closely parallels those of Advaita Vedenta, Chinese Philosophy and the author does an excellent job explaining their shared concept of the "One". My only criticism is that the author makes some rather gratuitous and unsettling remarks about the shared blame of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the exploitation of capitalism and other such comments, that in my opinion, do not reflect the spirit of non- dual theory and overall subtract from the integrity of this book.
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