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  • Paperback: 138 pages
  • Publisher: Inner Directions Publishing; American Ed edition (1 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1878019104
  • ISBN-13: 978-1878019103
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 107,625 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is a profound and radical work that points to the fundamental freedom that is independent of path, process, effort, or belief. In these pages, the reader is taken on a journey - one that clearly reveals that there is nothing to become, nor any specific goal to attain. Rather, what is shown is how a deep-rooted misperception of our true identity has caused us to live in 'apparent' pain and fear. Tony Parsons is an esteemed teacher who regularly shares this 'open secret' of spiritual awakening with people throughout the world. His straightforward and highly effective message of awakening to life "as it is", is delivered with an impersonal authority that emanates from absolute clarity. Through the direct perception of "what is, as it is", Tony Parsons offers the reader a very practical and accessible approach to authentic spiritual realisation. His invitation is to live life from a wholly different perspective - one centred in the infinite awareness of one's true Self.

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the end of the road, 4 Jan 2005
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This book "did it for me", so to speak. It did it because it was the first book I have come across that communicated the fact that no seeking can take you to enlightenment. There is nothing to seek, nothing to find. There is nothing one can do, no state to find, no state that gives everlasting bliss. In fact, it can be said that enlightenment itself is a myth, and this was the first book to shatter my concepts about enligtenment. The "enlightened state" is one where all concepts, including that of enlightenment, falls away. So how can it exist? If it doesn't exist, how can you seek it?

At this very moment, you are probably looking for answers. That's why you are looking around for books that will provide them. And virtually almost every book provides answers. Even when they tell you that there are no answers, no path, they still recommend how you can reach a state where you stop looking for that path, which is a contradiction. In effect, that's like saying, there is no path, but here is the path to find no path. It all very subtly reinforces the concept of enlightenment as a state that frees you from all other states. And so seeking continues, since you feel that with your ever expanding understanding of enlightenment, you are edging closer to that final moment. But it will never come, because what you are looking for does not exist, except as a concept that it exists. It's like chasing the horizon. Can you ever get a single inch closer to the horizon? The horizon obviously is just a concept, something which looks real to the eye, but is an illusion. So it is with enlightenment. Where the horizon is an illusion to the eye, enlightenment is an illusion to the mind. Looking back, this is why other books did not work. Sure, they led me to a great intellectual understanding of enlightenment, but ultimately, that has no relevance or connection with enlightenment itself. "Enlightenment" is beyond all understanding, and only when it is realized that the goal is an illusion, that seeking is the surest way of avoiding liberation, does the possibility of liberation open.

Tony Parsons is not as famous as other "gurus" because he does not give any answers when what people want are answers to how they can become enlightened. So his is not a popular way of communicating this whole subject. But for those who have honestly not found what they've been looking for all this time, Tony, in my opinion is the best person to tell you why.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good but unnecessarily over-complicated wording, 4 Jan 2004
By B. J. Pettiford "radiantbev" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Although it appears that Mr Parsons has certainly reached his enlightenment, I found the wording used to explain the simplicity of it all unnecessarily over complicated. However, if he had used plain language the book wouldn't exist because the explanation (if there need be one ;0] ) would all fit on the back of a postage stamp.

I do agree with an earlier reviewer who said Mr Parsons does not actually appreciate his own path or, dare I say it, process, required to arrive at where he is. Those who have come to a similar stand point have usually done so by choosing something to help them along the way, whether it be gardening, yoga, a life crisis of some sort or working with eastern gurus - as he has! It is very easy to say how simple clarity is when you've put it all the work!

However, despite the above I did find the book very enjoyable - I had fun reducing some of his more complicated paragraphs into as few simple words as possible.

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77 of 90 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars exceptional book, 4 Mar 2002
By R. K. Hall (Belfast Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
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I recently purchased Eckhart Tolles book 'The Power of Now' and thought it's message topped most other books I have read. Then I read 'As It Is' and was lifted into a new dimension altogether. The book is a bit like a Zen koan - it is almost incomprehensible yet it stirs the truth deep within. Before I read this book I thought the spiritual journey was endless. That was the carrot on the end of the stick. This book showed me another way. The dreamer can just wake up. If you buy this book you'll have to read between the lines.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A USELESS, USELESS BOOK
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BUY THIS BOOK. IT IS MUMBO-JUMBO. The author, I would wager, is a COMPLETE charlatan. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2007 by Mr Anonymous

1.0 out of 5 stars A book about nothing from a man who doesn't know.
It has been said that Tony Parsons is such a great teacher because he never gives an answer to anything. Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2007 by Clive Culbertson

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Bag
This is a short text and that's quite a refreshing change from many spiritual books that seem to be very wordy.

The idea of no (ego) self is from Buddhism. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2006 by George

5.0 out of 5 stars The coup de grace!
Personally, I would give this book my utter highest recommendation. I think it is capable of delivering the final coup de grace to those who have been on the path of seeking... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2004 by M. Lam

5.0 out of 5 stars This book really won't advance you, or gain you anything!!!
The message seems to be "There is no you to gain anything"
Tony's book is not about personal achievement, personal transendance or attaining Enlightment at... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Forthright - no Compassion
The true core of Parsons book is, as I feel, Correct...but the delivery is somewhat wanting/daunting for beginners. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2004 by vindi

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Doing!
Tony Parsons has written a very interesting book but it is not a useful book. It is not `useful' because according to his own argument there is nothing to be done. Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2003 by Cona

5.0 out of 5 stars Devastating!!!
Truly devastating stuff! I think what's trying to be conveyed in this book is similar to any other 'good' book, but somehow, the language used here lifts you into another... Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars This is it!
Shockingly worrying just how good this book is!! I now face loosing everything I thought I was or had. If you want to know the truth you probably won't. Read more
Published on 9 May 2003

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