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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?

 

 

Anonymous

The Seeing is Here and Now

 

 

Asamvedi

Dialogue

 

 

John Astin

Two Poems

 

 

Atagrasin

Pointing to Ananda

 

 

Bhodi Avasa

Guru Disciple Transmission

 

 

Ramesh Balsekar

Free Will

 

 

 Éric Baret

Meditation

 

 

Benjamin

Creation Theories in Advaita

Benjamin, Greg and Dennis

Why can't I read your thoughts?

 

 

Mieke Berger Ph. D.

Oneness

 

 

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

 

 

Durga

The Knot of the Heart

 

The Problem and the Solution

 

Self-knowledge and the Mind

 

The karma yoga attitude

 

mithyA and pa~ncha kosha

 

 

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)

 

 

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

 

Your experience

 

 

Mike Graham

Spiritual Practice

 

 

John Greven

Both=One

 

Presence - Awareness

 

 

Burt Harding

The Evolution of Consciousness

 

 

Leo Hartong

No claim, no blame, no fame

 

Why is there anything at all?

 

 

Lou Hawthorne

God's Own Locksmith

 

 

Charlie Hayes

The Final Understanding (Not)

 

A short discussion on Seeking and Suffering

 

A Paradigm Shift to No-Paradigm?

 

Neo-Advaita = Suffering; Self-enquiry = Freedom

 

Night Dreams, Waking Dreams, Reality

 

Experience and Enlightenment

 

A Dialog with Charlie Hayes

 

Second dialog with Charlie Hayes

 

What is Reality?

 

How do I DO the investigation?

 

 

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

 

 

Philip Jacobs

Being and the Eternal Now

 

 

Michael James

The Crest-jewel of Sri Ramana's Teaching

 

 

Liz Jones

Meaningless Words

   

Jerry Katz

One: Essential Writings on Nonduality

 

Teaching: the Guide versus the Confessor

 

 

Jan Kersschot

The Daydream Unmasked

 

Blasphemy

 

 

Professor V. Krishnamurthy (profvk)

What is the nature of maya?

 

The Song of the Vedas (Shruti Gita)

 

 

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Belief in God

 

Yoga Classification

 

 

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

 

 

Harry Liantziris

Pure and Simple Being

 

 

Wayne Liquorman

Teachers and the Truth

   

Francis Lucille

Types of Thoughts

   

Stig Lundgren

The Role of Scriptures in Enlightenment

   

Frank Maiello

Reality of the World

 

 

Alan Mann

Perfect Brilliant Stillness

 

 

Paula Marvelly

Vach

 

Andal

 

 

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

   

Professor Narayana Moorty

Comment on 'Meditations on advaita'

 

 

Jason James Morgan

savikalpa samAdhi

 

The Castle on the Hill

   

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

 

 

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

 

 

Eric Putkonen

True Self

 

Effortless Meditation

 

 

Ramana Maharshi

Creation and mAyA

 

samAdhi - Different Types - summarized by Peter.

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Nouk Sanchez (& Tomas Vieira)

Spiritual Seeking and Truth

 

 

Ranjeet Sankar

dharma and guNa

 

 

Swami Satchidananda

Identification

 

 

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

 

 

Nathan Spoon

Critical Responses to an Essay by Tony Parsons

 

 

Janaka Stagnaro

Trust

 

 

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

 

 

Shyam Subramanian

Everything is Brahman

 

The locus of avidyA

 

sachchidAnanda (sat-chit-Ananda)

 

 

Vidyasankar Sundaresan

On Creation

 

Creation Theories in Advaita

 

 

James Swartz

What is Neo-Advaita?

 

The Horse’s Mouth: An essay on the 'lineage' game

 

 

Richard Sylvester

Spiritual Paths

 

 

Tan

What are you looking for?

 

 

Florian Tathagata Schlosser

The Illusion of Time and Reality

 

 

Tom Thompson

Bodhi Day

 

 

Dr. Nitin Trasi

The Man Who Wasn't There

 

 

Joan Tollifson

The Simplicity of What Is

 

 

Unmani Liza Hyde

What I am

 

 

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

 

A Dialog with Charlie Hayes

 

Second dialog with Charlie Hayes

 

Potential Problems with Schools

 

A response to 'not two-ness'

 

 

Nigel Watts

Fill Your Hole

 

 

John Wheeler

Seeing the Essence

 

No Person

 

A short discussion on Seeking and Suffering

   

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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