Utterances for Dissolution
For sincere seekers who are exhausted from seeking
You have tried to improve
You have tried to practice
You have tried to attain
Yet the prized goal
Buddha's attainment
remains elusive
What if the answer is not
at the end of seeking
but in ending seeking?
Error 404: Buddha Not Found contains 85 utterances that systematically dissolve every form of spiritual seeking: the devotee, the ritualist, the path-follower, the scholar, the meditator, the virtue-cultivator, the self-improver, and even the reader of this book.
These are not teachings to follow, but pointers toward dissolution. Not instructions to accumulate, but utterances that dismantle the very ground the seeker stands on.
The paradox is precise: instructions that point beyond instruction. The book that, if it works, must be burned.
Pick one, sit with it unhurriedly, until
The Buddha is not the Buddha
Only Buddha is
No Buddha
Only Buddha
Both are
Neither is
The Buddha points
Follow the pointer
Let the Buddha go
Eightfold path
Nowhere to go
Grasp and it slips
Let go and it remains
Enlightenment is not attainment
Nothing is
The material for Error 404: Buddha Not Found emerged from silence and was scribed by Sundar Kadayam.
Sundar is the author of Awaken: An Experiential Exploration of Enlightenment and The Secrets of Inner Peace. He is the founder of the Peace Practice where he's delivered over 1,000 live meditation sessions guiding people into silence since 2000.
On his website, Sundar.com, he helps people tap into their innate healing power, root in their inner power which is inner peace, and awaken to their true self, the indescribable silence of being.
Unlike his previous works, which have an instructional bent, Error 404: Buddha Not Found is profoundly different. The utterances from silence can precipitate dissolution of the unreal.
ISBN: 978-3-16-148410-0