Travelling to the USA

For two weeks in October, 2022, OM C. Parkin travels with ten students to the West Coast of the United States. On this private trip, OM steps on American soil again for the first time after leaving the country in 1994.

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The Birth of the Lion

Non-Duality as a Way of Life

OM C. Parkin

BK243

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214 pages, Translated from the German edition

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The Birth of the Lion

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In his introductory autobiography, OM C. Parkin shares an extraordinary account of awakening to REALITY after a harrowing experience of near death and his subsequent meeting of his last teacher Gangaji. Combined with questions and answers taken from public gatherings called "Dialogues of Self-inquiry" (Darshan) OM C. Parkin confronts the reader directly with the essential question: Who is the "I" to which we relate our happiness and unhappiness, our past, present, and future? At the same time, he ruthlessly unmasks the arrogance of ego, clearly revealing how the mind clings to suffering and false identification even in the face of the truth that enlightenment is now.

"I am a non-traditionalist, and for whatever reasons I have been granted the grace of experiencing total Consciousness without any illusion of physical, emotional or mental limitation. I have been granted the grace of experiencing total consciousness without any illusion of physical, emotional, or mental limitation. This consciousness is what I AM. Whether the body appears or not, it doesn't matter. Only this direct experience has any authority, and this direct experience is possible for everyone. When is it possible? Now! Now is what you are searching for, and now is who searches. Everything is now. Everything dissolves into this now." – OM C. Parkin

  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Chandravali Schang ...1
  • Part 1 THE BIRTH OF THE LION
  • An Autobiography
  • The Search for Another Reality ...5
  • The Pact ...7
  • The Romanticism of Death ...11
  • The Beginning of the End of a Dream ... 13
  • The Birth of the Lion ... 21
  • Burning in Nothingness ...28
  • Back in the Marketplace ... 32
  • Satsang ... 38
  • Suffering ...
  • The I-Thought is the Source of Suffering ...43
  • Guilt and Obliviousness ... 45
  • The Desire for Suffering ... 49
  • The Denial of Suffering ...53
  • The Promise of Unfulfilled Desires ... 57
  • Indolence, Fear, and Anger ...62
  • Suffering is a Delusion ...69
  • The Desire for Liberation ... 84
  • Dying into the Unknown ... 94
  • Teacher and Student in the Teaching of Non-Teaching ... 97
  • Self-Inquiry
  • Who Am I? ... 106
  • What is the Mind? ...111
  • From I to i: The Illusory Self-Shrinking Process
  • through Identification with Thinking ...115
  • Beyond the Subject/Object Relationship:
  • The Eye Cannot See Itself ...119
  • Realization: The Fall into the Bottomless ... 133
  • Meditation is Stillness Beyond Conditions ... 137
  • The Realization of the Self: No Person Becomes "Enlightened" 145
  • Suchness without Meaning ...152
  • Free of Vice; Free of Virtue ... 154
  • Love Without Relationship ... 159
  • In the Flow of Being ... 184
  • Glossary ... 203
  • Contact Information ...206