Advaitic Ratnas (Advaitic Gems): Conversations with Radha Ma, an Indian Advaita Guru Author: Editor/Commentator: Ed. Amar Alhassan Publisher: Samata Books ISBN: Format: Pages: 0 List Price: £5.00 |
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Experience of Immortality: English Rendering of Jnaneshwar's 'Amritanubhava' Author: Ramesh S Balsekar Editor/Commentator: Ed. Sudhakar S Dikshit Publisher: Chetana (P) Ltd., Bombay ISBN: Format: Pages: 0 List Price: £8.00 |
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Sin & Guilt: Monstronsity of Mind Author: Ramesh S Balsekar Editor/Commentator: Ed. Susan Waterman Publisher: Zen Publications ISBN: Format: Pages: 0 List Price: £8.00 |
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The Autobiography of an Indian Monk Author: Shri Purohit Swami Editor/Commentator: Intro. W B Yeats Ed. Vinod Sena Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi ISBN: Format: Pages: 0 List Price: £5.95 |
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From Medication to Meditation Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Publisher: The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd ISBN: 0852072805 Format: Paperback Pages: 32 List Price: £12.00 |
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From Sex to Superconsciousness Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 8172232551 Format: Paperback Pages: 173 List Price: £3.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description " It is a long way from sex to samadhi. Samadhi is the ultimate goal; sex is only the first step. And I want to point out that those who refuse to recognize the first step cannot even reach the second step". Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Heartbeat of the Absolute: Commentaries on the Ishavasya Upanishad Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Element Books ISBN: 1852304901 Format: Paperback Pages: 288 List Price: £14.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Review "... the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion." -- Yehudi Menuhin Product Description In No Water No Moon, Osho reveals the essence of Zen in all its beauty and mystery. Full of absurdities and humor this book is about sudden enlightenment-that supreme moment when we cease struggling to understand with our minds matters beyond the mind and jump wholeheartedly into the abyss. Osho also confides about the most profound love, the love we come to know when we finally become one with love itself. He offers us deep insights into ourselves, our individual natures and the universe in which we live. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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I Am That Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Editor/Commentator: Ma P. Apa Publisher: Rajneesh Foundation International (Now Osho International Foundation) ISBN: 088050580X Format: Paperback Pages: 379 List Price: £10.00 |
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OSHO From Sex to Super Consciousness Author: Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: Format: Pages: 0 List Price: £0.00 |
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OSHO Vedanta - the first star in the evening Author: Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Fusion Books ISBN: 978-81-8419-203-2 Format: Paperback Pages: 150 List Price: £8.00 |
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Returning to the Source: Talks on Zen Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Element Books ISBN: 1852307005 Format: Paperback Pages: 252 List Price: £7.00 |
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The Heart Sutra: Discourse on the Prajnaparamita Hridayam Sutra Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Swami Krishna Prabhu Publisher: Element Books ISBN: 1852304774 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 List Price: £80.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Review "He is the greatest living incarnation after Buddha in India. He is a living Buddha." -- Lama Karmarpa, late head of Kargyupta (Red Hat) sect of Tibetan Buddhism Product Description Written in clear, simple, and often light language, The Heart Sutra offers discourses on the most important sutras in Buddhist literature, penetrating to the heart of Buddhist belief. Exploring these essential teachings, Osho guides us on a profound inner journey, progressing from the merging of negative and positive to the non-existence of the ego and the arrival at our own inner Buddha. The Heart Sutra includes students' questions, from the esoteric to eminently personal, posed directly to Osho, who offers thoughtful, thorough responses. With disarming insight, Osho brings the spiritual experience into daily life. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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The Mustard Seed Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Element Books ISBN: 1852304987 Format: Paperback Pages: 512 List Price: £20.