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Hello Jerry,
First of all, thanks so much to you and all editors of the
NDhighlights
group... It's been a year now since I'm following/reading it, and
I love it!
This short email just to tell you about two little (non-duality)
websites I've put online.
From Love
http://fromlove.org
Videos, audio, texts, articles, quotes from many
teachers/masters...
compiled from the web, about love and relationship in connection
with
non-duality and search for truth.
Advaito
http://advaito.com
A compilation of
non-duality/advaita quotes.
With gratitude,
JC
The Biology Of
Enlightenment: Unpublished Conversations Of U. G. Krishnamurti
After He Came Into The
In this book we meet with
the modern sage, U.G. Krishnamurti, and listen to his penetrating
voice describing life and reality as it is. What is body and what
is mind? Is there a soul? Is there a beyond, a God? What is
enlightenment? Is there a life after death? Never before have
these questions been tackled with such simplicity, candour and
clarity.
In these unpublished
early conversations with friends (1967-71), U.G. discusses in
detail his search for the truth and how he underwent radical
biological changes in 1967. Preferring to call it the natural
state over enlightenment, he insists that whatever transformation
he has undergone is within the structure of the human body and
not in the mind at all. It is the natural state of being that
sages like the Buddha, Jesus and, in modern times, Sri Ramana,
stepped into. And U.G. never tires of pointing out that 'this is
the way you, stripped of the machinations of thought, are also
functioning.'
Western Masters
of Nonduality DVD. What Does Enlightenment Mean?
http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/ssblog/western-masters-of-nonduality-dvd/
There is controversy and
disagreement amongst teachers of Nonduality. These are not
superficial differences; they are fundamental. When a
teacher purports to "teach a path, or non-path" to
'enlightenment", it is important to understand his
definitions of commonly used words. When this is not done,
confusion can arise.
What is meant when the
words "consciousness", "awareness",
"enlightenment", "self realization", or Maya,
to name just a few, are used?
Francis Lucille raises
the question during satsang: What exactly does a teacher mean
when he professes "enlightenemnt"? Is it the same thing
being talked of amongst all teachers? (See a short clip of
Francis and other teachers below)
Are there levels of
enlightenment? Is there a difference between what a teacher
refers to as "enlightenment" and what he refers to as
"self realization"?
Is there a path to
follow? Is there a doer? What does it say when it is asserted
that there is no doer? What of the discussion of "confusion
of levels"?
Does a teacher's answer
to a question meet the questioner where he stands (even though it
might be asked from ignorance) and travel from there, or does the
teacher "stand as awareness" answering all questions
from the Absolute?
Even though the questions
asked were the same for each teacher, their answers were not. So,
who is to be the aribter of this nondual wisdom, if not our
direct experience?
For this reason,
StillnessSpeaks undertook to ask many teachers of nonduality a
series of "basic" questions regarding these issues.
Each was asked the same questions so that you, the viewer, could
sort out exactly what each teacher means by the terms he uses.
(Some sample video clips below)
It is not the intention
of StillnessSpeaks to be an arbiter of Truth; we do not profess
the qualifications. We can only share what has worked for us.
The wisdom of sages tell
us that, "There are many paths, but, only one
destination." We agree.
"As men approach Me,
so I receive them. All paths, Arjuna, lead to Me."
With this in mind, we
offer you a sampling of different questions and answers we
asked each teacher. Click here to get the first 2 DVD volume of
Western Masters of Nonduality including Francis Lucille, Rupert
Spira, Chuck Hillig, Greg Goode, Jeff Foster, Joel Morwood, and
James Swartz.
Shortly, we will release
the second 2 DVD volume including Loch Kelly, Vijay Kapoor,
Stephen Wollinsky, Peter Fenner, and Loibon Le Baaba, with bonus
interviews of scientists Fred Allen Wolfe (What the Bleep?) and
Peter Russell.
Enjoy the videos here:
http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/ssblog/western-masters-of-nonduality-dvd/