The book that brought Nisargadatta to the West. Maurice Frydman's translated transcripts of the morning satsangs in the Khetwadi flat from 1970 through 1973. The single most-read book of modern Advaita.
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Books that supplement the texts we host. Most of these are still in copyright and can't live on the site, but each is a reliable companion for the journey through one tradition or another.
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Advaita Vedanta
The single best edited compilation of Ramana's teaching, organised topically by David Godman from the published dialogues. Usually the first book handed to a serious seeker.
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Christian Mysticism
Posthumous transcription of de Mello's late retreat talks, his teaching in its sharpest form. Shockingly direct for a Jesuit. Read it next to the desert fathers or the Advaita masters and you can see why Rome grew nervous.
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Bede Griffiths' major book. Argues that the Christian contemplative tradition and the nondual recognition of the Upanishads are two languages for one underlying truth, and that the Western church has lost half of itself by ignoring the Eastern half of the contemplative inheritance.
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The companion volume to The Marriage of East and West, written from Shantivanam in the last years of Griffiths' life. Wider in scope, drawing in modern physics and depth psychology alongside the contemplative traditions.
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The collected conversations and letters of Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite lay brother in seventeenth-century Paris, recorded by Joseph de Beaufort after his death. The full text is available on this site.
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Modern Nonduality
Transcribed retreat talks aimed at someone meeting nondual teaching for the first time. The natural first Adyashanti book, and for many readers the first nondual book altogether.
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The harder, more important book. About what comes after the first awakening: the integration process, the shadow material that surfaces, the long settling in. The one teachers reach for when a student arrives confused after a recognition.
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A practical, clinically-minded field guide to the territory of awakening. Dilullo writes for the reader who suspects awakening is possible and wants an unromantic description of what it actually involves. Unusually concrete about the post-recognition phases.
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Compiled from the southern California satsangs of Robert Adams's final decade. The book reads in his cadence: long pauses, gentle restatement, one truth approached from many angles. Often given as a first book in the Ramana lineage.
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Bob Adamson's first widely-circulated collection, drawn from the Melbourne living-room meetings. The Nisargadatta teaching pared back to one question, returned to again and again.
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Wayne Liquorman's central presentation of the Ramesh Balsekar / Nisargadatta teaching, in plain American English. There is no doer; whatever happens is the will of Source.
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John Wheeler's shortest and plainest book. The Bob Adamson / Nisargadatta pointing transmitted through long correspondences with a circle of seekers around the world.
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Papaji's teaching at its barest. Find out who you are, and be quiet.
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Gangaji's gentlest introduction. Carries the Papaji / Ramana transmission with unusual psychological tenderness toward the seeker who arrives wounded and full of story.
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Short and concentrated. The heart of the Direct Path teaching as Greg Goode received it from Atmananda Krishna Menon's lineage via Jean Klein and Francis Lucille.
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The accessible introduction to the Direct Path: a graduated set of inquiries into body, sense, and mind that progressively dissolve the apparent boundary between subject and object.
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A slim gathering of the heart of Butler's decades of solitary prayer practice, written in plain undecorated prose. The place to meet the English contemplative on the page.
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The easiest way into Krishnamurti's mature teaching, edited by Mary Lutyens. Short, dense, uncompromising.
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Godman's monumental three-volume biography and oral history of Papaji. Includes the full record of the Lucknow satsangs from the 1990s and the line of teachers who awakened in his presence.
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