Posted: 11/07/09 01:01 PM | by once Chris | temecula
John Levy: Saint or Sage?
John Levy was born of a rich, aristocratic Jewishfamily in London. An expert in Indian folk music, he was an accomplished musician. He spent much of his adult life in India, where he met the venerable Atmananda Krishna Menon, and was taught by him to give instruction. Menon said to him, “ Live only for a short time as a yogi, because I think it is importnant for you to unlearn people about being yogis.”
Posted: 11/04/09 02:37 PM | by once chris | temecula
Pop! Goes the Weasel!
Truth lovers eventually discover that the only thing they ever experience is the Present Moment, Now, and that Consciousness is Outside of Time and Space. Rarely, do we hear a discussion as to what this actually means as the Truth of Our Experience.
In the present moment, all we ever experience is the perception of gross and subtle objects, never the object in itself. One way of putting this is that we only ever experience thought, perceptions, mentations, or as is popular to say these days, arisings.
But, what does this say about what we actually experience? Do we ever experience more than one thought, mentation or arising at a time? Does one arising exist within another? Are they somehow chained together?
Posted: 11/01/09 04:04 PM | by once chris | temecula
New, Never Before Seen Videos with Francis Lucille: The Gateless Gate Revisited: Many of you are familiar with the Gateless Gate DVD, the single most popular video of Francis. In this DVD, he unfolds with great exactness the "Hot Seat" of resistance and desire, the collapse of the separate sense of Self, the surrender to what is and the final passage thru the "Gateless Gate." Click here to watch as we revisit the Gateless Gate and The Hot Seat. We hope that it demonstrates, once again, the value of being in the "presence of the Teacher."
Posted: 10/30/09 11:34 AM | by once chris | temecula
Who was Robert Adams: American Mystic?
Robert Adams was a fascinating fellow, who had an early childhood spontaneous awakening. later visited with Paramahansa Yogananda who he spoke in the highest regard of for decades, and finally moved to Tiruvannamalai where he shed the last vestiges of ego (and his clothes!) upon his first visual contact with Ramana Maharshi. Click here to read a small clip if his work