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Zen Doctrine of No Mind: The Significance of the Sutra of Hui-Neng (Wei-Lang) by D.T. Suzuki “By no-mind, the task is accomplished in itself.” A must read for the seekers of the truth. Translations of the key teachings of great Zen master Hui-Neng (638-713 BC) on no-mind doctrine. Glimpses of “Prajna”, the thoughtless awareness (Vivek Sharma) |
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Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense
by Edmund Colledge The thought of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327), Dominican philosopher and spiritual master, is among the most daring and difficult in the history of Western mysticism. His doctrines of detachment, the return of the soul to God, and the birth of the Son in the soul have continued to perplex his critics and nourish his disciples through the ages (Amazon.com) |
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Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharishi “Who am I?” The gross body, which is composed of the seven humors (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, i.e., the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, i.e., sound, touch, color, taste, and odor, I am not (Amazon.com) |
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of Life, The : Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti by J. Krishnamurti Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First and Last Freedom he cuts away symbols and false associations in the search for pure truth and perfect freedom. Through discussions on suffering, fear, gossip, sex and other topics, Krishnamurti’s quest becomes the readers, an undertaking of tremendous significance (Amazon.com) |
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Ending of Time by J. Krishnamurti This very important work offers penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader and the renowned physicist that shed light on the fundamental nature of existence. Krishnamurti and David Bohm probe such questions as ‘why has humanity made thought so important in every aspect of life? (Amazon.com) |
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Ming by Seng T’san, Gyoskusei Jikihara, Richard B. Clark The Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind, by the third Chinese patriarch of Zen, Sengtsan, is considered to be the first Chinese Zen document and one of the most widely-admired and elegant Zen writings (Amazon.com) |
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Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing By Osho Rajnish Osho’s interpretation of the teaching of the third patriarch Sosan (Sengtsan). The book flows with Osho’s captivating narration and examples. Worth a read just for the easy translation of the words of the great Zen master (Vivek Sharma) |
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Rumi by Coleman Barks These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the "inner searching, the delicacy, and simple groundedness" that characterize Rumi's poetry while remaining faithful to the images, tone, and spiritual message of the originals (Amazon.com) |
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Book of the Dead By Robert Thurman Imagine that as you leave your body at death, you hear the voice of a loved one whispering in your ear explanations of everything you see in the world beyond. Unlike other translations of Bar do thos grol (or The Tibetan Book of the Dead), Robert Thurman's takes literally the entire gamut of metaphysical assumptions (Amazon.com) |
| Confessions by Saint Augustine (translated by Henry Chadwick) In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. His descriptions of friendship are so beautiful they'll bring tears to your eyes (Amazon.com) |
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Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach "Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again for most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." (Richard Bach) |
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Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest (Amzon.com) |
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Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield The saga begins when the unnamed middle-aged male narrator whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript (pretentiously called the Manuscript) containing nine Insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality (Amzon.com) |
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