No-Mind: Realizing Your True Nature

I started reading this book 6 months ago and put it down, I forgot why. I picked it up again and read some of last chapter thinking why did I put this down, this good stuff, so I started again, and there it is. comparison, judgement, right and wrong all of the relative mind having nothing to do with non being, but ego. Right at the tip of your nose and you cant see it. One belief system calling another inadequate, where does no mind take root here? You have no clue what the absolute is, we simply don't know, yes we have learned to shut off the thinking mind. but these authors trying to become something needing to express there limited perception of the universe as they see it, blind to there own motive. Where is no mind in that?When we think that have the truth we lose it, so keep your rocks in your pockets and don't throw, matter a fact have not rocks. The whole enlightenment movement is off, the energy speaks, there is no right or wrong, just balance.

"No-Mind: Realizing Your True Nature" does not represent any specific tradition but realizing the "Absolute Reality." The author states that the "Absolute" is utterly non-conceptual and is synonymous with "Non-awareness" and "Nothingness" This "Non-awareness" precedes consciousness and only through human consciousness can the "Absolute" be realized. The author emphasizes states that our individual consciousness is a small part of what we really are and only through the human self can the Absolute be known. This is a very difficult but compelling book which I would highly recommend.

I especially liked the chapter on "Becoming Nobody". It opened up a deeper question of volition for me (in an experiential rather than a philosophical way). These books are short and to the point, helpful. I'm not sure he means them to be "the last word on the subject". Sometimes the "zen guy" vs "advaita guy" thing can get a little tedious.....to those of us who aren't guys...smile.

This book gives a very clear and direct teaching about our fundamental nature, the Absolute, by way of No-Mind. It is a joy to read and very helpful with the excercises recommended to deepen one's experience. It is one of the most helpful books I have ever read on the subject, and I highly recommend it for the serious zen student.

Helps steer the reader to exactly where they always are, beyond non-dual concepts, directly to really. My thanks to the author.

This is the best book in the world to learn about your mind, or more specifically your (no) mind.

can it be this simple?

Great book on the topic

This book is not bad, he does his best to help people awaken to their true nature. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised by the exercises they point to a state beyond words.