It is not that I am. Being is.
It is not that I do. Activity acts.
It is not that I am aware.
Awareness is aware.
(Florian Tathagata)
Finally the long expected first book of Florian Tathagata titled BEING has been released in May 2006. As the book will be first published in England the first edition will be available in English only.
BEING is a book about Non-Duality and Non-Doing, about you and me and the truth that we are not two. Edited from recordings made during a 10-Day Silent Retreat in southern India in Januray 2005 and completed with new text passages, the conversations in this book speak of the heart of truth in the life of everyone.
In reading it, people have reported that they effortlessly connected with the special energy of the Silent Retreat and with the tender and clear beingness that can be experienced when Tathagata and those who love truth meet.
BEING is a book to be read again and again, for it will again and again give of its subtle delicacy. The invitation while reading it is to enquire in deepening gentleness into how it is for you, and what works in life and what does not. In this way the true value of this book can be revealed in your daily life. Free audible MP3-download
All is given yet nothing is for us.
Not even our true nature - Awareness - is for us. The Truth is that we are for Awareness..
When we take anything for ourselves we are
not fully available for life. The light of pure awareness
shines in an empty heart. (Florian Tathagata)
Following the success of Florian Tathagata's first book, the second book of conversations titled GIVEN has been released in May 2007.
Its theme All is given yet nothing is for us
explores the tendency for attention to be drawn away from our true
nature of awareness. The habitual mechanisms that generate this movement are
investigated, and both the questioner in the conversations and the
reader of the book are gently brought back to the unmoving centre of
being.
Readers have been touched by the GIVEN book's beautiful
simplicity and depth. As usual the nature of Florian Tathagata's enquiry is very grounded, heart
centred and unconditionally life enhancing. The conversations and inquiries are most natural in style and never get lost in abstractions or
concepts.
Translations
In May 2007 a dutch edition of BEING, titled ZIJN - Gesprekken met Florian Tathagata has been published by Samsara
Publishing in the Netherlands.
Presently further translations into German, Turkish, Danish, French and Tamil are in work. In the case a german publisher may be interested in publishing the BEING and GIVEN book, we could soon also provide a german edition.
Further books
The two 104 page books BEING and GIVEN are the first two in a series of three. The publisher's intention is to release further books within the course of the following years. In May 2008 Florian Tathagata's third book will be released. Also for 2009 a new book project is already of prospect.
Order
The books BEING and GIVEN can be ordered for the price of £ 6.95, € 9.95 or US$ 12.85 either at our Online-Shop, or by phone 0049-700-97007000 and via email at
. Further on the books can be purchased at any UK bookshop, at www.amazon.co.uk, post-free from 220 Publishing, PO Box 220, Harrow, HA3 5SW, UK and from the publisher’s 24-hour-creditcard-order-line,
phone 020-8407 3535 (within UK)
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