From Fixation to Freedom: The Enneagram of Liberation - Softcover

Eli Jaxon-Bear

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893840263 ISBN 13: 9781893840263

Publisher: Leela Foundation, 2007

Synopsis

Your true nature is happiness and bliss. Ramana Maharshi Everyone wants to be happy. This is a universal component of the human condition and may seem so self-evident that it does not bear noting. So why is it that so few people are truly happy? If it is true that our nature is happiness and bliss, why has it been so rare for people to realize this? Why has it been so rare for people to live their lives in gratitude and love? There is a living intelligence in all people that seeks ultimately to discover its true identity and source. It is a fortunate and mysterious moment when the desire for happiness leads to the investigation into personal identity, also known as self-inquiry. In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define oneself are discovered to be more like transparent lines drawn on water. They exist only on the surface of consciousness in one s imagination. When these illusions of mind are clearly exposed, true limitless being reveals itself. The Enneagram has appeared in our time as an illusory medicine to cure an imaginary disease. The disease is the egoic idea of separation from God, from one s true source. The cure is to look in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram to see past all false identification to the truth of being. Eli Jaxon-Bear presents a radically new model of the ego and the psyche. Bringing together his background in Buddhism with the Sufi work on essence, he presents a fresh approach to awakening by using the Enneagram s nine fixated structures of ego to clearly describe who you are not. You will see how habits of egoic identification continuously appear to veil the pure, pristine consciousness that you truly are. When these habits of mind are exposed, there is a clear choice to end the bondage of ego-based suffering and to realize the vast, inherent freedom of one s true nature. In this book, Eli gives us the map of the prison of mind and the keys to freedom.

About this title

About the Author:

Eli Jaxon-Bear was born Elliot Jay Zeldow in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. An 18-year spiritual search took him into many traditions and practices. His path and his search ended when he traveled to India in 1990, where he met his final teacher, Sri H.W.L. Poonja. Confirming Eli s realization, his teacher sent him back into the world to hold satsang and share his unique psychological insights into the nature of egoic suffering, in support of self-realization. Eli is the author of Sudden Awakening into Direct Realization, and the editor of Wake Up and Roar: Satsang with H.W.L. Poonja, Volumes 1 & 2.

Review:

Eli s profound teaching of the Enneagram is a support for true self-investigation. His model of the ego is useful for all seekers after truth. He shows the traps of mind and the possibility of waking up from the trance of suffering. --Gangaji

An enlightened Teacher opens a new path to direct self-inquiry. --H.R. McGonigal

From Fixation to Freedom: The Enneagram of Liberation is aptly named. Eli Jaxon-Bear has written a warm, engrossing book on the process of seeing through the veils. Readers sincerely seeking to use the Enneagram as part of their spiritual journey will be well-served by the wit and wisdom on these pages. --Russ Hudson & Don Richard Riso

About this edition

• Publisher: Leela Foundation
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1893840263
• ISBN 13: 9781893840263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266