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Statements such as "there is no self," or "there is only God" are very simple descriptions of ordinary, everyday existence. All that's necessary for understanding them is a clear acknowledgement of your own life experience. Few people ever admit how life actually presents itself. This book points to your most basic experience of existence and asks you to consider what it reveals. Be prepared for surprises. Spontaneously drawn to meditation at age fourteen, Darryl spent the next seventeen years exploring awareness and concentration practices from Eastern and Western traditions. He went on to connect with Jiddu Krishnamurti and Robert Adams, as well as spending nine years apprenticed to mindfulness teacher Ruth Denison and another six years as a Buddhist meditation monk in the Thai forest tradition, under the guidance of Ajahn Sumedho. With these last two he was asked to begin teaching. He is the author of several books including 'Dismantling the Fantasy' also published by Non-Duality Press.
- Sales Rank: #658333 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Non-Duality Press
- Published on: 2011-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .30" w x 5.00" l, .32 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 126 pages
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About the Author
Darryl Bailey was drawn to meditation at the age of fourteen. He spent the next seventeen years exploring awareness and concentration practices from Christian, Hindu, Sufi, Taoist, Buddhist, and Western psychology sources. He then spent a further nine years apprenticed to mindfulness teacher Ruth Denison, and another six years as a Buddhist meditation monk in the Thai forest tradition, under the guidance of Ajahn Sumedho. In both situations he was asked to begin teaching. Along the way, there was recurring contact with the independent philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, as well as a significant connection with the Advaita sage Robert Adams.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
LIFE BEYOND LIMITATION: DARRYL'S GENTLE DYNAMITE
By Peter Baker
A wonderfully clear and compassionate book of nonduality, which points gently but relentlessly to the nature of reality as an ever-changing, unformed movement or flux.
This flux appears as a world of separate `things' through the spontaneous arising of thoughts, concepts, boundaries and selves, all of which are essentially illusory and transient.
This idea of separation leads on to further stories such as free will or determinism, or `cause and effect' which would only make sense if the world was truly fragmented.
Seeing through these fantasies leaves just THIS: the inexplicable natural process of life accomplishing itself, with no need to vainly try to change or resist what could not possibly be otherwise.
I love Darryl's analogy of the stories of thought being like the `holiday brochures' of life, which we sit in the hotel reading, when by merely stepping outside we could be in reality itself!
This book expresses the essence of Buddhism, Zen, Advaita and Taoism but without any of the dogma and ideology that is so often a part of the package. Also I have found that terms such as `emptiness' and `nothingness' in some of the more traditional `philosophical' writings can be misleading. Darryl however has a knack for using expressions which resonate simply and effortlessly.
On a personal note, I remember when my father died my well-controlled idea of self blew a fuse and there was no sense of control or understanding left. Strangely I felt like I was simply moving with the much larger flow of life itself. A flow unhindered by trying to know what was going on. There was still grief but everything appeared lighter and less troublesome. I remember at the funeral part of the service included the phrase `a peace that passeth all understanding', and these words took on new meaning as I realised that understanding does indeed have to be `passed' in order for peace to be revealed.
I gradually re-entered the `normal' consciousness of my separate self, with all the associated confusion and suffering. However, reading this book has reminded me of this sense of being life itself, undefined and not limited by the illusion of `knowing'. This time though there is no accompanying grief, just a sense of vibrancy and acceptance of this perfect uncertainty.
There is so much more I am overflowing with but I'll stop now as this is only really a `holiday brochure'!
Needless to say this book has my highest recommendation!
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
A breath of non-duality fresh air!
By M. Jeffreys
"We do not exist as anything apart from the flow of nature and that flow
is an unformed, inexplicable dance accomplishing itself." -Darryl Bailey
Many find Darryl Bailey's perspective on "Life," on the totality of our experience of whatever it is we are experiencing moment to moment, to be extremely refreshing. While technically essence revisted would fall into the category of "non-duality books," you will not find any mention of awakening, enlightenment, meditation, bliss or any of the other usual spiritual jargon.
Instead, Darryl asks not that you believe anything he writes, but that you simply consider a few fundamental observations about your present moment experience. First, that you did nothing to bring it about. Stop for a moment and let this sink in. What, exactly, did you do to make "this moment" BE this moment? The only honest answer is nothing (and if you think otherwise, just go ahead and try to make this moment NOT be!). The moment "happens" spontaneously, all by itself. When this really hits you, or "lands" as I like to say, it can be quite freeing. So, in a sense there is something to "get." Says Darryl:
"The realization that life isn't our doing; we're a movement of nature. Everything, just as it is in any moment, is the already complete and pure expression of existence; it's never been a person accomplishing anything.
