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This repeats the list of essays in 'Discourses by teachers and writers' but sorted by Teacher/Writer:

Note that all copyright for the material in this section resides with the respective author and any request for permission to use extracts must be directed to them and not to myself. Note also that the views expressed in the following essays do not necessarily in all cases accord with my own views.

Robert Adams

The Art of Surrender

 

An Eternal Joy Supreme

 

 

'Sailor' Bob Adamson

What Is Suffering

 

 

Adyashanti

The answer is in the disappearance of the questioner

 

 

Aja

Right Now! In This Moment

 

Searching After Truth

 

The Three Faces of Advaita

 

 

Monica Alderton

What Is This ME?

 

 

Nityamukta Ananda

Advaita Vedanta: A living experience

 

 

Anonymous

The Seeing is Here and Now

 

The Difference between a Guru and a Teacher (PDF file)

 

 

Asamvedi

Dialogue

 

 

John Astin

Two Poems

 

 

Atagrasin

Pointing to Ananda

 

 

Bhodi Avasa

Guru Disciple Transmission

 

 

Ramesh Balsekar

Free Will

 

An Interview with Ramesh Balsekar

 

 

 Éric Baret

Meditation

 

 

Benjamin

Creation Theories in Advaita

Benjamin, Greg and Dennis

Why can't I read your thoughts?

 

 

Mieke Berger Ph. D.

Oneness

 

 

Peter Bonnici

Why Ishvara is essential for mokSha

 

Tattva Bodha in a nutshell

 

How perfect is the Perfect' Prayer?

 

The mokSha ladder

 

HH Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati: New Ideas for Old

 

 

James Braha

Meeting with Sailor Bob

 

 

David Brockman

Big Bangers and Mash

 

 

Sundance Burke

Shopping in the Mall of the Mind

 

Nothing But Relationship

 

Being Beyond Belief

 

 

Mariana Caplan

U.G. Krishnamurti: The Divine Anarchist

 

 

David Carse

Peripheral Vision

 

Perfect Brilliant Stillness

 

 

Cee

A Sage (short poem)

   

Ram Chandran

Truth, Appearance and Reality

 

Objectives of Life - puruShArtha and karma

 

 

Satyan Chidambaran

Is Self Knowledge Beyond the Intellect?

 

Direct versus Indirect Knowledge

 

 

James M. Corrigan

Surjectivity

 

 

Robin Dale

Words and Meaning

 

Losing Your Presence of Mind

 

 

Katie Davis

The Pointlessness of Practice

 

Being in the Present

 

Chocolate Cake

 

 

Dhanya

The Knot of the Heart

 

The Problem and the Solution

 

Self-knowledge and the Mind

 

The karma yoga attitude

 

mithyA and pa~ncha kosha

 

Personal God

 

Reconciliation of duality and non-duality

 

The End of Becoming

 

Not knowing

 

An Overview of the SAND Conference

 

The Tenth Man

 

'A tiny drop of water'

 

pratibandhaka-s

 

Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism

 

Can the Truth ever be known?

 

sraddha

 

Happiness

 

Katha Upanishad as a means for Self-knowledge

 

Personal God and Nondual Awareness

   

Peter Dziuban

Time Never Began

 

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

gnothi seauton (Know Thyself)

 

 

Jeff Foster

Nothing wrong with silence

 

A Dialog with Jeff Foster

 

A Walk in the Rain

 

The Revelation of Oneness (Part 1)

 

The Revelation of Oneness (Part 2)

 

Nonduality And Nihilism

 

 

Randall Friend

Beyond the Appearance

 

 

Nathan Gill

No Mind

   

Jean-Pierre Gomez

There never was anything other than That

 

 

Dr. Gregory Goode

The Enlightenment 'event'

 

Idealism and the World

 

From the Age of the Guru to the Age of the Friend

 

Standing as Awareness Book Review

 

Your experience

 

An Interview with Greg Goode

 

 

Mike Graham

Spiritual Practice

 

 

John Greven

Both=One

 

Presence - Awareness

 

 

Burt Harding

The Evolution of Consciousness

 

 

Douglas E Harding

The Experience and The Meaning

 

 

Leo Hartong

No claim, no blame, no fame

 

Why is there anything at all?

