The Brilliance of Naked Mind: Secret Visions of Gesar, King of Ling
"Douglas Penick continues his journeys into the visionary world of Gesar of Ling, this time relating Gesar's defeat of the Demon King Satham, and revealing his memories and dreams of (or identity with) several great figures of Buddhist history, followed by the future Kings of Shambhala. In that realm of awareness, where time and place collapse into an ever-present nowness and hereness, the sense of limited individuality is transcended, and one's participation in the whole of existence becomes clear. This is what Gesar himself must experience in order to overcome the demonic force of ego represented by Satham. Within this web of interconnection, certain particular affinities may stand out as part of the continual display that spontaneously arises for the benefit of living beings, suffering in the world of illusion. Telling these stories is a vital, and still living, strand of the tradition, which has the power to inspire and guide us in the darkness and confusion of daily life". - Dr. Francesca Fremantle translator (with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche) ofThe Tibetan Book of the Deadand author ofLuminous Emptiness.* "It's a diamond. It's a sky of fireworks. Read this book from the middle. Read it upside down. Post it on your fridge. Scintillate with it."- Prof. Kidder Smith (former chair of Asian Studies, Bowdoin University, author of many translations and articles on S.E.Asian culture, lead translator on the Denma Translation Group's Sun Tzu's ART of WAR.)