Hands-on Spiritual Liberation

Introduction from the Author

In the twenty years that I have been practicing, researching and teaching the techniques presented in this book, I have made an interesting observation. Spiritual masters and books rarely mention nutrition or the ethics of diet. Philosophers of ethics scarcely take a stance on the relationship between diet and compassion. 

Meditation masters usually ignore the influence of food, exercise and social media on the human mind. New age gurus generally chant new ways of thinking without advocating changes in life behavior. How is it that our spiritual discourse is so fragmented and divorced from a whole-body, whole-food, whole-mind and whole-heart experience? 

Hands-on Spiritual Liberation responds to these narrow approaches to health and spirituality with a comprehensive hands-on, hearts-in whole-life style. Spirituality is at your fingertips.

This book provides many practices and perspectives to guide you to find your own inner truth, yet it is not possible to simply give you the answer. Answers do not and cannot exist separate from the one who seeks. 

Wisdom is not pre-existing prior to the seeking. Rather, insights emerge as your exploration proceeds. Recognition of truth evolves as you experiment and experience. Realization arises of its own accord.

Wisdom and insight are already within your being where they always have been and always will be. This book prepares you for recognition and realization of truth without specifying what your unique life path may be. 

Along with techniques to nurture your inner mental silence, I provide a spectrum of spiritual mirrors and thought experiments that challenge you to transform and revolutionize your consciousness, values and behavior. The ultimate truth lies within you. 

It is not merely acquisition of “beliefs and wisdom” from authoritative masters, but the absorption and assimilation of insights that is paramount in the spiritual journey. Consequently, you need to do the grunt work of waking up through your own efforts. This book provides the framework and inspiration by which to stimulate your inner health, wisdom and truth.

Studying great masters from your present level of consciousness does not imply that you actually embody the masters at their level of wisdom. You need to ascend to the level of the masters rather than parroting a guru and claiming it as your own motto. 

As you strengthen, deepen and purify your consciousness, your level of realization will evolve and rise to the occasion. Similarly, as you enhance the quality of your food and de-escalate the violence embedded in your diet, you will radiate with veritable compassion. 

The purpose of this book is to nurture your strength, cultivate your depth and inspire your purification through practice!