Relaxing into Clear Seeing: Interactive Tools in the Service of Self-Awakening - Softcover

Arjuna Ardagh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890909157 ISBN 13: 9781890909154

Publisher: Self X Press, 1998

Synopsis

With it's unique blend of truth and technique. Relaxing into Clear Seeing succeeds in bringing the deepest mystical realizations within the grasp of just about everyone. In more than 20 partner exercises, Ardagh shows us how to apply the teachings of nondualism to virtually every aspect of everyday life, including intimate relationships, money, belief systems, and difficult emotions like fear and desire.

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Additional Praise for Relaxing into Clear Seeing by Arjuna Nick Ardagh:

"This book offers deep insight and understanding of the human process that must be entered into and transformed before humanity can advance to it's next stage in evolution. This book is a living process one that will help us get there."
Jacquelyn Small, Founding Director of the Eupsychia Institute. Author of "Transformers, Embodying Spirit and Rising to the Call."

I love this book. It offers all, not just some, a simple and fundamental opportunity to find the only thing really wanted: Truth and Peace "our True Nature. Thank you, Arjuna, for showing us one more time that heaven is earth."
Byron Katie Rolle, Founder of The Center for The Work, Barstow, California. Author of "What to Do When Nothing Else Works."

"Relaxing into Clear Seeing" inspires the very experience of its title. In it, Arjuna offers a wide-ranging, contemporary description of the non-dual view, as well as pragmatic exercises which dissolve one into that always-shining vision. Homegrown in the West, here is a clear seeing of the eternal truth in our own time. An excellent book.
Catherine Ingram, President of the Living Dharma Foundation. Author of "In the Footsteps of Gandhi."

Arjuna comes down through the line of Ramana Maharshi and Poonjaji, threading that core of silence with his own playful, garrulous practical crazy-wisdom. He is widely read and yet liberated from books; he is centered in the essence of the Self and yet generously anecdotal, deeply grounded in daily experience. This book is something new.
Coleman Barks, Professor of Poetry, University of Georgia. Translator of "Rumi: Open Secret, This Longing, Unseen Rain, We Are Three, Delicious Laughter."

The wisdom of the East is profound, but often too different from us to grasp and benefit from. I am very impressed by this book's exercises for making the wisdom more available to us Westerners, especially the use of partner exercises.
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, U.C. Davis. Author of "Altered States of Consciousness, Waking Up, and Living the Mindful Life."

"Relaxing Into Clear Seeing" helps us do just that. Arjuna knows the way, and has a way with words about it. Bringing together the non-dual teachings of Vedantic Self inquiry with the Buddhist tools of awakening and with Western psychology, he puts forward the radiant essence of the perennial philosophy. I recommend it to anyone interested in awakening the mind, knowing and opening the Heart, and living with wisdom and ease today.
Lama Surya Das, Western Tibetan Teacher. Founder of the Dzogchen Foundation, Boston MA. Author of "Awakening the Buddha Within."

Arjuna has accomplished a clear, heartfelt invitation that heralds a turning point in the availability of awakening to mankind. The text is easy to read and comprehend, allowing for direct experience. A beautiful contribution.
Isaac Shapiro, International Spiritual teacher. Author of "Outbreak of Peace."

For far too long, awakening has been considered the exclusive domain of Saints and sages far removed from conventional life. This book contributes significantly to exploding that myth, showing that teachings of liberation can be made accessible to people from all walks of life. Drawing extensively on different spiritual traditions, the book points to freedom from clinging and anguish born from lack of clarity.

This book also contains practical exercises and skillful teaching to enable readers to discover That which is beyond all measure. Clear Seeing is suitable for anyone genuinely interested in discovering the true expression of a realized life.
Christopher Titmuss, Co-founder of Gaia House, Devon, U.K. Author of "The Profane and the Sacred, Freedom of the Spirit, and Spirit of Change."

"Relaxing into Clear Seeing" is a master work. There is an ancient script which states from out of the wisdom of the East will come that which will bring sunshine to the wisdom of the West. When the two combine will come brightness to the world. Brightness = light. Light to mind = enlightenment. With enlightenment will come man's evolutionary advancement from homosapien to homosuperior. Homosuperior is holistic man ("holy"if you can assimilate that word) who is both a mystic and scientist. This book by Arjuna Nick Ardagh leads the reader down a path in which sunshine brightens.
Ormond McGill, Dean of American Hypnotists. Author of "Hypnotism and Meditation, and Hypnotism and Mysticism of India."

I found the tools offered in this book allow my clients to recognize through immediate, direct experience the beauty, power and simplicity of their own natural state. With this recognition all suffering dissolves. The Living Essence approach cuts through all other systems of healing, all stories, all creations of the mind, all identification with the past and suffering, and takes you directly to the source of healing, joy and creation: your own natural state, which has only been covered over. Through the tools in this book the natural state is restored.
Donna Hamilton M.S. M.A., Health Educator, Hypnotherapist. Founder of the Institute for Natural Discovery.

Many books about awakening are long on philosophy but short on practicality. In this groundbreaking new book, Arjuna brings the powerful technology of his Living Essence work to bear on the mystics journey with considerable power and effect. I recommend this book to anyone serious about their quest for enlightenment.
David Quigley, Developer of Alchemical Hypnotherapy.

Insightful help to those on a spiritual pathway. Gerald G. Jampolsky, Founder of the Center for Attitudinal Healing. Author of "Love is Letting go of Fear."

About the Author:

Arjuna Nick Ardagh is a teacher in the tradition of H.W.L. Poonjaji and Ramana Maharshi. After graduating with a Masters degree from Cambridge University in England in 1979, Arjuna trained in a variety of styles of hypnotherapy and bodywork. He has been practicing and teaching since then, and is an examiner for the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners. He founded the Alchemical Hypnotherapy Institute of Seattle in 1988, and created the Alchemical Journeys tape series.

Arjuna has maintained an unbroken passion for spiritual awakening since 1971, and has lived and studied with teachers from a number of different traditions and backgrounds. In 1991 he met his true Teacher, H.W.L. Poonjaji, who pointed Arjunas attention back to the immediate availability of the Self in this very moment. Arjuna lived with his Teacher for a year, and returned to the West to teach in 1992, at Poonjaji's request.

Arjuna is the founding director of the Living Essence Foundation, and the creator of the Living Essence tapes series, and the Living Essence training. He conducts Satsang, weekend seminars and the Living Essence training in many locations both in the U.S. and elsewhere. He maintains a private practice in Marin County, and is the father of two sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Self X Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1890909157
• ISBN 13: 9781890909154
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384