Paradise Found: Recognizing and Living AS the Infinite Love That You Are [Paperback]

Charlie Hayes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2008

From the Foreword by Stephen Wingate (Author of "The Outrageous Myths Of Enlightenment" and other books and CDs): "With the power and force of a sledge-hammer, Charlie’s words strike to the core of the mind destroying all false images and beliefs. His intensity is palpable. Having all misconceptions crushed, the reader has no way out and is left in their natural state of peace and well-being.” This Timeless Expression is about ending the search for “Spiritual Enlightenment” - Here and Now! The fifth book by Nonduality Expressions author Charlie Hayes, this one offers a simple, easy to use, yet very powerful set of pointers that can bring an immediate end to all seeking for happiness, wholeness or enlightenment … RIGHT NOW. And so, "Spiritual Enlightenment" and "Liberation" is seen to have already always been yours, once and for good. This is the ultimate Nondual Seeing that belongs to no one – and every one. Hayes, a former student of Baba Muktananda, 'Sailor' Bob Adamson”, and John Wheeler, is an expression in the “lineage” of the revered Advaita Guru Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. He offers a sharing (not a "teaching") of direct and immediate effortless Paradise Found, as the false is revealed to be false and the Timeless Eternal State is uncovered once and for good. “Paradise” is discovered to be, quite simply, the Eternal Home you never really left. As the search ends, everything that appears before you is recognized as your own Lovable Being ... finally, it's clear ... there is only The One and You Are That! And so, The Search that never started Ends – just Here, just Now. Author of “I Am Life Itself” Unmani Hyde says, “Charlie is so good at pointing out that the mind can never 'get this', even though it continues to try, again and again! This is a book that you can dip in and out of as you feel, each time being redirected back to who you really are - Life itself.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Nonduality Expressions (July 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976661942
• ISBN-13: 978-0976661948
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,220,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book that offers nothing..., August 11, 2008

By 

Randall Friend - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paradise Found: Recognizing and Living AS the Infinite Love That You Are (Paperback)

Charlie's book - "Paradise Found" - contains all that a seeker needs to realize what they are. Yet as Charlie so eloquently and ruthlessly puts it - nothing is needed, there is nothing to realize, what you already are is nothing - no-thing... any "one" who could benefit is more of the same illusion, the false assumption of personal and limited being, the erroneous self-center which appears to need realization.

Charlie uses words and levity brilliantly to point to THAT which is prior to words, THAT which contains the ideas of seeking and enlightenment, suffering and peace... THAT ON WHICH the entire dream appears to appear.

"Paradise Found" combines quotes from various "teachers", along with his own experiences and conversations with "seekers" to form a consistent theme - "YOU" ARE NOT! The YOU you've taken yourself to be is a FICTION.

If you consider yourself a seeker, this book does only what any clear and direct teaching can do - give you no ground on which to stand, give you no handle to hold, give you no self in which to retreat, give you no hope or meaning, leave you totally and completely naked, swinging in the breeze... pointing to the fact that the very idea of YOU is only ever an appearance in the clear ocean of timeless awareness which you've always been.

Charlie does this over and over in Paradise Found.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paradise Found Right Where You Are, September 1, 2009

By 

JD Hazlewood - Author of "That Which Alwa... (Hot Springs, AR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paradise Found: Recognizing and Living AS the Infinite Love That You Are (Paperback)

"Paradise Found" points directly and perfectly to the Source that You Are. Charlie writes clearly and doesn't beat around the bush; he goes straight to the heart of the matter.

This book is written so that the understanding is seen, not learned, because this is not a learning process, but more of a realizing, no process to it.

Any one of Charlie's books gets down to brass tacks immediately. There's no waiting until "chapter 5" to start hearing the message. He writes to show you who you truly are, and letting you know that the illusion of suffering is just that.

If you a searching for something, "enlightenment, peace, nirvana", or whatever source of contentment that you feel is missing, that can be realized in the pages of this book, these words express that message so well.

Once the words bypass the mind, the seeing is clear, and you'll know immediately that "Paradise" was never lost.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Perfect Summer Nonduality Book, August 11, 2008

By 

Jerry Katz "Nonduality.com" (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paradise Found: Recognizing and Living AS the Infinite Love That You Are (Paperback)

Paradise Found, by Charlie Hayes, is one of those "last books you'll ever need to read" books. It's like one of those non-existent Mackinaw peaches from Oregon that's only available for two weeks out of the year. Paradise Found possesses that longed-for juice that pours out with every bite. It has the joy and summer of the peach. And it possesses the hard pit to roll around in your mouth.

Sometimes the pit splits open (on its own for whatever reason) and inside is a seed, smooth and cool. Paradise Found possesses all layers of the peach: the outer skin, the fruit, the pit, the seed.

THE SKIN OF THE PEACH:

The Table of Contents is like the outer layer. There are 109 short chapters. Here is a selection of their titles:

3. What Is Unreal? What Is Real?
7. Is This All There Is?
8. The Addict You Believe You Are
14. What IS "Is"?
46. The 'Aha' Is Always Here and Now
55. Who Cares??
56. There Are No "Accurate Pointers"
60. "Teachings" Are A Distraction


THE FRUIT ITSELF:

Questioner: How Do I DO the Investigation?

Charlie Hayes: Who Asks That Question? Quite a few have asked, essentially, "HOW do I DO this investigation? Do I just ask who am I over and over? I have tried that, it seems to reveal a sense of space and openness but soon I am right back into the pain of being me, and I am still suffering. This goes on in spite of years of commitment to being earnest and taking up practices and meditations etc. I am tired of flopping back into being a little complaining me and I want to end this search for real. What to do? How to see that the I is a phantom as is pointed out by these Nondual teachings?"

The "pat answer" in Nonduality circles is to ask, WHO wants to know? That is a great pointer for some but for many it just increases the frustration and is often dismissed as "fundamentalism" or "Advaita-speak" and is certainly NOT helpful in those cases. It's almost kind of condescending...

I can share that the two things that helped the most for me were the seeing that this that I am is not a concept or experience but a silent open background of space-like awareness that is always here before anything else and that I am that awareness.

THE PIT OR STONE:

Hayes writes:

Who chooses? That is what needs to be examined. So, NO I do not agree. There is NO ego! It's a ghost! You scare yourself telling yourself ghost stories where YOU are the main ghost character, the star in your drama. It's crap.

Don't get me in the middle between you and that writer, whom I do not know. If you keep roaming the Internet and writing to other teachers I will NOT reply to you again. ... The real question which you keep avoiding asking yourself is Who Am I"? I say refuse all thoughts except who am I? If you can, just do it. If not keep looking in all the wrong places, in thoughts and outside yourself. But get real with it, man!

THE SEED:

The seed is either stumbled upon or not and no quotation can be selected. The seed is direct, living, seeing of what Charlie is saying. You may have a better chance of stumbling upon split-open, seed-revealing peach stones via this book than with most others of its kind.

CONCLUSION:

Richly supplemental are many delicious quotations of teachers who most strongly influenced Charlie Hayes. They include John Wheeler, Stephen Wingate, Leo Hartong, John Greven, Robin Dale, John Astin, Nisargadatta Maharaj. Bob Adamson is often mentioned.

Paradise Found is the perfect summer nonduality book, all year long, for generations to come.