Runaway realization
Subtitle: living a life of ceaseless discovery
By: A. H. Almaas
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781611802023
Subjects: Philosophy; Spiritual life
Description: "For the first time in print, well-known spiritual teacher A.H. Almaas presents the highest level and most profound teachings of the Diamond Approach on the true nature of reality and the path to enlightenment. For more than thirty years, A.H. Almaas has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path of self-realization and maturity based on an original synthesis of modern discoveries in the field of psychology and a new paradigm about spiritual nature. If we can say the Diamond Approach has a goal it is to realize the truth at progressively deeper levels until one reaches the ultimate Truth, the Absolute, and to become integrated into that truth so that we are a living presence and embodiment of that truth. The teachings of this path have been unfolding over time, and Runaway Realization presents--for the first time in print--the highest level of teachings in the Diamond Approach in the most profound work by Almaas so far. In this book, Almaas offers a detailed look at the true nature of reality and the nature of enlightenment. He also talks about practice--what it is and what it isn't, and how practice relates to the process of realization. He looks at what it is to be a human being and what our role is in the totality of the universe. The material includes a discussion of the nature of space and time, as well as a view of more and more subtle levels of realization"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Turnings of the Wheel; title: PART ONE: PRACTICE IS REALIZATION; title: 1: Continual Practice; title: 2: The Enlightenment Drive; title: Motiveless Practice; title: 4: Practice to No End; title: 5: Uncaused Realization; title: 6: Non-Self-Centered Practice; title: PART TWO: ENDLESS ENLIGHTENMENT; title: 7: Opening Time and Space; title: 8: Total Being; title: 9: The Organ of Realization; title: 10: The Dynamic of Realization; title: 11: The Paradox of Nondoing; title: 12: The Mystery of Emptiness; title: 13: Delusion beyond Realization; title: PART THREE: VIEWS OF FREEDOM; title: 14: Steps to Nowhere; title: 15: Total Nonconceptuality; title: 16: Featureless True Nature; title: 17: Not One, Not Two; title: 18: Total Freedom.