Book One of The Enlightenment Trilogy By Jed McKenna Vitam inpendere vero. Stake life upon truth. Juvenal From a Spiritual Master Unlike Any, A…
(audio available for paid members) “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems.” Walt Whitman SHE…
(audio available for paid members) Notice is hereby given: By continuing beyond this point, the reader acknowledges and agrees that the state of Spiritual…
(audio available for paid members) You will never achieve spiritual enlightenment. The you that you think of as you is not you. The you…
(audio available for paid members) To meet my thousand thousand faces I roam the world; The dirtiest grass Wears the sunlight of my skin:…
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long.…
(audio available for paid members) Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself…
(audio available for paid members) Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed it clean on the savage rocks of Eternal Mind. How its…
(audio available for paid members) When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent. Not holding on…
(audio available for paid members) The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes MY…
Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm…
(audio available for paid members) Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bauble in a stream; a…
(audio available for paid members) Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Basho
In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can…
(audio available for paid members) I was dreaming that I was a butterfly fluttering happily. Suddenly, I awoke— Now, I wonder who I am—…
(audio available for paid members) The battle for truth Is waged upon untruth.
(audio available for paid members) Let us forget the lapse of time; let us forget the conflict of opinions. Let us make our appeal…
(audio available for paid members) “This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of…
(audio available for paid members) If in hell I could hold one curl of your hair I’d think the saints of heaven in torment.…
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(audio available for paid members) My birthplace is placelessness, My sign is to have and give no sign. You say you see my mouth,…
(audio available for paid members) All forces have been steadily employ’d to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my…
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(audio available for paid members) “There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without…
Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and…
(audio available for paid members) The great path has no gates, thousands of roads enter it. When you pass through this gateless gate you…
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(audio available for paid members) “The universe is the unity of all things. If one recognizes his identity with this unity, then the parts…
Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity. This division has given…
(audio available for paid members) “Concepts can at best only serve to negate one another, as one thorn is used to remove another, and…
(audio available for paid members) My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I’m in total harmony with them. I don’t hold on to anything,…
Selections from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? Have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long…
(audio available for paid members) “Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the…