Articles on the Great Tradition of Spiriuality and Enlightenment

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1
Five Skandhas - Chogyam Trungpa
"To understand more precisely the process of confirming the solidity of I and other, that is, the development of ego, it is helpful to be familiar with the five skandhas, a set of Buddhist concepts which describe ego a five-step process."
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Why Study the Great Tradition - Adi Da
"The reason such critical study is useful is that you already have all kinds of inherited, thought-up, and propagandized ideas that correspond to ideas that can be found in the traditions. Thus, you can see how those ideas traditionally get elaborated as a way of life, and you can see their limitations."

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Transcending Madness - Chogyam Trungpa
"There seems to be quite a misconception as to the idea of bardo, which is that it is purely connected with the death and after-death experience. But the experience of the six bardos is not concerned with the future alone; it also concerns the present moment. Every step of experience, every step of life, is bardo experience."
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Swami Prakashananda
"A vessel of happiness...a beautiful being who breathed the spiritual force in such a way that it saturated his entire body." - Adi Da Samraj

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Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar - Begger Saint
"The person that came to be called Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar was born on December 1, 1918, along the banks of the Ganges in a village adjacent to Kashi.."
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Bodhisvatta Vow - c. 800 C.E. - Kishitigarbha Vow Sutra

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Yoga a Buddhist Perspective - Herbert Guenther
"Both the yogißvara and the rnal-'byor dbang-phyug are said to be or likened to a dancer. In the one case the emphasis is on the concrete person/god as a dancer, in the other case the emphasis is on the whole's or, psychologically speaking, the Self's dancing out its potential."
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Man and Woman - Vishnu Bhagavata
She is language; he is thought -She is prudence; he is law -He is reason; she is sense

9
Siva Sutras c. 800 C.E.
"The Aphorisms of Siva, or Siva Sutras (SS), are a late reiteration of the Vedic view of consciousness."
10
Gist of Hinduism - 1897 - Swami Vivehananda
"The Vedas do not owe their authority to anybody, they are themselves the authority, being eternal -- the knowledge of God"

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Internet Source of Sacred Texts - Link
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Advaita Vedanta Research Center - Link

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Scared Texts of Hinduism - Link
14
Rig Veda - Link

15
Tripura Rahasya - ...beyond the Trinity
Tripura Rahasya was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest works that expounded advaita philosophy
16
Katha Upanishad - Link

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Training the Mind - Chogyam Trungpa
TRAINING THE MIND AND CULTIVATING LOVING-KINDNESS by Chogyam Trungpa - Edited by Judith L. Lief
18
Sri Seshadri Swamigali - Contempory of Ramana Maharshi
"Sri Seshadri Swamigal was known for his great spiritual eminence and for his yogic power through tapas."

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Sadguru Shri Vasudevanand -1854-1913
Shri Vasudevanand Saraswati (Tembe) Swami, the great saint and ascetic who revived the ancient Dattatreya tradition
20
Devatma Shakt - Kundalini
Divine Power. by Swami Vishnu Tirtha Maharaj

21
Sadguru Sri Gnanananda - Sage and great yogi
"Shri Sivarathnagiri Swami He transferred all His powers of penance to His Priya-Shishya and christened him as Shri Gnanananda Giri"
22
Innermost Essence - Maha ati - Trungpa
"The maha ati [Tib.: dzogchen], which is beyond conceptions and transcends both grasping and letting go, is the essence of transcendental insight. This is the unchanging state of non meditation in which there is awareness but no clinging. Understanding this, I pay ceaseless homage to the maha ati with great simplicity."

23
Rang Avadhoot - 1898 - 1968
"There was another great being called Ranga Avadhut.."
24
Talks with Ramana Marharshi - 1935-6
"What more is there to say, but to advise one and all to read this book and try to make it a part of themselves? Not one word to be passed over lightly, or one conversation to be dismissed as superfluous.''
Sadhu Arunachala, Major A. W. Chadwick

25
Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on Psycho Mysticism Unveiled - A book on Meher Baba
"Meher Baba is but one example of a Spiritual Master who, along with such others as Ramakrishna, Shirdi Sai Baba, Anandamayi Ma, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Nityananda, and Ramana Maharshi, is believed, by many, to be a Divine Avatar of the modern era."
26
Mighty Atom - Reminiscing about the Mighty Atom & Slim Farmam
"The last of the Great Strongmen (The Mighty Atom) returned in the person of Slim "The Hammer Man" Farman."

27
Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on The Wayfares - The Wayfarers, by William Donkin
"This book is a unique document about a type of apparently psychotic individual (called a "mast")"
28
Gandhi - Seven Sins
1. Wealth without work....

