As It Is 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.Through the direct perception of "what is, as it is," Tony Parsons offers the reader a very practical and accessible approach to authentic spiritual realization. His invitation is to live life from a wholly different perspective--one centered in the infinite awareness of one's true Self.
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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.
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Tony Parsons is obviously one who knows what IT is. what it means to be awake. this great little book keeps pointing at the real, the truth, what we really are. what he describes has the taste and feel of something wonderful, something beyond the usual mode of thinking and knowing. he knows who he is. he knows what he is and what we all are, too. he invites us to just see it: as it is. this book is fascinating in that it points to something very special which is available to all of us, available just for the seeing. but we continue to believe in ourselves as separate beings, and in that perception of separation, the true vision cannot appear. here's how Tony puts it in his own words from the book: "this is the great game: the infinite manifests through you as a dreamed character in a grand play called life.....what you are is no thing. what you are is beyond anything you ever believed.....it's always attractive to the mind when it is offered a method or technique like stilling the mind or killing the ego. there is no possibility for the mind to still the mind, and once it is recognized that what you are is the still silent awareness that sees the mind and its activities going on, then it is also recognized that there is no need to still the mind.....ultimately, you will realize that you are not your thoughts, your mind, your body, or any other object, but that behind all of these is a still, constant, seeming nothingness from which everything emanates; this is what you are."
61 of 67 people found the following review helpful
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Tony Parson's book is another in a series of gifts to humanity: books by individuals who have realized the Holy Grail of spiritual seekers throughout history. Seeker/readers who found Eckhart Tolle's book 'The Power of Now' valuable will immediately connect with Parson's open, simple, and fundamental description of and access to the nature of the Prize. In brief, succinct introductory chapters entitled Awakening from the Dream, Context, No Achievement, No One Becomes Enlightened, Time, Expectation & Purpose, he describes his own experiences and revelations on his path and beautifully expresses that seemingly contradictory truth "that enlightenment only becomes available when it has been accepted that it cannot be achieved". These chapters conclude with "The Park" in which he recounts the arrival of the Recognition as he walked across a park in a London suburb. The remainder of the first part of the book deals with the perennial issues with which, I believe, we must each finally come to grips: Presence, the Choiceless Choice, My World (the nature and value of individual subjectivity), the Death of the Body Mind, Abstraction, Fear, Guilt, Thinking, Relationships. Part one concludes with two short descriptions of who "I Am Not" and who "I Am". Part two comprises a series of dialogues with other seekers which he prefaces with the statement that "words are not truth just as honey is not sweetness". If you have read and treasured any of the writings of Eckhart Tolle, Ramesh Balsekar, Douglas Harding, Gangaji, HWJ Poonjaji, it is my suspicion that you may well have come as far as "you" can go on the Path. From here on, the truth simply becomes more and more transparent. Tony Parsons deserves our deepest gratitude and appreciation for his assistance.
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Barn's burned down.
Now I can see the moon.
--Masahide
Now I can see the moon.
--Masahide
Other reviewers will tell you what this book contains (and equally important, what it does NOT contain, including rules, rituals, practices, and techniques), so let me tell you what this book achieves.
Or what it can achieve, if you are fortunate to read it in the right frame of mind. Read this book with your mind wide open, and it will serve as a torch to burn down the barn of your self-image. Lucky you! You won't just see the moon, you'll be the moon. And the stars. And the grass. And the trash by the side of the road. And you'll love it all.
Well, that's what happened to me. Whoever I am.
Tony Parsons says that everything is the invitation from the Beloved to come home. Yes, everything is the invitation, but some things speak to the heart more than others. This book spoke to my heart, in the language of my heart. It silenced all my questions and left me with nothing but gratitude for the glimpse I was given of what is real.
Reading this book is like waking up from a disturbing dream and turning to your bedside to see a dear friend sitting beside you. "It's okay. You were just dreaming. But now you're awake."
You sit up, look around, and are amazed to see that all the furniture is made of love. The bedspread, the carpet, the window, the birds outside the window, all made of love. How could you not have seen it before? It's so obvious.
About four days after I finished my second reading of the book, the world no longer seemed whole, and made wholly of love, but fragmented, with love sometimes visible, sometimes not. And yet, this too, I know, is the invitation.
It doesn't get any better than This. But This is really quite fabulous, if you think about it. Or rather, if you DON'T think about it.
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Nothing Being Everything
If ever there was a book to be read and understood it is this one, The appearance or being known as Tony Parsons points to what you really are. Read more
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Review of As It Is by Lorna Shouse
This is a very compelling book, not easy to understand but one I hope I'll understand very soon.
Published 20 months ago by Lorna Elizabeth Shouse
Lacking something....
This is one of a few Tony Parsons books I have read - I am trying to make a point of only reviewing those books that touch a nerve with me in one way or another. Read more
Published on April 3, 2010 by Roger Callum
As It Is
AS IT IS confirmeded turning away from the world around me to the world of consciousness that lies within. There is no "now" as there is "no time". Read more
Published on February 22, 2010
Simple and Profound
This is one of the best books I've ever read in over 30yrs. The depth is profound and easy to understand in regards to advaita.
Published on August 16, 2009 by Donna Z. Rae
Is This Really It?
Tony Parsons! The man who, less then a year ago, I attacked on YouTube because I didn't like what I heard. Read more
Published on July 3, 2009 by Dogen
Practice Is Necessary
Tony Parson's "As It Is", is an accurate "end stage" description of what an "awakened" folk experiences on an on-going basis. Read more
Published on January 22, 2009 by Gary Weber
A Koan of a Book
Tony Parsons frustrates your thinking mind to the point you want to punch him in the nose or just give up. Read more
Published on December 30, 2008 by Clair I Tea
How It Is
As a dutch reader I needed the dictionary quite often as Tony uses a lot of subtle and rare english terms. I am still reading the book. Read more
Published on June 1, 2008 by Jivananda
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This book might help light the fuse. If one is stuck in a dualistic worldview (us vs. them, good vs. evil, etc. Read more
Published on January 31, 2008 by Morgan Caraway
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