The Ease of Being [Paperback]

Jean Klein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1986 | ISBN-10: 0893860158 | ISBN-13: 978-0893860158 | Edition: 2nd

Jean Klein. a musicologist and doctor, spent several years in India where he met his Guru and was initiated into traditional wisdom. He was eventually sent back to Europe to teach Advaita Vedanta. This teaching employs a "direct approach" beyond any mental activity or striving, pointing straight to the ultimate where all that belongs to the mind, time, and space is integrated. What is sought is a sudden insight, a clear awakening to what we are, what we have been and what we shall be forever. --- from book's back cover

Product Details

• Paperback: 102 pages
• Publisher: Acorn Press; 2nd edition (June 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893860158
• ISBN-13: 978-0893860158
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teaches Living From The Heart, June 19, 2002

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Michael D.Johnson (Jackson, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ease of Being (Paperback)

This book teaches simple effective ways to view life from the heart, instead of just the head. All there is, is Consciousness.
Duality appears in non-duality. Silence is our Real nature.
We are not the body. We are not the mind. The body and mind appear and disappear in our awareness. When we awaken in the morning, it is our body that awakens for Consciousness, what we
really are, never sleeps. We can learn to live from the heart.
Being aware of what I see, what I smell, what I taste, what I
hear, what I am touching, what I am thinking, takes me to a place of Silent Observation. This is what Jean Klein and other Self Realized Masters teach. We are the Self that shines on the world. I am not in the world, the world is in me.

Don't just read this book, digest it.

Namaste,

Michael

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For those interested in nonduality or Advaita Vedanta, January 2, 2008

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Randall Friend - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ease of Being (Paperback)

Jean Klein has the ability to create the stillness necessary to see the silent knowingness which Advaita Vedanta or other non-duality traditions point to.

Jean invites us to watch the mind, notice that we desire and fear, witness the arising of jealousy and greed. And in this simple looking without the desire for an outcome, we may find ourselves resting in being - the natural state.

Jean shows us that when we simply notice what's happening in the mind, a space is created, we are immediately outside the suffering - watching as an observer. And in this - we may see that it's all happening in our consciousness/awareness.

This book isn't the easiest to read - it's not a new-age spirituality book, filled with feel-good methods and processes which are intended to make the "person" better. If this, or anything else written by Jean Klein, is read with no attachment to attaining something or getting somewhere, this simple silent presence of being may be noticed as your natural and already-present state.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true master of Advaita, November 9, 2006

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Zopa (Colorado) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Ease of Being (Paperback)

I suppose I have to admit to a certain amount of bias for the Advaita teachings, but this bias has come at the expence of much effort to translate what many teachers have to to say given their cultural background. This book presents Advaita in wonderfully warm and simple language. Jean Klein provides one of the most aticulate presentations of these teachings available and yet almost completely free from the use of Hindu and Sanskrit terms or popular "insider" language. My feeling is that this reflects his own realization.