Instant Enlightenment: Fast, Deep, and Sexy

by David Deida

Book Overview

Explore the Other Side of Enlightenment

Does enlightenment have a dark side? It does, explains David Deida, but instead of closing to what seems unloving, we can learn to open as what we would rather avoid.

In Instant Enlightenment, this maverick author and teacher offers a "rude awakening" through a collection of daring exercises and practices intended to provoke, challenge, and immediately reveal the ever-present "love...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591795605
• ISBN13: 9781591795605
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 3.9" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Quick Reference

Wow! This book is made up of short chapters that can be read and implemented in a moment. Fun and challenging. For me it's the best Deida book.

Hits the Mark!

This very fun & useful book by an extraordinary author, skips over the garbage and gets down to key aspects of reality. Its title is a bit flashy but its apt. Stands out among many (quite a few perhaps overly basic ones) from this prolific psychologist.

simple, practical and fun

Since the 'Way of the Superior Man' I think this is my favourite of Davids books. A series of very practical, short and simple observations and exercises expanding ones perception of realtiy. Fun and easy, it is a great book to carry with you to read an exercise on the train, during a pause at work or any time you have a spare moment during the day. If you are looking to open to and move into something larger than yourself in your everyday life this book is for you. Recomended for anyone of any spiritual inclination including fatalists and athiests.

yeah!

In this book Deida reminds us that there is nothing outside of the sacred. Truly, in any moment and any situation, we can choose to be fully present, and thus, more fully alive. Loved this book. An easy read with powerful, cut to the core exercises.

Bringing Sexy Back

David Deida is best known for "bringing sexy back" to contemporary spirituality, and now in his latest offering he's bringing real life back. Instant Enlightenment contains a vast array of subjects that other `spiritual' teachings fear to touch - oral sex, swearing, car crashes, death, masturbation, to name a few. These taboo areas get the much-needed shot in the arm they deserve. Each chapter is poetically precise, humorous, and challenges the reader to bring their awareness to life experiences that would ordinarily make us contract and shut down. It is in these moments that our separation to what is gets easily forgotten. Can you remember to stay open and loving in the midst of extreme suffering - and banality? This is the core of Deida's teaching: feel open to what you resist, deny and recoil from. What could simply look like a throwaway, aphoristic pocket book, turns out to be a whole lot deeper. The way to read this book is by randomly dipping into any chapter, reading it slowly and contemplating its content. Deida's words and enlightenment will undo you - instantly.