Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search

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Summary: A great read for people on the path!
Review: There are many books out there that make me go "hmm..." in a good way. This book is definitely one of them. With this book, Harrison eloquently explains the true meaning of enlightenment by examining this experience from many angles. Like "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato, this book helps us learn to appreciate every experience as a unique meaningful event. "The Ever-Transcending Spirit", however, focuses more on explaining the process of naturally maturing to this state of mind so I think it is even more complete as a book. Don't get me wrong. This book by Harrison is quite awesome as well. I would highly recommend it.

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Summary: A great read for people on the path!
Review: There are many books out there that make me go "hmm..." in a good way. This book is definitely one of them. With this book, Harrison eloquently explains the true meaning of enlightenment by examining this experience from many angles. Like "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato, this book helps us learn to appreciate every experience as a unique meaningful event. "The Ever-Transcending Spirit", however, focuses more on explaining the process of naturally maturing to this state of mind so I think it is even more complete as a book. Don't get me wrong. This book by Harrison is quite awesome as well. I would highly recommend it.

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Summary: A silly pretentious book. Don't waste your money!
Review: This book came with rave reviews and like a fool I bought it. If you want to read pretentious nonsense (I should have known better when I saw it was endorsed by Thomas Szasz), be my guest with this one. Written in a godawful style, this book will fool those who don't know enlightenment from shinola. It is just disgusting that someone chose to publish this crap. This review comes from a professor of philosophy who has been at it for 31 years.

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Summary: Doesn't live up to the title
Review: This book has an attractive title, and perhaps even an important message. Unfortunately, the author really isn't very articulate at getting it across. Granted he may be talking about things that are difficult to put into words, but surely someone could do better than this repetitive confusion.

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Summary: a must read book!
Review: This is a must read book for anyone who has been involved with spirituality. It is compact, direct and intense. A radical book in its simplicity.

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Summary: Not a book-on-tape but a good discussion by the author
Review: This is not a typical book being read by the author tape, but rather a presentation/discussion by the author of the content of the book DOING NOTHING. For those who liked the book, the tape is an interesting compliment-- and like the book, fairly challenging to our spiritual concepts. The publisher, Sounds True, specializes in spoken wisdom and this tape is just that.

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Summary: This book is wonderful!
Review: This is really quite a fine book. There isn't a wasted word and the message of the book is clear. I was surprised to find this book after nearly giving up on the possibility that there was anything of substance being published in the spirituality genre. I highly recommend Doing Nothing.

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Summary: krishnamurti would be happy
Review: Without any overt reference to any sort of authority (transcending such is a fundamental theme here), this book clearly uses much of the same terminology and core concepts developed by the great J. Krishnamurti over decades of public speaking, and uses them to great effect. Once the truth of this teaching is realized, there is no longer any possibility of reliance on "concepts" of any kind, but paradoxically this realization must be expressed in words and therefore concepts if we are to communicate it; and if someone else (such as K) has clearly defined some ways to do so, there is nothing wrong in borrowing them. Harrison doesn't allow us to make the mistake of imagining that these conceptualizations are anything more than the finger pointing at the moon; it is the moon that is continually emphasized here. It is probably rare for someone who has arrived at this place to bother to write at all. We are fortunate that Harrison has.

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Summary: An excellent, thought-provoking work.
Review: You must read this book if you are searching. This is one of the best works on spirituality that I have ever read; it also took quite a while to get through it as I could only read a small portion before considering how it relates to my life.