I Hope You Die Soon [Paperback]

Richard Sylvester (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 2006

This is an uncompromising and provocative book about non-duality. In liberation it is seen that all phenomena simply arise in awareness with no person mediating them. Purpose, religion and paths of spiritual development all lose their meaning when it is seen that there is no one who exercises choice. "Richard's description of what has been seen in liberation is both eloquent and down to earth. His direct, uncluttered and concise expression can be readily identified with and speaks directly to that knowing which is beyond seeking." Tony Parsons - author of The Open Secret

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Non-Duality Press (March 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0955176212
• ISBN-13: 978-0955176210
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #460,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No one is writing this review., January 31, 2007

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John J. Patton (Poca, W.V.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Hope You Die Soon (Paperback)

This isn't a bad book. I personally like to hear stories and accounts of realisation. But......Listen up! Down through history many have
experienced enlightenment and many have given very luminous pointers to that which is realised. It is a great mistake however, to act as an authority and say that there is nothing you can do that is conducive to awakening. The author has tried different paths and gurus etc... and none of these had anything to do with his realisation. This is understood. There are very simple methods, however that have been taught for thousands of years that are conducive to awakening. These "Advaita" teachers would do good to study Nisargadatta a little more. The realisation of nonduality is as old as recorded history of enlightenment itself. There is no one to know this. There is no one to read this. Its ok to point at this to give people a little sign in the right direction. The way it is constantly repeated over and over is just lame and redundant. It is of no help to anyone. It is actually quite aggravating. If your going to communicate with those who are still thinking in terms of dualism, then think back to when you yourself were a seeker and what might have pointed you in the right direction. Well that's all no one has to say about nothing. P.S. I recommend Eckhart Tolle.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clarity with a funnybone., September 20, 2006

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David Trindle (New Hope, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Hope You Die Soon (Paperback)

There's nowhere in this easy-to-read book that allows even the tiniest space for the "persn" to go to hide out or even take a moment's rest. The author is relentless. Clearly, consistently and funnily driving home again and again the point that there is no real person. Let's all join the land of the living dead! Enough wasting time with all these high-maintenance "personalities"--let's die soon.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as it gets, January 8, 2011

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Sombrio "Sombrio" (N,W. England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Hope You Die Soon (Paperback)

This is the first book review I have ever written. What pushed me to take, (what for me is such a large step), was this extraordinary gem of a book with the unlikely title of, "I Hope You Die Soon". I'm sure that on first encounter most people would find the title more than a bit unsettling, since it seems to be expressing a thought that few of us would be happy to hear another person greet us with.

Nevertheless, I bought the book, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, found that its contents had even more power to stop me in my usual complacent tracks than the title did. For more than a year now, each time I finished it I would lay it down on the pile beside my favourite reading chair,....then irresistibly, a week or two later, I would find myself drawn back to it. I would pick it up,... and once again I was off. Slipping gratefully back into that strangely compelling dream.

Seeing the world through the lens of Richard's experiences truly stretches all my accepted ideas of what I used to so confidently call 'reality'.

If you have any attraction to, or curiosity about, Non-Duality teachings, I highly recommend that you try for yourself, via his book, this extraordinary transposition into the world Richard Sylvester is describing. For true bibliophiles, this book and its companion edition, (comprising transcripts of talks he has given), in my opinion, are undeniably the clearest 'descriptions of the indescribable' that one is ever likely to find by any contemporary writer in modern English.