29
Upasni Maharaj's last meeting with Meher Baba - with pictures
Friday, October 17, 1941 was a significant day in spiritual history. Upasni Maharaj and Meher Baba met in a secluded hut at Dahigaon
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Meher Baba and a Sadhu
"A WANDERING SANYASI, who was a recluse and an ascetic, once showed up at Meherabad during this period. He had heard of Meher Baba and wanted the Master's darshan.

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Upasani Baba Maharaj - 1870 - 1941
"Sai Baba moulded Upasani Mahraj into His own likeness and once told him, "You must plant trees that will live for many centuries - from which people will derive benefit,"
32
Meher Baba - God to Man and Man to God
"God-realization is different from all other states of consciousness because they are experienced through the medium of the individual mind, whereas God-consciousness is not dependent upon the individual mind." od

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Upasani Baba's Prophetic Announcement - 1939
Change in Dharma is the specified work of an Avatara and Lord Shri Krishna has emphatically declared that He would incarnate himself if and when Dharma is in chaos and needs reform.
34
Godavari Mataji
"In 1941 Sati Godavari Mataji assumed the mantle of her Guru Shri Upasani Baba Maharaj with the strength, simplicity and dignity of a realized being"

35
Ajna Chakra - by Swami Nityabodhananda a disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati
36
Chogyam Trungpa's Oxherding Pictures - Garuda (1971)
The Search for the Bull - The inspiration for this first step, which is searching for the bull, is feeling that things are not wholesome, something is lacking. That feeling of loss produces pain. You are looking for whatever it is that will make the situation right. You discover that ego's attempt to create an ideal environment is unsatisfactory.

37
Bliss Sheath - From Science of Soul
"We have already described the physical form and size of the heart in an earlier chapter. Here we have to show how the lord of the five sheaths, Jivatman, the individual soul, abides in the Bliss Sheath situated in the space of the heart, the reservoir of blood"
38
Shri Yogeshwarananda - How he met his Guru
"On his arrival at the cave he saw a lustrous figure sitting in a lotus pose and meditating. He had spread some earth on two logs of wood and covered it with the bark of a tree, and was sitting on that seat. His pose was quiet and absolutely motionless"

39
Heart Center - The Bliss Sheath
Science of Soul - A practical exposition of ancient method of visualisation of Soul (Atma Vijnana), Swami Vyas Dev Ji
40
Lankavatara Sutra - a principle text of Mahayana Buddhism
The Doctrine of Mind-Only - The Conception of No-Birth - The Triple body of the Buddha -The Tathagata

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Three Stations of the Heart - Adi Da describes as the three stations of the heart
"It Is Basically Made Of Three Parts, Indicated By The Left Side, The Middle Station, and The Right Side."
42
Ramana Maharshi - Beezone Index on Him
Items on or about Ramana Maharshi on Beezone

43
Science of Soul - Shri Yogeshwarananda - The Introduction
"How is Jivatman, the individual soul which is concealed by the combination of three bodies, to be realised...." that is the subject of this book.
44
Ramana Maharshi - The Teaching and Realization - Adi Da Samraj
"Ramana Maharshi was a principal modern example of a Great Sage (or a true Realizer of the Inherent Samadhi of Consciousness Itself) within the (originally) Upanishadic tradition of Advaita Vedanta"

45
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Chronicles of CTR is a growing online community with a common passion: the life and teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
46
High History of Buddhism - Rick Fields - Soma and Buddhism
"..As Hajicek-Dobberstein says, "Some contemporary non orthodox Buddhist 'alchemists' find precedents in Mahasiddhas Nagaijuna and Aryadeva, who agreed, We need to eat the alchemical medicine. . . Orthodox scholars may object but they can no longer 'Just say No."

47
Maitri - Marvin Casper 1975
"Maitri can be translated as 'love'. It means a warm, friendly attitude. In making friends with someone, it means accepting their neurosis as well as their sanity."
48
Bihar School of Yoga Magazine Archive's - The magazine of the Bihar School of Yoga = Great resource on Yoga

49
Mandukya Upanishad - shortest of the major Upanishads
"The restless mind cannot think of the transcendental Reality without the help of a concrete symbol. Thinking is possible only through symbols."
50
Shirdi Sai Baba - Leelas of Sai Baba of Shirdi

51
Esoteric Christinity - by Norman D. Livergood - " About 25-30 C.E. a mystical teacher named Jesus began to tell people...."
52
Ma Devaki - Devotee of Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar
"I can tell you this about Devaki she has always been a rare devotee.."

53
Osel Tenzin - The Vajra Regent
"The Vajra Regent Ösel Tendzin was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1943..."
54
Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche - "why the outbreath....."
"My first recollection of the Vidyadhara was when he gave..."

