"Postcards from Beyond" by Paul Harris

Descriptions of enlightenment are like postcards in that they express what it's like to go 'beyond' but can never produce the experience itself. This talk looks at the value of hearing descriptions, debunks a few of the myths that surround it and discusses the limitations and dangers of all such descriptions. Hearing more and better descriptions cannot bring about the realisation. Rather, we must find out directly for ourselves that, "There is a conceptual reality which is constructed from ultimately existing phenomena. The total realisation of this is the 'beyond.'"

Paul Harris is the Spiritual Head and principal meditation teacher at the House of Inner Tranquillity.       

This talk was given in December 2007, when Paul was still a monk.