Direct Path Teachers

Greg Goode - Greg is a Doctor of Western philosophy as well as a self-realised teacher of Advaita and Buddhism and is equally at home with all approaches. He sees straight to the heart of a problem and explains the solution with insight, clarity and humour. He is a qualified Philosophical Counsellor in New York, where he also holds satsangs.

Greg also has a page on Sri Atmananda, which discusses the fundamentals of the direct path, such as how it starts by bringing the universal under the individual, how it establishes the witness, how the witness stabilizes, and how it finally dissolves into pure consciousness. There is also an audio interview with Greg on the direct path and a link to download a free copy of Atmananda's NOTES FROM SPIRITUAL DISCOURSES.
"The mind, memory, body and world appear as thoughts, feelings, and sensations. These appearances are all arisings appearing in consciousness -- Awareness. Arisings cannot reach outside themselves. They cannot point to each other, touch each other or contain each other. It is only memory that indicates that there has ever been another arising. But memory itself is nothing more than an arising. It cannot truly point backwards or forwards to anything. So there is truly no proof that there have ever been even two arisings. If there cannot be two arisings, how can there be one? What is left? Awareness, our true nature."

Jean Klein is remembered by the Jean Klein Foundation in Santa Barbara, California. Books, videos and cassettes may be ordered. Newsletters are published three times per year to members ($35 min US; $40 Overseas). All of his books have recently been republished by Non-Duality Press. See Recommended Books for more details.

"You are perfect; uncover the person who feels something is missing, and what remains is perfection. … Leave the mind and body free to be what they are and you will no longer be their slave."

Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon was the guru of Jean Klein and, to a lesser extent Francis Lucille (who never actually met him). He is the author of two short but extremely potent books on 'direct-path' Advaita (see the section on Recommended Books) as well as extensive but currently out-of-print dialogues. There is a short biography of him at this site and an extensive presentation of his teaching from Ananda Wood.

"The attribution of reality to things which rise in thoughts is the cause of all bondage."

Rupert Spira is a student of Francis Lucille. His website is entitled 'Contemplating the Nature of Experience' and provides details of meetings in Shropshire and London. A number of talks (meditations) may be downloaded or purchased on CD. His book 'The Transparency of Things: A collection of contemplative essays and conversations' is published Nov. 2008. Read an extract from the book.

"Consciousness knows a thing by being that thing. Happiness or Peace is the name we give to this experience of the identity of Knowing and Being.

"There are never two things in our actual experience.

"Consciousness cannot know anything other than itself, and in the knowing of anything it is always only knowing itself.
"The experience of Consciousness knowing itself and being itself are one and the same experience."