scotts
Inspired
(I have tried to send this to you several times but your PM/mailbox/thingy is apparently full. Didn't want you to think I wasn't responding)
Regarding your request for brain fodder you might enjoy these:
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Heart-Zen/dp/1575872331/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305220045&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Heart-Tao/dp/1575872471/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305220100&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Heart-Yoga/dp/1575872811/ref=pd_sim_b_3
These are all translations of some very old Taoist, Ch'an and East Indian mind-science stuff done by my teacher. Each text also includes commentary from my teacher, a fifty year veteran of several mainframe internal arts traditions and an expert at getting these ideas into Western minds. In each book you get a very accessible translation along with an attempt at a one-size-fits-all commentary containing a lot of the same type of experiential insight that you would get if you were studying with what we call a meditation master.
Zero religious content. The old versions of these things just weren't looked at/approached as what we call religion. In fact, religious thinking could just as easily be viewed as off-point and irrelevant to these types of thinking.
Religious-ized thinking infected the arts pointed at by the above texts long after these texts and their supportive immersive methods were developed. Having said that, the concepts in these particular texts play well with whatever religious/spiritual path you embrace.
These books are a lot of fun. Check them out.
This PM thing is kind of cumbersome. If you want to yak more here is my email:
ssimpson@bham.rr.com
Regarding your request for brain fodder you might enjoy these:
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Heart-Zen/dp/1575872331/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305220045&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Heart-Tao/dp/1575872471/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305220100&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Heart-Yoga/dp/1575872811/ref=pd_sim_b_3
These are all translations of some very old Taoist, Ch'an and East Indian mind-science stuff done by my teacher. Each text also includes commentary from my teacher, a fifty year veteran of several mainframe internal arts traditions and an expert at getting these ideas into Western minds. In each book you get a very accessible translation along with an attempt at a one-size-fits-all commentary containing a lot of the same type of experiential insight that you would get if you were studying with what we call a meditation master.
Zero religious content. The old versions of these things just weren't looked at/approached as what we call religion. In fact, religious thinking could just as easily be viewed as off-point and irrelevant to these types of thinking.
Religious-ized thinking infected the arts pointed at by the above texts long after these texts and their supportive immersive methods were developed. Having said that, the concepts in these particular texts play well with whatever religious/spiritual path you embrace.
These books are a lot of fun. Check them out.
This PM thing is kind of cumbersome. If you want to yak more here is my email:
ssimpson@bham.rr.com
