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Sri Adi Śankaracharya’ s Saundarya Lahari: Sādhana Nidhi -Blueprint for Meditation
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The further existence of his body and the world appears to the Jnani as an illusion, which he cannot remove but which no longer deceives him. After the death of this body, as in life, he remains where and what he eternally is, the first principle of all beings and things: formless, nameless, unsoiled, timeless, dimensionless and utterly free. Death
... See moreFor many years, I have appreciated the teaching of the Indian guru of non-dualism Sri Nisargadatta, who famously said, “The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.”
Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
My uncle, the yogi, came to see me at my father's house just after he had witnessed this event, and his eyes were full of tears as he told me about it. He said it was a terrible tragedy that none of us had known enough to recognize that this seemingly ordinary person, living so close to us, had actually been a verygreat practitioner, from whom we
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Teitaro Suzuki, unofficial lay master of Zen Buddhism, humorous offbeat scholar, and about the most gentle and enlightened person I have ever known; for he combined the most complex learning with utter simplicity. He was versed in Japanese, English, Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, French, Pali, and German, but while attending a meeting of the Buddhist
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Stephen Levine, revered for his pioneering work with conscious dying,