Finding Joy, Love and Answers On The Sacred River Ganges with Ray Brooks

Aired Thursday, 12 April 2018, 7:00 PM ET

Finding Joy, Love and Answers On The Sacred River Ganges with Ray
Brooks

It is widely thought that finding peace, happiness and freedom
requires tremendous effort – that in order to achieve a state of
contentment and harmony in life, a journey must be taken, or
someone or something must be awakened or overcome.

After a chance encounter with an extraordinary Anglo-Indian man on
the ghats of the sacred River Ganges, author and speaker Ray Brooks
discovered through the course of nine conversations that his quest
for wholeness had been futile: no such journey was necessary, and,
just like a shadow that seeks the sun, he had been searching for a
self that had never been lost in the first place.

Says Brooks, “No new knowledge required or acquired. No
transcendental experience or higher consciousness needs to be
achieved. When the recognition of what you are is seen – nothing at
all happens. Why would it? You simply find yourself as you already
are.”

The Shadow That Seeks the Sun is a fascinating book that offers no
systems of belief or promises, but rather, presents an uplifting
story of spiritual awakening that reveals simple yet profound
truths about our natural state of being.

About the Guest: Ray Brooks

Ray Brooks is a British author and public speaker on the subject of
non-duality. He has given private and group talks throughout the
United States, Europe, Japan, India and Canada, sharing his direct
experience of the “natural state” through simple self-inquiry. Ray
is also the author of Blowing Zen: Finding an Authentic Life, a
musician and recording artist who is internationally respected in
the world of shakuhachi music. He has studied with many great
shakuhachi masters and performed throughout Japan and overseas.
Sharing a passion for travel and adventure with his wife Dianne,
they have explored the world together and spend most of their
winters living in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.

Website: www.raybrooks.org