Sri Aurobindo VOL 35 – Letters On Himself And The Ashram

Letters On Himself And The Ashram is volume 35 in Aurobindo’s collected works.It contains letters in which Sri Aurobindo referred to his life and works, his sadhana or practice of yoga, and the sadhana of members of his ashram.Many of the letters appeared earlier in Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother (1953) and [...]

Great Mysteries by Andrew Greeley

The Great Mysteries – Experiencing the Catholic Faith from the Inside Out by Father Andrew M. Greeley is an attempt to write a new catechism approaching modern questions.  Father Andrew M. Greeley is a catholic priest and sociologist. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Ireland in Dublin. He divides his time between teaching [...]

The Miracles of Antichrist by Selma Lagerlöf

The Miracles of Antichrist is a novel by Selma Lagerlöf. I posted another book by her last week: Christ Legends. The Miracles of Antichrist was first published in Sweden in 1897 and two years later translated to English.  The book is the third Selma Lagerlöf wrote. While most of Lagerlöfs writing takes place in her [...]

A Manual of the Excellent Man by Ledi Sayadaw

A Manual of the Excellent Man – Uttamapurisa Dīpanī. Ledi Sayadaw was the “father” of the insight meditation tradition in Burma. Before he became famous, only a few monks practised insight meditation, and even fewer lay people. He lived during the time of the British Raj, when many ignorant Buddhists were converting to Christianity. Because of [...]

Fundamentals of Vipassana Meditation

Fundamentals of Vipassana Meditation by Mahasi Sayadaw was published in 1991. Vipassana meditation also called insight meditation is a basic approach used by diverse traditions. Mahasi Sayadaw, died in 1982, was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana meditation in the West and throughout Asia. [...]

The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy was the first book written by Friedrich Nietzsche. It was published in 1872, while he was just 28 years old. It did not meet a saluting audience at that time. The Birth of Tragedy was further entitled: Hellenism and Pessimism. Nietzsche found in the classic tragedies a meaningful way in the [...]

Truth and Actuality by J Krishnamurti

Truth and Actuality by J Krishnamurti has 3 parts. The first consists of rounds of discussions with Krishnamurti’s friend David Bohm from 1975. Second part is transcriptions from public talks in Brockwood Park, England and the third is six dialogues with people at meetings in Saanen in Switzerland also from 1975. From the book: “The moment you have a [...]

Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Price in literature. Here are her amazing stories about Christ, Christ Legends. If you are not familiar with Selma Lagerlöf you might object to the idea of creating stories about Christ out of the historical context, but Selma does this in an a way that [...]

Real, Whole, Here and Happy! by James Waite

Real, Whole, Here and Happy! with the subtitle: Natural happiness begins when your story end is a 156 page book by James Waite from 2009. James Waite might be known to some of you, he runs the website Nondualityliving.com. Real, Whole, Here and Happy! is based on the problem of happiness as it is pursued and perceived in western cultures. Here is [...]

Buddhist Suttas A-Z – The MegaPack

Here are loads of goodies for the ones who read Sustras like others watch television. These 15 books contain hundreds of poems, instructions, fairy tales and deep insights.  A random beauty I picked up last night: “The tongue is burning, favors are burning, gustative consciousness is burning, gustative impression is burning, also whatever sensation, pleasant or painful or neither painful nor pleasant, [...]

The Path of Purification – The Classic Manual of Buddhist Doctrine and Meditation. Foreword by Dalai Lama.

The Path of Purification is a direct translation from Pali of the work Visuddhimagga by Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa pusblished in 2000. This edition has a foreword by H H Dalai Lama. He writes: “The very title of the work, the Path of Purification, refers to the essential Buddhist understanding of the basic nature of the mind as clear [...]

Leaves of Morya’s Garden by Master Morya and Helena Roerich

I was pointed in the direction of the Roerich’s and Agni Yoga and especially the double volume Leaves of Morya´s Garden the other day. What caught my initial interest was the similarities between the approach of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and Helena Roerich simultaneous developed Agni Yoga – also known as ‘Living Ethic’. I found some [...]

Brutal Beginnings by The Ruthless Arena

I got at mail from Ciaran who runs the Ruthless Arena. Some months ago he and the hardworking forum members published a book with the best stuff from the first months work on the forum. If you don´t know about the Ruthless Arena, you should take a look. The first book is now totally revised, more [...]

The Practical Way To Nibbana – The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

The Practical Way To Nibbana  a series of lectures drawing on the original instructions from Mahasatipatthana Sutta - The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness. This is one of the core texts in Theravada Buddhism and it has something that most of the old scriptures lack – an understanding of the individual practitioners personality and how it affects his meditations [...]

Silavanta Sutta

This book “Silavanta Sutta” is a discourse on the Silavantasutta given by Venerable U Silananda during a nine-day Special Retreat at Tathagata Meditation Center in 2001. The Sutta is about a conversation between Sariputta and Mahakothika, two of the greatest disciples of the Buddha, regarding the objects of mindfulness meditation. This is, therefore, one of the Suttas directly related to the practice of [...]