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Enlightenment Is a Secret: Teachings of Liberations
This collection of dialogues and excerpts taken from Andrew Cohen's teachings, is a manual for personal liberation. It explores every question crucial to the spiritual quest in a deeply illuminating way. Love, renunciation, surrender, humility, detachment, the mind, spiritual practice and many other topics are addressed with a clarity so powerful that it constantly challenges the reader to go further and further. It is one of the most original expressions of awakened understanding by western teacher in our time - a book for endless study and contemplation.
- GenresSpirituality
276 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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Andrew Cohen
113 books37 followersAndrew Cohen was a controversial self-declared American spiritual teacher, who was accused by former students, including his mother, of mental, physical, and financial abuse.
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August 9, 2010Cohen writes succinctly and with a staccato feel. Most pages are devoted to one aspect of a topic and finish the treatment before the page is half full. A couple excerpts that I like:
pg 203
How Do I Relate This Experience to My Life?
Q: I recently had an experience where I was overwhelmed by a flash of blazing light. It left me feeling very excited and at the same time deeply at peace. How do I relate this experience to my life?
A: Why do you need to be able to relate that experience to your life? You should relate your life to that experience! That experience is potentially much bigger than your life. If you are lucky that experience will destroy your life entirely. If you are lucky your whole life will dissolve into that blazing light. Then you will be truly Free.
Spiritual experiences are for one purpose only. They enable you to realize the impersonal. If you are lucky your experience will be so profound that it will result in your complete destruction. Then you will see things very differently. Then questions like, "Where does this fit in?" will fall away forever.
pg 205
Everybody wants to get Enlightened, but nobody wants to change.
pg 203
How Do I Relate This Experience to My Life?
Q: I recently had an experience where I was overwhelmed by a flash of blazing light. It left me feeling very excited and at the same time deeply at peace. How do I relate this experience to my life?
A: Why do you need to be able to relate that experience to your life? You should relate your life to that experience! That experience is potentially much bigger than your life. If you are lucky that experience will destroy your life entirely. If you are lucky your whole life will dissolve into that blazing light. Then you will be truly Free.
Spiritual experiences are for one purpose only. They enable you to realize the impersonal. If you are lucky your experience will be so profound that it will result in your complete destruction. Then you will see things very differently. Then questions like, "Where does this fit in?" will fall away forever.
pg 205
Everybody wants to get Enlightened, but nobody wants to change.
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