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by Katrijn Van Oudheusden (Author), Chris Niebauer (Foreword by)
What if everything you believe about yourself is an illusion?
We spend our lives seeking improvement, peace, and purpose, operating from the core assumption that we are a separate self--a thinker, a doer, a manager of our lives. But what if this "self" is not what you truly are? What if the very search for a better "you" is the root of all suffering?
Seeing No Self is not another self-help book promising a better life. It is a direct, unflinching guide to the end of seeking. Through 33 essential inquiries, author and guide Katrijn Van Oudheusden dismantles the illusion of the separate self layer by layer, pointing you back to what you have always been--the boundless, aware Presence in which all of life unfolds.
This is a book of radical rediscovery. It offers no theories to believe, no practices to master, and no person to improve. Instead, it provides a clear, empirical investigation into your direct experience, inviting you to look for yourself and see what is already undeniably true.
Freedom is not something to achieve. It is what remains when you stop believing that you are the one who isn't free.
Author Biography
Katrijn Van Oudheusden writes about recognizing our true, nondual nature by seeing through the illusion of the self. Originally from Belgium, she was raised in Thailand and had a twenty-year career in law and organizational development in the Netherlands and Germany. She now lives in Frankfurt with her husband. Visit her at katoudheusden.com.
