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Title: Enlightenment Is a Secret: Teachings of Liberations by Andrew Cohen ISBN: 1-883929-08-3 Publisher: Moksha Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Meditative
Comment: As a person who has bought and read thousands of books, I think that this may be the last book I'll ever need. Andrew challanges the reader, rather forcefully, to climb to the mountain top and then.....take that next step. The book is set with each page being the subject of a days/weeks meditation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cohen's Teachings build a good foundation
Comment: In all of Andrew Cohen's teachings he is giving us the basic fundamentals for living our life according to Divine Laws. He teaches practical steps in freeing the person from the ever persistant ego. His number one goal is to help humanity gain freedom. Because he is so focused on this one main principle I recommend this book and all of his work as the basic bedrock of achieving Ascension or Immortality. Although he does not teach the concept of Ascension/Immortality never-the-less you cannot achieve this unless you first go through his teachings on freeing the soul of ego control and taking responsiblity for your own actions. I highly recommend all of Andrew's books he is a very remarkable and determind man
Rating: 5
Summary: Permanent Liberation from egoic insanity, here and now
Comment: In late December 1998, after many months of intensive shopping around for the perfect enlightened teacher to help lead me out of this agonizing dream of ignorance, I was standing in a Borders bookstore in Tacoma, Washington, looking in the Eastern Philosophy/Religion shelves, when I turned around and noticed an unusual orange book gleaming from the New Age shelves. Expecting nothing but New Age drivel under the name of "Enlightenment," but ever curious, I picked up the book, read the excerpt on the back cover . . . and knew immediately that I had stumbled onto something extremely profound.
Unlike the vast majority of modern American teachings of nondual enlightenment, Andrew's approach transcends mindless "dualistic nonduality" by recognizing absolutely perfectly that Maya and Reality, Samsara and Nirvana, Form and Emptiness are really not separate in any way at all--and that doesn't mean that one haphazardly cancels out the other. All is Consciousness, yes, but that absolute Truth does _not_ translate into relative existence. Rather, it completely obliterates it! Teachers of nonduality who fail to grasp this point--who fail to see that perfect middle place wherein Samsara and Reality seamlessly merge--are teaching a rather dualistic view of the nondual. A teaching of Absolute Nonduality, however, would not make a firm distinction between the relative and the absolute, earth and heaven, the human being and God. It would not espouse that human beings are nothing but conditioned body-mind machines, with no real volition behind one's actions, while the real self is a distinct and passive witness of this activity (and therefore one claims no moral accountability for the body-mind's actions). No, an Absolute Nonduality would see that there is an absolute realm of pure Emptiness with no distinctions, and a relative realm of name and form with many distinctions--and it would see how to perfectly integrate the two, _not_ by mindlessly trying to turn the relative world into the nondual (which is impossible and always ends up sounding absurd), but by finding a way of standing firmly grounded in the abyss of nonduality and _bringing that vision of Wholeness into the world of relativity_, speaking to it in its own terms, with its own logic, but always communicating something far deeper.
Andrew Cohen succeeds amazingly well in this sacred task, and this particular text of his illuminates spiritual mysteries like none I've ever encountered. It's a crystal-clear road map to the Awakening from our dream of separation, time, and mind-identification, always speaking straight to the Heart, from the Heart, but with the thoroughly razor-sharp discrimination of a classic Zen master. "Pierce the illusion of separation," he says. "Realize and know the timeless. Know the presence of the uncreated. . . . Separation is only an idea, pure imagination." His passionate urgency is a constant reminder of the depth and seriousness of this pursuit into the true nature of existence, and fortunately for us, the same passion has inspired a truly complete teaching that easily eliminates all obstacles along one's path. With passages on the mechanical nature of the mind, the horrendous problem of doubt, the meaning and practice of surrender, and just about every other situation every seeker eventually contends with, there's truly nothing significant left out. There are a few pithy lines about doubt, for instance, which can help one cut through what is perhaps the most cumbersome obstacle of all in the spiritual quest. "Doubt is mechanically produced by the ego," he explains, "and has nothing to do with discrimination. . . . Discrimination makes you strong, doubt makes you weak. At times when your heart knows something is right, often the mind will doubt the heart. This can make progress very difficult." Armed with the razor sword of penetrating discrimination in one hand and the shield of one's clarity of intention in the other, how can an enemy even as deceptive as Satan, our friendly neighborhood ego, stand in our way? It is an absurdly bizarre mystery that anything is happening at all, that any of this even _exists_, and so very few people in this world seem even remotely aware of that overwhelming mystery--but the weapons Andrew arms us with make clear that even that depressing, lonely fact is ultimately the play of our own egoic mind, easily cut through, even as it tries to stave us off and preclude entry to our only real home.
And when we succeed in finding that home, what shall we do? Shall we find ourselves utterly cut off and alone in a blissful nothingness, detachedly observing this world of suffering and ignorance from a space far away, and then decide to stay there, to the best of our ability, until the seamless dance of light stops playing on the movie screen of our self? Or shall we choose, with all our heart, and with a profound fascination for a mystery that knows no bounds, to perfect ourselves until it becomes an effortless act to abide as the movie screen of awareness--that blissful nothingness--while simultaneously identifying with the substance and scenarios of the movie itself?
To be fully manifest _and_ fully unmanifest, fully engaged in this world but not of it--completely personal and impersonal at the same time--without in any way denying the limitless potentials of either side of the Whole: that is the true import of the nondual dharma, and it is something Andrew manages to convey in this and other books, through always direct and practical teachings, absolutely perfectly. If unconditional Freedom and the exhilarating thrill of absolute Life is what you know you're after, then look no further, because samsara ends where this book begins, and no serious seeker could be disappointed with a perfect gem like this.
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Title: Living Enlightenment: A Call for Evolution Beyond Ego by Andrew Cohen, Ken Wilber ISBN: 188392930X Publisher: Moksha Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Master Is My Self: The Birth of a Spiritual Teacher by Andrew Cohen ISBN: 1883929075 Publisher: Moksha Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Embracing Heaven & Earth: The Liberation Teachings of Andrew Cohen by Andrew Cohen, John White ISBN: 1883929296 Publisher: Moksha Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Who Am I? and How Shall I Live? by Andrew Cohen ISBN: 1883929245 Publisher: Moksha Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: An Unconditional Relationship to Life: The Odyssey of a Young American Spiritual Teacher by Andrew Cohen ISBN: 1883929040 Publisher: Moksha Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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