 

 

Lou Hawthorne

God's Own Locksmith

 

 

Charlie Hayes

All of Charlie's essays have been removed at his request

 

 

Floyd Henderson

Making the Advaita Teachings Relevant Until the Illusion of Relevance Disappears

 

 

Anand Hudli

The Powers of mAyA

 

 

Unmani Liza Hyde

What I Am

 

 

Catherine Ingram

Delight

   

Alan Adams Jacobs

Free Will and Predetermination

 

Bhagavad Gita II.19-24 - Reincarnation

 

Brihadaranyaka U. IV4.1-6 - Karma

 

Advaita and Western Neo-Advaita

 

Diving into the Heart

 

 

Philip Jacobs

Being and the Eternal Now

   

Leonard Jacobson

You are That

 

 

Michael James

The Crest-jewel of Sri Ramana's Teaching

 

 

Liz Jones

Meaningless Words

   

Susan Kahn

Two Poems

   

Vijay Kapoor

An Interview with Vijay Kapoor

   

Jerry Katz

One: Essential Writings on Nonduality

 

Teaching: the Guide versus the Confessor

 

An Interview with Jerry Katz

 

 

Jan Kersschot

The Daydream Unmasked

 

Blasphemy

 

 

Scott Kiloby

Waking up

 

 

Professor V. Krishnamurthy (profvk)

What is the nature of maya?

 

The Song of the Vedas (Shruti Gita)

 

Live Happily the Gita Way

 

The Fundamentals of the Bhakti Tradition in Hinduism

 

paramArtha-vyavahAra-pratibhAsa: a differentiation

 

 

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Belief in God

 

Yoga Classification (temporarily removed)

 

Reconciliation of Fate and Freewill

 

 

Brain Lake & Naama Livni

Actual Seeing

 

 

Gina Lake

Examining the Reality of Thoughts

 

The Cause of Suffering

 

The Myth of Desire

 

Wanting to Know the Future

 

Happiness Is Here Right Now

 

Living without Mirrors

 

Being in the Moment

 

 

Harry Liantziris

Pure and Simple Being

 

 

Wayne Liquorman

Teachers and the Truth

   

Francis Lucille

Types of Thoughts

 

An interview with Francis Lucille

   

Stig Lundgren

The Role of Scriptures in Enlightenment

   

Frank Maiello

Reality of the World

 

 

Alan Mann

Perfect Brilliant Stillness

 

 

Paula Marvelly

Vach

 

Andal

 

A Short Guide to the Scientific History of the Universe,
Part I of III

 

A Short Guide to the Scientific History of the Universe,
Part II of III

 

A Short Guide to the Scientific History of the Universe,
Part III of III

 

A Short Guide to Western Philosophy, Part I

 

A Short Guide to Western Philosophy, Part II

 

A Trip to Ramanasramam

 

 

Mark McCloskey

Faith: The Final Crutch

 

 

Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon

Everything is Brahman

 

 

Dr. Haramohan Mishra

The Way We Understand the World

 

 

Philip T. Mistlberger

Looking for Fulfillment

 

Spiritual Experiences

 

Belief vs Experience

   

Sundararajan Mohan

A Guideline for a Spiritual Life Part I

 

A Guideline for a Spiritual Life Part II

 

A Guideline for a Spiritual Life Part III

 

Freud's Unconscious in the Light of vedAnta

 

Self Realization and the Parables of Plato and Bhagavan

 

 

Professor Narayana Moorty

Comment on 'Meditations on advaita'

 

 

Jason James Morgan

savikalpa samAdhi

 

The Castle on the Hill

   

Mouna

The Movie Metaphor for Realizing the Self

   

B S Murthy

Mundane Distortions in the Divine Discourse

 

 

Professor Gummuluru Murthy

The Path of Knowledge

 

