End Your Story. Begin Your Life...: Mastering the Practice of Freedom

About this book

"Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey." --Rumi The teaching in this book is based on nondual wisdom. It is called nondual because ultimately, there is no difference between the spiritual and the material. It is all one reality. The nondual approach is also known as the direct path to awakening. It confronts the one obstacle to true inner freedom--the belief in the sense of "I" or "me" as having a real, separate existence apart from consciousness--and reveals it to be the illusion that it is. The world between our ears, in other words, the world of "I," "me," and "mine" is not real. It is a fabrication, a story we have spent a lifetime making up and believing. By inwardly examining our thoughts, beliefs, reactions, and ideas about ourselves, we begin to realize our personal stories are always changing. The more we see this, the more the internal drama falls away. When we are simply present with our breathing, our body sensations and feelings, and our immediate environment itself, the story lets go of us. We start to know ourselves as the pure, luminous awareness which sees and experiences reality here and now, including the stories we tell ourselves. This knowing may be somewhat intellectual at first, but gradually it becomes embodied. More and more frequently it becomes our lived experience, and manifests as a feeling of ease, flow, and relaxed yet alert presence. As our head clears and our heart opens further, we awaken to the true beauty and meaning of life. (from The Introduction )