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Review 'He quotes Jesus, Buddha and old Zen masters with stupendous memory, interpreting them with a freshness and directness as if they were speaking today, as if they wore jeans'. Die Zeit --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description This inspiring book grants us profound insights into the truly universal nature of Jesus' original teachings. With compassion and humor, Osho-one of our century's leading mystics-presents us with a series of discourses on the Gospel of Thomas. Each of Jesus' original sayings is the "seed" for a discourse for the modern seeker, encompassing all realms of human experience-philosophy, science, religion, birth, death, love, fear, anger and guilt. Taking Jesus' words out of their narrower Christian context, Osho blends their wisdom with that of other religious traditions. The Mustard Seed will both inspire and sustain us on our own individual paths of inner transformation. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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What Is Meditation? Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Element Books ISBN: 1852307269 Format: Hardcover Pages: 80 List Price: £8.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description To stay sane in the face of the information overload in our chaotic modern world, Osho believes we must meditate every day. These extracts from his writings cover the whys, whats and wherefores of meditation. Osho urges, cajoles and encourages the reader to step out on the path to peace and fulfilment, and gives advice on how to stay on it. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Zen Tarot Author: Osho Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Newleaf ISBN: 0752216384 Format: Paperback Pages: 144 List Price: £26.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description The tarot can be approached as a "book of life", and the explanatory book aims to enable anyone to read the cards. The images are simpler than the more obscure symbolism of traditional tarot, which needs a "reader" to interpret. The book explains how best to work with the energy of the cards, and includes Zen anecdotes and stories by Osho to illuminate the essential of each card, and to help even those who are unfamiliar with the teachings of Zen to understand their meanings. About the Author Osho, a contemporary mystic, whose wit, wisdom and compassion have touched the lives of millions of people, died in 1990. His books have sold more than fifteen million copies and he was in the list of '1000 Makers of the 20th Century' in 'The Sunday Times'. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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At the Source of Life Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Aurea Vidya Foundation ISBN: 1931406014 Format: Paperback Pages: 152 List Price: £15.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description Against modern man's anxious uncertainty, against his inner void filled only with confusion, with solitude, with fear, Raphael offers the solid and safe rock of a valid reason for living and shows us that by stopping at one's gross state means losing contact with the Universal Reality, becoming a «living corpse, creating «a society already dead». The concept now expands into the social and political fields. The solution to all these problems is briefly, though clearly, indicated as consisting in a policy, the only one possible, which is based on an ethical conduct that transcends individuality and is linked to the universal laws. But in order to arrive at this man must seek in himself and unveil the essence of his being. From the Publisher Every work of Raphael is precious because it represents an important means, a relevant "channel". In his writings he is offering us what he has experienced and realized in his own life, through them many could be reached by a voice that especially here in the West, may prove of invaluable help. The first part of the book is presented in dialogue form. Wherever there is a question there is usually a void that needs to be filled, a lack of knowledge to highlight, a doubt to clarify, hence a truth that needs only to be unveiled, because "all is within ourselves" and that truth will be found in the depths of our being. Based on this certainty Raphael often answers one question with another question, and with an ability akin to Socrates' maieutic art, he forces the inquirer to delve into himself until he finds what he was looking for. Evidently Raphael's question-answers are the same ones he once asked himself and which were the beginning of his own quest. Even now, though all that is past, the echo of the long spiritual struggle which brought him to the oriental doctrines, and to the Advaita Vedanta and the Asparsa-vada, still resounds in the urgency of his pressing statements. The second part is in sutra (verset) form. In these sutra Raphael expresses himself in the same modality used by the best known commentators of the Vedanta doctrines. While the questions-answers possess a more conversational tone well suited to the dialogue form, in the sutras we find the incisive certainty of the Teacher who, having attained the realizative synthesis of the Unity of Tradition, knows how to direct those who are still far from man's ultimate goal, onto the path towards attaining it. And he points this way with a strength and a vibration of such power as to shake and penetrate the reader almost physically. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Beyond the Illusion of the Ego Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Aurea Vidya Foundation ISBN: 1931406030 Format: Paperback Pages: 64 List Price: £10.