I Hope You Die Soon

by Richard Sylvester

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This is an uncompromising and provocative book about non-duality. In liberation it is seen that all phenomena simply arise in awareness with no person mediating them. Purpose, religion and paths of spiritual development all lose their meaning when it is seen that there is no one who exercises choice. "The most common misconception about liberation is that it is something an individual can gain. But liberation is a loss-the loss of the sense that there ever was a separate individual who show more could choose to do something to bring about liberation. When it is seen that there is no separation, the sense of vulnerability and fear that attaches to the individual falls away... then life is simply lived and relaxation takes place. There is a sense of ease with whatever is the case and an end to grasping for what might be." -From I Hope You Die Soon show less

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This is probably a good book for early seekers. Sylvester has a self deprecating, wry, sense of humor, which helps (IMHO) move newcomers into a new way of thinking. Especially interesting was the final section when Sylvester struck a more autobiographical note.
When I look back at the last 30 years of my life it seems to have been like finding myself as a character in a play who is dreaming that he is following a “Spiritual Quest”. (At least, in my imagination, that was the rose-coloured romance of my starting point.)

The journey has taken me to a lot of foreign and exotic places, brought me through the pages of a great many books,.... until at this point in time I find myself here. A new and unexpected member of an internet group called Library Thing, and writing the first book review I’ve ever attempted.

What pushed me to do this was an extraordinary gem of a book with the unlikely title of, “I Hope You Die Soon”, by Richard Sylvester. I'm sure that on first encounter most people show more would find the title more than a bit unsettling, since it seems to be expressing a thought that few of us would be happy to hear another person greet us with.

Nevertheless, I bought the book, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, found that its contents had even more power to stop me in my usual complacent tracks than the title did. For more than a year now, each time I finish it I lay it down on the pile beside my favourite reading chair,....then irresistibly, a week or two later, I find myself drawn back to it. I pick it up, and once again slip gratefully back into that strangely compelling dream. Seeing the world through the lens of Richard’s experiences truly stretches all my accepted ideas of what I used to so confidently call 'reality'.

If you have any attraction to, or curiosity about, Non-Duality teachings, I highly recommend that you try yourself, via his book, this extraordinary transposition into the world Richard is describing.

If you would like to have more than the words of a review from a complete stranger to go on before you buy a book,... there’s a free interview with him you can watch by clicking on the “Conscious TV” blue link on Richard’s website :

http://www.richardsylvester.com/

Once the TV link opens, click on the Non Duality link just below the title. When that page opens, scroll down through all the alphabetical list of interviews on the right. Richard’s is the third from the bottom.

I don’t think the oral and visual re-telling of his life experiences in this interview will disappoint you. (And for true bibliophiles, the book, and its companion edition, are even better.)
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> Voir un extrait : https://books.google.fr/books?id=Tll4-fswUSoC&hl=fr&printsec=frontcover&...

> RÉFLEXIONS SUR LA NON-DUALITÉ… SI ELLE EXISTE !!!
Par Zuihô (Livresbouddhistes.com), le 31 déc. 2019 (Sur Amazon.fr) 5/5

> Un livre surprenant, car il indique que poursuivre sa quête éloigne du but, lâcher-prise nous permet de l'atteindre. Un livre qui est important pour ce qui permet de faire comme parcours, et non comme contenu.
Danieljean (Babelio)

> J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ MOURIR BIENTÔT, de Richard Sylvester. — Ce titre peut sembler peu sympathique. Il l’est, en effet, pour la personne, pour l’ego. Mais n’est-il pas essentiel pour notre être ? Richard Sylvester vit dans le Kent en Angleterre et témoigne d’une show more longue pratique de toutes sortes de techniques spirituelles pendant quelques dizaines d’années, ce qui l’amena à enseigner la méditation. Il a également beaucoup suivi Tony Parsons (3e millénaire n°66, 68, 78). « Pendant toute une période, avant que la libération soit vue, j’allais à des conférences et discussions avec Tony Parsons et à la fin de l’une d’elles, je pense que j’exprimais une très forte frustration. J’avais appelé Tony assez régulièrement et il avait entendu mon désespoir au bout du fil. A la fin de l’une de ces réunions, je suis allé le voir pour échanger avec lui sur ce désespoir. Il m’a donné une grande accolade et m’a dit : j’espère que tu vas mourir bientôt ! C’était pour moi le plus merveilleux des souhaits et donc je le transmets. […] Tony avait donc noté mon désespoir et c’était en quelque sorte son présent. Je ne dis pas que c’était une aide, car rien ne peut aider. Ce qu’il voulait dire est qu’il souhaitait que la fin du soi personnel puisse m’arriver, la mort de ce soi personnel, qui est l’unique possibilité de voir la libération. » Richard Sylvester a écrit ce petit livre pour nous rappeler que la libération, l’illumination ou l’éveil, peu importe comment on l’appelle, n’est pas quelque chose que le moi doit acquérir, mais c’est une perte, celle de la croyance qu’il existe un individu séparé. C’est la mort de l’ego, au coeur de toute les grandes traditions spirituelles. Ed. Charles Antoni, L'Originel, 2008. 125 p.
3e millénaire, (88), Été 2008

> Richard Sylvester vit en Angleterre où il témoigne de “ce qui est” par des entretiens. Livre en français : J'espère que vous mourrez bientôt, Ed. Charles Antoni L’Originel (2008)
Non-Duality Advaita Liberation | The Website Of Richard Sylvester : https://richardsylvester1.wordpress.com/
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