The Garden

The Garden - A Nonduality Love Story. Winner of the Premier's Book Awards 2011THE GARDEN is inspired by the Upanishads ancient text that teaches nonduality; traditionally known as Advaita Vedanta. This very unique book speaks directly to the heart and portrays a beautiful perception of fullness and intensity of a perfect world. This nonduality love story transcends time and space and the illusion of separation. It is a story of love lost and love found told in simple folklore narrative and beautifully illustrated in full color.You are the Dreamer... walking through a beautiful garden... and for love's own sake, you must journey to the pinnacle of life's eternal presence where your heart is to be opened to a world beyond the senses and mind.THE GARDEN so weaves a world of unity that opposites play together in a deep absorption of what is real and what is illusion. Woven into the story are deeper messages, there to be discovered by the heart, waking you up to who you really are.THE GARDEN is told in four parts: The First Awakening, The Sleeping, The Dreaming and The Reawakening. This is mirrored by the Upanishads: Three States and One Reality - Waking to an outside world, Dreaming in the mind, Dissolving in deep sleep and Awakening to unconditional consciousness.The condensed narrative, multi-layers and meanings in this love story are so designed that each reader needs to think about the words over and over again, through a sustained process of inner reflection and self inquiry. Each reader will discover many different meanings and this will lead to their own independent understanding of THE GARDEN. Through direct pointing at pure truth, THE GARDEN opens the heart allowing the reader to experience nonduality love and self-realization: feelings, thoughts, perceptions are seen as the changing appearances of Consciousness. Where self is known as Consciousness, the universe becomes known as self.Truth merges self in self and self shines by itself.Truth is just that which is desiredBeneath all seeming goals of mind.It's that which all desire seeks,And it should thus be understood:Beneath the many different formsImagined by our partial mindsTo represent the truth they seek.Whoever knows this truth of loveIs loved, in truth, by everyone. -- The Upanishads"It is the beautiful illustrations of sacred geometry woven into Celtic patterns and nature's gifts that makes this little book really special. The reader is taken through a love story of the soul and I could not help but think of that other great poem of love by Khalil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet, as I read through these pages. This is a book to languish over in the quiet of your mind and can be used as an excellent tool for inspiration, illumination and opening of the heart." -- Elizabeth Peru, Insight Publishing