The Great Undoing

About this book

In love with Presence Stuarts vision is radically "non dual" - a perfect foil for the thoroughly conditioned dualistic image maker story teller called the mind. At first his approach to mind might appear too pithy. "Your mind is not your friend. Leave it alone." And "if you want a quiet mind dont listen." But wisdom often hides behind simple direct phrases. Most of Stuarts verse offerings included in the five chapters of this book have arisen out of silence during the past few months while others have appeared over a longer period of time. While the words and phrases themselves could not be more modern and colloquial the poems have arranged themselves nicely into classical yogic themes: Vedantas world-as-object or Illusion; Attachment to the Illusion brought about by wrong identification with body/mind; the separate isolated Me as the centerpiece of limited egoic becoming; Mind which is merely another word for thought which conditions all existence; and finally Awakening to and in no-thing. Some of the aphorisms are presented from the first person perspective of the individual who at times exults in new found freedom and at others awakens only to a new found appreciation of his or her awful predicament as a body/mind. Others bespeak teachings directly from the mouth of the Impersonal Itself. Whatever the form these Western sutras are uncompromising in their spirit and message. Characteristically when asked Stuart describes them simply as disarming. They are both a map of Advaitas pathless path and a statement beyond fact. "The Great Undoing is a remarkable book tender and fiercely direct it feeds discernment! Thank you Stuart." Pamela Wilson