Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search - Softcover

Harrison, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591813085 ISBN 13: 9781591813088

Verlag: Sentient Publications, 2023

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Doing Nothing, the spiritual classic by Steven Harrison translated into twelve languages, offers relief to the weary seeker. In a world that's always encouraging us to do more, Harrison invites us to make the simple yet radical choice to do nothing.

Discard your ideologies and dogmas, your gurus and ritual, argues Harrison in this caustic exploration of our psycho spiritual obsessions. The solution lies in not seeking a solution. Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search is for those who have found themselves religiously following practices that have not fundamentally changed their lives: new therapies, ancient meditations, exotic religions, or old-time religion. It encourages them to find the truths of life through the simple act of stopping the search.

What do you do after you've tried everything to find enlightenment or happiness? "Do nothing," writes Steven Harrison. "As it turns out, nothing is a surprisingly active place, but it is here that we discover who and what we are."

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Steven Harrison is an international speaker on the topics of consciousness, human development, relationship and alternative education. He is the author of eight books, including the spiritual and nondualism classic, Doing Nothing.

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Love, Emptiness and Energy

We often feel that we are not loved enough. This is a reflection of the fact that we do not love, that we cannot find our capacity to love.

Love is not something that we do to one another. There is no object in love and no subject.

Love is what is present when there is no object-subject, when there are not two.

This feeling of not being loved is in fact the need for love, the need for a cessation of the divided world in which our egos exist.

This cessation does not come about through someone loving us.

It does not come about by us loving another.

Love is not causal. It cannot be created, it cannot be practiced, it cannot be taught.

We can deeply inspect what we are, and in that we can see the structure of division which is inherent to thought, memory and ego. We can cease. We can be still.

Love, which is the very energy and expression of life, is whole. Thought cannot approach this energy. Words cannot capture it.

This energy of wholeness cannot be used, or divided, or squandered.

It is us all, and all of us.

This is not the answer to our question, it is the question fallen silent.

Having seen the nature of our thought and ego, we may pass through this gateway into silence.

We have left a world of fragments, and entered into something which is whole, but is empty. If there is no namer, then there are no names. If there is no subject, there is no object. This is emptiness.

There is tremendous energy here because there is nothing to dissipate it. There is great creativity, because there is nothing to restrict it.

Though the psychological self, the ego-center has gone silent, there is nothing lost. Out of this vast expansion of quiet, the energy of life expresses.

The nature of this energy, because it is beyond cause and effect, is unknown. It cannot be contained by concept, or manipulated by thought or used in any way.

We are not the experiencers or explorers of this energy. We are this energy: expressing, exploring, manifesting and disintegrating.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sentient Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1591813085
• ISBN 13: 9781591813088
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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