This is the possibility of total freedom, right in the midst of a very ordinary life..

 

Jeff Foster life without a centre - nondualityWelcome to Life Without A Centre, the website of Jeff Foster    . Jeff attempts to articulate the timeless message of nonduality, something that is ultimately impossible to put into words, in a simple, human and down-to-earth way, avoiding as much as possible the arcane, heavy, outdated and often self-righteous spiritual language of the past. 

Jeff is not affiliated with any spiritual path, teacher, tradition or lineage. He believes that the truth - that which is present and alive - is absolutely
free and cannot be captured by any religion, ideology, philosophy, belief system... or person. However, perhaps it can be shared, in friendship and openness, with those who are open to going beyond what they know...

There is plenty of free material on this website (including essays, talk transcripts, audio and video), and for those who would like to explore further, there are also books and CD's/DVD's available. Jeff presently offers meetings and retreats in the UK and around the world. 
Thanks for visiting.

The word 'non-duality' points to the non-existence of separation.  The illusion of separation ..


Jeff Foster An Extraordinary Absence
NEW BOOK: AN EXTRAORDINARY ABSENCE

"Written with stunning clarity and aliveness, this book is a love letter to the exhausted spiritual seeker who is simply longing to come Home."

Jeff's new book 'An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life' is out now in paperback. Click HERE to go to the publisher's website and to order.

There is some more information on the books page.

NEW Listen to a clip from the forthcoming audio book version.

Listen to a dialogue with Scott Kiloby which touches on issues raised in the new book. 

“Closer to a Hymn of Praise than anything else. An awed expression of love and wonder and joy. Comes very close to representing the paradoxical essence of being....   Many books of this ilk sit in lofty abstraction, exquisitely beautiful yet remote and inaccessible to the reader. An Extraordinary Absence remains intensely personal, grounded. It eschews mysticism, yet somehow captures the mystery of creation. A true feat."  - Josh Levin

"This is, quite simply, the clearest expression of the way nonduality really is that I've ever read. Here you get a no-bullshit, raunchy, loving, honest, nitty gritty message..." - Scott Kiloby

"By around page 90 came the insight that I was reading a classic...  Read An Extraordinary Absence and watch how you become comfortable with wonder." - Jerry Katz, Nonduality.com

Jeff's other books on nonduality are now available in English, Spanish, Dutch and French.


news

- New video "The Religion of Nothing" on stillnessspeaks.com - Jeff talks to Chris Hebard about how the ultimate message of nonduality can be missed.
- YouTube Clip of Jeff talking about the myth of personal enlightenment, from the Science and Nonduality Anthology DVD.
- New dialogues on Q&A page
- New interviews: Blog Talk Radio's "Inside Out" show, and Unity FM's "Leading Edge"
- New mp3's on on audio/video page.
- Jeff appears in the film "Who's Driving the Dreambus?" - link here.

UPCOMING EVENTS (2010):

6-7 February: Meetings in Amsterdam - Booking now

12-19 February: 7-Day Winter Residential in Belgium - Booking Now
Sat 27th February: Afternoon meeting in Hastings, East Sussex, UK
Sun 28th February: Afternoon meeting in London, UK



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When nothing is yours, everything is yours

 "This is not a teaching, and I am not a teacher. This is a sharing of something so intimate, so present, so damn alive that words cannot even begin to touch it.  A sharing of the possibility of absolute freedom, right in the midst of this very ordinary life.

This has nothing to do with gurus and disciples, spiritual teachers and students, lineages, awakened sages or enlightened masters. That is all in the dream of separation, the dream of separate people.

You see, the moment you have an 'individual', a 'person in the world', you have separation, and the moment you have separation you have the longing to end that separation, to heal the divide, to come Home. It’s the wave longing to return to the ocean. But of course there never was an individual wave separate from the ocean. The wave was always part of the ocean. It was the ocean itself, playing the game of being a separate wave.

But the little wave is inherently a seeker, and he or she runs around the world like a headless chicken, desperately trying to fill the void, to put an end to that felt sense of separation and lack. And whether it's the search for material wealth, or the search for spiritual enlightenment, it's essentially the same search. It's the search for Home.

That's what we long for more than anything - to come Home, just to come Home.

What we are sharing here is the possibility that you never left Home in the first place. The little wave was always trying to find something that was never actually lost. You cannot find Oneness because you never actually lost it. And you never lost it because you never had it. You always were it. The wave was always, always, a perfect expression of that which cannot be expressed. You have always been the divine expression, expressing itself perfectly, completely, leaving no trace, no residue.

Life Without A Centre is about the possibility that the lifelong search for something more (which is really the sense of being an individual separate from the whole) can be seen through. It’s not an intellectual thing. It's a freefall into Intimacy. Totally beyond the intellect. Totally beyond words. And in that seeing-through, all religions, all philosophies, all ideologies, all spiritual teachings, paths and practices are rendered obsolete.

This is not a rejection of paths and practices, but a movement beyond them. For those who are ready to listen, for those who are ready to lose everything and gain everything, for those who are ready to 'die before they die' and discover something beyond death, this is the possibility of total freedom, right in the midst of a very ordinary life."


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Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do..



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