Endorsements for the Natural Awakening book
“Peter Fenner is one of the leading nonduality teachers of our time. In this generous, comprehensive book, Dr. Fenner offers a complete compendium of the ways he has found to evoke nondual awakening in his students. Here we find the full breadth of his understanding, based on his own realisation of nonduality, his extensive knowledge of Buddhist teachings and his compassionate response to human suffering. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to open to, and guide others to, this most profound dimension of human experience.”
– Judith Blackstone, Ph.D.,
author of The Enlightenment Process and The Empathic Ground, New York.
“In Natural Awakening, Peter Fenner further develops his brilliant postmodern implementation of Buddhist nondual wisdom. Peter has taken the refined deconstructive practices that have liberated tens of thousands of Asian contemplatives and adapted them for effective Western use. I highly recommend it.”
– Robert Thurman, Ph.D.,
Buddhist Scholar, Columbia University, President of Tibet House in New York, NY.
“Peter Fenner’s exceptional clarity of mind, deep familiarity with Buddhist texts, decades of wonderfully caring teaching experience and his pitch-perfectly worded guidance in Natural Awakening untie myriad illusory snares of mental suffering for any reader.”
– Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D.,
author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy and Words From the Soul, California.
“Natural Awakening offers an illuminating look under the hood into Peter Fenner’s nondual teacher training program that guides us into not knowing and having authentic, spontaneous, and deeply transformative conversations about nothing. This masterful work—lucid, keenly insightful, and beautifully written—will be of interest to beginning students and experienced teachers alike. A real gem and resource.”
– John J. Prendergast, Ph.D.,
author of In Touch, Chief Editor of The Undivided, California.
“I had the great fortune to experience Peter Fenner’s Natural Awakening Training and to immerse myself in this Guide. The Training has been a wonderful opportunity to experience a new way of being with my students and as a facilitator. Learning to hold others in a space of unconditional awareness has been a gift both for me and those I come in contact with as a mentor. This Guide has become my travel companion and the book that I go back to most frequently. The book organizes the practical teaching in such a systematic and complete way that that it can stand alone and be used independently of the training. Peter convivially teaches us to dance in the paradoxes of nonduality and utilize participants’ cognitive powers to lead us beyond the limits of the conceptual mind. I give Peter Fenner the strongest endorsement possible, as my gratitude to his transmission cannot be expressed in words.”
– Mariusz Wirga, M.D.,
Medical Director, Psychosocial Oncology, Todd Cancer Institute, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, California.
“Peter is a living master of Madhyamika-style deconstruction practiced with contemporary finesse…. This book is both a practical teaching manual and an archivable reference work for nondual coaches, therapists, teachers, and students of many stripes. Clarifying the nature of unconditioned presence and presenting a feast of skillful means for facilitating the realization of such presence, this book contains many lively teacher/student dialogues that are at once laser- focused and relationally-attuned: the hallmark of Radiant Mind trainings. This book is a watershed moment in the extraordinary transmission of nondual wisdom from East to West and from mind to mind.”
– Ken Bradford, Ph.D.,
Clinical Psychologist, Adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University, author of The I of the Other, California.
“How wonderful that Peter Fenner is so generously making his masterful nondual training manual available to the public! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in gaining more stability and confidence in nondual awareness and acquiring a language and the sensitivities through which liberating transmission happens naturally and effortlessly.”
– Risa Kaparo, Ph.D.,
author of Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art & Practice of Embodied Mindfulness, California.
“Through his Radiant Mind workshops and books and his Nondual Therapy trainings, Peter Fenner has shared his powerful and effective transmission with thousands of seekers and practi- tioners. Now, in Natural Awakening, he reveals the methods and techniques that have heretofore been available only to training participants—methods that can be applied not only to work with clients or students, but also to one’s relationship with friends, loved ones, and above all oneself. I highly recommend this brilliant, original contribution to the teaching and transmission of what cannot be taught.”
– Stephan Bodian,
author of Meditation for Dummies and Beyond Mindfulness, New Mexico.
“It is a rare and precious opportunity, when a teacher like Peter Fenner invites us to step ‘through’ the teachings, into a deep contemplation of the skills required to transmit nondual wisdom. I hope that teachers, facilitators, mentors and coaches who have an affinity with nondual awareness will make good use of the depth and power of what Peter is offering through this book. This is truly living wisdom that carries us into uncharted territory and unimaginable blessings.”
– Shalya Wright,
author of Everyday Magic, Victoria, Canada
“Like his root teacher, the beloved Lama Yeshe, Peter has a fresh and unusual approach. Through a natural process of deconstruction, underlying assumptions and belief systems that bind us to habitual patterns are revealed. As these belief structures and preferences rise to the surface, the sun of awareness dissolves fixations. As fixations are released, the space of suchness opens, and readers can experience the fresh, open quality of aware presence. Natural Awakening shows us how the process of awakening can be facilitated through simultaneously understanding the field from both the ultimate and apparent perspectives. This Guide is an invaluable contribution to nondual teachers.”
– Lama Palden Drolma,
Founder and Director of Sukhasiddhi Foundation, California
“Written as a “how to” manual, Peter Fenner’s excellent new book brilliantly lays out very practical ways of accessing and integrating nondual awareness. Dr. Fenner shows how simple, narrative conversations are extremely useful in deconstructing the dualistic worldview and leading us, instead, into a direct experience of who we already are. This content-rich book points the readers to a clear and compelling way for “abiding-in-awareness.” Highly recommended.”
– Chuck Hillig,
author of Enlightenment for Beginners and The Way IT Is, Virginia.
“Reading this book was an awakening experience like no other. It opened my eyes and heart through both its incredibly helpful content and also its crystal clear transmission. Anyone supporting others in opening to pure awareness will be enriched and inspired by what Peter presents. My whole being relaxes into a spacious, passionate “Yes!””
– Raphael Cushnir,
author of The One Thing Holding You Back, Oregon.
“I came to Peter Fenner’s teaching after years of Japanese Zen monastic training. How refreshing and invigorating! I am so appreciative of his training, scholarship and unique way of making Buddhist nondual wisdom directly accessible to Western hearts and minds. With Natural Awakening Peter makes an enormous contribution toward bringing all beings to clarity and equanimity. I am profoundly grateful.”
– Jan Hodgman,
Soto Zen priest, Focusing Trainer and nondual teacher, Anacortes, Washington.
