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Sadhguru on Jiddu Krishnamurti

By Isha Foundation — 2020

Sadhguru tells the story of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and shares a precious anecdote of how he went to attend a handful of J. Krishnamurti study sessions as a teenager.

Read on isha.sadhguru.org

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Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny

A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of “karma” that offers the key to happiness and enlightenment, from the world-renowned spiritual master Sadhguru. What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance sheet of good and bad deeds, virtues and sins.

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Sadhguru
2024
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Activation of Energy: Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy

An important Christian philosopher contends that if human energy is channeled in the right direction, "upward and outward," spiritual energy as a motor force in the universe will outdistance technological advance.

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Teilhard de ChardinPierre
2002
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Joining a Larger Community of Compassion

This sneak peak with Acharya Gaylon Ferguson is from the Science of Meditation online summit. You can sign up for the whole 5 day summit which runs Oct. 19-23, free right here: https://online.shambhalamountain.org

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Gaylon Ferguson
2016
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Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With

There are two essential elements to the spiritual path says this popular teacher from the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa: understanding that you’re already enlightened, already perfect in wisdom right here and now, and accessing that natural wakefulness through spiritual practice.

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Gaylon Ferguson
2024
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Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation

Spiritual practice is not some kind of striving to produce enlightenment, but an expression of the enlightenment already inherent in all things: Such is the Zen teaching of Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) whose profound writings have been studied and revered for more than seven hundred years, influencing...

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Eihei Dogen
2004
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On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings

“The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment.” Robert M. Pirsig wrote this unpublished line in 1962 while a patient at Downey Veteran Administration Hospital in Illinois, where he was admitted as a psychiatric patient.

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Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
2022
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The Essence of Buddha: The Path to Enlightenment

The Essence of Buddha offers a contemporary interpretation of the way to enlightenment in simple and easy words, written by a highly revered Japanese spiritual leader, Ryuho Okawa.

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Ryuho Okawa
2016
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The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns

Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (“Verses of the Elder Nuns”) contains the poems of the first Buddhist women: princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the desperately in love, those born into limitless wealth and those born with nothing at all.

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Matty Weingast, Bhikkhuni Anandabodhi (foreword)
2020
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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

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C. S. Lewis
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

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C. S. Lewis
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