Zen Enlightenment

Tian-tai Mountains are famous for their well-known reputation as a residence of saints and immortals. From ancient times adepts engaged in Chinese Buddhism and Daoism all longed for coming to Tian-tai. Richly endowed by nature, the mountain beauty spots produced unique harmonious culture, the striking prototypes of which were vagabond-poets Han Shan (Japanese "Kanzan") and Shi De (Jittoku). Once expelled from Guo-qing monastery Shi De was given a home at Mount Hanshan where Han Shan, his intimate friend and sworn elder brother, had resided for a half of century. Musing on Han Shan's poems ...

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits—torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community. It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London.

Now before you start picturing me as some sort of barefoot hippie dancing around a drum circle with crystals taped to my nipples, let me set the record straight. I am, in fact, a barefoot hippie dancing around a drum circle with crystals taped to my nipples, but that is beside the point. What we are talkin’ about here is the fine, sacred, slippery art of baring your buns to the sun without accidentally roasting ‘em like a pair of marshmallows over a campfire. See, the first time I ever decided to sunbathe nude, I did it with all the grace and forethought of a raccoon trying to do yoga ...

From a Christian middle class home, to years of Zen practice, and meeting spiritual teachers such as Gangaji, Bob Harwood's deep and determined exploration of the existential questions of life makes for heartfelt reading. The brilliant mind behind this book is an individual whose insatiable curiosity propelled them on an unwavering quest to unravel the enigmatic threads of existence. They grappled with a vast array of profound questions, such as the very existence of a divine presence, the origins of life in a seemingly barren cosmos, the perplexing paradoxes that haunt various scientific ...

Guns and bombs are children’s toys. A true war wages, and you’re invited. IT’S AN INVITATION you may not be able to accept if you want to, or decline if you don’t. It’s an invitation to fight in a war like no other; a war where loss is counted as gain, surrender as victory, and where the enemy you must face, an enemy of unimaginable superiority, is you. In Spiritual Warfare, the metaphor of warfare rarely appears. Instead, we are presented with the living reality of a very normal woman — a wife and mother with a demanding career and high-stress lifestyle — and we see what ...

The topic of enlightenment has built up more baggage and cruft than the Titanic, and most of what's out there on the subject will sink you just as surely as that stupid iceberg. Gatekeeping the Gateless Gate is the zero fluff, high-snark dose of truth you've been looking for. No touchy feelie BS, no karma or dogma. If your goal is to be enlightened, this is the only book you will ever need (and frankly you don't even need this one, but hey whatever floats your boat.).

1. The Nondual Practice Myth 2. A Cult of One 3. The Power of Language 4. Warpath: Achilles’ Heel 5. Negative Progress 6. The Illusion of Disorder 7. Who cares about truth? 8. Love & Happiness 9. The First Veil 10. Zen and the Art of Self-Mutilation 11. Dropping Baggage 12. The Spiritual Trilemma 13. The Artifice Guy 14. People I Trust to Lie 15. The Open Road 16. The Razor’s Edge 17. A Major Bummer 18. The Rightness of Wrongness 19. Nonduality 101 20. Zombie Apocalypse 21. Game of Lies 22. The Prime Noodlebaker 23. What I Understand 24. The Parable of the Strata 25. The Greatest Wonder...

The Buddha spent a lifetime offering the same teaching in a number of different ways, so it is difficult to capture its subtleties from one vantage point. This book offers a variety of perspectives. Although the different approaches each have unique qualities, in their overlapping they reinforce each other and the main elements of the doctrine. The first chapter explains the foundations of the teaching in general terms. The second offers an examination of the same basics from a deeper point of view. In the third chapter, the ideas are freely adapted to an older style similar to the ...

An anthology from the author of the Enlightenment and Dreamstate trilogies and the Jed Talks series. Includes: Starship Gita: The Song of the Borg, Blues for Buddha, Impersonating Jed McKenna, Zen and the Art of Self-Mutilation, and more.

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. No Blue Pill 2. Endless Blizzard 3. Otherborn 4. Self Scrutiny 5. Maya’s Cineplex 6. Advaita Hosiery 7. Truth Will Out 8. On Morality 9. On Function 10. Gloriously Meaningless 11. Write & Pray 12. Moksha-Realization 13. Herd Theology 14. Nothing Is Impossible 15. Easter Egg Hunt 16. Your Diamond Core 17. Herd Programming 18. Global Function 19. Perinatal Territory 20. Quantum 8-Ball 21. What Nonduality Means 22. Food for Thought 23. Children of Men 24. Attachment Theory 25. Caterpillar Dreams ...

