Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Trap Door To Nirvana: Finding what actually works

by Jaroslav Dvorak
Save 10% Save 10%
Current price ₹1,763.00
Original price ₹1,956.00
Original price ₹1,956.00
Original price ₹1,956.00
(-10%)
₹1,763.00
Current price ₹1,763.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 18-21 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798253560167
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: USD 19.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 300 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Survival


TRAP DOOR TO NIRVANA

Living with AIDS during the epidemic, Jari did what many do in crisis: he turned to God. But as a gay man, the Christian God he'd grown up with had already made clear he wasn't welcome. The church's answers felt hollow against the raw terror of dying-and whatever confidence he'd had in Christianity collapsed entirely.

Studying the world's spiritual traditions, he discovered that Buddhism offered something Christianity hadn't: the actual promise of a stressless state-nirvana-reachable in this lifetime. Not heaven after death, but freedom from fear and suffering now. That discovery changed everything. Desperate to escape the constant fear of death that gripped him, he threw himself into Zen practice and traveled to India to learn from a spiritual master. Ultimately he arrived at nonduality-the stressless state beyond identity, beyond fear, beyond the labels of a lifetime.

But when a shadow appeared on a kidney scan, mysterious panic attacks struck without warning-the Dark Night of the Soul, nonduality's hidden price. His ordeal was particularly brutal: he was navigating the Dark Night while simultaneously surviving AIDS. Every visit to the ER raised the same impossible question: Is this existential terror, or am I dying? The two were impossible to separate. But as his health slowly recovered, so did the stressless state.

Along the way, the book bears witness to an often overlooked chapter of the epidemic: the Christian and Jewish activists in Toronto who showed up for the dying when few others would-and whose courage left its mark on Jari's own spiritual journey.

If you've ever stood at the edge of your own mortality and found your faith had nothing left to offer-this book was written for you.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us