The Shadow That Seeks the Sun | Free Book

The Shadow That Seeks the Sun | Free Book

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Finding Joy, Love and Answers on the Sacred River Ganges
Publisher:Watkins Media
Published:February 2018
ISBN:9781786781383
Title:The Shadow That Seeks the Sun
Author:Ray Brooks
Imprint:Watkins Publishing
Language:English
Number of Pages:272
An uplifting story of enlightenment that reveals simple yet profound truths about our true nature, set amidst the atmospheric banks of the River Ganges that will appeal to both the self-help, non-duality, and "Eat, Pray, Love" travel markets.

"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


About the Author

Ray Brooks is a British author, public speaker on the subject of non-duality, musician and recording artist who is internationally respected in the world of shakuhachi music. Sharing a passion for travel and adventure with his wife Dianne, they have explored the world together and spend most of their winters living in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.

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