The Short Path to Enlightenment, Expanded 2nd edition

Instructions for Immediate Awakening

Author: Paul Brunton

The Short Path to Enlightenment, Expanded 2nd edition

This new, expanded edition brings forward the importance of joy and love and grace in Short Path practice, with additional meditations and expanded teachings to help readers achieve their goals. These accessible teachings distill the essence of currently popular and traditional sudden-awakening teachings (Advaita, Zen, Dzogchen, etc.). Paul Brunton calls them "Short Path" teachings.--Publisher.

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This new, expanded edition of our most popular recent title brings forward the importance of joy and love and grace in Short Path practice—with additional meditations and expanded teachings to help readers achieve their goals. These accessible teachings distill the essence of currently popular and traditional sudden-awakening teachings (Advaita, Zen, Dzogchen, etc.). Paul Brunton calls them “Short Path” teachings. A simple recognition, a brief moment of grace, can make what seemed like a far-off spiritual goal actual here and now. But we need reliable pointers for when and how and where to look. Brunton delivers the essence and practices of this path in direct, jargon-free language. Main topics include:

How to move from the Long Path of spiritual disciplines to the Short Path of direct insight
Short Path exercises
Experiences that may occur
Warnings
Stages of realization
Stabilizing the awakening
The nature of lasting enlightenment

Critic Reviews

"Read this book as you would a scripture or a sutra and let it open your eyes to eternity." -- Adyashanti

"Paul Brunton is one of ,my 'eyes.' My shakti (spiritual power) is working through him." -- Ramana Maharshi

"A deeply supportive text . . . alive with supreme knowledge." -- Gangaji

About the Author

Paul Brunton helps us hear the melody behind the medley of today's "spiritual marketplace." His late writings raise the bar for what we can expect of spiritual teachings and teachers, and what we can do for ourselves. Born in London in 1898, he soon became a leading pioneer of much of what we now take for granted. He traveled widely throughout the world (long before it was fashionable) to meet living masters of various traditions with whom he then lived and studied. His eleven early books from 1934-1952 shared much of what he learned, and helped set the stage for dramatic east-west exchanges of the late 20th century.