The Ease Of Being
By Jean Klein
ISBN: 0-89386-015-8xiii, 102 pages, Pb. $13.95

Like all non-objective teaching, the dialogues in this collection employ the 'direct approach' pointing beyond mental striving to that timeless awareness which is our being.

Jean Klein, a musicologist and doctor from Central Europe, spent his early years inquiring about the essence of life. He had the inner conviction that there was a 'principle' independent of all society and felt the urge to explore this conviction. His explorations led him to India where he was introduced through a 'direct approach' to the non-mental dimension of life. Through living in this complete openness, he was taken, one timeless moment, by a sudden, clear awakening in his real nature. It was not a mystical experience, a new state, but the continuum in life, the non-state in light of which birth, death and all experience take place.