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Life Without a Centre: Awakening from the Dream of Separation (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Non-Duality Press; Revised Edition edition (12 Dec 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0955399904
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955399909
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 98,163 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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We try to escape from the play of life and the suffering that being "a person in the world" entails. Our efforts to find spiritual enlightenment have the opposite effect and reinforce an underlying feeling of lack, of separation. In Life Without a Centre, Jeff Foster suggests that there is only ever the present appearance of life, with no individual at its core who could ever escape even if they wanted to. The entire spiritual search is nothing more than a game we play with ourselves, the cosmic entertainment. Jeff cuts through the confusion and frustration surrounding the search for escape through spiritual enlightenment, by pointing to the utterly obvious: This moment, and everything that arises in it, is already the liberation that is sought. Life, just as it is, is already what we've been searching for our entire lives. Jeff Foster graduated in astrophysics from Cambridge University. Soon after graduation, life events propelled him onto an intense two-year spiritual search, culminating in the realisation that there was never anything to find in the first place.He currently writes and talks on what some people have called "non-duality", but which he just refers to as "the utterly, utterly obvious".

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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The clearest of the clear.....mind-blowing,quite literally!, 8 Jan 2007
By JC (Home) - See all my reviews
Well I have been a seeker on and off for nearly 30 years now, and in the past few years have progressed onto Non dual/Advaita teachings.Thank goodness for this book is all that I can say!This is probably one of the clearest books available, pointing back time and again to the utterly obvious (as the author would put it) present.It hit me time and time again during my reading of this book,how strongly I've been searching my entire 64 years for something special, and as the book says, ignoring the "utterly obvious" present.I love is that this book never preaches or pretends to have all the answers,and it feels so human and alive, it really resonates with aliveness and clarity, and it has been invaluable for me in letting go of some of those precious beliefs that one day I would be enlightened (after 64 years you'd have thought 'one day' would never come!).

All I can say is that this book left such clarity and, dare I say it, love and stillness. Whilst reading,the anxious,seeking mind simply melted away and there was such luminous clarity and presence.This is truly a special book, alhough of course, as the author says, its not really special at all.I reccommend "Life Without A Centre" highly, it is just what is needed here, and after years of seeking it couldnt have come out at a better time. As it says on the back:

"Freedom and enlightenment are to be found nowhere else but here"

Yes of course,right here, I am smiling to myself as I type this for seeking elsewhere for all those years! I cant give high enough praise to this book.Highly recommended, FIVE stars.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book made me an ex- Buddhist!, 31 Dec 2007
By Robbie Cop (Bristol) - See all my reviews
If you are on any sort of search then this book will:-

1/ blow you away and
2/ show you how you've been wasting your time 'seeking' and 'searching'.
3/ Get you forgetting all about the trip to India
4/ Selling the Buddha ornaments
and
5/ awaken you once and for always

This is the Ram Dass 'Be Here Now' of the Noughties only without the paradoxical middle class Guru attachment and once read will change you more than any book has ever done before but the odd thing is it will only change you back to you - the unchangeable!

:))
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars As clear as it gets, 26 April 2008
By Pete "Pete" (Midlands Uk) - See all my reviews
Over and over again Jeff points out that already what you are is 'this', 'presence' and any idea of being an individual, having and past and future, having anything at all in fact that is personal, that could constitute a 'you' is just a thought!!! That idea of a 'you' is not doing seeking but is in fact the seeking itself!! So this idea, this 'you' can not give up the seeking anymore than it can do anything else. All apparently happens, to no-one and the 'you' that may or may not seem so solid, is that seeking, is that looking for something more, something that is not 'this' 'presence'.

There's a great quote at the start of this book that sums the whole thing up....
"The life I am trying to grasp
is the me that is trying to grasp it."

You'll love this book if there is a resonance with any of the following ... Nathan Gill, Tony Parsons, Leo Hartong, Unmani, sailor bob etc

This book is brilliant!!!!
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