In this book there are practice instructions for seven different methods of meditation including: 1. The Awareness Watching Awareness Method. 2. The Abandon Release Method. 3. The Eternal Method. 4. The Infinite Space Method. 5. The Loving All Method. For thousands of years humans have been stuck in the same pool of inward unsolved problems. Thousands of years ago humans had the problems of suffering, sorrow, anger, fear, violence, conning, cheating, lying, death, etc. Today humans have the problems of suffering, sorrow, anger, fear, violence, conning, cheating, lying, death, etc. All of those problems have a single cause. In this book the cause of the lack of progress and the solution that actually works is revealed. There is a secret, a missing link, a vicious circle, that is keeping humans stuck in the same pool of unsolved problems. That secret, that missing link, that vicious circle is revealed in this book. How to break free of that ancient human trap is also revealed in this book. The solutions taught in the past have failed. Not even one in a million humans has been freed from all suffering and been established in absolutely perfect infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss by the solutions that have been taught in the past. It is possible to be free of all sorrow and suffering and to experience absolutely perfect infinite eternal joy in this lifetime. It is possible for all humans, not just a few humans. There is a rapid means to infinite bliss. That rapid means is taught in this book. Whatever spiritual path you are on, this book will be a great help. The problem of the ego distorting, distracting and keeping the attention directed outward is a problem shared by all humans, whatever path they are on. The ego's tricks have seldom been looked at in spiritual literature. The ego's tricks are revealed in this book. How to put an end to the ego's tricks is also taught in this book, making this book a unique and immensely valuable contribution. This book is a great help to all humans, including those who are not on a spiritual path, because the most direct and rapid means to end suffering and sorrow and to live in awareness-love-bliss, is of benefit to all. For human consciousness to be transformed something new must be introduced. This book introduces something new into human consciousness. It is rare that a spiritual book goes into detail revealing the tricks the ego uses to avoid liberation. The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss is such a rare book. Step-by-step instructions in how to put an end to the ego's tricks are given in this book. This book shows how to directly experience infinite-eternal-awareness-love-bliss in this lifetime. This book contains a detailed description of the difference between the True Self and the imposter self. Detailed instructions in how to directly experience the True Self are given in this book. Of the thousands of spiritual books you could purchase, The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss is the best first choice. This is the book that created a spiritual revolution that is continuing to transform all human life. The direct experience of infinite-eternal-life is available to all humans. There is a fork in the road. One road leads to ideas, beliefs, concepts and opinions. The other road leads to Direct Experience. This book shows the difference between these two roads and how to choose the road that leads to eternal-perfect-love-bliss in this lifetime. This book is a new doorway for humanity. On a combination lock that you have been unable to open it is not the numbers on the dial that are new. It is the combination that opens the lock that is new. The more than fifteen hundred sentences in this book reveal the combination that opens the lock. On the other side of the door is eternal Life-Love-Bliss.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
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The proof is in the pudding. This book will get you the results you've been searching for your entire life, assuming that your goal has been to break free of ego, pain, sorrow and suffering.
As you practice the techniques given, you will begin to identify less and less with your thoughts and emotions, and more with the ever present ground of awareness/expansiveness/peace which has always been with you, but which you failed to notice previously.
The Teacher, Michael Langford, is the Real Deal. He has been able to take a complex topic and explain it in simple language. You don't need to fly to India and live in an ashram in order to study with a modern day Yogi. He is living here in the States, and his complete message has been synthesized and simplified in this little book. His teachings will change your life if you allow them to.
Now, buy this book, read it slowly and thoroughly, then go practice......
As you practice the techniques given, you will begin to identify less and less with your thoughts and emotions, and more with the ever present ground of awareness/expansiveness/peace which has always been with you, but which you failed to notice previously.
The Teacher, Michael Langford, is the Real Deal. He has been able to take a complex topic and explain it in simple language. You don't need to fly to India and live in an ashram in order to study with a modern day Yogi. He is living here in the States, and his complete message has been synthesized and simplified in this little book. His teachings will change your life if you allow them to.
