StillnessSpeaks
announces the release of a new 2 DVD set, The Direct Path of Shri
Atmananda Menon, a real time, step by step unfolding of the
Atmananda Krishna Menon's teachings with Greg Goode.Click here to go to the next issue
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#3932 - Thursday, June 24, 2010 - Editor: Gloria Lee
The Nonduality Highlights
Find Refuge in Your Own Life
Buddhist practice is not about forcing ourselves to be
natural. It is about being ourselves. When we take the vows of
refuge, we are also pledging to find the refuge that exists
within our own lives. This taking of refuge is not some kind of
evasion or escape, but is the planting of our "selves"
deeply in the nature of what surrounds us. We lodge ourselves in
the deep waves and in the shallow pools, in the crests and
depressions of our lives. Sometimes, even wreckage can make a
temporary resting place. A person whose life is in tatters might
have nothing much else left to do but relax and look at the
pieces of what's left.
-Gary Thorp, "Shelter from the Storm" (Summer 2005)
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StillnessSpeaks
announces the release of a new 2 DVD set, The Direct Path of Shri
Atmananda Menon, a real time, step by step unfolding of the
Atmananda Krishna Menon's teachings with Greg Goode.
Click here to watch two clips from this comprehensive explanation of the work of Krishna Menon.
Most are familiar with
the stellar Marathi translation work of Maurice Frydman on
Nisargadatta Maharaj through his primary work, "I am
That". Some also are familiar with the translation work of
Jean Dunn, who edited "Seeds of Consciousness",
"Consciousness and the Absolute" and others. Stephen
Wolinsky also has a masterful collection of book and videos
heralding the Indian Sage.
Another author who made great contributions translating
Nisargadatta was Dr Robert Powell. penning the trio of
classics "The Ultimate Medicine', "The Nectar Of
Immortality" and "The Experience of Nothingness."
At 92, this quiet, humble legend still resides in California.
Click here to obtain the free, precious and
complete e-books of The Nectar of Immortality and The Ultimate
Medicine by Robert Powell.
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photo by Alan Larus
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Everything is plundered,
betrayed, sold,
Death's great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?
By day, from the
surrounding woods,
cherries blow summer into town;
at night the deep transparent skies
glitter with new galaxies.
And the miraculous
comes so close
to the ruined, dirty houses --
something not known to anyone at all,
but wild in our breast for centuries.
~ Anna Akhmatova ~
(Poems of Akhmatova,
edited and translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward)
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