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"No effort is necessary, Ray, no new knowledge required or acquired. No transcendental experience or higher consciousness needs to be achieved. When the recognition of what you are is seen - nothing at all happens. Why would it? You simply find yourself as you already are."
It is widely thought that finding peace, happiness and freedom requires tremendous effort - that in order to achieve a state of contentment and harmony in life, a journey must be taken, or someone or something must be awakened or overcome.
After a chance encounter with an Anglo-Indian holy man on the ghats of the sacred River Ganges, Ray Brooks discovers through the course of nine conversations that his quest for wholeness has been futile: no such journey was necessary, and, just like a shadow that seeks the sun, he had been searching for a self that had never been lost in the first place. After acknowledging that simple yet profound truth - that the seeker and that which is sought are one in the same - the search for "oneness" is complete.
This book offers no systems of belief or promises. Instead, it clearly points to that which is ever-present yet completely overlooked: the ordinariness and beauty of our true nature.
In The Press
The Shadow That Seeks The Sun is a pristine transmission of the
teachings of oneness which many attempt but few portray so lucidly or
masterfully. For this reason alone Ray Brooks is in a select lineage
of teachers who share pure authenticity and essential truth ---and
deliver real medicine for the heart.
"As a travel writer I
know about the journey that has to be taken to find unique and
enriching experiences. Ray Brooks shares his fabulous and humorous
encounters in Rishikesh, India with honesty and affection and guides
the reader through the most important meeting of his life. A must read
for travellers and spiritual seekers alike."
Lindsay
Hawdon, Author of Jakob’s Colours and travel writer, An Englishwoman
Abroad, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, LA Times
“This
beautiful book certainly deserves to be included with the luminaries
of spiritual literature. Its essence presents the essential, non-dual
understanding of not just the author and his many influences but the
foundation of all great religious and spiritual traditions.”
--Alcvin
Ryūzen Ramos, Shakuhachi master/ teacher and recording artist
"Stories
with well-constructed dialogue and believable characterisation can
sometimes offer a terrain filled with insight, revelation and
realization that often non-fiction fails to deliver.
"Through
this series of Nine Talks between Ray (the seeker) and Rudra (the
realised teacher), we are taken back and forth on the time track to
places and times that have deeply impacted the author, creating a
powerful narrative and teaching device of clarity, insight and
awakening.
"The story starts with Rudra, who is actually a
quite believable blend of various teachers including Swami Dayananda,
J. Krishnamurti, Rupert Spira and Francis Lucille, replying to
Ray’s questions about life while sitting together on the Ghats
in Rishikesh. The answers that follow lead Ray back into his own
life’s trajectory to his search’s beginning as an open minded, open
eyed deeply curious seeker looking for truth, after having an
“awakening experience” in a nightclub in London in the ‘70s. This
quickly lands him at the feet of the “guru’s guru” J.
Krishnamurti in the Ojai Valley where no time is wasted, as the famous
teacher firmly places Ray on the “pathless path” to his own insight
and awakening with his words: “There actually are no experiences.”
Reconciling
this insight with the awakening experiences that flow through the
story is what delivers Ray to his eventual clarity that, “There is
nothing to overcome … no-one to be found … you were never
bound … never not free.
"This
engaging account naturally ends where it begins, in THIS very moment
where in Krishnamurti’s view, “No matter where you find yourself, no
matter what background you come from, no matter what state of mind
you’re in, you can still clearly look and see what is actually going
on, but the observation has to be choiceless and unconditional.”
--Enza
Vita, author of Instant Prescence
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