Now, buy this book, read it slowly and thoroughly, then go practice......
31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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This is a wonderful book. Yes, the author sometimes makes claims about its importance that are not relevant. That is actually the only real flaw that it has, though.
And the title is NOT an example of these rare and surprising bursts of grandiosity. The practice that the title refers to is in fact "the most direct means to eternal bliss." What he describes is the awareness watching awareness practice, employed to great effect by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. This is not a method. Mantras, guided meditation, following the breath, all of these are methods, not practice. Awareness watching awareness is the practice that all methods and all teaching point to. Once you understand the practice, there is no more need for method. You drop all that, and simply practice. Most people don't understand this.
He tries to clarify what is meant by "awareness," that sense of "I AM" that all of the great teachers refer to, and thereby minimize the wide-spread confusion about what it is, exactly, in terms of your personal experience. He does a really good job. Then he emphasizes that this is what you are to focus on if you want to awaken. The title is the simple truth. Coupled with Adyashanti's "True Meditation" the teaching in this book becomes even more clear.
His main contribution is that he thoroughly and effectively debunks the ego-based sense of self, and our complete and unquestioning faith in thought, in what we believe and what we think is true. This is where I am really benefiting. I needed to know in my heart of hearts that this person I believe I am is a delusion. I could see this intellectually, I have even had the fleeting experience of this truth. But there had to be a deep acceptance of this. A deep understanding that a mistake was made, without judgment or rejection of the result, just a simple seeing-through of the delusion. This book helped me with this tremendously.
Some reviewers complain about the author's recommendation that you read the book very slowly, and that you read it many times. That's too bad. If you follow this instruction, you will soon be very aware of how the mind wants to race on to the next thing. Then you are aware that this is simply what the mind does all the time. Ah ha. This is the core problem. This is what keeps you from being in the present moment, aware of Awareness. It is an incredibly powerful method to notice that impulse and then simply focus on reading slowly and repetitively. This puts the brakes on and slows the mind's momentum. It also helps you to make certain that what is being said really, really sinks in.
I put down everything else. I stopped reading a book in the middle of it, I cancelled my subscriptions, put away the DVDs, un-registered from the retreat, and stopped going to the satsangs. I focus on practice, and I practice for hours, easily, every day. No long walk to the cushion. No physical pain. No hours of tedium. Just practice. It is causing the transformation I was seeking.
And the title is NOT an example of these rare and surprising bursts of grandiosity. The practice that the title refers to is in fact "the most direct means to eternal bliss." What he describes is the awareness watching awareness practice, employed to great effect by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. This is not a method. Mantras, guided meditation, following the breath, all of these are methods, not practice. Awareness watching awareness is the practice that all methods and all teaching point to. Once you understand the practice, there is no more need for method. You drop all that, and simply practice. Most people don't understand this.
He tries to clarify what is meant by "awareness," that sense of "I AM" that all of the great teachers refer to, and thereby minimize the wide-spread confusion about what it is, exactly, in terms of your personal experience. He does a really good job. Then he emphasizes that this is what you are to focus on if you want to awaken. The title is the simple truth. Coupled with Adyashanti's "True Meditation" the teaching in this book becomes even more clear.
His main contribution is that he thoroughly and effectively debunks the ego-based sense of self, and our complete and unquestioning faith in thought, in what we believe and what we think is true. This is where I am really benefiting. I needed to know in my heart of hearts that this person I believe I am is a delusion. I could see this intellectually, I have even had the fleeting experience of this truth. But there had to be a deep acceptance of this. A deep understanding that a mistake was made, without judgment or rejection of the result, just a simple seeing-through of the delusion. This book helped me with this tremendously.
Some reviewers complain about the author's recommendation that you read the book very slowly, and that you read it many times. That's too bad. If you follow this instruction, you will soon be very aware of how the mind wants to race on to the next thing. Then you are aware that this is simply what the mind does all the time. Ah ha. This is the core problem. This is what keeps you from being in the present moment, aware of Awareness. It is an incredibly powerful method to notice that impulse and then simply focus on reading slowly and repetitively. This puts the brakes on and slows the mind's momentum. It also helps you to make certain that what is being said really, really sinks in.
