Making Your Wisdom Come Alive

Michael PhD Gluckman

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Reading Michael's book is like listening to a wonderful symphony that leaves you feeling uplifted and refreshed.
It is highly recommended for all those who sense that there's an alternative to suffering, and who want that alternative now George Fine

In the fully revised second edition of "Making Your Wisdom Come Alive," Michael Gluckman reveals the secret teachings passed down from antiquity. He shows how these teachings are genuine, because they are reasonable and because you can experience them. Although they help with stress, depression and anxiety, Michael shows how life is more than just getting rid of problems. In fact you will be astonished by how much wisdom and joy you can experience.

In the same way that the sages of old discovered this indescribable freedom, you can discover it too. Indeed, you will find that the source of wisdom and happiness is actually the center of your experience.

"Making Your Wisdom Come Alive" promises to help you:

* Experience happiness and joy at the source
* Banish emotional pain, stress and depression
* Find peace when all seems lost, when you are sick, broke, afraid and alone
* Deepen your meditation practice and find the center of your mind

The first section of the book is a step by step guide that starts with your everyday experience and from there, takes you to a place where you can discover the freedom and happiness that springs from your identity.

Michael describes the process of returning happiness to its rightful place. He opens your eyes to your natural freedom, and shows you how to cut the strings that seem to pull you back into limitation. This allows you to remain in an effortless state of peace.

In the second section, Michael presents the teachings of many sages from different cultures and religions. This is to show the validity of this knowledge, to fuel your meditation practice, and to confirm your experience.

Kevin Loucks said, "Finally, I needed to experience what I was reading about first hand, but I wasn't really sure how to do that. Michael and "Making Your Wisdom Come Alive" helped to start me on my way.
.... His book does make your wisdom come alive, and much, much more."

Michael writes, "My hope in writing this book is not so you can learn a new or improved philosophy, but so you can be liberated from the limitations that the world seems to present, and live in freedom and joy that you never would have dreamed possible."

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Philosophie et théologie
• Eastern
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456600990
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Making Your Wisdom Come Alive
A Guide to the Source of Your Wisdom and Joy
 
by
Michael Gluckman
 
Copyright 2011 Michael Gluckman,
All rights reserved.
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0099-0
 
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
 
T his book was published with the help of a generous grant given in memory of Florence Levenson.
 


Ramana Maharshi
 
When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as the mind. This is the direct path for all.
Ramana Maharshi
The Essential Teachings Of Ramana Maharshi
Edited by Matthew Greenblatt
© Sri Ramanasramam and Inner Directions Publishing
 
A Note of Thanks
A lthough I enjoyed writing this book, I needed help from many sources.
I would like to thank all of my teachers for their knowledge and wisdom, which they so generously imparted to me.
There are many people who gave me comments and feedback. I would like to thank all of them.
I would especially like to thank Cathy Weiss-Boucher and my wife Brigit Ananya for their inspiration as well as their patient and thorough proofreading of this book.
I would also like to thank George Fine and Christopher Bowman for their careful proofreading, and for their help in pointing out thoughts that I just left hanging in mid air, so that I could clarify them.
As for the second edition, I would like to thank Robert Flanagan for his expert eye and help designing the book, and Brigit Ananya, who edited it and took charge of proofreading and organizing the styles. She also helped to clarify my presentation as I polished this book.
I hope that this work will inspire many people to deepen their meditation practice and obtain the highest state of freedom.
 
