The Quest Part II: Negative Attitudes

The second of three volumes based on question and answer sessions held regularly by Abdullah for his pupils over a period of several years, Quest II gives practical information on many facets of the work required to balance one's psychology and develop spiritually. It gives detailed explanations of the nature, interactions and implications of man's negative psychological states. Topics include attachment, body, depression, drugs, ego, fear, hate, imagination, negative anticipation, profit motive, resentment, selfishness, sex, worry.

Excerpts from book:

From 'Body'
Q. I see that in many groups which emphasise spirituality there is a danger of people getting their feet well off the ground.
A. People fly too high. Although it may appear a slower way, the body is as good a place as any to start from. Most people think that their body is them, so we start from something as near to concrete as we can get in this situation. Even thought largely originates from the body.

People who work on their body, who admit the fact that they have a body and that they have to make this body obedient, are in reality working on their spirit at the same time. (p. 44)

From the back cover:
The body is real enough in the third dimension but is illusion in the fifth. The way out of the rounds of lives and deaths is to know we are not the body but the essential self, call it spirit, soul or consciousness.

According to the Lord Buddha, one of the main reasons for our being on the planet is that we are dominated by our desires and our craving after them.