Greven - Oneness: the destination you never left

I am very pleased that the message, which Nisargadatta Maharaj was a vehicle for, is being passed on. This lineage is influencing many and the message is continuing to spread throughout the world.

It is obvious that the author has investigated along the lines he points to in this book. He has dispersed the clouds of conceptual beliefs with basic clear seeing. This book, itself, is the proof that he knows whereof he speaks.

The book takes the seeker locked in the confusion of the mind to the immediacy of the Natural State.

Dont under-rate the obviousness and simplicity contained in this book and the search is over!

The word nowhere is complete as it is. Nothing needs to be added or taken away for it to be what it is. It is just a word. There may be an image in your mind about what nowhere means or what it is. But there is something that the mind may have overlooked when reading the word nowhere. It is as simple as noticing the spaceand suddenly the landscape changesno where becomes now here. The same letters in the same order, only the meaning has changed since the space was noticed.

The simple and obvious is frequently overlooked or taken for granted by the mind. You look at a page and see the words, but not the space between them.You watch a movie or television program without noticing the light changing to form the images.You mentally talk to yourself and assume that someone is listening. The mind is trained to focus on content. While reading this paragraph, the mind sorts, labels, and tosses out what it does not consider valuable. Perhaps the mind is looking for something within these words. Perhaps there is an expectation to be fulfilled. Yet, if someone were to go back and point something out in the paragraph, it is possible that you would see something that was there all the time, but was just overlooked. Perhaps the answer is right in front of us all the time.

The intent of this book is to point to something that the mind may have overlooked. It is not pointing to anything new, anything that you can achieve, or anything you can add to yourself. It is not pointing to the good deeds you have done in your life to emphasize what a wonderful person you must be. It is pointing to something so simple, something so obvious, that when it is pointed out and seen, you wonder how it was ever missed. How is it the mind could have taken something so obvious for granted? How did the mind so easily toss out the valuable jewel in favor of its reflections?

You may have been searching for self-realization, enlightenment, the Buddha Mind, God, or some other goal implying the same thing. You may have been searching for many years; or you may just be getting started on a search. Whether you have been travelling a path for a while, or just taking the first step, makes no difference. This book invites you to take a look at the space that has been overlooked, to see what is obvious, and to bring that search to an end right now.

If you have been traveling a path for a while you may believe that with more practice, meditation, visualization, improvement, or study, you will get to the top of the mountain. But paths, practices, and exercises do not lead to the top of the mountain. What you may see is that the mountain itself, and the paths that traverse it, lead only to themselves. You may convince yourself while traveling along a path, that you are gaining spiritual growth, peace, happiness, love, or other valuable attributes. But is that really the truth of your experience? Are you any closer to self-realization than you were the day you started the search? The fact is, if the search is still going on, the answer is noyou are no closer. But that is nothing to worry about, because nothing has been lostjust as nothing will be gained. This book will not help you along any path. It is about noticing that space in the word no where and seeing that it is really now here. This book is about removing the person from the path entirely. End Game.

This book will offer no path, no exercises, no teacher, no guru, no mantra, nothing! It is not about selfimprovement, spiritual growth, or hocus-pocus. There are plenty of other sources for those types of improvement, and a lifetime is not long enough to explore them all in any detail. You may have chosen a path that fits your particular temperament, and I am not by any means discounting methods, but that is not what we are talking about here. This is about a totally radical discovery. It is about seeing who you are, who you have always been, and who you will always be.What you are is not in hiding. It is not on some other level of consciousness. It is nowhere !