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description What is suggested in this booklet is an operational synthesis that may be taken as the basic scheme for any possible sadhana (realizative path). For one who is ready, this operational synthesis could prove to be sufficient to raise him or her to the realization of that Being that is and does not become. For one who is mature, just a few indications are sufficient to enable you to put wings back on and fly to Freedom. From the Publisher What Raphael suggests in this small but intense book is an operational synthesis that may be taken as the basic scheme for any possible Realizative Pathway. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Initiation into the Philosophy of Plato Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Aurea Vidya Foundation ISBN: 1931406073 Format: Paperback Pages: 160 List Price: £15.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description RAPHAEL offers an introduction to Platos thought aimed at realizing Platos teaching about being a real Philosopher, one who sees the Whole. While leaving the task of meditating on Platos texts to the readers, he quotes many relevant passages from Platos works. PLATO is regarded as the father of Western Philosophy, and is an exponent in the West of the ancient Tradition that goes back to Orpheus. From the Publisher PLATO is an exponent in the West of the ancient Tradition that goes back to Orpheus, and he is regarded as the father of Western Philosophy. While over the centuries the concept of philosophy has become an exercise of the empirical mind which can offer only opinions, not Truth, Plato's philosophy (love of learning-wisdom-knowledge) is of an initiatory order. It is a conversion to Being, an initiation into the supreme Good. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Orphism and the Initiatory Tradition Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Aurea Vidya Foundation ISBN: 1931406057 Format: Paperback Pages: 128 List Price: £15.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description Dionysus! This name has been on the lips of thousands of people in different places since the earliest of times. And if he is still written about, it means that He is present. Herodotus tells us that he originated in Egypt. Other writers have suggested Thrace, Lydia or Phrygia; others still indicate Crete where tablets dating back to the XV century B.C. have been found. On them the names of Dionysus and the "Lady of the Labyrinth", Ariadne, are inscribed. Homer mentions Dionysus too, long before the majority of Greeks came to accept him as the Savior. We should agree that there are certain names behind which a Universal Principle is hidden. Indeed all Traditions, whether from the North, South, East or West speak of deities which, in the end, are equivalent. And Orpheus? What can be said of this great Sage, Magus, Theologian, Innovator, Rectifier; this Rsi, to use Vedanta terminology? As it will be attempted to demonstrate in these pages, Orpheus is another bridge-mediator, a great Avatara, who rectified the cult of Dionysus which had been degraded into superstitious practices. Orpheus unveiled Truths of the intelligible order and, through music, created a science of Rite and of number. He instituted the Lesser and the Greater Mysteries, and left behind him such a profound mark, and vibration that they can still be perceived today. Furthermore, he had a considerable influence on the minds of the philosophers of ancient Greece and, consequently, on all the philosophers who came after him. From the Publisher Historians and ethnologists argue and attempt to establish whether this "myth" or that Deity, concern one or another people. In the same way, many historians of philosophy seek to demonstrate that the philosophy of Pythagoras, Parmenides, Plato, Plotinus, etc., is purely personal and original; the development of the author's intuitional mind. They believe that the consideration of Dionysus, Isis, the Indian Mahadeva, or Pythagoras, Plato, etc., in an impersonal or supra-national way, is to make too little of the intuition of the founders of "myths". Often, orthodox historians try to individualize knowledge by setting up altars to the individual creator of "systems", be they religious, philosophical or scientific. But, if one has the capability to approach what these minds actually said, surmounting individualistic and often merely parochial attitudes, one will be able to tell, without any fear of being mistaken, that the essence, the theme, and the noumenon in every traditional philosophy, religion or science are identical. Obviously, each being, depending on its degree of consciousness and intuitive-contemplative awakening, adorns that essence with wealth and beauty of form, but above all with the power of his own consciousness vibration or irradiation. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art) Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Aurea Vidya Foundation ISBN: 1931406022 Format: Paperback Pages: 176 List Price: £15.00 Extract Link |
