The Dharma of Direct Experience
The Dharma of Direct Experience

Author: Paul Weiss

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1644115344

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A deep exploration of the direct experience of non-dual reality and its lessons for spiritual growth and development • Examines the direct perception of non-dual reality and shows its implications for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way • Shares the author’s most significant awakening experiences and explores their psycho-emotional and psychospiritual foundations • Offers practical teachings for spiritual understanding, emotional development, and the cultivation of compassion Exploring the direct perception of non-dual, “non-ordinary” reality, Paul Weiss shares guidance for navigating ordinary reality in an open, compassionate, and ever-maturing way. He affirms our shared human potential for the “direct experience” of reality--unmediated by our more relativistic mental faculties--and reveals this experience as an essential dimension of our conscious capacity for growth. He shares his most significant awakening experiences and the circumstances leading up to them, exploring the personal and transpersonal dimensions of the experiences and their psycho-emotional and psycho- spiritual foundations. He points to such experiences as part of our ongoing integration as human beings and the essential path of practice that supports our availability to them. Interweaving perspectives from psychology and neuroscience with important lessons from spiritual traditions around the world, Weiss explores how to live a life of integrity, reciprocity, and openness to reality, offering practical teachings for spiritual understanding, emotional development, and the cultivation of compassion, viewed by ancient Buddhist sages as the true meaning of existence. He addresses such human qualities as vulnerability, empathy, reciprocity, openness, and intimacy and shows how they express and participate in deeper conscious truths. The author also examines practical wisdom teachings within both Buddhist and Christian paths to realization. Combining engaged mysticism with transcendent humanism, along with thought- provoking poetry, Weiss offers a living vision of a non-dual way of experiencing the world, a path that supports our functional, emotional, and spiritual maturity.

Time, Space and Knowledge
Time, Space and Knowledge

Author: Tarthang Tulku

Publisher: Dharma Publications

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Hailed for its lucid presentation, TSK blends reasoning and experiential inquiry to offer a unique path of transformation. A deeply exhilarating book, TSK gives readers a language to ask the questions that conventional training teaches us to ignore. Thirty-five exercises reunite philosophy with direct experience.

Living In a Quantum Reality
Living In a Quantum Reality

Author: Valerie Varan

Publisher: Turning Stone Press

Published: 2015-11-30

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1618521055

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For those who have experienced a transpersonal or spiritual awakening, it can be difficult to come back to living in the day-to-day world. All of a sudden, you may be faced with challenges such as anxiety, depression, despair, the Dark Night of the Soul, and a multitude of other energetic and spiritual imbalances. Living in a Quantum Reality helps to identify the common side effects of wholeness consciousness and offers a variety of exercises, meditations, and healing methods to cope with having a higher consciousness in a world that is still struggling to catch up. Living in a Quantum Reality helps you understand your “impossible” transpersonal experiences by integrating quantum physics into psychology and offering a user-friendly description of the many layers or spheres of energy and consciousness. This vision of the quantum self synthesizes spiritual thought with an array of scientific disciplines, and is supported by the author’s own direct experiences, as well as her clients’ experiences with larger reality. This book is a step toward advancing the field of psychology, and especially the practice of psychotherapy, to catch up with the latest, more quantum, worldview, one that is more comprehensive for understanding the reaches of our human consciousness and psycho-spiritual experiences.

The Essential Zohar
The Essential Zohar

Author: Rav P.S. Berg

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0676905137

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For thousands of years, no book has been more shrouded in mystery than the Zohar, yet no book offers us greater wisdom. The central text of Kabbalah, the Zohar is a commentary on the Bible’s narratives, laws, and genealogies and a map of the spiritual landscape. In The Essential Zohar, the eminent kabbalist Rav P. S. Berg decodes its teachings on evil, redemption, human relationships, wealth and poverty, and other fundamental concerns from a practical, contemporary perspective. The Zohar and Kabbalah have traditionally been known as the world’s most esoteric sources of spiritual knowledge, but Rav Berg has dedicated his life to making this concentrated distillation of infinite wisdom available to people of all faiths so that we may use its principles to live each day in harmony with the divine.

Experiences with Spiritual Reality
Experiences with Spiritual Reality

Author: John Jensen

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2003-09-29

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1462805779

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As we align our consciousness with God's action in us, we place ourselves in reach of daily miracles. In Beginning Your Spiritual Journey, traditional spirituality from "the science of the saints" joins with advances in the understanding of consciousness from New/Old Age religion and modern psychology. Psychologist, former Catholic priest, and student of religions John Jensen explains how to approach the presence of God and change one's life to align with God's encompassing activity. He asks readers to understand why they want to pursue a spiritual life, and then to engage consciously in a learning process about the nature of God and Soul. Grounding the process in direct experience offers a way to assess progress as it crosses slowly into the intangible. The book addresses from many angles the common difficulty of discerning what's real and true, and the importance of finding a personal spiritual guide to work with on the inner planes as well as outwardly. It explains the critical role of spiritual exercises and the essential daily discipline of withdrawing consciousness away from all forms of negativity-moral, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral--and redirecting it toward God.

Aparokshanubhuti By Shankaracharya
Aparokshanubhuti By Shankaracharya

Author: Shraddhesh Chaturvedi

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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AparokshAnubhuti by Shankara is an important and popular work on non-duality in which he accepts contemplation or reflection as a primary means of knowledge. In fact, Shankara declares that an advanced seeker, having a pure mind, can experience reality with this contemplative thought alone. For other seekers, he outlines a unique form of Raja (king of) Yoga, which consists of fifteen parts in quite contrast to eight-fold Yoga of Patanjali. According to him, a regular practice of this Yoga gives rise to an all-encompassing awareness of reality that results in enlightenment.Shankara discusses the nature of our ignorance and gives arguments to show that body is different from self. He, then, based on scriptural statements and reasoning, shows that fundamental reality is all-pervasive and this external world is unreal as a dream. Then, he cites several examples to highlight the inaccurate observation of our sense organs. Thereby he brings in the argument that we cannot trust our eyes, ears, etc. unconditionally. To rectify our observation, he suggests to constantly focus on the cause and discard the effect in everything, just as a goldsmith focuses on the gold and ignores the forms and names of the various golden ornaments.

Vision of Reality
Vision of Reality

Author: Kshitish Chandra Chakravarti

Publisher: Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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Study of Advaita, Hindu philosophy: based on the Yogavāsiṣṭharāmāyaṇa and works of Śaṅkarācārya.