The pages of this book are meant to accompany your own exploration of the spaciousness of your mind, the discovery of the inner freedom to think, feel and live beyond the meanings and interpretations we are used to give to mental-emotional events and life circumstances. They offer open invitations to overcome the habitual mind patterns about the past and the future, in relationship to oneself and to the world, and to access the essence of the present, moment by moment.
You might discover that you can be connected to your profound self and at the same time to be more free from the attachment of what one usually believes to be “I”. You might find this book a friendly companion for your becoming, on your personal journey towards wisdom and compassion.
Openly exploring the dialogue and interplay between words and images, you could offer yourself moments of reflection and meditation about life, the relationship to yourself and others, about conventional reality and the unexpected potential of the present. It might be an incentive to train your own creativity and mind flexibility, which could lead to a deeper level of consciousness and the enhancement of your life, to the benefit of all.
The text are written in English simply because they “happened” to appear like that to my mind during moments of reflection and meditation in special contexts: interactions with spiritual teachers, with masters of the Tibetan Buddhism tradition, encounters with remarkable people, specialists in cognitive sciences or personal development.
Romanian readers might have the advantage that through the intermediary of these texts they could relate to thoughts and feelings in a way that is less dependent on the social and cultural conditioning which is so closely connected to one’s mother tongue. They might discover that they already have a degree of inner freedom greater than they expected.
Whether you choose to interact with the words and images offered by this book, or you prefer to just enjoy the texts and pictures, may each of you discover the potential of your own mind and the vast spaciousness of the present moment… Now.
Danand
The book is available through Editura Herald Publishers: http://www.edituraherald.ro/bookdetail_engl.asp?cod_carte=430&title=The%20Gift%20of%20Now
ABOUT THE BOOK
„It is really special, excellent, and powerful. Great work!” - Rick Hanson, PH.D, neuropsychologist, founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom
„As soon as you start perusing it, this book makes you ask yourself what it is that you are reading. It consists of texts and images, short essays and literary fragments, directions and glosses accompanying its drawings, paintings and photographs, reflections on life and life’s dilemmas, words of wisdom – and many more! It all comes together as a vibrant, nonlinear collection of texts and images which cannot be profitably read only as a piece of literature or, alternatively, as a work of philosophy or spirituality exclusively. Neither can it be read simply as a book of art or a small album, as its elegantly polychrome appearance may suggest. It is definitely something to behold and to read, but it defies typological categories, genres and species, and grants readers the freedom to choose for themselves what they may want to take home from this visual-readerly, descriptive-reflexive, contemplative-interrogative continuum.” - Ion Bogdan Lefter, Professor at the University of Bucharest, writer, literary critic
„This is a graphically beautiful book that may help you reach the inner balance that many of us are looking for.” - Valentin Protopopescu, Radio Romania Cultural
”An inspired book that captures the present in a moment of pure awareness. It thought-provoking, and at the same time it invites to reflection and meditation.” - Aurelian Curin, M.D., Reiki Master
From readers
“It is a very special book to which I will gladly return many times with the same joy.”
“An inspired book that captures the present in a moment of pure awareness. It thought-provoking, and at the same time it invites to reflection and meditation”.
“It is a precious gift that I gladly go to every time I feel the need for a bit of magic in my life.”
“It’s delicate, inspired, wonderful.”
“For me, some of the texts have the effect of a koan.”
“A jewel of wisdom and beauty.”
“It’s fabulous!”
„A wonderful book. It is the book I keep on my bedside table and read, and read again, and I can’t have enough of it.”
„It’s not a book, it is an experience of opening the soul to something higher and to one’s self, of connecting them all.”
