Eastern Light in Western Eyes: A Portrait of the Practice of DevotionSophia Perennis, 2003 - 288 Seiten We have it from Frithjof Schuon (The Transcendent Unity of Religions) and many others that the Vedanta appears among explicit doctrines as one of the most direct formulations possible of what makes the very essence of our spiritual reality. The work in hand can be read as a book-length unpacking of that accurate description. Reliable from beginning to end, it is distincitve among the innumerable renditiois of the Vedanta in two ways. First, because its author is an accomplished wordsmith, he makes the Vedanta's profundities-which delve as deep as those of any philosophical theology-read like an open book; and second, because he has worked for thirty years to shape his life by those profundities, his vivid accounts of what he experienced along the way make his words jump off the page into the reader's heart. The book is insipiring. -From review by bestselling author Huston Smith |
Inhalt
Part | 48 |
Glints Glimpses I | 54 |
On the road to yourself | 61 |
Glints Glimpses II | 67 |
Chuang Tzus butterfly Prosperos farewell | 73 |
One more reason not to worry | 79 |
When were close together dancing cheek to cheek? | 88 |
they all draw a blank | 96 |
Is all this a gift or isnt It? | 177 |
Glints Glimpses VII | 183 |
Thank God for the Truth | 189 |
Part Three | 210 |
Glints Glimpses VIII | 217 |
And there It is Right there where you forgot it | 224 |
Theres a lot you can see with a faraway look | 230 |
Getting up early enough to meditate | 236 |
Part | 129 |
But if the while I think on thee Sonnet | 135 |
Some prefer to accentuate the negative Despite Johnny | 142 |
Incident on Upper Bryn Coch Lane and | 150 |
Times up | 160 |
Je sois? Yo soy? Du bist? Who? | 171 |
Nearer to you than the neck of your camel | 244 |
saw it with my own eyes Its beyond belief | 257 |
again | 263 |
Satchidananda | 273 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absolute actually adoration affirm appears Arjuna Atman awareness beauty become Beloved Bhagavad-Gita Bhakti Bliss Brahman Buddhist changeless devotional meditation dharanis dharma direct experience divine love Divine Reality dream Dreamer earthly enter eternal everything existence experienced eyes face feel finally forever FRITHJOF SCHUON gift Gita GLIMPSES Glory Grace happens heart heaven Hindu Hinduism Holy Name human identity illusion illusory imago dei impersonal infinite insight intuition jñana karma knowledge Krishna Light lives Lord manifestation mantra maya means metaphysical mind miracle moments MUNDAKA UPANISHAD nature never Nirvana NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ non-dual ourselves Path peace perceive pray prayer Presence Pure Consciousness realize religion revealed sages saints samsara sense shining Shiva Sutras simply smile sometimes soul spiritual SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM SWAMI TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD Thee there's things Thou art thought tion tradition transcendent true Truth ultimate unity universe unreal Upanishads Vedanta vision whole Wisdom words worship