Da Free John: The Bodily Sacrifice of Attention

Introductory Talks on Radical Understanding and the Life of Divine Ignorance

The Dawn Horse Press, 1981

Publisher’s Description:

The usual man or woman thinks that Enlightenment is the having of a vision. Enlightenment is the most subtle, or tacit, unspeakable understanding. It is the Bodhicitta, the ultimate Realization of Being, the ultimate Wisdom. On its basis, all kinds of radiant transformation may develop, but the Realization itself is so fundamental, so tacit, so simple, so direct, so obvious, so transcendental, that it is not identified with any phenomenon of experience or knowledge. The means of the transmission of this Realization is an awakened individual, the Spiritual Master, but the Realization is most tacit, perfect, simple, direct, and obvious. When you come to the point of acknowledging the Divine Identity and Condition of manifest existence, then you are Enlightened.

JOB’s Comment:

As I have pointed out before, the titles of Jones’s books are not always – indeed not even normally – easily comprehensible without at least some familiarity with his teachings.