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    Enlightenment: Plain & Simple Instructions to Awaken Now!
    Enlightenment: Plain & Simple Instructions to Awaken Now!
    Enlightenment: Plain & Simple Instructions to Awaken Now!
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    Enlightenment: Plain & Simple Instructions to Awaken Now!

    By Chris Green

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    Are YOU ready to experience spiritual awakening, now? Enlightenment (Plain and Simple Instructions to Awaken Now!) by Chris Green is about bringing the moment of revelation to you in moments rather than spending x amount of years wandering the spiritual path. Green’s message is simple, if you are ready, your time is now!
    What Green discovered through personal experience, study and via his meditation students is that enlightenment is actually a ridiculously easy re-connection to what is already enlightened within us. The process is similar perhaps to re-connecting an electricity supply following a minor fault with a fuse. It is widely accepted awakening is inexplicably random and ‘IT’ generally occurs only after many years of devotion to this or that spiritual path but the truth of enlightenment according to Green could actually lie in the blatantly obvious pearls of information every seeker tosses aside because it appears too simple or even paradoxical. If this is true then your exhausting seeking has reached journey’s end!
    “The life of a spiritual master is often a fruitless and forlorn one – filled with eager-beaver seekers looking for the deeper meaning in everything, looking for glimpses of profound insight where none exist. Alas they just cannot see that it’s easier to become enlightened than it is to eat a bowl of cornflakes!” Chris Green.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Green
    Release dateApr 20, 2014
    ISBN9781311095770
    Enlightenment: Plain & Simple Instructions to Awaken Now!
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    Chris Green

    Chris Green is vice principal at Oak Hill Theological College in London. He has worked in three churches in the London area and taught frequently at the Cornhill Training Course and he contributes to Oak Hill's biblical studies programm. He has published commentaries on 2 Peter, Jude and 2 Timothy and edited a book on preaching. Chris is married with two sons and enjoys music, reading and watercolor painting.

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    • 5/5
      After reading dozens and dozens of books, including those written by internationally known authors, this book had the greatest impact on my spiritual path. Chris Green is so very clear and direct. I so wish I could find a hard copy and/or would love to have an audio version of this. After reading this my teacher said he saw a profound difference in me when we met the following week. Thank you, thank you, thank you...

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    Enlightenment - Chris Green

    ENLIGHTENMENT

    ***

    Plain and Simple Instructions to awaken NOW!

    CHRIS GREEN

    ~~~

    Smashwords Edition

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    I gave up even thinking about awakening because I assumed it was impossible and now this…just wow!

    Gareth Thompson.

    Words fail me…I have no more questions anymore. It was just as easy as you said it would be.

    Lizzie Kershaw.

    What on earth has just happened to me? I’m happily different!

    Rodney Middleton

    Never, never, never in a million years did I think enlightenment was this easy!

    Sarah Bishop

    I was like a soulless zombie from the 70’s classic Dawn of The Dead until getting to grips with what you said. I’m at home now!

    Andrew Mills

    This book is dedicated to the memory of Paul Anthony Green.

    I am sorry I never found you in time and your pleas fell on deaf ears.

    Contents

    How Soon Is Now?

    Plain And Simple Instructions To Awaken Now

    The Madness Of The Ego

    The Overseer

    A Short Conversation With God

    The Senses

    Awareness

    Renunciation

    Enlightenment

    Beyond Enlightenment

    You

    Questions Of Who I Am

    Mistakes, Mistakes, Mis-Shapes

    Acceptance

    Resistance

    The Spiritual Path

    Thinking

    Different Worlds

    Sweet No Thing

    The Void

    Three Words Could Change My Life

    The Moment Of Revelation

    A Few Of My Favourite Quotes

    Further Reading Suggestions

    About The Author

    HOW SOON IS NOW?

    The spiritual path reveals many golden ‘aha’ moments that lead to profound changes in our lives but sadly enlightenment eludes by far the majority of seekers. If only they knew that it is possible to awaken right here, right now.

    Douglas Harding, author of On Having No Head, had this to say about enlightenment:

    ‘Over the last thirty years a truly contemporary and Western way of ‘seeing into one’s nature’ or ‘enlightenment’ has been developing. Though in essence the same as Zen, Sufism, and other spiritual disciplines, this way proceeds in an unusually down-to-earth fashion. It claims that modern man is more likely to see who he really is in a minute of active experimentation than in years of reading, lecture attending, thinking, ritual observances, and passive meditation of the traditional sort.’

    Can you imagine awakening TODAY?

    It’s perfectly possible - provided you understand the true nature of enlightenment.

    In fact, the end of psychological suffering is equally possible.

    Hope is generally considered a positive word but you may notice that it is in fact accompanied by fear and doubt. To hope is to wonder whether the arrow will hit or miss its intended target. The objective of this book is to exchange hope for CERTAINTY - to wake you from your sleep to the realm of enlightenment.

    I must warn you in advance however that I am unable to offer you a personal guarantee. The responsibility for your spiritual awakening is ultimately yours. This book is in effect a spiritual self-help manual. The term ‘self-help’ implies that you must help yourself. You actually need only understand what is literally before your eyes and the truth will set you free in the most delightful way imaginable. As long as you can read the words on the page then the only obstacle to a successful outcome is how easy and obvious enlightenment actually is.

    You’ve surely heard the saying; ‘It’s like looking

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