Kirjahaku

This is a beautiful and enlightening year-long diary from one of the clearest and most direct spiritual teachers of our day. These intimate entries include everything from the enjoyment of good food and advice to seekers from around the globe to bad days at work and to why meditation and spiritual practices won't help you "in the least" with self-realization. Stevens also ruminates engagingly about the weather (particularly the sweltering, Carolina summers), the possible ending of his relationship with his girlfriend, and the unchanging state of deep peace and spaciousness that he came to recognize four years ago, and which lead him to write his first acclaimed work, A VASTNESS ALL AROUND: AWAKENING TO YOUR NATURAL STATE.

This elegant and engaging collection of essays, pointers, and discussions allows you to see and understand--finally and in no uncertain terms--your fundamental nature of serene awareness. Call it God, Brahman, Presence, Consciousness, or the Tao. It really doesn't matter; for those are all labels pointing to what you are, right here and now--which is supreme peace and unchanging wonder.

Rodney Stevens' latest gathering of essays, conversations, and pointers directs you to your own natural state-which is tranquil, unwavering awareness. In this bold new work on nonduality, Stevens covers everything from the nature of consciousness and the simplicity of self-realization to why meditating for enlightenment does not work. If you want a true end to suffering, read this book.

In these short, bold, and spontaneous essays, spiritual writer Rodney Stevens directly points to your natural state, which is enlightenment itself. Stevens' vigorous introspections show how spiritual seekers are simply overlooking a peace that "passes all understanding." There are not exercises here-no mantras, no methods, or mindfulness techniques. And why would there be, given that you are what you are seeking? Stevens tells you how to bring your focus and reflections back to what is immediately within and before you. He also delves into such compelling topics as genius, the Big Bang, creativity, self-realization, prolificness, and the end of psychological suffering. These succinct compositions are at once conversational, detailed, and informative. No spiritual seeker should be without this book.