Book One of The Enlightenment Trilogy
By Jed McKenna
Vitam inpendere vero.
Stake life upon truth.
Juvenal
From a Spiritual Master Unlike Any,
A Spiritual Masterpiece Like No Other
Author, teacher and spiritual master Jed McKenna tells it like it’s never been told before. A true American original, Jed succeeds where countless others have failed by reducing this highest of attainments — Spiritual Enlightenment — to the simplest of terms.
Effectively demystifying the mystical, Jed astonishes the reader not by adding to the world’s collected spiritual wisdom, but by taking the spirituality out of spiritual enlightenment. Never before has this elusive topic been treated in so engaging and accessible a manner.
A masterpiece of illuminative writing, Spiritual Enlightenment is mandatory reading for anyone following a spiritual path. Part exposé and part how-to manual, this is the first book to explain why failure seems to be the rule in the search for enlightenment — and how the rule can be broken.
Says Jed:
The truth is that enlightenment is neither remote nor unattainable. It is closer than your skin and more immediate than your next breath. If we wonder why so few seem able to find that which can never be lost, we might recall the child who was looking in the light for a coin he dropped in the dark because “the light is better over here.”
Mankind has spent ages looking in the light for a coin that awaits us not in light and not in dark, but beyond all opposites. That is the message of this book: Spiritual Enlightenment, pure and simple.
Contents
Spiritual Disclaimer
That Which Cannot Be Simpler
Paradox
Big Thoughts
Placid and Self-Contained
Done
The Savage Rocks of Eternal Mind
Neither Holy nor Wise
Heartless
Both In and Out of the Game
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Kill the Buddha
One Truth
The Ultimate Truth
Refiner’s Fire
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
The Harmony of the Spheres
Murder Me
The Unlocked Cage
Codename Beatrice
Right Here, Right Now
Pasupatastra!
Truth-talk in the Dreamstate
As Immortal and Fathomless as Myself
The Golden Rule
The Uncherished Sword
Raw Human Things
Further
Layers
Even the Poorest Thing Shines
The Origin of All Poems
Theater of the Absurd
No-Self is True-Self
Like a Death Sentence
In the Ward of Fevered Minds
Die While You’re Alive
Why Not
Epilogue
Bonus
Recipe for Failure
Interview with Jed McKenna
The Deficiency of Recorded Accounts
Dr. Pillay Interview
Impersonating Jed McKenna
Blues for Buddha
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