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    Already Awake, Already Free
    Already Awake, Already Free
    Already Awake, Already Free
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    Already Awake, Already Free

    By Joey Lott

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    You're already free, you just haven't realized it yet


    "...first there are mountains and water. Then there are no mountains and no water. And then, there are mountains and water."

    In this new, fully revised second edition of Already Awake, Already Free, Joey Lott shares with us his unique vision of how we can develop our own realization of our inherent freedom. He makes no attempt to 'awaken' us, he strives only to point out that each and every one of us is already awake. We just don't always realize it. 

    And for die-hard fans of the original first edition, the great news is that it’s also included in this volume as a bonus read!

    Looking for Freedom and complete peace of mind?

    “We have records of humans seeking self-knowledge and spiritual awakening for thousands and thousands of years. Perhaps out of sheer habit humans still seek awakening. But my contention is that this is folly for we are each already awake.”

    Many of us have been looking for a long time. Many of us have been looking in all the wrong places. Lott cuts through some of the popular, often complex and expensive techniques that we habitually look to when we think of ‘awakening’, and teaches instead that the only place we need to look is within ourselves. His teaching is practical, concise, straightforward and completely free of dogma. 

    So how do I awaken?


    Through a series of simple, profoundly effective exercises designed to shift our habitual fixation on thought, Lott explains how we can let go of everything that can obscure our clarity of vision. There are no gimmicks; no improbable promises regarding the ways in which your life will change; just a simple, frank, honest approach to the removal of suffering and the discovery of freedom. And best of all, the exercises he shares can shift your perception instantly! They will allow you to naturally notice what already is – that you already are awake! 

    Joey Lott offers an invitation to readers to “explore direct experience and discover the actuality of what is” – so why not accept? Download your copy of Already Awake, Already Free and begin exploring.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoey Lott
    Release dateNov 5, 2016
    ISBN9781536573954
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      Already Awake, Already Free - Joey Lott

      Preface

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      This is the second edition of this book. I have completely rewritten it (except for two paragraphs that I kept from the first edition). Why? Because it bothered me.

      Oh, yeah. I know, non-dualists aren’t supposed to say things like that. They’re supposed to say here it is seen that there could be nothing else.

      Still. It bothered me. And anyway, I don’t care what non-dual dogma says. That’s part of my message - that true and radical freedom is completely fresh and spontaneous. True freedom knows no rules and no limitations. True freedom is simply being who you are.

      So it bothered me because there was something deeply authentic about the first edition. And yet, it wasn’t as clear as I would have liked. And frankly, it came across with a rather arrogant tone.

      Which makes sense. I was a pretty arrogant guy, and discovering the simplicity of being doesn’t really have anything to do with personalities.

      Yet since the initial edition, I have found that my personality has mellowed. Those old habits of defending someone seem to have dissolved. And I feel that my more recent writing better reflects what it is that I most want to share.

      If I really had to sum up what I most want to share with you it is this: all that is real is love, yet you cannot discover this by adding more knowledge or changing your beliefs. This is discovered through the dissolution of all that is not real. The way to dissolve all that is not real is to explore it - to shine the light of awareness and see what remains. And what remains is the outpouring of love to itself.

      Don’t take my word for it, though. Find out for yourself.

      And that is precisely what I hope to offer you in this book - the opportunity to explore direct experience and discover what is real and what is unreal.

      I believe that this second edition is true to the spirit of the first edition, yet more vulnerable, more accessible, and without the pretense.

      May you discover yourself as you are.

      Getting Here

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      Goodness knows there are lots of ways to explore what is. And so I have no delusions that what I offer you in this book is the definitive collection of explorations. Furthermore, my take on all of this is necessarily biased. I can only share with you what I experience. I mean, I could just regurgitate some ideas that I learned from others, but what value would that be? So I can only share with you what I actually know, what is alive within me.

      In the first edition of this book I shared some explorations of thought fixation that I (rather naively) presented as some sort of definitive way to explore the vastness of infinite reality. (I’m sorry about that, by the way.) That is because thought fixation was a really big part of my own experience, and upon discovering the transparency of it, this was hugely liberating. So discovering effective ways to explore thought was very useful to me. And as such, I made the mistake of generalizing that to everyone.

      To be sure, most of us deal with thought fixation. Basically, we interpret much of our direct experience through the lens of thought, and then we expend a great deal of energy trying to solve these problems in thought. Which, by the way, is futile,

      So learning effective ways to explore thought fixation is probably useful for most of us. It offers the opportunity to see that what is immediate has absolutely no need for thought. And thought cannot do anything about what is real. Thought turns out to be basically useless. It’s fine. It’s not a problem. It’s just useless. And finally it becomes apparent that even thought is just stillness reflecting to itself.

      The interesting thing that you may discover is that eventually all distinctions become laughable. So please don’t take any of the distinctions in this book to be the literal truth. Because the literal truth is so immediate that to speak of it complicates it too much. The literal truth is this. Full stop. Just remain with what is prior to all thoughts, concepts, and distinctions, and then no more speaking is necessary.

      Yet for the sake of speaking of these things, we can say that perhaps thought is not the only way in which we fixate. We also can fixate on other things. And I find that the two other biggest fixations are feelings and identities. So in this book we’ll explore these as well.

      Feelings tend to be more fundamental than thoughts. So I find that after seeing through thoughts, attention can sometimes fixate on feelings. And here the typical strategies are to try to maintain desirable feelings and get rid of undesirable feelings.

      Actually, I used to have really horrific thought fixation. I experienced what people call obsessive-compulsive disorder. For years it got worse and worse until I actually gave up nearly all my possessions, my career, my apartment, and most of my relationships in order to more fully pursue the compulsive rituals that I enacted for hours every day. I did the compulsive rituals in an attempt to shut up the obsessive thinking.

      It was an ineffective strategy. Things kept getting worse.

      Yet when I began to explore the actuality of my actual experience, thought became transparent. I realized that thought was no longer a problem.

      However, feeling was underneath thought. So when thought became transparent, feeling became the new fixation.

      What I found was that I had used thought fixation as a way to try to

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