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Awake!: Handbook of Awakening
Amrita Baba's first book "Awake! Handbook of Awakening" is as the name suggests a practical guidebook for having an awakening experience. The book teaches a practice - The Two-Part Formula - which is a practice that according to hundreds of people who've used it, generates the first awakening experience.
In addition to explaining the technique so that you can use it yourself right away, the book contains many dialogues and accounts from people who have gone though Guidance to Awakening with Amrita Baba or other teachers.
Awake!-book contains lots of theoretical and practical information about awakening that helps you to get a clear overview about awakening and most importantly teaches you a practice that you can use to awaken from your most stubborn self-centered habits.
In addition to explaining the technique so that you can use it yourself right away, the book contains many dialogues and accounts from people who have gone though Guidance to Awakening with Amrita Baba or other teachers.
Awake!-book contains lots of theoretical and practical information about awakening that helps you to get a clear overview about awakening and most importantly teaches you a practice that you can use to awaken from your most stubborn self-centered habits.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2018
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April 23, 2019
“Awakening” has many meanings in the spiritual community. In Buddhism, ”awakening” has a clear definition, that is, experientially seeing the emptiness or dependently arisen nature of the so-called “self”. In this book, a practice called the Two-Part Formula is introduced in order to see this very truth. One is taken through a set of dialogues as the practitioner engages in a practical investigation of his/her sense of self and gradually comes to an experiential realization of the truth of “I” in the hands of a skillful guide. The result is a freedom and joy of unloading, for good, the heaviness of the “I” that we carry around unwittingly. Yes, awakening happens to ordinary people, and it can happen in a reasonable amount of time, if there is a right tool for the right job. Highly recommended.
April 29, 2019
Highly helpful and down to earth text on awakenings and first hand experiences. This book actually generated my own awakening (opening of first bhumi; seeing into nature of mind), which, needless to say, changed my life.
May 1, 2021
poorly written, 3rd rate neo-advaita. read nisargadatta, ramana, adyashanti, rupert spira, heck - even tolle. but stear well clear of this garbage.
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