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This is the story of a man who had it all – looks, wealth, culture, fame, travel, career – and gave it all up to find for himself the answer to his burning question "Is there actually anything like freedom, enlightenment or liberation behind all the abstractions the religions have thrown at us?" He never got an answer. The book introduces readers to the unknown truth of life.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Smriti Books (December 6, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 8187967102
  • ISBN-13: 978-8187967101
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,076,335 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Honest but overgeneralizes things, July 13, 2007
His teaching is Zen like but a good trip to see oneself. He shatters with astonishing honesty and brutal questioning ! He has nothing to offer. Although he rejects Buddha, his words are similar to Buddha's approach. His writings are only to someone who have experienced brutality of life with kind heart. There is something about him that we can't totally write off..Not his intelligence alone but some honesty behind all that roar. Zen like..but destroys Zen too. Worth reading them and get experiencing the shock. No nihilim but intelligence .....not in sense we expect.
He of course stererotypes religious gurus and society and one should note this while reading and understand the essence not his mere words. There is nothing to learn from his teaching. It is empty with wisdom !
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5.0 out of 5 stars A continuation of non-dual conversation, August 16, 2008
I came across Mind Is a Myth after reading Sri Ramana Marharshi, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and John Wheeler. U.G. continues in the non-duality train of teaching (and if you are interested, Amazon has books by the authors I listed). U.G. is a non-teacher in the respect that he makes clear that he asks for no audience, no position and states that neither should we. We all can use "pointers" through life, and that is what U.G. and the other fellows offer. None tell another how to live his/her life, and by U.G. there is no practice necessary in life. That's not to say that there is anything "wrong" with meditation or yoga, for instance, but that there is no "way" to some eureka experience which will be a solve-all and be-all from which point one would be "perfected." The neat thing about reading non-duality authors is that there really is nothing to "do"...as one reads and picks up pointers, the reformation just occurs on some silent deep level without effort. Enjoy the book, but it is "heavy" and one without any exposure to non-dual thought may find it rather difficult to understand.
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1.0 out of 5 stars extreme nihilism personified, January 21, 2009
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Before reading Mind is a Myth, I thought extreme nihilism was something I had born witness to. Now I know that even the most ardent denial of reality I'd been aware of only scratched the surface. The title of this book is not a metaphor... he's very serious about that.

The author declares, with absolute insistence, that there is nothing that anyone knows about anything. Except for himself of course. He knows everything there is to know of any importance what so ever, but he insists many times throughout the book that there's no possible way that anyone else could learn what he knows from his words, since nothing can be communicated from one person to another.

For something so useless as communication (according to U.G.), he sure talks a lot. But then he also insists many times throughout the book that his words are just a matter of pure happenstance, with no significance in any way other than some sort of instinctual yakking. Meaning: He believes his language is automatic reflex to inquiry but it's pointless for anyone to listen since nothing he ever says could be understood.
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