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Book Review Jeff Foster' An Extraordinary Absence.
Over the years I have read many many many books! Searching for truth I was, ha :) I read "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj not once but twice, the first time it took me a year, still didn't get it.... Jeff Foster's An Extraordinary Absence was the book that literally hit me over the head so to speak, within the first 3 chapters, I was gone!- In this book Jeff was able to make me be that what I had been searching for, which of course I did not find during my search. Need to "stop the search" he says. Jeff has a way of showing you how to stop the mind search and be as a child. This is a great book, well worth a read without all the concepts, truly a book for the exhausted spiritual seeker!
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When the word "enlightened" is used, it is looked upon as a state that is reserved for few (which really is another concept). My point here is that Jeff is able to point out that we already are that, and that looking further into concepts with the mind we are getting further away from the truth. Everyone is capable of this, there is nothing to seek, no higher or better state to be in, there just is being, very plain and simple.
When the word "enlightened" is used, it is looked upon as a state that is reserved for few (which really is another concept). My point here is that Jeff is able to point out that we already are that, and that looking further into concepts with the mind we are getting further away from the truth. Everyone is capable of this, there is nothing to seek, no higher or better state to be in, there just is being, very plain and simple.
When the word "enlightened" is used, it is looked upon as a state that is reserved for few (which really is another concept). My point here is that Jeff is able to point out that we already are that, and that looking further into concepts with the mind we are getting further away from the truth. Everyone is capable of this, there is nothing to seek, no higher or better state to be in, there just is being, very plain and simple.