Obstacles to Enlightenment and Liberation - Softcover

Michael, Edward Salim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1986021467 ISBN 13: 9781986021463

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Experience is Edward Salim Michael’s keyword—feeling, understanding, beyond words, through a direct inner experience. What are the obstacles to enlightenment and liberation? What prevents us from coming into direct contact with our true selves? It is not enough to want it; practices, exercises, concrete tools are necessary to reveal the automatisms that condition us and to detect alienating thought patterns. The author guides us with precision through the traps that will inevitably be encountered on the path. Thus, inner chatter, that little voice within us that never stops, that comments and repeats to the point of obsession, must be recognized, one must distance oneself from it, and use skillful means to stop it. Identifying the obstacles and approaching them with understanding gives seekers the possibility of knowing another state of being and consciousness, from which it is possible for them to apprehend the meaning of life and death in a completely different way; it is a decisive step on the path of their liberation.

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About the Author

Born in England, Edward Salim Michael (1921-2006) spent his youth in various Eastern countries and lived for a long time in India, his grandmother’s country. After many years of assiduous meditation practice, he had, at the age of thirty-three, an extremely powerful experience of awakening to what one might equally well call his Buddha Nature or the Infinite within himself. It was to Buddhism that he felt closest, but, as all his writings come from direct spiritual experiences, to illustrate his words, he does not hesitate to quote the Bhagavad Gita, the Gospels, or Christian or Sufi mystics. He is the author of The Law of attention, Nada Yoga and the Way of inner Vigilance, now a recognized classic.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1986021467
• ISBN 13: 9781986021463
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 242