Cracked open : living the dream

Description: This book is a collection of reflections and observations about life before and after I came to prison, as currently seen from the perspective of this Awake Emptiness at my core. I am profoundly grateful to the late Douglas Harding and his friends for helping me to see Who I Really Am, and to thus break the bonds of contraction and confusion that defined my criminal past. Truly without deserving it, I have been blessed with the miracle of inner freedom, the turnaround of turnarounds, what Harding referred to as the no-meter path to heaven. This book is about living and failing to live the awakened life, and how discovering one's Emptiness-one's divinity-is the difference between the two, which, as it turns out, were never two to begin with. As Harding often said, you cannot fix yourself from the level of the self. Only the One who is Other and yet not other, who is both No-thing and Everything, who is at the very heart of you as Who You Really Are, can transform your life. -- from back cover

Table of Contents: Table of Contents; Introduction; Arrivals; Disappearing; More of the Same; Friends; A Day at the Beach; Christmas; Parole Hearing; Fear; Comings and Goings; Blaming; Retrospection; Another Day in Paradise; A Question of Choice; It's All Crap; Loneliness; No Place to Go; Another View; Thank God for Karma; Space; Ex-cons; Day Trip; Still and Timeless; Sparrows From Rome; History; Calling the Shots; Another Visit; Boundless Awareness; School; A Friend Dies; Flowers; Excuses; Suicide; Just This; Spring; The 64,000 Question; Thrown to the Wind; You Are Not in the World ... ; Dreams; No Motive. Get PhysicalTarantula; Rags to Riches; Evolution; Lockdown; Runaway Train; Gone; Assume That!; Just Another Story; Unconditional Love; Eddie; Violence; Still in the Ball Game; Before Awakening, After Awakening; Saints and Sinners; Property; Forsaken; Time and Time Again; World-As-Mirror; All Is One and One Is All; Departures; Acknowledgments; About the Author.

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