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Awakening to the Dream By Leo Hartong ( Non-Duality Press )
Release Date: 2003-07-01
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Awakening to the dream is a very clear, approachable overview of the often confusing and rarefied philosophy of Advaita Vedanta, also known as non-dualism. Essentially, this is a book about you. It points to and from the source of your true identity. The clear seeing that it refers to is neither complex nor simple. It is not something exclusive for intellectual or spiritual elite, nor is it remote or hiding in the future. It is all inclusive, pure presence, closer than your breath. It is the heart of hearts, your birthright and innermost self. This is your invitation to remember what was never really forgotten.
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Awakening to the Dream
This little book was written for those whose life-long curiosity or search for meaning has led them through and beyond all conventional religions, philosophies of life, or spiritual paths. It will likely appeal to those readers who have enjoyed such recent works as Eckardt Tolle's "Power of Now", Gangaji's "The Diamond in Your Pocket" as well as earlier books by Alan Watts, especially "The Book". It presents what may be one of the shortest and most succinct accounts of the ancient Hindu view of reality: Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualist approach that denies the reality of a world composed of separate identities, egos, causes and effects. Drawing on the thoughts and writings of numerous Eastern sages including Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Majaraj,and Lao Tsu, Netherlands born author Leo Hartong leads the reader through 21 steps in as many brief chapters. He attempts to show that the egocentric view is one great illusion. Who is the thinker of your thoughts over which you cannot demonstrate the slightest control? What happens to "You" in deep sleep? Are you aware of the way language filters your very perception of events and seemingly stands between the perceiver and the perceived? Does spiritual practice, once one actually gives up the belief of a separate ego-identity, become meaningless? Do Ramana Maharshi's words resonate for you: "Make no effort to work or to renounce; your very effort is bondage" ? If so, then "you" may find "Awakening to the Dream" a real find, one that can be read and re-read as the Dream summons "YOU" to awaken.
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THE BEST BOOK ON NONDUALISM/ADVAITA ( volitionx )
I've read many books on Advaita Vedanta and nondualism, and this is absolutely, without a doubt, the BEST of them all. Hartong writes so lucidly about difficult concepts that you will quickly come to understand many aspects of nondualism that take others YEARS to grasp. This book ranks #1 on my Advaita reading list. #2 is I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj. If you want your understanding of reality to be boosted RIGHT NOW, read this book. I'm now reading it for the second time, and marvel at the clarity and quality of the writing.
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Deep and surface are one!
This book gives a very clear and succinct description on the basic nondual nature of reality and that our own awareness is the only cause for not recognizing this. I liked it very much for its simplicity and getting down to the core of it without alienating phrases.
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Simple, flowing expression
Leo's book is really good - it's very conceptual and uses every "trick" to point to that which you are. Leo has a way of using analogy and metaphor to throw us back to that which is the basis for all experience - not to see a new state of mind, a special experience, but to know that what you are is the silent, still presence in which all states and experiences arise. Leo's writing at times seems to reflect an impression by Alan Watts. He gently invites you to see through the concepts and duality that are the nature of the mind.
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A Classic ( jerry4865 )
Leo Hartong connects the reader to the terrain of Nonduality in a manner that is gracious, enjoyable and satisfying. The topics of enlightenment, ego, intellect, the witness, I Am, awareness, meditation, awakening, teacher/seeker, death, are integrated effortlessly.
Awakening to the Dream is both an excellent introduction to Nonduality, and an encounter with an awakened one. The writing style is memorable. This is a valuable work which could become a classic in the field. (Note: The previous sentence, as the well as this entire review, was written in 2003 when the book came out. It is first being posted to Amazon.com in 2007.)
Here are a few passages:
"These words are nothing but a gentle reminder from yourself to yourself that you are the awakened one."
"This whole universe is the dream of the Self. Our identity is one continuum with the deep Self, and when we use words like unconditional love, bliss, and acceptance, we are reaching for our own hands."
"Once your true identity is uncovered, you'll see that birth, existence, and death do not happen to you, but in you."
"Enlightenment appears as a goal that one can reach only as long as there is the illusion of a separate entity or ego. In Zen, it has been called the gateless gate. When one stands before it, the gate seems to be there. When one passes through and looks back, it's clear there never was a gate nor anyone to go through it."
Jerry Katz
One: Essential Writings on Nonduality
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