Teaching From The Vajrasattva Retreat by Lama Zopa

Teaching From The Vajrasattva Retreat is the transcripts of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings at a three-month Vajrasattva retreat held at Land of Medicine Buddha, California, in 1999. The retreat was led by Venerable Marcel Bertels. About 125 people participated, seventy five of them full time, including twenty nuns and monks. In addition, Rinpoche offered weekend public talks, which were attended by [...]

The Gates of Chan Buddhism

The Gates of Chan Buddhism by Jing Hui (China 2001). Chan (Zen) in fact is an “impregnable fortress”, without a gate to enter. Suppose there is really a gate, that gate would simply be a method of training to be taken up in the Chan tradition. That is why when a monk asked Master Zhao Zhou (778 [...]

Teachings on Chöd by Garchen Rinpoche

Chod means “cutting through” (often translated as: “cutting through dualism“) in Tibetan- severing erroneous concepts about the world of appearances and all illusions regarding the existence of a personal self. The practice of chod is an advanced skillful method that enables practitioners to become free of clinging to false notions and beliefs regarding inherent existence of appearances [...]

Lessons in Religion for a Skeptical World by Rodney Collin

Lessons in Religion for a Skeptical World by Rodney Collin. Rodney Collin is one of the most well known of Ouspenky’s students, and a prolific writer. He met Ouspensky in the autumn of 1936. Rodney Collin immediately recognised that he had found what he had been searching for in his reading and travels. Here is Rodney’s [...]

Raja Yoga – Guide To Advanced Yoga Techniques

In India, the Candidates for Initiation into the science of “Raja Yoga,” when they apply to the Yogi Masters for instruction, are given a series of lessons designed to enlighten them regarding the nature of the Real Self, and to instruct them in the secret knowledge whereby they may develop the consciousness and realization of [...]

Commentary on Ngöndro Practice according to The New Treasure of Dudjom

The Buddhist Ngöndro Practice is a condensed form of the entire Dharma expounded by the Buddha, including the teachings of Guru Padmasambhava and many other lineage masters. Nothing has been left out. The ngöndro encompasses all of the essentials which lead to enlightenment and the actualization of this practice is of great benefit for everyone. [...]

Sri Aurobindo Vol 10-11 – The Record of Yoga

This is volumes 10-11 of Sri Aurobindo’s collected works. Record of Yoga is a diary of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga between 1909and 1927. He kept it fairly regularly from 1912 to 1920, and alsowrote a few entries in 1909, 1911 and 1927. At different times hegave this diary different names. “Record of Yoga” was the most typical [...]

Think on these Things by Krishnamurti

The content of ”Think on these Things” by Krishnamurti was first given in the form of discussions and talks. It clarity will be meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased to call our culture, [...]

Joyous Cosmology by Alan Watts

Joyous Cosmology – Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciusness – by Alan W. Watts. From the intro: “You are holding in your hand a great human document. But unless you are one of the few Westerners who have (accidentally or through chemical good fortune) experienced a mystical minute of expanded awareness, you will probably not [...]

Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill

Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill. Evelyn Underhill was an English writer and pacifistknown for her many works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. She was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the twentieth century. No other book of its type — until the [...]

Zen & The Brain by James Austin

Download the ebook Zen & The Brain by James Austin. From the intro: “During rare, spontaneous moments, experiences of very special quality and great import emerge from the depths of the human brain. To each person, these awakenings seem awesomely new. What they convey is not. It is the simplest, oldest wisdom in the world. [...]

A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D.

A Dictionary of Christian Biography andLiterature to the End of the Sixth CenturyA.D., with an Account of the Principal Sectsand Heresies by Henry Wace is a valuable resource for anyone interested in early Christian history. His dictionary is a comprehensive compilation of over 800 important Christian characters, challengers, and literature. It features a complete overview of the [...]

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation by Padma Sambhava

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation or, the Method of Realizing Nirvana Through Knowing the Mind is the last of four books in the Tibetan series, where The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is the first book of the series which describes Buddhist philosophy, psychology and metaphysics. The second book in the series is [...]

Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Namkhai Norbu

Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Namkhai Norbu. Systems for dreamwork and dream awareness have been found for millennia within Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Sufism, and traditional cultures throughout the world. These dreamwork systems were and are often still cloaked in secrecy and reserved for the initiate. The recorded dream experiences of traditional peoples [...]

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