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#3705 - Thursday, November 5, 2009
- Editor: Jerry Katz
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Standing As Awareness: The Direct Path by Greg Goode
Review by Jerry Katz
Greg Goode is like a pianist playing a
complex composition with a light touch. I've read this book about
four times and each time new seeings emerge.
This book creeps up on you. Although I wrote a friendly Foreword,
and Greg Goode comes across as kindly, with a clean cut ego, this
book takes you to where there is no person. It's good that this
book creeps up and doesn't hit you all at once.
You've heard over and over again that "there's only
awareness." Standing As Awareness delivers that knowing.
This book is about self-inquiry, using methods you have probably
never seen. It also comes with this notice:
"Don't stop if it gets rough. The search is sweet, but it is
not always comfortable or reassuring to the assembly labeled as
the person. Be unafraid of what might come up." ...
"Comfort is not the criterion of being in touch with
awareness, and discomfort is not the criterion of being out of
touch with awareness."
There are many other exquisite nuggets of revelation. This is a
rarely heard statement:
"One can wait until the dissolution (of the witness)
happens. There is no reason to hurry, because there is no
suffering, and the witness is sweetness itself. ... One may wait
for the dissolution to happen, or one may feel called by higher
reason to investigate the dualities. Either way is fine."
Greg shows you how to bring about that dissolution of the witness
or the I Am, whatever you want to call it. That you can dissolve
the witness without waiting, is an amazing teaching, and
delivered so effortlessly. That effortlessness in presenting
rare teachings is what makes the book creep up on you: you may
not see what he's saying at first or second reading.
I recommend Standing As Awareness even if you are already
familiar with nondual teachings and books. If you are first
exploring the teaching of nonduality, this book may be
challenging but it will smarten you up quickly about the game of
enlightenment, satsang, and nonduality itself.
Standing As Awareness: The Direct Path
by Greg Goode
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0956309151?ie=UTF8&tag=nondualitysal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0956309151