Sailor Bob Adamson rocks

I now am on my third reading of What's Wrong with Right Now?by "Sailor" Bob Adamson.

As I mentioned in my post entitled What's wrong with right NOW, I recently had re-read this book after a two-year interval.

On this third reading, Adamson's explanation of Non-Duality is resonating with me very strongly.

Every other page -- sometimes every other sentence -- I find myself saying, "Yes! That is so true!"

In the meantime, things have grown even more challenging in what most people would call my "real life." I have had major disappointments, and I am facing big challenges for which I don't have answers. I also am working long hours on our little farm, doing chores that sometimes are physically demanding.

Yet, during this reading of Adamson's book, I'm finding myself feeling calm most of the time. Quite often I even feel cheerful. I'm comfortable not knowing how things will resolve themselves. I trust that there is an intelligence that is handling everything. I don't feel obliged to be the Fixer who can solve everyone else's problems for them.

I'm less inclined to take things personally. I'm more apt to view things simply as happening, rather than seeing them as happening to me.

In the reading department, the Tao Te Ching continues to be an inspiration too.

Brought me to tears

This is the book review I published for Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey by Lao Tzu, as translated by Stephen Mitchell, on Amazon's website on January 15, 2013:

I LOVE this book.

Unlike some other reviewers, who have read several translations of the Tao Te Ching, I have read it for the first time.

While I was reading, a thought crossed my mind, "Under which rock have I been hiding for sixty years? Why have I found this book only now?"

Of course that judgmental thought in itself is out of sync with the Tao which, like the ocean, accepts whatever flows into it, whenever that may happen.

Suffice it to say, I am extremely grateful to have stumbled on the wisdom of Lao Tzu.

There are so many compliments to pay this book. Where to begin? Lao Tzu provided the content, which is simple yet profound. Stephen Mitchel has provided a translation that is elegant and poetic.

I was going to say that this would be my choice if I was allowed to take one book to that proverbial desert island. But then it occurred to me that, having read this one, I would have no need of books. Its message is inscribed in my heart - and that always goes with me.

All the same, as long as I haven't yet been stranded on that island, I'm sure I'll return to this gem repeatedly, to savour its beauty and no doubt to discover fresh insights on subsequent readings.

Potential customers who, like me, have not read the Tao Te Ching, may be interested to know how I found out about it. I'd read "A Thousand Names for Joy : Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are" (Byron Katie's commentary on excerpts from the Tao Te Ching) and, before that, "Loving What Is : Four Questions That Can Change Your Life" (which describes 'The Work' of Byron Katie). I'd found those books supportive too.

Non-Duality Authors

The Non-Duality authors whom I've read so far are:

• Byron Katie
• Jean Klein
• Francis Lucille
• Rupert Spira
• Eckhart Tolle
• Nathan Gill
• "Sailor" Bob Adamson
• Robert Scheinfeld (I consider his Non-Duality phase to have begun with his Being In Truth online course)

I've found the writings of all of these authors to be supportive.

However, speaking for myself, I find Byron Katie's material the most accessible.

Later edited to add Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching. I keep Stephen Mitchell's translation on my bedside table, and continually re-read it.