This is the power of illusion, the irrational fear of an ego losing control, when all the while there hasn't been an ego in control."
Of course, the sense that the ego is running the show feels very real. However, as soon as it is acknowledged that we did not create our ego/ this sense of "I", and in fact we didn't create anything about us or this experience we are having, the mind is "checkmated."
More from Darryl:
"We don't create our bodies and we don't create our brains. We don't create the physical abilities, mental abilities, and lack of abilities, we are. We don't create the apparent needs, interests, and concerns that arise in any moment. All of this simply happens on its own.
Even if it appears as though we make decisions, they grow out of the needs, interests, and concerns that arise in any particular moment and there's no "self" that makes it happen."
The key to understanding where Darryl is coming from, to me, is contained in the following sentence:
"Nature presents situations that demand a decision and the response to those situations is a movement of the only body, need, interest, and ability that nature also presents."
In other words, there is nothing that is appearing or happening that is NOT nature, Life, Source, the great mystery, or whatever you want to call it. Even the sense of being a "separate self," was not put there by you, but is only experienced because nature put it there!
"No one has the impression that a plant is in charge of its growing; it's a
movement of nature. Why would you think it's different for us?' -Darryl Bailey
To be able to see this for yourself, it can be helpful to notice a few things about Life. First, that everything is constantly changing. Says Darryl:
"It doesn't matter what it is--an atom, a thought, a sound, a situation, a body, a mental state, a plant a storm, a mountain, or a galaxy--everything that we know of is changing, either quickly or slowly. Inward and outward, big or small, there is only this shift and flux. If this is fully acknowledged, it may be realized that this is all that actually exists. No object or "thing" is ever truly formed anywhere. Nothing is ever established or defined. No thing ever comes to stay, to exist, to "be."
In other words, by the time you are aware of something, it is already on its way to becoming something else. That, in fact, the only constant in life is change (the ultimate oxymoron!).
In practical terms, this means that when we hold a thought of something in the mind, whatever we are thinking of has already moved on to become something else. And since this is always the case, that means that ANY definition or conclusion we arrive at is already obsolete by the time we think of it!
Another observation that Darryl brings to our attention, and one that is common to several eastern teachings such as Buddhism, is that everything is impermanent. And if EVERYTHING is impermanent, than how real or true can anything be when its very existence is temporary?
And, not surprisingly, Darryl finds the the whole notion that there is someone who can awaken to be a fantasy:
"Most so-called spiritual practices are the attempt to develop and control something. They're based on the fantasy that you're in charge of existence... that you're going to make something happen by practising."
While some advaita and nondual traditionalist may have a problem with essence revisted, since it doesn't embrace any practice or even the concept of awakening, I found Darryl's words to be wonderfully refreshing and helpful. No jargon, no paths to follow, nothing to do except see what is already taking place, right here and right now, and realizing that this has always been the case!
I also want to mention that Darryl has another excellent book out called, Dismantling the Fantasy, which is similar in content (meaning if you like this one, you will like that one) and worth checking out.
-Michael Jeffreys
(You can read more spiritual book/DVD reviews on my website.)
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Rare Voice
By R. Haigh
Darryl Bailey is a rare voice in nonduality.
The prevalent trend in satsang circles these days amounts to a form of repackaged idealism. We are told things like "you are the unlimited unbroken witness of all that arises" or "you are the eternal knower." One typical assertion tells us that "In order to claim legitimately that knowing is absent, its absence would have to be known and, by definition, knowing would therefore be present." This type of circular argument is supposed to establish that conscious knowing is never absent - yet all that is confirmed here is something known as the ego-centric predicament. Every time that we look for consciousness, we'll find it - the looking mechanism depends on it. It is a purely dogmatic procedure to then conclude that this conscious witnessing is always the case - unlimited and eternal.
What this type of awareness teaching does is to encourage the seeing through of the separate self... only to replace it with a bigger self - a transcendent eternal witness.
Darryl is having none of this here. There's no dismantling of a fantasy in order to replace it with another one.
Darryl unwaveringly chips away at the unreasonable delusion of an independent, autonomous agent. It's not that 'you' are not separate or are without agency - it's that right now all that can be found is an event - a happening... in real time... THIS! Only the happening exists (so to speak). Anything that we try to pin down or formulate in (and about) this happening is found to be without true substantiality. This insubstantiality (or emptiness of inherent-ness) is totally thorough going. Forms, energies, mental constructions, perceptions and so on are without true enduring substance - and this includes some of our more sacred concepts.
Nonduality is a breathtaking revelation that does not have to entail idealism or solipsism (or the supernatural.) Darryl's clean and clear commitment to the exploration of this ever-fresh event is a rare breath of (ever) fresh air.
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