The Great Undoing

by Stuart Schwartz and Stuart B. Schwartz

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 095539998X
• ISBN13: 9780955399985
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Non-Duality Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Laser beams of insight

This book is filled with little gems that say it all without having to read a more intellectual advaita book. It points the way in a very simple manner with laser beams of insight! Each saying cuts right to the core to bring you back to the Presence Awareness that you are! Example: "If you want to have a quiet mind, don't listen." "No matter what is going on, the background is peace." Turn to any page and you will be greeted with a gem such as these! I have a tremendous advaita library and this is definitely one of my favorites of all time!

Release

If you want to "get" nonduality in a 200 page book containing one short poem per page, this book will do the job. This book is like bubble pack, that transparent plastic blister used to package items of merchandise. Reading each poem is like inviting a certain tension (pressing down on the bubble) and then experiencing a release (the pop). Over and over again. When we forget who we are we react and fight for our lives When we remember, we see that there is no one to fight and no issue of death A release or relief accompanies almost every poem. The idea is that you will one day find you are always walking in the state of release. Of course, there is no you, no state of release, and no "one day." The great undoing is too small and too grand to ever be known. It therefore makes sense when Stuart says, The pursuit of happiness is the cause of suffering

Points to who you are by exposing who you are not.

Keeping in mind that all words are a distortion of the ultimate Truth as Silence, Stuart's brilliant aphorisms are excellent pointers to Silence by way of exposing that which keeps one from noticing the ever present Self as Silence. Having been at Stuart's satsangs, it is obvious to me that these aphorisms arise out of that undeniable Silence felt in Stuart's presence. This little book gives a taste of that.

A unique source for laser-like reflections

True to its perspective and message, this short book of aphorisms does not engage the reader's mind with explanation, argument, or analysis. The introduction by the author is the only context provided for the pristine insights and observations making up the body of the book. Rather than a shortcoming, this presentation, that is the simplicity and directness with which the words and thoughts are expressed, was felt by this reviewer to make its reflections all the more powerful. For those interested in having laser-like reflections to help identify and dissolve the deepest assumptions and habitual beliefs they have about the world and who they are, this book is a unique source. And it is in that dissolution, that great undoing, that we find resolution to the question posed by the author in his introduction: "Why can't I get to some state of balance, be content and stay there?".