Foreword by Kevin Loucks
The Title of This Book Says it All
I ’ve wanted to write a review of this book since I first read it more than a month ago, but I had so many thoughts in my head that I really didn’t know where to start. Finally, I realized that what I had to say was really very simple, and the title to this book says it all.
Michael Gluckman has a wonderful writing style that allows him to explain complicated ideas in a very accessible, conversational fashion. For me, however, the best part is that his premises are demonstrable through personal experience. Yes, that’s right, you can prove the truth of his assertions with the benefit of your own experience.
I personally came upon “Making Your Wisdom Come Alive” after many years of reading, studying and rereading other books, from the Bhagavad Gita to the Tao Te Ching, and many others. I understood and enjoyed on an intellectual level the things that were being said, but I always had trouble bridging the gap between my intellect and my experience. Finally, there came a point in time when I needed to experience what I was reading about first hand, but I wasn’t really sure how to do that. Michael Gluckman, and “Making Your Wisdom Come Alive” helped to start me on my way.
In the past month, since I first read Michael’s book, I have begun to see progress in applying the reality that I had been studying from a dry, scholarly perspective for so many years. This is a journey that requires patience, and attention to detail, but with Michael’s help, I am on my way.
In the meantime, the texts that I have been reading for all these years have “come alive” in new and wonderful ways, and I am seeing things all around me that I never noticed or appreciated. Also, my behavior is better generally, and the little silly things that I used to waste too much time worrying about are not so important any more.
Needless to say, all of this is not bad for the price of one small book....
I highly recommend “Making Your Wisdom Come Alive” because, as I said in the title to this review, the title of this book says it all. Michael Gluckman’s book does make your wisdom come alive, and much, much more.
Introduction
S itting here in my chair in my little study off the main room of my house, I am thinking about what I would like to pass on to you from my meditation practice.
For the past 40 years I have been on the path of meditation. But this is a unique meditation. It unveils the deepest secret of the universe, a secret so simple that people just overlook it. A secret that not only takes you to the core of your own being, but to the very core of the universe itself, and once you discover it, you experience it directly; where you get the feeling that you knew this all the time.
In this book I am going to pass on the secret of standing as Wisdom and Happiness. The depth of this wisdom constantly amazes me. It’s no exaggeration to say that when you know this, it is like knowing what everything is.
If you wanted to take a guess as to where this secret lies, here is a hint. If you were God and wanted to put Wisdom and Happiness in the world, where would you put it? Now I know that like God you are a compassionate being, and since you are compassionate, you would put it where the maximum number of people could experience it — where it wouldn’t matter if they were rich or poor, young or old, sick or well, or Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Christian or Jew. That no matter what difference seems to distinguish people, they could still be happy and at peace. Maybe the same place that you would put this Wisdom and Happiness is the place where God put it.
However, if I were to tell you that you could stand as the source of Wisdom and Bliss, could you believe me? How would you know that this book is not written from a figment of my imagination? How would you know that it comes from real experience accessible to anyone?
I would like to propose three tests to show the validity of the knowledge contained within this book:
First, is what I am saying reasonable? Does it make sense or is it some mystical mumbo jumbo that is incomprehensible? After reading this book, I think you will see that the sages of old actually wanted you to understand what they were saying. You’ll see that spirituality and reason are not opposites.
Second, can you experience this? If you can’t experience what I say, what good is it?
Third, am I the only one to experience and write about this, or has this knowledge been passed down throughout the ages?
If while reading this book you find that it passes these three tests, I would encourage you to open your mind. Perhaps here, in this little book, you can discover the secret teachings, passed down from antiquity, that when discovered have made many people exceedingly joyful.
 
Preface to the Second Edition
T his book is written in two parts. Step by step, the first part starts with what you experience right now, and from there points you to the source of wisdom and bliss in the last place you would expect. To help understand the process of waking up, please read this part in the order that it’s written.
After you open your eyes to this blissful freedom, in the second part, we allow many different masters from different cultures and religions to tell you what they see, so that you can experience their teachings in a new light. The book is divided into small chapters so that each day, before you meditate, you can read one of them.
In Making Your Wisdom Come Alive I often talk about “this meditation.” Unlike many meditation practices where physical posture, breath, and mental posture are important, here meditation simply means getting to the core of your own self-nature.
You will see that it is so close to you that it is easy to overlook. In fact, if you think that you already know who you are, you will be in for a pleasant surprise. That’s because you are much greater than you think.
To get a sense of “this meditation,” if you ask the gas station attendant how to get to San Francisco, and he replies that you already are in San Francisco, then what can you do to get to San Francisco? It is only by recognizing what you already experience that you can arrive in San Francisco. This book points to the place where you stand even now. It also shows you how to step beyond the limitations that you see, so that you can discover what you really are.
If you want more information on starting a regular meditation practice, at the end of the first section, I included a chapter on how we meditate. This is not so you will imitate our form. It is to give you ideas so that you can find or create a form that is inspiring to you.
I then included a chapter on moving meditation. That’s because here you can meditate no matter what posture you find yourself in: sitting, standing, walking, or lying down; eyes open or closed.
The best way to read this book is to question and explore the meaning of these words, and then to leave them behind, so that you can abide in the place that the words point. See the chapter, “ Thinking from Within ” for more information on this.
Based on the questions that people have asked over the years, in this edition I included more information. This includes escaping the cycle of repression and indulgence, in the chapter, “ The Forces that Enliven the Body .” I also included more information on how to experience what you know, and on how to meditate.
In the section, “ Quotes From the Masters ” I included more poetry and more dialogs.
If you have questions that are not answered in this book, feel free to write me at [e-mail]. Then we can explore and find answers together.
Occasionally reread this book. If you are like me, you will find that as your meditation deepens, the same words will have a completely different meaning. As I practiced, I often had the feeling, “ How did I overlook that! ”
Whoever finds the
explanation of these wo