What if life is infinitely simpler than you ever imagined? We spend our lives seeking wealth, success, love, fulfillment, and even ‘spiritual enlightenment’ in the future. Yet right at the heart of life there is an intimacy, a simplicity, a wholeness that is totally beyond words – and which cannot be reached through any kind of effort. In our attempts to change, to improve ourselves, or become ‘enlightened’, we end up ignoring this wordless intimacy which is our birthright and our true home.
THE WONDER OF BEING points to the eternal freedom which exists beyond the seeker and the sought, and shows us the hidden assumptions that underlie our seeking activities. With great humour, compassion and clarity, Jeff Foster reminds us of something we have always known – that life, as it is, is a miracle… and beyond our thoughts, we are already free.
This is a combined and revised edition of Jeff Foster’s first books ‘Life Without a Centre’ and ‘Beyond Awakening’.
CONTENTS
BEYOND WORDS……………………………………………………….1
POINTING OUT THE OBVIOUS……………………………..23
A WALK IN THE RAIN……………………………………………..45
THE SOURCE…………………………………………………………….61
THE END OF THE SEARCH……………………………………..91
THE FIRE OF NOT KNOWING………………………………127
LOVE AND DEATH…………………………………………………151
BEYOND NOTHING AND EVERYTHING…………….177
NIGHT AND DAY……………………………………………………195
About this author
Jeff Foster graduated in Astrophysics from Cambridge University in 2001. Several years after graduation, following a period of severe depression and illness, he became addicted to the idea of “spiritual enlightenment”, and embarked on an intensive spiritual search which lasted for several years.
The spiritual search came to an absolute end with the clear seeing that there is only ever Oneness. In the clarity of this seeing, life became what it always was: spontaneous, clear, joyful and fully alive, and Jeff began to write and talk about “nonduality” (which he often calls “the utterly, utterly obvious”).
He holds meetings and retreats in the UK and Europe, clearly and directly pointing to the frustrations surrounding the spiritual search, to the nature of mind, and to the Clarity at the heart of everything. His uncompromising approach, full of humor and compassion, shatters the mind’s hopes for a future awakening, revealing the awakening that is always already present, right in the midst of life.
Jeff Foster – The Wonder of Being – Video Book Review from the Enlightenment Dudes
A video book review of Jeff Foster’s book “The Wonder of Being” by the Enlightenment Dudes.
Life as it “IS”, Jeff Foster
