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If you move into the deepest teachings of any great spiritual tradition, at some point you must move beyond the tradition itself and any idea of enlightenment. What is it that remains when the spiritual path, and even enlightenment, is transcended? Dismantling the Fantasy is a consideration of the movement out of thought itself. This may sound extreme or even impossible, but again it is a simple consideration of our potential, and you can easily understand it from the life experience you already have. Darryl Bailey was drawn to meditation at age fourteen, he spent the next seventeen years exploring awareness and concentration practices from Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Taoist, Buddhist, and Western psychology sources. He then spent a further nine years apprenticed to mindfulness teacher Ruth Denison and another six years as a Buddhist meditation monk in the Thai forest tradition, under the guidance of Ajahn Sumedho. In both situations he was asked to begin teaching. Along the way, there was recurring contact with the independent philosopher, Jiddu Krishnamurti, as well as a significant connection with the Advaita sage, Robert Adams. "I find Darryl's writing refreshingly clean, crystal clear, unpretentious, simple, radical (to the root), and poetic. This is one of the finest books on non-duality I have come across." Joan Tollifson, author of Bare Bones Meditation and Awake in the Heartland
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Dismantling the Fantasy is a powerful little gem of a book. With clarity and directness Darryl points to the heart of nonduality; the absence of a separate self and the illusion of free will.
"This is like looking at the surface of a river and believing that there are separate ripples influencing each other. There are no separate ripples. There is only the moving and shifting of one flow of water." "We can't say anyone does this dynamic, or directs this dynamic, because all that's ever experienced is this dynamic." "There is no you that can avoid it or get it wrong. There is only a mysterious river expressing itself."
One of the most concise and refreshing books on nonduality that I have read in years, Dismantling the Fantasy carries the sweet perfume of good news remembered.
"This is like looking at the surface of a river and believing that there are separate ripples influencing each other. There are no separate ripples. There is only the moving and shifting of one flow of water." "We can't say anyone does this dynamic, or directs this dynamic, because all that's ever experienced is this dynamic." "There is no you that can avoid it or get it wrong. There is only a mysterious river expressing itself."
One of the most concise and refreshing books on nonduality that I have read in years, Dismantling the Fantasy carries the sweet perfume of good news remembered.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Words fail to describe this amazing book -- the first chapter 'the cloud' may bring up pondering but all is soon revealed to be clear & obvious in this concise simple & inspiring book[
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One of the best and least misleading books on the subject I have ever read, and expressed with impressive simplicity and clarity.
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This is one of the clearest books I have read on non-duality. The author has, in almost poetic fashion, written an in-depth exploration in to the nature of impermanence. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Frank Skinner
A modern Huang Po
Like a modern Huang Po, Darryl points straight through the ephemeral nature of perceived reality to that eternal mystery that lies at the very heart of existence.
Published 18 months ago by Sid
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I have just finished reading this fairly small book. I found its simplicity and clarity really striking. Read more
Published 19 months ago by KM
an incredible book. clear, poetic, the end of seeking is pointed to,...
as the title of this review suggests, it is; this is it. thank you, darryl bailey.
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