No Attachments, No Aversions: The Autobiography of a Master

by Lester Levenson

Book Overview

This compelling, rivetting book will take you step by step into what Lester was discovering and feeling during his own personal quest towards realization. The book covers Lester's most intimate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971175519
• ISBN13: 9780971175518
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Lawrence Crane Enterprises, Inc.
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 8.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

An Amazing Accomplishment (by no one)

This man found self-realization (enlightenment)with no teacher. He investigated his beliefs and feelings, releasing everything, until the last thing to go was the person who was doing the releasing. When Lester speaks you can tell he is the genuine article. I found this book very inspiring. By releasing all of his negative feelings he discovered profound bliss. Lester's pointers to the truth of who you are are original and profound.

When the student is ready... the teacher appears.

Not everyone will like this book. It is, in fact, short. Lester is not a particularly gifted writer. And his story starts slowly and wanders the first half of the book. With that said, it is also one of the most powerful and life changing books I've read. It's precisely because Lester's story is told so genuinely and honestly that I could relate to it so well. He was a typical compulsive, workaholic businessman who pushed himself relentlessly until he became a physical and emotional trainwreck by age 43- and found himself facing a premature death. With dogged determination, he decided to set his mind on nothing else but discovering the true meaning and essense of life. His findings/revelations produced such a profound sense of peace in himself that he lived another 40 years and touched a lot of people's lives. I think you would enjoy this book tremendously if your current belief system causes you angst (mine did) and you are searching for a new or better framework upon which to base your life.

On the Road to Freedom

A little over a year ago, I read Lester's autobiography. As the Master Jesus said over 2000 years ago when speaking of miracles, "These things you can do also", Lester found the way to heal body, mind and spirit in our contemporary times. He tells of a practical method to achieve the same. This book has changed my life. I recommend Lester's story to people of all ages. My entire family, from ages 14 to 92, have learned what Lester learned and have many thanks to give. I have read many books in the self help field, both personally and academically. The difference between gathering data and theory is having the actual experience. Nothing compares to this. I have read Deepok Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Jean Houston, Sandra Ingerman and many theorists in psychology from Freud to Jung. The difference is simply this: Lester explains how he came upon a method of healing that came from the inside out and how in a very short time, he accomplished what everyone just tells us about, he totally healed his life on all levels. Lester paves the way to mastership for us all. It is not just another book to gather information. You'll have the road to freedom paved right before your eyes. 5 stars doesn't do it justice. 10 stars is more like it.

Wise Advice From Lester

The reason there is so much suffering in the world is because of the wanting of something. That wanting has its roots in wanting to feel safe/secure, wanting control or wanting approval. It is only when you get rid of the wanting, that nagging, gnawing feeling inside that you can allow yourself to have whatever it is you want.Lester has discovered the shortcut to eliminate that feeling of lack to allow you to open up and receive what it is you desire. There is nothing wrong with having to have approval, control, or security, but it is the mere WANTING of these things that creates the attachments and aversions you have to whatever you are wanting.

Inner Peace and Love

This book is Lester's recounting of his life before and after he managed to deftly slip into a flow of grace and ease. He tells the story of growing up and struggling in the early part of the 20th century, only to find, by his early forties, some measure external success but incredible inner unease and ill health, culminating in a near-fatal heart attack which was virtualy a death sentence... or at least it was a death sentence until Lester learned to start allowing Love and Grace into his heart, and to let go of trying to control life and himself. This book is his tale of that evolution and eventual break to freedom.I have read this book many times over, and often loan my copy to friends. I feel that this book is great, particularly Lester's recounting of his enlightenment experience and the effortless, easeful flow of his existence while in that state of simply allowing God/Being to handle what we call "Life". In my opinion, this narrative lends a great insight to the qualities or "frequencies" of being in that flux of love and grace, and also, by contrast, when describing some earlier parts of his life, a good sense of how it feels when not in that flow of grace.Bottom line: if you are at all a spiritual seeker, I suggest that you may wish to read this book; I can almost guarantee that there will be some great gems in it for you!