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1	Five Skandhas - Chogyam Trungpa "To understand more precisely the process of confirming the solidity of I and other, that is, the development of ego, it is helpful to be familiar with the five skandhas, a set of Buddhist concepts which describe ego a five-step process."	2	Why Study the Great Tradition - Adi Da "The reason such critical study is useful is that you already have all kinds of inherited, thought-up, and propagandized ideas that correspond to ideas that can be found in the traditions. Thus, you can see how those ideas traditionally get elaborated as a way of life, and you can see their limitations."
3	Transcending Madness - Chogyam Trungpa "There seems to be quite a misconception as to the idea of bardo, which is that it is purely connected with the death and after-death experience. But the experience of the six bardos is not concerned with the future alone; it also concerns the present moment. Every step of experience, every step of life, is bardo experience."	4	Swami Prakashananda "A vessel of happiness...a beautiful being who breathed the spiritual force in such a way that it saturated his entire body." - Adi Da Samraj
5	Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar - Begger Saint "The person that came to be called Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar was born on December 1, 1918, along the banks of the Ganges in a village adjacent to Kashi.."	6	Bodhisvatta Vow - c. 800 C.E. - Kishitigarbha Vow Sutra
7	Yoga a Buddhist Perspective - Herbert Guenther "Both the yogißvara and the rnal-'byor dbang-phyug are said to be or likened to a dancer. In the one case the emphasis is on the concrete person/god as a dancer, in the other case the emphasis is on the whole's or, psychologically speaking, the Self's dancing out its potential."	8	Man and Woman - Vishnu Bhagavata She is language; he is thought -She is prudence; he is law -He is reason; she is sense
9	Siva Sutras c. 800 C.E. "The Aphorisms of Siva, or Siva Sutras (SS), are a late reiteration of the Vedic view of consciousness."	10	Gist of Hinduism - 1897 - Swami Vivehananda "The Vedas do not owe their authority to anybody, they are themselves the authority, being eternal -- the knowledge of God"
11	Internet Source of Sacred Texts - Link	12	Advaita Vedanta Research Center - Link
13	Scared Texts of Hinduism - Link	14	Rig Veda - Link
15	Tripura Rahasya - ...beyond the Trinity Tripura Rahasya was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest works that expounded advaita philosophy	16	Katha Upanishad - Link
17	Training the Mind - Chogyam Trungpa TRAINING THE MIND AND CULTIVATING LOVING-KINDNESS by Chogyam Trungpa - Edited by Judith L. Lief	18	Sri Seshadri Swamigali - Contempory of Ramana Maharshi "Sri Seshadri Swamigal was known for his great spiritual eminence and for his yogic power through tapas."
19	Sadguru Shri Vasudevanand -1854-1913 Shri Vasudevanand Saraswati (Tembe) Swami, the great saint and ascetic who revived the ancient Dattatreya tradition	20	Devatma Shakt - Kundalini Divine Power. by Swami Vishnu Tirtha Maharaj
21	Sadguru Sri Gnanananda - Sage and great yogi "Shri Sivarathnagiri Swami He transferred all His powers of penance to His Priya-Shishya and christened him as Shri Gnanananda Giri"	22	Innermost Essence - Maha ati - Trungpa "The maha ati [Tib.: dzogchen], which is beyond conceptions and transcends both grasping and letting go, is the essence of transcendental insight. This is the unchanging state of non meditation in which there is awareness but no clinging. Understanding this, I pay ceaseless homage to the maha ati with great simplicity."
23	Rang Avadhoot - 1898 - 1968 "There was another great being called Ranga Avadhut.."	24	Talks with Ramana Marharshi - 1935-6 "What more is there to say, but to advise one and all to read this book and try to make it a part of themselves? Not one word to be passed over lightly, or one conversation to be dismissed as superfluous.'' Sadhu Arunachala, Major A. W. Chadwick
25	Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on Psycho Mysticism Unveiled - A book on Meher Baba "Meher Baba is but one example of a Spiritual Master who, along with such others as Ramakrishna, Shirdi Sai Baba, Anandamayi Ma, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Nityananda, and Ramana Maharshi, is believed, by many, to be a Divine Avatar of the modern era."	26	Mighty Atom - Reminiscing about the Mighty Atom & Slim Farmam "The last of the Great Strongmen (The Mighty Atom) returned in the person of Slim "The Hammer Man" Farman."
27	Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on The Wayfares - The Wayfarers, by William Donkin "This book is a unique document about a type of apparently psychotic individual (called a "mast")"	28	Gandhi - Seven Sins 1. Wealth without work....
