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A simple yet comprehensive guide to the types of psychologies and therapies available from Eastern and Western sources. Each chapter includes a specific exercise designed to help the reader understand the nature and practice of the specific therapies. Wilber presents an easy-to-use map of human consciousness against which the various therapies are introduced and explained. This edition includes a new preface.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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Perhaps one of the best books on the market trying to understand the relationship between Eastern Religious and Philosophical traditions and the development of Western Psychology. Ken Wilber develops an interesting and perhaps complete picture of the paradigms which these two world try to deal with. The book also helps to explain why the East never really developed psychology and why the West almost lost it's mystic heritage. "No Boundary" synthesised much of what I thought that I understood, but could never explain.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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The most authentic book on consciousness I 've read to-date. There's no Integral Theory in this book. Given the inherent limitations of language in representing experience, this book comes closest to what could be possible. The last chapter appears complex at first, but is actually the crowning glory of simplicity. For any and every seeker in this world, this book will provide a new perspective to the act of seeking itself.
Some pearls from a book which is a veritable necklace:
Something very simple happens when answer the question, 'Who are you?' You draw a boundary between your perception of 'self' and 'not-self'. 'Who are you?' means 'Where do you draw the boundary?'
The actual world contains lines but no real boundaries. A real line becomes an illusory boundary when we imagine its two sides to be separated and unrelated; that is, when we acknowledge the outer difference of the two opposites but ignore their inner unity.
If we carefully look at the sensation of 'self-in-here' and the sensation of 'world-out-there', we will find that these two sensations are actually one and the same feeling. It is true that anything I see is not the Seer- because everything I see is the Seer. As I go within to find my real self, I find only the world.
You thus have nowhere to stand but in the present moment, and thus nowhere to stand but in eternity.
I looked, and looked, and this I came to see:
That what I thought was you and you.
Was really me and me.
As a pure witness, your relationship to your mind-and-body becomes the same as your relationship to all other objects.
Honsho-myosho therefore means that true spiritual practice springs from, but not toward, enlightenment.
There is neither creation nor destruction,
Neither destiny nor free-will;
Neither path nor achievement;
That is the final truth. (Sri Ramana Maharshi)
Some pearls from a book which is a veritable necklace:
Something very simple happens when answer the question, 'Who are you?' You draw a boundary between your perception of 'self' and 'not-self'. 'Who are you?' means 'Where do you draw the boundary?'
The actual world contains lines but no real boundaries. A real line becomes an illusory boundary when we imagine its two sides to be separated and unrelated; that is, when we acknowledge the outer difference of the two opposites but ignore their inner unity.
If we carefully look at the sensation of 'self-in-here' and the sensation of 'world-out-there', we will find that these two sensations are actually one and the same feeling. It is true that anything I see is not the Seer- because everything I see is the Seer. As I go within to find my real self, I find only the world.
You thus have nowhere to stand but in the present moment, and thus nowhere to stand but in eternity.
I looked, and looked, and this I came to see:
That what I thought was you and you.
Was really me and me.
As a pure witness, your relationship to your mind-and-body becomes the same as your relationship to all other objects.
Honsho-myosho therefore means that true spiritual practice springs from, but not toward, enlightenment.
There is neither creation nor destruction,
Neither destiny nor free-will;
Neither path nor achievement;
That is the final truth. (Sri Ramana Maharshi)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i read a lot, but have never encountered a "spiritual/life" book which encompasses so much and explains the subjet matter so well, it really makes for a hugely enjoyable learning experience... i can`t recommend this book enough....
quite literally....mind blowing .....complex but very simple at the same time.
it`s left me feeling a bit shell shocked... it sort of reminds you what you have always intrinsically known but have completely forgotten along the way.
quite literally....mind blowing .....complex but very simple at the same time.
it`s left me feeling a bit shell shocked... it sort of reminds you what you have always intrinsically known but have completely forgotten along the way.
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I have now read this book about 4 times and I recommend it highly. As is often the case in these profound matters, one understands the key issues much better if one supplements the... Read more
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this book changed my life
I cannot recommend this book enough. It is fairly easy reading, approaching the subject of higher consciousness through the technique of breaking down boundaries. Read more
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Excellent book that changed my life!
Trust me read this book by Ken Wilber and it will have an impact on your life. The reading is fast and enveloping and the thesis of No Boundary is gripping.
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