Original sentence: Edward Salim Michael (1921 – November 2006) was a composer of symphonic music, he is also the author of books on spirituality and meditation.Edward Salim Michael was born in Manchester, but spent his childhood in Iraq, which was then under British rule.He died in Nice, France
Edited sentence: Edward Salim Michael (1921, Manchester, England – November 2006, Nice, France) was a composer of symphonic music, he is also the author of books on spirituality and meditation.Edward Salim Michael spent his childhood in Iraq, which was then under British rule.He will then have to struggle patiently to find again and again this other state of being and consciousness that he has recognized in himself until he arrives to stay permanently within it.If the aspirant has experienced enlightenment, his work will continue on another level, because illumination is not liberation.Indeed, it is only through this sustained concentration that the seeker can feel the difference with his ordinary state and begin to understand how he "sleeps" ordinarily in himself without knowing it.It is devoid of dogma.It is from the moment the aspirant clearly feels the difference between his habitual state of waking-sleep, when he is plunged into « the whirls of his mental world », and another state of being when he is present and aware of himself in a manner which is not habitual to him, that he will know in which direction to focus his efforts.Only then will he have reached liberation.Personal understanding and experience are the criteria for it, and it is for that reason that it was to Buddhism that Edward Salim Michael felt closest.The path that Edward Salim Michael teaches is the path he himself followed.What characterizes his teaching is the importance he attaches to what he calls a moment of true presence, which can be recognized through a sustained concentration during exercises such as those exposed in his books