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Synopsis
The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment was often described around San Francisco as "the last book you'll ever need to read about spirituality".
It is a book that proposes to map-out the human spiritual experience, from its modest beginning, to full realization, in simple language that anyone (willing) can understand.
A true self-publishing phenomenon from the early '70s, this book is a precursor to much of our popular Western spiritual literature.
Many have been inspired to write their own version, but somehow, this text towers over most books on the subject. Perhaps the most dizzying quality of Golas's writing style, beyond his humorous and light touch, is his ability to pack several layers of profound meaning in his concise sentences. Meaning you'll be unpacking for years--provided you want to go through your own process of checking and proving. And enough to make the Guide a book that remains a faithful lifetime companion in just about any situation, and crisis.
If ever life came with an owner's manual, this is it.
The book has known several incarnations over a few decades, and Thaddeus Golas had often planned on expanding the text in various ways. He even toyed with the idea of doing a Guide about The Guide, with annotations.
In the end, he settled on writing a few new chapters on topics that he felt he'd missed the first time out:
Free Will, Expand!, two explorations of our relationship to matter, energy and space, and Who's on First?, a treaty on why intellectuals are always baffled by simple action.
Updates and revisions: Thaddeus Golas made revisions to his original text of The Lazy Man s Guide to Enlightenment throughout the 1980s and 1990s. These revisions were intended to help the text survive the extinction of the 1960s jargon. He also clarified many concepts and emphasized the idea that consciousness, even more than love itself, is the key to Enlightenment.
In this revised and updated edition of his original 1972 street pamphlet, Golas added material to The Guide and made over 100 small fixes to his original manuscript.
This final update returns the book to its simple, delicate and subtle "pocket-size" handbook,complete with its favorite mandala design: No fat, no extra chatter - just the facts!
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From the Inside Flap
"We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other. The universe is made of one kind of entity: each one is alive, each determines the course of his own existence.
"That is really all you need to know to understand this book or to write your own. Everything that I say has it's roots in that first paragraph, and it's possible to resolve any question by going back to it and thinking it through for yourself."
These words of Thaddeus Golas's, written back in 1971, still ring true, will always ring true. Now, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment come to us in an attractive hardcover edition, including an author's introduction and author photographs. In the introduction, Golas reveals the events in his life leading up to the writing of the book and the response to the Guide during its many years in print. It is a book for equal beings from all backgrounds.
"The concept that we live in a universe of equal beings can make sense of all religions, and can contain all metaphysical attitudes. It is ithe easiest raft to discard when we reach the other shore that is no shore. It can tell us how to live on this plane; it can show how our physical existence is the expression of spiritual laws. It gives us an absolutely confident understanding of what is true and what is real.
"Equal and unique live beings are all that is fully true and real in the universe. We are the universe."
From the Back Cover
You don't have to work hard or suffer to be in paradise
"I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virture. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time. There is an odd chance that this is what someone needs to read in order to feel better about himself. If you are a kind person and want to know what ot expect when elightenment strikes and why it comes to you, this is for you."
"It's all right to have a good time. That's one of the most important messages from enlightenment." --From The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
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- PublisherBantam Books
- ISBN 10 9995139030
- ISBN 13 9789995139032
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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