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Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
In the Christian mystical tradition one of the great texts is Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross, in which he talks about the periods of loneliness, fear, and doubt that one goes through after the initial awakenings into the light. Evagrius,
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book Cutting through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa. We can become attached to noble views and ideals,
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Living Buddhist Masters.
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I had many teachers, but the most central were two of the wisest Theravada teachers of the past century: one in Thailand, Ajahn Chah, and one in Burma, Mahasi Sayadaw.
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As the African-American sage George Washington Carver explained, “Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.”
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Dipa Ma and other Buddhist teachers demonstrate the remarkable possibilities of the awakened heart. In Transformations of Consciousness, Harvard psychologist Jack Engler reports on his study of Dipa Ma and other advanced meditators.
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Debra Chamberlin-Taylor,
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A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.
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The art of listening is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. —ALAN WATTS
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