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A Manual of Khsnoom – The Zoroastrian Occult Knowledge

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:36:32 +0000

A Manual of Khsnoom – The Zoroastrian Occult Knowledge is a near 500 pages long introduction to Zoroastrian cosmology, occultism, spiritualty and fantastic tales. The book is written by Phiroz Nasarvanji Tavaria assisted by Burjor Ratanji Panthaki M.A. on the basis of traditional text and it was published by Zoroastrian societies. Download the free ebook here:

A MANUAL OF KHSHNOOM

Teachings in Chinese Buddhism

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:48:11 +0000

Teachings in Chinese Buddhism is a collection of selected and translated articles from five books in the Third volume of the Chinese Miao Yun Collection; namely “The Dharma is the Saver of the World”, “The Three Essentials in Practicing the Teaching of the Buddha”, “The Buddha lives in the world”, “To investigate the Dharma according to the Teachings of the Buddha” and “My view on Religions”. These texts are from the Mahayana tradition as it is practiced traditionally in China. Download the free ebook here (257 pages):

Teachings in Chinese Buddhism

Taming the Monkey Mind – A Guide to Pure Land Practice

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:31:34 +0000

Taming the Monkey Mind – A Guide to Pure Land Practice. Pure Land Buddhism is branch of mahayana Buddhism. In Pure Land practice people focus on buddha in the form of Amitabha, the buddha of infinite life and infinite light. Believers put their faith in Amitabha Buddha and recite his name, confident in the promises he has given to deliver all who invoke his name. Download the free ebook here: (145 pages) :

Taming the Monkey Mind

Seeking Buddho by Ajahn Anan Akincano

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:20:36 +0000

Seeking Buddho by Ajahn Anan Akincano is an introduction to the Thai Buddhist Forest teachings of Ajahn Anan Akiñcano. These teachings provide both a guide to the fundamentals of meditation practice and also an overview of the entire Noble Path from beginning to end. Both these aspects stress not only the development of samādhi and wisdom, but also the cultivation of other essential virtues such as generosity, patience, loving kindness and moral discipline that together emphasize the integrated and harmonious nature of the Buddhist path. Download the free ebook here (119 pages):

Seeking Buddho by Ajahn Anan Akincano

Om Yoga Its Theory and Practice by Swami Nirmalananda Giri

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:35:04 +0000

Om Yoga Its Theory and Practice by Swami Nirmalananda Giri published in 2006 by Atma Jyoti Press is an introduction to classic yoga as thought in the Bhagavad Gita. It goes into details on breath and sound in both yoga and meditation. The book also has an extensive glossary. Download it here (113 pages):

Om Yoga Its Theory and Practice by Swami Nirmalananda Giri

Illumination of the Path to Freedom by His Holiness the First Dalai Lama Gyalwa Gendun Drup

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:13:59 +0000

Illumination of the Path to Freedom by His Holiness the First Dalai Lama Gyalwa Gendun Drup (1391-1474), is a commentary to a much older Tibetan classic: The Treasure House of Knowledge, written by the Master Vasubandhu (350 AD). Dalai Lama starts out with an entertaining discussion about Tibetan versus Sanskrit – Tibet versus India:

“If a commentary comes from India people will take the time to study and teach it. It’s just like the local merchants. If they hear some barley has come from the lowlands, right away they want to trade for it, because the source is a good one. A commentary may be excellent, but if you don’t put some Sanskrit in it nobody wants to work with it. They think it’s just Tibetan.”

Download it here (184 pages):

Illumination of the Path to Freedom by the First Dalai Lama

Echoes From the Gnosis – The Gnosis of the Mind – Six Volumes

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:46:22 +0000

Echoes From the Gnosis – The Gnosis of The Mind is written by G. R. S. Mead the first modern scholar of Gnostic tradition. G. R. S. Mead was the private secretary of H. P. Blavatsky and in 1906 he published the first volume of eleven in the series Echoes From the Gnosis.The works are a combination oftranslations and interpretations of ancient Gnostic writings. Long before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library, Mead translated these esoteric texts of various origins such as Christian, Roman and Greek. Unfortunately I have only been able to find six of the eleven volumes, download them here:

The Gnosis of The Mind (Echoes from the Gnosis Vol. I)

The Hymns of Hermes (Echoes from the Gnosis Vol.II)

The Hymn of Jesus (Echoes from the GnosisVol. IV)

A Mithriac Ritual (Echoes from the Gnosis Vol. VI)

The Gnostic Crucifixion (Echoes from the Gnosis Vol. VII)

The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (Echoes from the Gnosis Vol. X)

A Long Sadhana Vajrayogini – The diamond female yogi

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:14:17 +0000

Lobsang and Lobsang - Krhomteng Gompa Tawang

Last April I spend some time at the Tawang Monastary up between Bhutan and the border to Tibet. This is the second largest Buddhist monastary in the world, the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama and the first stop in safe-land for the 14th after his escape from Lhasa. One day I walked the mountains for hours to reach a branch of Tawang Monastary a nunnery called Khromteng Gonpa. Here lives about 20 nuns practicing Vajrayogini. It translates to ‘the diamond female yogi’ and it is a series of tantric practices including methods for preventing ordinary death, intermediate state, bardo, and rebirth by transforming them into paths to enlightenment. Here is a part of one central meditation, Meditation on the Mandala of Vajrayogini:

“My body is red in colour, with a brilliance like the fire of the Aeon of Destruction. I have one face, two arms, and three eyes which look up towards Dakini-land. With my right hand I hold a downwards-facing outstretched curved knife marked with a vajra. With my left I hold up in the air a skullcup filled with nectar.”

These women are hardcore. Download a detailed description of the practice A Long Sadhana Vajrayogin here. Keep in mind that these instructions are post-initial:

A Long Sadhana of Vajrayogini

The Urantia Papers – The Urantia Book or The Fifth Epochal Revelation

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:01:08 +0000

The Urantia Papers also know as The Urantia Book or The Fifth Epochal Revelation is a long and very strange book. It is said to be written sometime between 1924 and 1955 somewhere around Chicago. The author is unknown and there are many speculations about how it was written from sleeping mediums to plain materialization. The story itself is quite amusing, Wikipedia has an extended article about it here. The fascinating thing about the book is its precision and details about the life of Jesus and the construction of cosmos. The Urantia Papers consists of more than 2.200 pages. Download it here:

The Urantia Papers

Rain on the Nile by Ajahn Amaro

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:56:16 +0000

Rain on the Nile by Ajahn Amaro has the subtitle ‘Talks & Travels‘. The book was published by the Abhayagiri Forest Monastery in California in 2009 and it consists of Ajahn Amaro’s, a well-known and well-respected teacher of Buddhism, poems, teachings and itineraries from a travel to Egypt with a group of american Buddhists. Download it here (260 pages):