Awakening to the Dream © Copyright 2001, 2013 Leo Hartong © Copyright 2007, 2013 Non-Duality Press To contact the author you can mail to:
[email protected] For more information visit: www.awakeningtothedream.com Published by: Non-Duality Press PO Box 2228 | Salisbury | SP2 2GZ | United Kingdom www.non-dualitypress.org eISBN 13: 978-0-9547792-1-4 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. With Gratitude to: Alan Watts for showing The Way of Zen; Ramesh Balsekar, through whom Consciousness Speaks; Wayne Liquorman for removing the ‘I’ from the understanding; Tony Parsons for telling it As It Is; Nathan Gill for taking the time to be clear; Jae for invaluable tweaking, input and feedback; Chuck Hillig for inspiring the title; And the One who speaks through each and all. O space and time! now I see it is true, what I guess’d at, What I guess’d when I loaf’d on the grass, What I guess’d while I lay alone in my bed, And again as I walk’d the beach under the paling stars of the morning.*1 Contents Cover Image Title Page Copyright & Permissions Acknowledgements Foreword by Tony Parsons Chapter 1: What happens when you fall off the earth’s edge? Chapter 2: Who is the author? Chapter 3: At the river’s edge Chapter 4: All you read here is Not the truth! Chapter 5: Do not be intimidated Chapter 6: Saints, sinners, seekers and sages Chapter 7: Do you get it? Chapter 8: The notion of ‘me’ Chapter 9: The enemy within Chapter 10: I am... or am I? Chapter 11: Who is watching the show? Chapter 12: The shift Chapter 13: No claim, no blame, no fame Chapter 14: To practice or not to practice Chapter 15: Acceptance, unconditional love, bliss and all this Chapter 16: What about the body? Chapter 17: Giving up the ghost Chapter 18: Blinded by the light Chapter 19: Concepts and metaphors Playing Acting On having a soul On and off The metaphor of electricity Come join the dance About silence, nothingness and the heart Back to basics Limits of language Chapter 20: The dream of space and time Chapter 21: Awakening to the dream Afterword Selected Bibliography Back cover Foreword by Tony Parsons The book, Awakening to the Dream, is written with a clarity of perception that is rare to find in the multitude of published outpourings that these days purport to express wisdom. Most popular teachings about enlightenment are based on the mistaken idea that there is such a thing as a separate individual who can choose through effort and purification to attain something called enlightenment. This prescriptive and goal-orientated approach is, of course, very attractive to the guru mind, which above all else wishes to remain employed by simply compounding confusion. From the non-dualistic perception, how