I put down everything else. I stopped reading a book in the middle of it, I cancelled my subscriptions, put away the DVDs, un-registered from the retreat, and stopped going to the satsangs. I focus on practice, and I practice for hours, easily, every day. No long walk to the cushion. No physical pain. No hours of tedium. Just practice. It is causing the transformation I was seeking.
50 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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From the Introduction chapter of the book...
"11.It is possible to be free of all sorrow and suffering
and to experience absolutely perfect infinite eternal joy
here and now in this lifetime.
12.It is possible for all humans,
not just a few humans.
13.There is a rapid means to
infinite bliss.
14. That rapid means is taught in this book."
This book is unique contribution. It is an 'Instruction manual for enligtenment'. It contains extremely practical step by step instruction to the 'direct experience of reality'. The first three chapters are devoted to understanding the ego and tricks of the ego and how it keeps one from waking up. These chapters are extremely insightful and I personally found it very useful. One of the several ego's tricks which I Identified in myself after reading the book was a preference to engage in endless reading and discussion instead of devoting time for actual practise. Then there is a chapter on the importance of the 'desire for liberation' and how it can dissolve all obstacles to enlightenment. There is a chapter devoted to 'how to awaken the extreme desire for liberation' which is also very insightful. There are two meditation practises offered for daily practise as the 'most rapid and direct means to direct experience of reality'. The first one is the 'Awareness Watching Awareness'(AWA) method, and the second one is the 'Abandon Release Method' (ARM). According to the author AWA is the most rapid and ARM is the second most rapid method. These two methods alone are worth the value of the book. There is an extremely useful chapter on further clarification on 'Awareness watching awareness' method which addresses all possible doubts or questions one might have during the practise. The author gives very practical tips and pointers to address any questions which might cloud the meditator's mind during practise.
E.G. from chapter eight...
"10. Don't expect any type of experience.
11. If you are wondering if you will have some kind
of spiritual experience, then that very wondering means
you have added something to awareness watching awareness.
12.Never add anything to awareness watching awareness.
13. The key is to be content just watching
your awareness and not to move from that
and not to add anything to that.
.
.
165. Don't expect any of the experiences described in this chapter.
Expectation will destroy the effectiveness of the practice.
166. If it seems boring the first few times you try the
awareness watching awareness practice, that is OK.
Continue to practice."
Initially when I started practising AWA, I found it to be quite difficult. Then I took the authors suggestion in the book and practised ARM first for a few months and then swithed to AWA. It has been about two years since I started practising seriously and the results are amazing, I can definitely say that I am on the right track. The following quotes are from chapter 6.
"67. From the very first moment one tries this practice,
one is abiding as awareness!
68. There is no waiting!
69. It is so easy.
70. This is not meant to imply
that from the beginning the ego ends.
71. It takes years of continuous practice
before the ego meets its final end.
72. However, from the moment one tries this simple,
easy to understand practice, one is abiding as awareness!""
There are also several supplementary methods which are not meant for daily pracise but can be pracised once or twise to get a deeper understanding of the primary method. There is also a chapter titled 'reminder' which is meant to be read everyday to motivate one to practise the methods every day. There is a chapter titled "Experiences, the Journey and the Final Goal" which is a new addition in the latest edition of the book; This is the biggest chapter in the book and bound to be a big source of inspiration for everyone.
Well how does one know whether this is infact the 'most direct means to liberation'? Quoting the author from chapter 6.
"123. The only way to find out if the Awareness Watching Awareness
Method is or is not effective for you is to practice it.
124. If without trying it, you come to the conclusion
that it will not be effective, then you have allowed the imposter (thinking)
to rob you of a great opportunity
125. With thinking you have a conclusion, an opinion
or an assumption that may be correct or may not be correct.
