In his acclaimed book Embracing Heaven & Earth, spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen distills his comprehensive teachings into what he calls "The Five Fundamental Tenets of Enlightenment." This companion audio tape, recorded at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, presents a seminal talk on these Five Tenets. Uniting transcendent spiritual wisdom with penetrating insight into the human condition, Cohen illuminates how these profound yet practical spiritual laws have the power to propell us far beyond the confines of a separate existence into the miraculous discovery of what it means to live an enlightened life.
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For those who like their Buddhist mysteries unadulterated, Cohen, founder of the Impersonal Enlightenment Fellowship and author of Enlightenment Is a Secret, Freedom Has No History and An Unconditional Relationship to Life, provides a slim handbook on his understanding of the Buddhist experience of enlightenment. Cohen does not discuss Buddhism's history, tell the story of the Buddha's life, recount myths or even use much Buddhist terminology. Rather, he goes straight to the heart of Eastern mysticismAenlightenment, or, as he sometimes calls it, liberationAexplaining what is required to attain it, what prevents it and its effects. Unlike much mystical literature currently on the market, this volume does not aspire to be a harmonization of the world's great religions. Plainly written and free of religious jargon, it is about one thing, enlightenment, and everything relates to that topic. Cohen presents his ideas uncompromisingly: one will not attain enlightenment unless one desires nothing else; the ego must disappear; all human experience is impersonal; enlightenment means realizing "nothing ever happened"; and one sees nothing by looking into the face of God. These stark concepts are not for the idly curious, but for readers who are serious in their desire to seek enlightenment in this pure form. (Sept.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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...there's a lot held within this book that might just explode your reality! -- Wave magazine - Autumn 2000
Read this book.It is a classic of its kind. -- Kindred Spirit - Spring 2001
This volume outlines in clear, precise, uncomplicated, but nevertheless uncompromising terms just what moksha (ultimate release, liberation) requires. -- NAPRA Review, September 2000
Whatever your spiritual path, read the book for its lucid, incisive discussion of perennial issues. -- Caduceus Magazine --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Read this book.It is a classic of its kind. -- Kindred Spirit - Spring 2001
This volume outlines in clear, precise, uncomplicated, but nevertheless uncompromising terms just what moksha (ultimate release, liberation) requires. -- NAPRA Review, September 2000
Whatever your spiritual path, read the book for its lucid, incisive discussion of perennial issues. -- Caduceus Magazine --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Format:Audio Cassette
Embracing Heaven & Earth is a 96 minute recorded talk by Andrew Cohen when he addressed an attentive audience at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Cohen laid out the complete foundation of his teaches of liberation which he refers to as "The Five Fundamental Tenets of Enlightenment". Very highly recommended for students of Eastern Spirituality, metaphysics and religion, Embracing Heaven & Earth gives listeners an clear and intimate exposition of profound spiritual laws and conveys their immediacy, significance, and life-transforming potential.
By Jhershierra
Format:Paperback
I highly recommend this book and all of Cohen's books. His five basic tenants of enlightenment which he teaches in this book and in others are the bedrock of spiritual development and maturity. His teachings lay the ground work for the personal Ascension of every human being. Although he does not teach Ascension, he understands that the primary purpose of the human is to attain freedom. The road in which Ascension is achieved.(for further info on Ascension see my "about you"on Amazon.[com]). He is an illumined mind and I also suggest you attend one of his retreats.
By Orva Schrock
Format:Paperback
andrew cohen is one of Spirit's current crop of evolutionary prophets and teachers. he speaks clearly to the urgent need of modern man and woman to awaken. his way is both easy and hard, simple and complex. he insists we find enlightenment in perfectly letting go and silently abiding between any and all pairs of opposites. he testifies that perfect peace is at hand and requires only the letting go of egocentric desires and befuddlement, and the acceptance of perfect peace and love which already exists within us as our true and deepest selves. your ego may well talk you into putting this book aside because the ideas here will threaten your ego's very existance. this is not just another "feel good" book, its a guide to finding enlightenment in the here and now, a way to finally SEE. a way to finally know what you've really wanted since the day you were born: knowing your true and infinite SELF.
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Pleasant, that is all.
I expected more from Cohen, but this was just a mildly pleasant read that gave me no great insight. Perhaps I judge it unfairly after being tired-out from spiritual books. Read more
Published on May 28 2002 by G. James
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Embracing nonduality.
"Most of us spend our entire lives alienated from our own depths and, as a result, often experience a puzzling sense of separation from the world in which we live" (p. Read more
Published on April 17 2001 by G. Merritt
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Spiritual wisdom and a penetrating scientific inquiry
With Embracing Heaven & Earth, American spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen offers the reader a "psychology of liberation", blending transcendent spiritual wisdom with a... Read more
Published on Feb 26 2001 by Midwest Book Review
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The last book you need to buy.
It's the same everywhere: people raised by materialists, living as materialists, and perhaps passing to future generations, if only indirectly, the cultural creed of superfluous... Read more
Published on Sep 25 2000 by Tom Huston
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Guide to Enlightenment
I have read many spiritual books during the past twenty years, but none comes even close to Andrew Cohen's newest book, 'Embracing Heaven and Earth'. Read more
Published on Sep 13 2000 by Jeff Feldman
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