Fixation to Freedom by Eli Jaxon-Bear

Fixation to Freedom by Eli Jaxon-Bear

Your true nature is happiness and bliss. Everyone wants to be happy. This is a universal component of the human condition and may seem so self-evident that it does not bear noting. So why is it that so few people are truly happy? If it is true that our nature is happiness and bliss, why has it been so rare for people to realize this? Why has it been so rare for people to live their lives in gratitude and love? There is a living intelligence in all people that seeks ultimately to discover its true identity and source. It is a fortunate and mysterious moment when the desire for happiness leads to the investigation into personal identity, also known as self-inquiry. In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define oneself are discovered to be more like transparent lines drawn on water. They exist only on the surface of consciousness in one's imagination. When these illusions of mind are clearly exposed, true limitless being reveals itself. The Enneagram has appeared in our time as an illusory medicine to cure an imaginary disease. The disease is the egoic idea of separation from God, from one s true source. The cure is to look in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram to see past all false identification to the truth of being. Eli Jaxon-Bear presents a radically new model of the ego and the psyche. Bringing together his background in Buddhism with the Sufi work on essence, he presents a fresh approach to awakening by using the Enneagram's nine fixated structures of ego to clearly describe who you are not. You will see how habits of egoic identification continuously appear to veil the pure, pristine consciousness that you truly are. When these habits of mind are exposed, there is a clear choice to end the bondage of ego-based suffering and to realize the vast, inherent freedom of one' s true nature. In this book, Eli gives us the map of the prison of mind and the keys to freedom.

Jaxon-Bear, Eli: - Eli Jaxon-Bear was born Elliot Jay Zeldow in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. He is an author, teacher, and founder of Pacific Center Press. A long-time student of the Enneagram, Eli published his first book on its use as a wisdom mirror, Healing the Heart of Suffering, in 1989. In 1996, he founded The Leela Foundation, a spiritual organization dedicated to world peace and freedom, which integrates insights of the Enneagram with the truth of nondual wisdom. Eli continues to teach and lead retreats based on the transmissions of his teacher, H.W.L. Poonja. Eli Jaxon-Bear is also the editor of Wake Up and Roar.

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ISBN 13	9781732952348
ISBN 10	1732952345
Title	Fixation to Freedom
Author	Eli Jaxon-Bear
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Morning Associates, Inc.
Year published	2019-05-20
Number of pages	292
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