 

Chittaranjan Naik

The Real and the Unreal

 

A Realist View of Advaita : -

 

..... The Razor's Edge

 

..... The Reality Divide

 

..... The preamble

 

..... The Dream Analogy

 

..... Authenticity and the Knot of the Heart

 

..... Prelude to Ontology

 

..... Ontology

 

..... Advaita

 

..... Ishvara

 

..... Summary

 

..... Bibliography

 

Advaita and the Brain

 

Problem of Evil

 

Why ‘Traditional Advaita’ is relevant to liberation

 

Science and Knowledge

 

On Berkeley and Advaita

 

Advaita and Shankara

 

 

Madathil Nair

Knowledge - Oneness in spite of duality

 

Reincarnation and Advaita

 

Purnamadah Purnamidam Revisited

 

Who is seeing the world?

 

Reality and Suffering

 

The Three States - A Fresh Perspective

 

Who am I?

 

 

Shawn Nevins

Ego and Seeking

 

 

Annette Nibley

Drop it All, Even “What is Truth?”

 

 

Nirmala

The Heart's Wisdom

 

Identity Formation

 

Love Is for Giving, Not for Getting

 

Exploring Emptiness

 

 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Only the Self is Real

   

Nome

Self Revealed (7 parts)

   

Dr. H. Ramamoorthy and Nome

The Song of Ribhu.

 

 

Tony Parsons

The Hypnotic Dream of Separation

 

The Divine Misconception

 

Spiritual Humanism versus Neo-Advaita

 

Traditional not two-ness is better than Neo not two-ness ???

 

A Final Response to 'not two-ness' - Tony Parsons.

 

 

Peter

turIya and turyatita

 

Empirical Experience and j~nAna

   

Premananda

Does the mind need to be destroyed? - Swami Suddhananda, extract from the book 'Blueprints for Awakening'.

 

 

Eric Putkonen

True Self

 

Effortless Meditation

 

 

Jody Radzik

An Interview with Jody Radzik

 

 

Ramana Maharshi

Creation and mAyA

 

samAdhi - Different Types - summarized by Peter.

   

Dr. H. Ramamoorthy and Nome

The Song of Ribhu.

 

 

Dr. Vemuri Ramesam

Meditations on advaita

 

Dialog on 'Meditations on advaita'

 

Infirmities in karma theory

 

A Critique Of John Wheeler’s “You Were Never Born”

 

 

Raphael

The Relation-less Truth

 

The Changing Form of the Immanent

   

Michael Reidy

The Tree in the Yard

 

Explanation of Illusion

 

Some observations on Shankara's adhyAsa bhAShya

   

Philip Renard

Atmananda (Krishna Menon)

 

 

Karl Renz

The Merry-go-round

 

 

Möller de la Rouvière

Spiritual Humanism versus Neo-Advaita

 

Becoming Is The Denial Of Being’ (J. Krishnamurti)

 

Spiritual Humanism Asks: What Is Enlightenment?

 

 

Dr. Kuntimaddi Sadananda

God, creation and ignorance

 

Reincarnation

 

Why should we believe in scriptures?

 

Fundamental Human Problem

 

Four types of bhaktAs

 

An Introduction to Vedanta - 52 essays in this section

 

Critical analysis of vedAnta paribhAshA - ongoing presentation

 

Two types of adhyAsa

 

On the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

 

Firmly Abiding

 

Sorting out ‘I’, ‘ego’, BMI, jIva, Ishvara and Atman

 

The Knower of Brahman becomes Brahman

 

When Tom realizes, why doesn’t Dick?

