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Waking from the Dream

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Waking from the Dream: A Wealth of Practical Information Relating to the Buddhist Path to Enlightenment

An excellent view of the practice that is the path to enlightenment that will be of interest to all levels of practitioner...from newest to oldest. It describes how to intermesh the essential teachings on emptiness with actual practice. Check out http://thefoundationofpeace.org to download some of my teachings,even a beautiful poster among other things. Check the Website often as it is growing and changing every week. Some wonderful projects are in the works! Contact info is on the Website.

This book beautifully enumerates the gulf between perceptions and reality and provides a foundation for further study of the Buddhist path to enlightenment. Of the books I have read on the subject this is the most accessible to lay students or casual readers. Whilst this accessibility reduces the opportunities for self-discovery, it lays down the fundamental guidelines that allow the self to form a map that will relate appropriately to the first steps on the path.

Given the enormous number of self-help books available, many written from ignorance and purely for profit, this work stands out as one of astonishing patience, humanism and honesty, crystal clear thinking and application of principle. To receptive readers for whom the concept of the path is a completely new and novel one, this book may represent a true revelation, an actual manual for being human in a reality that is very much a matter of perspective and experience.

For experienced readers the work offers encapsulating concepts and gives body and name to many of the things that life throws at all of us but that not all of us try to understand.

A truly excellent book.