CONTENTS - I Am an Apple Tree - Over the Moon - Goddess I: The Tao That Can Be Told - I Call It Consciousness - Marichelle 7: A Pretty Big Problem - Goddess II: Darkness Within Darkness - Spiritual DNA - Adult Utopia - Goddess III: Soft & Yielding - Marichelle 8: Trouble Is Fine - The Folly of Human Conceits - The Tao of Self-Annihilation - Goddess IV: Yield and Overcome - Total Perspective Vortex - Medifuckintation - Goddess V: The Eternal Tao - Marichelle 9: Broken Compass - Belated Rebirth Matrices - Goddess VI: The Mother of All Things - The Tao of Pain - Mystery Prize

One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.

You are imaginary. Seeing Through the dream you call your life Opens Within the Absolute Belonging of Omniscient Love, releasing you alongside your suffering. This book shows how you appear during superimposing actions (karmas), how you hide their True Nature, and how to Step On the Path to See Through karma's illusory appearances and So Awaken.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Age of Enlightenment, then pay attention.... The life of an eminent scientist during the Scientific Revolution and the ensuing Enlightenment was not easy. Ambitious people were killed in the name of the Catholic Church for their scientific and philosophical works, which were often viewed as heretical. Major figures of the Enlightenment period include Voltaire, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Jefferson.

Jed McKenna's Notebook is a cheap and easy way to see if Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy and Dreamstate Trilogy are right for you. JMN includes articles, chapters, correspondence, and interviews with Jed. The Jed material may not be right for all spiritual readers, but Notebook is a great way to find out if it's right for you. Notebook Includes: - Recipe for Failure - 3 Interviews with Jed - Impersonating Jed McKenna - Blues for Buddha - Zen and the Art of Self-Mutilation - Mannahatta - I, Witness - The New World - The Golden Door - Visionary Goofballs - Nothing Forever: A Post-...

Awakening to our nondual nature doesn’t require years of effort, exiting everyday life, or traversing a complex path. It is available here and now. Since having a profound realization in 2004, the author has immersed himself in Zen, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Christian Mysticism, Taoism, and Advaita Vedanta. The key insight that was learned is that when we seek nondual awareness through sheer force, that becomes the obstruction to its realization. This book offers a simple yet crucial shift—a way to turn the energy of seeking into direct recognition. We’ll discover that the ultimate ground ...

Evolving Dharma is the definitive guide to the meditation revolution. Fearless, unorthodox, and irreverent scholar and activist Jay Michaelson shows how meditation and mindfulness have moved from ashrams and self-help groups to classrooms and hospitals and offers unusually straight talk about the “Big E” - enlightenment. Michaelson introduces us to maverick brain hackers, postmodern Buddhist monks, and cutting-edge neuroscientists and shares his own stories of months-long silent retreats, powerful mystical experiences, and many pitfalls along the way.

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Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. A Walking Shadow 2. Going Nowhere Fast 3. Invisible Walls 4. Palpable Absurdity 5. The Real Big Brother 6. The Ganzfeld Analog 7. Game of Nonduality 8. Angelica Demonica 9. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit 10. Death of a Dustbunny 11. Am I Happier Than You? 12. Cocreative Dreamstate 13. Speaking of Karma 14. Speaking of Nihilism 15. Speaking of Agnosticism 16. Off the Beaten Path 17. Temple Tantrum 18. Dreamstate Tapestry 19. Awakening Nightmare 20. Think Better 21. Turtles All the Way Up 22. Terminal ...

1. Controlled Demolition 2. Song of the Open Road 3. Residual Self-Image 4. Barnyard Dreams 5. Hysterically Insane 6. The Human Cocktail 7. Workaday Spirituality 8. Paying Lipservice 9. Matter Is Consciousness 10. The Ultimate Truth 11. Thinking Makes It So 12. Spiritual Honeytraps 13. Shiny Baubles 14. Teachings vs Thinking 15. The Opposite of Bonkers 16. Point of No Return 17. True Age 18. Letter to Melissa 19. Today You Are You 20. 10 Spiritual Myths 21. A Clean, Well-Lighted Attic 22. Birth of A Heretic 23. Living In Oblivion 24. Paranormal 25. Universal Deceit 26. As Broad As the Sky ...