"The Koan of Simplicity"
Author: Nicolas Rowe
Paperback Pages: 208
ISBN:978-3-00-025274-7
'Fascinating, easy to read
and immensely useful'.
J.C. Kapur
(Philosopher, co-chairman of the World Public Forum, founder of the Kapur Surya Foundation & Founder-Editor of World Affairs Journal)
'“An absolutely remarkable account of the Journey; a journey of mysteries, conflicts, shocks, surprises and revelations. Nicolas Rowe is a warrior of a kind, his words soaring through the unnamable field of Consciousness that is our true essence……….”
Roop Verma
(Internationally acclaimed sitarist - soundtrack to the award-winning Dalai Lama film Renaissance- Nada Yoga master and founder
of the Atma Lotus Center
of Oneonta, NY)
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Awakening to the Mystery of our ‘True Nature’
The compelling story of a lifetime of self-discovery, illustrating how we can all realise our ever-present True Nature and, ultimately, the highest purpose of our life.
THE KOAN OF SIMPLICITY
BOOK REVIEW
By
Jurgen Brandt, contributing editor ‘The Link’ magazine
(Krishnamurti Information Network)
With this book, you want to retreat to a quiet place – to bathe undisturbed in the vastness and serenity the writing invokes.
Nicolas Rowe's words have the intrinsic authority of Zen, they are precise and evocative, the style reflects immediacy and essence. The author's ability to again and again awaken the "un-nameable" can only be compared to the best poetry in the haiku tradition. There is a whole treasure trove of well-crafted word images all having the same effect: to prick the bubble of our self-referring mind. In this journey to ‘where we already are’, the author skilfully addresses the many pitfalls, misconceptions, contradictions and paradoxes of our lives. He exposes them in all their aspects until the tension becomes almost unbearable - only to release them into nothingness with a final word or half-sentence. There were passages where I had to laugh out loud when the absurdities of normal life were brought into full light, there were many moments of profound and lasting release, sometimes accompanied by a joyous serenity of unknown freshness, sometimes by a deep, almost impersonal pain as the cold chains of lifelong imprisonment and isolation melted away into the new openness of simply being.
This is a truly remarkable book. It opens one window after another, giving way to views all the way to the horizon, until suddenly, with the opening of the next window, the vastness not only stretches out in front of you, but also behind and around you until nothing is left in between. Almost imperceptibly, the assumed reality of the egoic perspective has vanished. What we call our everyday life is still there, as real as before, but now freed from the burden of ownership, perfectly at home in the groundless-ground of undivided being.
As Rowe wrote after having had a radical awakening experience: "With my perception of existence irrevocably changed, I simply got up, went downstairs and continued painting the front of my mother's house."