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Editorial Reviews Review 'Tat Tvam Asi', contained in the Chandogya Upanishad... is the essence of the Asparsavada teaching, the path of Non-duality.... -- MLBD (Motilal Banarsidass) Newsletter, September 1992 A concise introduction to Advaita Philosophy as expounded by Gaudapada and Sri Sankara.... Raphael provides a lucid exposition of it... -- Vedanta Kesari, Volume 80, May 1993 Raphael, using a conceptual methodology apt for the Western mind, elucidates the "vision" of Gaudapada and Sankarascarya. -- MLBD (Motilal Banarsidass) Newsletter September 1992 Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art): The Path of Fire According to Asparsa-Yoga, by Raphael. This book by Raphael forms a concise introduction to Advaita Philosophy as expounded by Gaudapada and Sri Sankara. -- Vedanta Kesari A Monthly Journal of the Ramakrishna Order. Published from Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras 600-004, India Volume 80 - May 1993 Tat Tvam Asi (the Path of Fire according to Asparsa Yoga) Product Description "Tat tvam asi" (That thou art) is the most profound message of the Upanisad and constitutes the essence and the synthesis of the Advaita teaching: «"That, which is infinitely subtle, is the essence of all this [universe]. That is the Reality. That is the Self and That thou art, Svetaketu". "Please, Venerable Sir, instruct me still further". "So be it, my dear," said he». (Chandogya Upanisad, VI, XIV, 3) In this book a relizative dialogue takes place between Antonio, a seeker of the ultimate Truth, and an Asparsin. Antonio has participated in every possible kind of experience without finding fulfilment, or any solution to his problems. In his search through the maze of the samsara duality he meets with Raphael, and, guided by him, Antonio enters into a process of realization which gradually transfigures his restless and dissatisfied ego into higher consciousness. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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The Pathway of Non-Duality Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Kay McCarthy Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass ISBN: 8120809297 Format: Hardcover Pages: 99 List Price: £15.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description This book is composed of a series of questions and answers regarding some aspects of Non-duality (Advaita) discussed by Raphael, a Researcher-Philosopher who has achieved Asparsa-vada (i.e. the pathway of no support) and keeping alive Advaita Tradition which has had in Gaudapada and Samkaracarya its most representative 'revivers' both from the point of view of Realization and Doctrine. Language Notes Text: English (translation) Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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The Threefold Pathway of Fire Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Publisher: Aurea Vidya Foundation ISBN: 1931406006 Format: Paperback Pages: 160 List Price: £15.00 |
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Editorial Reviews Product Description With The Threefold Pathway of Fire Raphael offers an answer to the authentic sense of quest of many, a path that may lead to the unveiling of our own real and intrinsic nature, which is Completeness-Beatitude. The book is divided into three sections corresponding to the three sadhana (ways) of the Pathway of Fire: Alchemy, Love of Beauty, Traditional Metaphysics. In the first part, Raphael treats the four means necessary to accomplish the Opus according to the alchemic symbolism. Then, he penetrates the ascesis of the divine Eros as it is embodied in the philosophy of Plato and Plotinus. Finally, he introduces the way of Traditional Metaphysics or "colorless Fire", that which the Advaita Vedanta calls Asparsa (non-support), the way that takes one to cross the abyss between the discursive mind and pure Intellect (Nous). These three "ways" to realization do not exclude each other but often intersect and integrate in a harmony whose vibrations depend on one's approach to the Opus, on one's energy potential, on one's... Fire. In the second part of the book, Raphael re-visits the three paths and does it in sutra (verset) form presenting these three ways through a synthesis that radiates his consciential experience. The Pathway of Fire is not a new teaching nor a syncretism of doctrines, but the universal "Way" to the realization of our own Essence. From the Publisher With "The Threefold Pathway of Fire" Raphael offers an answer to the authentic sense of quest of many, he indicates a path that may lead to the unveiling of ones own real and intrinsic nature, which is Completeness-Beatitude. The book is divided into three sections corresponding to the three sadhanas (ways) of the Path of Fire: Alchemy, Love of Beauty, Traditional Metaphysics. In the first part, Raphael treats the four means that are necessary to accomplish the Opus according to the alchemic symbolism. Then, he penetrates the ascesis of the divine Eros as it is embodied in the philosophy of Plato and Plotinus. Finally, he introduces the way of Traditional Metaphysics or "colorless Fire", that which Advaita Vedanta calls Asparsha (non-support), that which takes one to cross the abyss between the discursive mind and pure Intellect (Nous). Raphael presents the three paths through a synthesis that radiates his consciential experience. Buy from Amazon US Buy from Amazon UK |
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The Pathway of Non-Duality Author: Raphael Editor/Commentator: Kay McCarthy Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass ISBN: Format: Pages: 0 List Price: £15.00 |
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