29	Upasni Maharaj's last meeting with Meher Baba - with pictures Friday, October 17, 1941 was a significant day in spiritual history. Upasni Maharaj and Meher Baba met in a secluded hut at Dahigaon	30	Meher Baba and a Sadhu "A WANDERING SANYASI, who was a recluse and an ascetic, once showed up at Meherabad during this period. He had heard of Meher Baba and wanted the Master's darshan.
31	Upasani Baba Maharaj - 1870 - 1941 "Sai Baba moulded Upasani Mahraj into His own likeness and once told him, "You must plant trees that will live for many centuries - from which people will derive benefit,"	32	Meher Baba - God to Man and Man to God "God-realization is different from all other states of consciousness because they are experienced through the medium of the individual mind, whereas God-consciousness is not dependent upon the individual mind." od
33	Upasani Baba's Prophetic Announcement - 1939 Change in Dharma is the specified work of an Avatara and Lord Shri Krishna has emphatically declared that He would incarnate himself if and when Dharma is in chaos and needs reform.	34	Godavari Mataji "In 1941 Sati Godavari Mataji assumed the mantle of her Guru Shri Upasani Baba Maharaj with the strength, simplicity and dignity of a realized being"
35	Ajna Chakra - by Swami Nityabodhananda a disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati	36	Chogyam Trungpa's Oxherding Pictures - Garuda (1971) The Search for the Bull - The inspiration for this first step, which is searching for the bull, is feeling that things are not wholesome, something is lacking. That feeling of loss produces pain. You are looking for whatever it is that will make the situation right. You discover that ego's attempt to create an ideal environment is unsatisfactory.
37	Bliss Sheath - From Science of Soul "We have already described the physical form and size of the heart in an earlier chapter. Here we have to show how the lord of the five sheaths, Jivatman, the individual soul, abides in the Bliss Sheath situated in the space of the heart, the reservoir of blood"	38	Shri Yogeshwarananda - How he met his Guru "On his arrival at the cave he saw a lustrous figure sitting in a lotus pose and meditating. He had spread some earth on two logs of wood and covered it with the bark of a tree, and was sitting on that seat. His pose was quiet and absolutely motionless"
39	Heart Center - The Bliss Sheath Science of Soul - A practical exposition of ancient method of visualisation of Soul (Atma Vijnana), Swami Vyas Dev Ji	40	Lankavatara Sutra - a principle text of Mahayana Buddhism The Doctrine of Mind-Only - The Conception of No-Birth - The Triple body of the Buddha -The Tathagata
41	Three Stations of the Heart - Adi Da describes as the three stations of the heart "It Is Basically Made Of Three Parts, Indicated By The Left Side, The Middle Station, and The Right Side."	42	Ramana Maharshi - Beezone Index on Him Items on or about Ramana Maharshi on Beezone
43	Science of Soul - Shri Yogeshwarananda - The Introduction "How is Jivatman, the individual soul which is concealed by the combination of three bodies, to be realised...." that is the subject of this book.	44	Ramana Maharshi - The Teaching and Realization - Adi Da Samraj "Ramana Maharshi was a principal modern example of a Great Sage (or a true Realizer of the Inherent Samadhi of Consciousness Itself) within the (originally) Upanishadic tradition of Advaita Vedanta"
45	Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche The Chronicles of CTR is a growing online community with a common passion: the life and teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.	46	High History of Buddhism - Rick Fields - Soma and Buddhism "..As Hajicek-Dobberstein says, "Some contemporary non orthodox Buddhist 'alchemists' find precedents in Mahasiddhas Nagaijuna and Aryadeva, who agreed, We need to eat the alchemical medicine. . . Orthodox scholars may object but they can no longer 'Just say No."
47	Maitri - Marvin Casper 1975 "Maitri can be translated as 'love'. It means a warm, friendly attitude. In making friends with someone, it means accepting their neurosis as well as their sanity."	48	Bihar School of Yoga Magazine Archive's - The magazine of the Bihar School of Yoga = Great resource on Yoga
49	Mandukya Upanishad - shortest of the major Upanishads "The restless mind cannot think of the transcendental Reality without the help of a concrete symbol. Thinking is possible only through symbols."	50	Shirdi Sai Baba - Leelas of Sai Baba of Shirdi
51	Esoteric Christinity - by Norman D. Livergood - " About 25-30 C.E. a mystical teacher named Jesus began to tell people...."	52	Ma Devaki - Devotee of Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar "I can tell you this about Devaki she has always been a rare devotee.."
53	Osel Tenzin - The Vajra Regent "The Vajra Regent Ösel Tendzin was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1943..."	54	Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche - "why the outbreath....." "My first recollection of the Vidyadhara was when he gave..."