126. With practice you will know for sure
whether the Awareness Watching Awareness Method
is or is not effective for you.
127. Therefore, consider giving it
a sincere, fair try."
In my case, the unconditional joy and bliss that is starting to fill my being and is deepening with each practise session is enough confirmation that the AWA method really works.
Very Highly Recommended!
"11.It is possible to be free of all sorrow and suffering
and to experience absolutely perfect infinite eternal joy
here and now in this lifetime.
12.It is possible for all humans,
not just a few humans.
13.There is a rapid means to
infinite bliss.
14. That rapid means is taught in this book."
This book is unique contribution. It is an 'Instruction manual for enligtenment'. It contains extremely practical step by step instruction to the 'direct experience of reality'. The first three chapters are devoted to understanding the ego and tricks of the ego and how it keeps one from waking up. These chapters are extremely insightful and I personally found it very useful. One of the several ego's tricks which I Identified in myself after reading the book was a preference to engage in endless reading and discussion instead of devoting time for actual practise. Then there is a chapter on the importance of the 'desire for liberation' and how it can dissolve all obstacles to enlightenment. There is a chapter devoted to 'how to awaken the extreme desire for liberation' which is also very insightful. There are two meditation practises offered for daily practise as the 'most rapid and direct means to direct experience of reality'. The first one is the 'Awareness Watching Awareness'(AWA) method, and the second one is the 'Abandon Release Method' (ARM). According to the author AWA is the most rapid and ARM is the second most rapid method. These two methods alone are worth the value of the book. There is an extremely useful chapter on further clarification on 'Awareness watching awareness' method which addresses all possible doubts or questions one might have during the practise. The author gives very practical tips and pointers to address any questions which might cloud the meditator's mind during practise.
E.G. from chapter eight...
"10. Don't expect any type of experience.
11. If you are wondering if you will have some kind
of spiritual experience, then that very wondering means
you have added something to awareness watching awareness.
12.Never add anything to awareness watching awareness.
13. The key is to be content just watching
your awareness and not to move from that
and not to add anything to that.
.
.
165. Don't expect any of the experiences described in this chapter.
Expectation will destroy the effectiveness of the practice.
166. If it seems boring the first few times you try the
awareness watching awareness practice, that is OK.
Continue to practice."
Initially when I started practising AWA, I found it to be quite difficult. Then I took the authors suggestion in the book and practised ARM first for a few months and then swithed to AWA. It has been about two years since I started practising seriously and the results are amazing, I can definitely say that I am on the right track. The following quotes are from chapter 6.
"67. From the very first moment one tries this practice,
one is abiding as awareness!
68. There is no waiting!
69. It is so easy.
70. This is not meant to imply
that from the beginning the ego ends.
71. It takes years of continuous practice
before the ego meets its final end.
72. However, from the moment one tries this simple,
easy to understand practice, one is abiding as awareness!""
There are also several supplementary methods which are not meant for daily pracise but can be pracised once or twise to get a deeper understanding of the primary method. There is also a chapter titled 'reminder' which is meant to be read everyday to motivate one to practise the methods every day. There is a chapter titled "Experiences, the Journey and the Final Goal" which is a new addition in the latest edition of the book; This is the biggest chapter in the book and bound to be a big source of inspiration for everyone.
Well how does one know whether this is infact the 'most direct means to liberation'? Quoting the author from chapter 6.
"123. The only way to find out if the Awareness Watching Awareness
Method is or is not effective for you is to practice it.
124. If without trying it, you come to the conclusion
that it will not be effective, then you have allowed the imposter (thinking)
to rob you of a great opportunity
125. With thinking you have a conclusion, an opinion
or an assumption that may be correct or may not be correct.
126. With practice you will know for sure
whether the Awareness Watching Awareness Method
is or is not effective for you.
127. Therefore, consider giving it
a sincere, fair try."
In my case, the unconditional joy and bliss that is starting to fill my being and is deepening with each practise session is enough confirmation that the AWA method really works.
Very Highly Recommended!
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Full of ego and not very helpful.
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