Product Description

This is an original contemporary expression of the timeless wisdom of Enlightenment. The fruition of Andrew Cohen's fifteen years as a spiritual teacher, this book presents a radical psychology of liberation. It takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery that reveals not only the liberating fact of our true nature, but the way to live that truth in this world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32876 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .66 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

From Publishers Weekly
For those who like their Buddhist mysteries unadulterated, Cohen, founder of the Impersonal Enlightenment Fellowship and author of Enlightenment Is a Secret, Freedom Has No History and An Unconditional Relationship to Life, provides a slim handbook on his understanding of the Buddhist experience of enlightenment. Cohen does not discuss Buddhism's history, tell the story of the Buddha's life, recount myths or even use much Buddhist terminology. Rather, he goes straight to the heart of Eastern mysticismAenlightenment, or, as he sometimes calls it, liberationAexplaining what is required to attain it, what prevents it and its effects. Unlike much mystical literature currently on the market, this volume does not aspire to be a harmonization of the world's great religions. Plainly written and free of religious jargon, it is about one thing, enlightenment, and everything relates to that topic. Cohen presents his ideas uncompromisingly: one will not attain enlightenment unless one desires nothing else; the ego must disappear; all human experience is impersonal; enlightenment means realizing "nothing ever happened"; and one sees nothing by looking into the face of God. These stark concepts are not for the idly curious, but for readers who are serious in their desire to seek enlightenment in this pure form. (Sept.)
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From AudioFile
Becoming an undivided human being is something this religious writer has been deftly teaching for years. Using mainly Buddhist principles, he explains how ego domination and avoidance of responsibility can hang us up as we go through life trying to make sense of ourselves. His five tenets of enlightenment--clarity of intention, the law of volitionality, the need to face everything and avoid nothing, the truth of impersonality, and the principle of the sake of the whole--are as clear and useful as any such lesson I've heard. When we become enlightened, we will have the same experiences but process them differently--through an integrated self that positions our existence in the world more freely and peacefully. T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

NAPRA Review, September 2000
This volume outlines in clear, precise, uncomplicated, but nevertheless uncompromising terms just what moksha (ultimate release, liberation) requires.