Warm-hearted Practice

by Shunryu Suzuki: This lecture is reprinted from the July 2001 Berkeley Zen Center Newsletter.

True Concentration

by Shunryu Suzuki: This lecture is reprinted from the June 2002 Berkeley Zen Center Newsletter.

Beginner’s Mind

by Shunryu Suzuki: People say to study Zen is difficult but there is some misunderstanding why it is difficult. It is not difficult because to sit in cross legged position is hard or to attain enlightenment is hard, but it is hard to keep our mind pure and to keep our practice pure in original […]

Adyashanti Being Alone

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Adyashanti‘s nondual teachings have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages.

The Case for Anthroposophy

by Rudolf Steiner: In Max Dessoir’s book, From Beyond the Soul there is a brief section in which the systematic noetic investigation, or spiritual science, called “anthroposophical” and associated with my name, is stigmatised as scientifically untenable.

The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind

by Rudolf Steiner: A man reflecting on his own nature soon becomes conscious that there is within him a second and more powerful self than the one bounded by his thoughts, his feelings, and the fully-conscious impulses of his will.

The Stages of Higher Knowledge

by Rudolf Steiner: IN MY BOOK, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment, the path to higher knowledge has been traced up to the meeting with the two Guardians of the Threshold. 

The Task of Spiritual Science

by Rudolf Steiner: There is a beautiful saying by Hegel: The most profound thought is bound up with the historical, external Figure of Christ. And the greatness of the Christian religion is that it is there for every stage of development.