Presence, Volume I
Subtitle: the Art of Peace and Happiness
Contributors: Prendergast, John J.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oakland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781626258754; 9781626258747
Subjects: Advaita; Consciousness
Description: Our self, aware presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room, it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite, and freedom at the heart of all experience ... this is our ever-present nature under all circumstances.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: The Search for Happiness; Our True Nature; Who or What Am I?; From 'I, the Body and Mind' to 'I, Aware Presence'; Our Self Is Without Location or Limit; The Forgetting of Our Essential Being; Our Self Is Birthless and Deathless; The Eternal and Infinite Nature of Our Being; Presence Is Self-Luminous; The Only Self There Is; The Nature of Peace, Happiness and Love; Our Essential Being Is Peace Itself; Happiness Is Inherent in Our Being; Love Is the Natural Condition of All Experience; The Eternal Now; title: The Origin of the Separate SelfThe Essential Form of the Separate Self; The Veiling of Peace and Happiness; Peace and Happiness Are Not States of the Body or Mind; The Separate Self Is an Activity, Not an Entity; Happiness Is Never Absent; Desiring the End of Desire; The Failure of the Search; The Body; The Sense of Separation in the Body; The Perception of the Body; The Sensation of the Body; Raw, Unfiltered Experience; The Ever-Present Seamlessness of Experience; The World; Our World Is Made Out of Perceiving; Perception and the Limits of Mind; Nature's Mirror; title: The World and Awareness Change PlacesThe Friendliness of the World; Experience; The Intimacy of Experiencing; The Intimacy and Immediacy of the Now; Which Self Is Being Enquired Into?; I Am Something, Nothing or Everything; Surrendering Everything to Presence; There Are No Problems; Happiness Is the Highest Spiritual Practice; The Light of Knowing; The Relationship with a Teacher; Epilogue: The Heart of Experience; Publications by Rupert Spira