on enlightenment, by Prajnaparamita; nondual fiction by BC author Mukesh Eswaran

(x-posted to nonduality)

This snippet jumped out at me in Issue #2601 of the Nondual Highlights, edited today by Gloria Lee.

Enlightenment is a way of saying that all things are
seen in their intrinsic empty nature, their Suchness,
their ungraspable wonder. Names or words are merely
incidental, but that state which sees no division, no
duality, is enlightenment.

-- Prajnaparamita, from Buddha Speaks, edited by
Anne Bancroft, 2000

Issue #2598 edited by Jerry Katz includes excerpts from a "nondual novel" by British Columbia-based author Mukesh Eswaran. Jerry I think correctly points out that fiction created mainly for the purpose of expressing nonduality is usually a fool's errand, but he claims that Eswaran's The Sublime Homecoming successfully accomplishes this feat. The novel features a fictional swami in India in the 1960s.

( Read an excerpt from the novel here )