 

Types of Teacher

 

Reconciliation of Fate and Freewill

 

Vanquishing the Mind for Self-Realization

 

 

Nouk Sanchez (& Tomas Vieira)

Spiritual Seeking and Truth

 

 

Ranjeet Sankar

dharma and guNa

 

 

S N Sastri

Commentary on pa~nchadashI of shrI vidyAraNya svAmi

 

Elucidation of Terms and Concepts in Vedanta

 

Brahman cannot be described by any word whatsoever

 

Reason for vRRitti at the location of the object

 

The meaning of the mahAvAkya 'tat tvam asi'

 

 

Swami Satchidananda

Identification

   

Orva Schrock

I Once Worried

 

 

Justus Kramer Schippers

Responsibility

 

 

Timothy Schoorel

Consciousness

 

 

Stuart Schwartz

The Phenomenon

 

 

P. Sethuraman

Schools of Philosophy

 

 

Isaac Shapiro

Awareness and Experience

 

 

Shunyamurti

Is This Advaita or Not???

 

 

Sukhbir Singh

You are prior to anything that can be witnessed

 

 

D. B. Sleeth, Ph.D.

God, Reality, And “Radical” Non-Dualism

 

 

David Spero

The Ocean of Liberated Bliss

 

'Levels' of Mind and Consciousness

 

Eliminating Suffering

 

 

Rupert Spira

Changeless Presence

 

An Interview with Rupert Spira

 

 

Nathan Spoon

Critical Responses to an Essay by Tony Parsons

 

 

Maren Springsteen

'Pointers from the Stars'

 

 

Janaka Stagnaro

Trust

   

Rodney Stevens

A Vastness All Around (Book Review)

 

 

Tom Stine

What Happens When An Awakened One Dies?

 

 

Alan Stoltz

Merging with the Self?

 

Spiritual Humanism versus Neo-Advaita

 

Another response to ‘not two-ness’

 

 

Dr. N K Srinivasan

An Introduction to Advaita

 

Practice of Advaita

 

Traditional vs neo-Advaita

 

 

V. Subrahmanian

A Spiritual Journey through the Vivekachudamani

 

adhyAropa - apavAda

 

jIva, brahman Itself deluded as it were

 

avidyA

 

Ego, Mind and Body of a j~nAnI

 

 

Shyam Subramanian

Everything is Brahman

 

The locus of avidyA

 

sachchidAnanda (sat-chit-Ananda)

 

Realization in the 'pot universe'

 

shravaNa, manana and nididhyAsana

 

Reconciliation of Fate and Freewill

   

Swami Sudhananda

Does the mind need to be destroyed? - extract from the book 'Blueprints for Awakening' by Premananda

 

 

Vidyasankar Sundaresan

On Creation

 

Creation Theories in Advaita

 

 

James Swartz

The Horse’s Mouth

 

Neo-Advaita

 

Qualifications

 

The Assimilation of Experience

 

A Means of Self Knowledge

 

An Interview with James Swartz

 

 

Richard Sylvester

Spiritual Paths

 

 

Tan

What are you looking for?

 

 

Florian Tathagata Schlosser

The Illusion of Time and Reality

 

 

Tom Thompson

Bodhi Day

   

Joan Tollifson

The Simplicity of What Is

 

 

Dr. Nitin Trasi

The Man Who Wasn't There

 

 

Unmani Liza Hyde

What I am

 

 

Ramesam Vemuri

Neuronal Correlates of a Jivanmukta

 

 

Andrew Vernon commenting on Sri Ranjit Maharaj

Illusory Nature of the World

 

 

(Nouk Sanchez &) Tomas Vieira

Spiritual Seeking and Truth

 

 

Dennis Waite

Traditional versus Neo-Advaita

 

A Dialog with Jeff Foster

 

Potential Problems with Schools

 

A response to 'not two-ness'

 

'The Transparency of Things' by Rupert Spira - Book Review

 

 

Nigel Watts

Fill Your Hole

 

 

Matthew West

'Atma Vichara'

 

 

John Wheeler

Seeing the Essence

 

No Person

   

Roy Whenary

Teachers and Enlightenment

 

 

Stephen Wingate

Reflections

 

Who Sets the Intention to be Free of Seeking?

 

 

Ananda Wood

Science and Reality

 

The Purusharthas: Four aims of human motivation

 

AvasthA traya viveka (Discrimination of the 3 States)

 

 

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