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It has been an honor and pleasure for me to become friends with Gilbert Schultz over the past two years. Like many of us, Gilbert was drawn to the teachings of Nisargadatta and then was fortunate to discover that a “former student” of Nisargadatta was living and sharing his understanding in Gilbert's native Australia -- “Sailor” Bob Adamson.

As Nisargadatta helped Bob Adamson in the only way one can truly help another (as Nisargadatta said “by taking them beyond the need of further help”), Bob's shining example to Gilbert through his own simple and direct expression of pure beingness led Gilbert to recognize the same.

Gilbert transcribed many of Bob's meetings and compiled and edited them into book form and was instrumental in the initial publication of Bob's books and audio recordings. Ever since, he has freely shared his own understanding and directed many people to Bob where they have simply and easily discovered this for themselves.

Last year, I assisted Gilbert in creating his web site, www.shiningthroughthemind.net, and in editing and publishing his first book The First Instant. My interaction with Gilbert and his consistent pointing and very skillful articulation of THAT (THIS) which is beyond expression (yet one can't help trying!) was an immense help in my own apparent unfolding of this self-knowing.

I am now very pleased to announce that I will be distributing a new book written by Gilbert titled Everything Is Clear & Obvious (An exploration of conscious presence). As anyone who has read The First Instant or listened to Gilbert's excellent audio CDs, “Shining Through the Mind” and One Moment of Eternal Realization, already knows, Gilbert is truly gifted in the art of the verbal expression of Non-Duality (or pointing to that which is beyond words through the skillful use of words). This new book will not disappoint anyone and it is truly a superlative example of non-dual expression which guides the reader in a most direct manner to see through the false cage of concepts and recognize his or her inherent (and immediately present) freedom.

This book is about the source of life: You. It uses words, which cannot describe but only point, to encourage you to set aside preconceptions in favor of directly looking at WHAT IS to recognize that you are both present and aware and that this presence-awareness seeing everything now is the fundamental reality and YOU ARE THAT.

This book is not about answering your questions about life, but instead dissolving them so that you may see that the questions have no existence apart from the presence-awareness and only have meaning in relation to the idea of a separate person, which you may have taken yourself to be. But this separate person can only exist as an idea and is unreal.

Reviews of Beyond Description:

This small companion book to Beyond Description: Notes on the Dissolution of a Seeker consists mostly of dialogs with readers of the first book along with a few short pieces similar in style to those in the first book.

What is being pointed to here is so simple that it may not be understood or may be overlooked by some. “Understanding” seems to be at least partly an intellectual process, however many claim to have an “intellectual understanding” yet feel that something is still being missed.

The process of dialog is very helpful as it provides a tangible jumping off point between an intellectual understanding and a direct seeing of what these words are pointing towards. Intellectual understanding is only useful to a point – to the point at which it is realized that “the understanding” is (and can only be) non-conceptual. Concepts are the apparent trap which create the sense of separation that fuels the search for wholeness.

Because the separate person, the “seeker”, exists only as a concept, there is no one who needs to “wake up”.

Through a simple openness to looking in your own direct experience — to looking towards what is real before, during, and after any thought, you can see that what is real is ever present and always complete. It is only by an overlooking of our true nature, that we experience a sense of separation which usually leads to a search for satisfaction or completion outside ourselves, often in a mentally projected future which doesn't actually exist.

This book is the third volume of a trilogy began with "Beyond Description" and "Aren't You Just This?". It is aimed at the "spiritual seekers" who have realized that presence awareness is what they are seeking, yet they still feel that they are something separate from that.

It is pointed out here that the seeker, the separate person, is the apparent result of a chain of concepts arising out of this presence awareness but can never actually be anything apart from it.

"Waking up" is simply a matter of seeing through the appearance of the concepts to their source: this presence awareness here that we all are.

It is only the assumption that the apparent separate self is real which seems to make this a difficult or protracted process. By dropping all concepts and looking at our direct experience, we can see that this is effortless and there is no "one" here to have any problems.

An excerpt from the text:

"As long as you think seeking is necessary, investigate – just don't assume that an answer is to be found in the future, it is an endless path. Look until you see that there only is now, then you will drop the seeking automatically. If you can see that 'now' can only come right NOW, you may find the ultimate shortcut: the shortest path from 'here' to 'there' is to see that both are only happening HERE. It is not something that happens incrementally through a process, although it can appear that way."