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"Being neither teacher nor guru, and since from the first not a thing is, the most one can do is help point the way. In the end it resides in you."

...the Wanderling




"Real Masters never charge for their services, nor do they accept payment in any form or any sort of material benefits for their instructions. This is a universal law among Masters, and yet it is an amazing fact that thousands of eager seekers in America and elsewhere, go on paying large sums of money for "spiritual instruction.". Masters are always self-sustaining. They are never supported by their students or by public charity."

---Julian P. Johnson, The Path of the Masters (1939)


THE BUDDHA AND THE QUALITIES OF A DHARMA TEACHER


SPRITUAL GUIDES: PASS OR FAIL?








FOR YOUR ENLIGHTENMENT PLEASURE PLEASE CLICK ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:


  1. SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI: The Last American Darshan
    Recounting a young boy's nearly instant transformation into the Absolute during his ony darshan with the Maharshi

  2. THE MEETING: An Untold Story of Sri Ramana
    Putting into place the super-normal perceptual state called Siddhis in Sanskrit, Sri Ramana meets a former disciple thousands of miles away from the ashrama.

  3. ZEN ENLIGHTENMENT: The Path Unfolds
    A seeker along the path writes of things Zen and his spiritual mentor who was neither teacher nor guru, but the real life person W. Somerset Maugham wrote about in "The Razor's Edge."

  4. DOING HARD TIME IN A ZEN MONASTERY
    An American Zen adept ends up high in the mountains in an ancient Chinese Zen monastery, faced with stark, unfettered study-practice that harkened back to Bodhidharma, Hui Neng and the Buddha.

  5. THE RAZOR'S EDGE: W. Somerset Maugham, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Guy Hague, and Zen
    Explores who W. Somerset Maugham's main character Larry Darrell in "The Razor's Edge" was in real life and what happened to him after the novel ended.

  6. DARK LUMINOSITY
    An Enlightenment experience in the Zen tradition.

  7. ZEN, THE BUDDHA, AND SHAMANISM:
    Does a shaman have the Buddha nature?

  8. WHAT THE BUDDHA SAID:
    A word-bridge of understanding is created.

  9. ZEN, WOMEN AND BUDDHISM:
    Zen, the Tao and Buddhism from the women's perspective.

  10. SATORI IN ZEN BUDDHISM:
    Satori and Kensho, what do they mean?

  11. SAMADHI:
    Now you know what Satori, Kensho, and Sunyata means, what about Samadhi?

  12. THE AWAKENING EXPERIENCE IN THE MODERN ERA:
    In the old days Zen masters stressed Enlightenment outside the doctrine. Is it still done today? Does it work? If so, how and for who?

  13. MEDITATION ALONG METEOR CRATER RIM:
    Deep in the desert at an ancient impact site a Zen-man contemplates the Universe.

  14. MORE BUDDHIST LINKS AND SITES:
    If you can't find it here or below it probably isn't.

  15. AN INTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM:
    By D.T. Suzuki. Several full chapters from Suzuki's book including such subjects as "What Is Zen," "Satori," etc. Also has biography and information regarding his wife.


THE WANDERLING AND WIKIPEDIA




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Fundamentally, our experience as experienced is not different from the Zen master's. Where
we differ is that we place a fog, a particular kind of conceptual overlay onto that experience
and then make an emotional investment in that overlay, taking it to be "real" in and of itself.


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DON JUAN MATUS
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THE BEST OF CARLOS CASTANEDA



AWAKENED TEACHERS FORUM



ZEN ENLIGHTENMENT IN A NUTSHELL


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ON THE RAZOR'S
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THE RAZOR'S EDGE: TRUE OR FALSE?




Te Shan burnt all his commentaries and books on Zen within hours of his awakening to the truth. Why? Zen master Mu-nan gave Shoju his sacred book on Zen that had been passed down through seven generations of masters. Shoju threw it into burning coals. Click to find out: WHY?