After Awareness- The End of the Path by Goode, Greg -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Introduction

Why I Wrote This Book

Communication Awareness or Consciousness? Beyond Awareness?

Who Would Benefit from Reading This Book? Overview of the Chapters

Chapter 1: What Is the Direct Path?

Background Awareness About Self-Inquiry

Witnessing Awareness Direct Experience

An Example of Inquiry

Inquiry Part 1—Do you find a clock in the sound? Inquiry Part 2—Do you actually hear a sound? Inquiry Part 3—Do you find the sense of hearing?

What the Inquiries Establish The Fruits of Inquiry Self-Inquiry Isn’t Performed by the Mind From Gross to Subtle to Awareness and Beyond The Direct Path’s Unmentioned Irony The Tools Are Not Forever Critiques of the Direct Path The Direct Path Is Flexible Which Path Is the “Highest”?

Chapter 2: The Path and the Heart

How Can There Be Conduct Toward Others When There Are No Others? Why Ethics? My Experience Ethics as Preparation for Non-dual Realization

Traditional Advaita Vedanta Madhyamika Buddhism Ethics and Realization

Against Ethics in Non-dualism So Why Isn’t Insight Enough? In Favor of Ethical Teachings—Example So, What Kind of Ethics? Transparency Where to Go from Here?

Chapter 3: The Language of Joyful Irony

The “Realist” View of Language—Representationalism Nonreferentiality and the Direct Path

Approaching Nonreferentiality Through Inquiry Approaching Nonreferentiality Through Figurative Language

The Nonreferential Approach

Even “Literal” Isn’t Literal Literality Divided Against Itself

Stories of Nonreferentiality

The Jury-Duty Story The Satsang Teacher Story

What Else Can You Do?

Imagination Truth, Falsity, and the Writing of This Chapter Joyful Irony

Getting Beyond Words

Chapter 4: The Guru Doctrine

Gurus vs. Books The Guru Doctrine vs. Bhakti Yoga Self-Realization According to the Guru Doctrine The Other Atmananda

The Guru Doctrine Is Never Mentioned Other Methods Are Given as Sufficient for Self-Realization The Guru Doctrine Is Challenged The Presence of the Guru in Speech vs. Writing

Back to Bulgaria

Chapter 5: Alternatives to Inquiry

The Direct Method vs. the Upanishadic Method Karma Yoga Bhakti Yoga Reminders Standing as Awareness The Heart Opener Sleeping Knowingly Guided Meditations The Yoga of Awareness

Chapter 6: Witnessing Awareness—Introduction

Direct Experience How the Direct Path Sees Witnessing Awareness Why Use a Witness Idea in the First Place? How Many Witnesses Are There?

More Than One? Less Than One? One per Person? So How Many Really?

How Does the Witness Teaching Work? But Maybe the World Really Does Exist What’s Direct About Direct Experience? An Example of Non-dual Inquiry: Looking at an Orange

No Orange Apart from an Orange Color No Orange Color Apart from the Notion of Seeing No Seeing Apart from Witnessing Awareness

Conclusion

Chapter 7: The Opaque Witness

From Gross to Subtle How the Opaque Witness Comes About Sublation The Body

How Does the Direct Path Investigate the Body? Bodily Enlightenment

Solipsism and the Question of Others The End of the Opaque Witness

Chapter 8: The Transparent Witness

Example: Is “Attention” Who I Am? As with the World, so with the Mind Non-dual Sticking Points and Traps

The Non-existence of Other People The Inability to See Other People’s Thoughts Objectifying Enlightenment Cause and Effect Doership Memory The Coherence of the World Wanting to See Awareness Deconstructing Awareness Prematurely Bodily Contractions

Clarity, Transparency, and Sweetness The Beginning of Dissolution

Chapter 9: Non-dual Realization and the End of the Witness

The Stability of the Transparent Witness Why the Transparent Witness Dissolves The Collapse—Inquiring into the Witness Non-dual Realization Then What?

Chapter 10: After Awareness—The End of the Path

Communication Not Even Consciousness Joyful Irony

Joyful Irony, not Relativism or Neutrality After Awareness

The End of the Path

Acknowledgments Notes Index

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