Book Two of The Enlightenment Trilogy By Jed McKenna Do not think the Buddhas are other than you. Dogen Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Isn’t One…
Dear Mr. McKenna, I finished reading your book Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing and I’m so mad, I could chew nails. While you tout your book…
(audio available for paid members) And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(audio available for paid members) “The Spiritual Master is absurd, like everything else. He is a Function that serves to Enlighten or Awaken beings…
(audio available for paid members) “Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most…
(audio available for paid members) “If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the…
(audio available for paid members) “Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the…
“The end of illusion is the end of you.” U.G. Krishnamurti The words of U.G. Krishnamurti: Part I There’s a lot I really like about…
(audio available for paid members) Illusion recognized must disappear. A Course In Miracles
(audio available for paid members) Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders; I have no…
(audio available for paid members) “So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial…
By Walt Whitman WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, before…
(audio available for paid members) “I realize that no contemplative path wants to advertise the cross or the suffering entailed in the crossing over.…
(audio available for paid members) The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman
(audio available for paid members) “One who has seen his true nature no longer regards life as being full of menace and misery as…
“The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.” Mark Twain Chapter 11 from The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. FOR AS…
(audio available for paid members) “He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may…
(audio available for paid members) Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning— I am surely far different from…
(audio available for paid members) How hath this weakness taken thee? Whence springs The inglorious trouble, shameful to the brave, Barring the path of…
(audio available for paid members) My members fail, my tongue dries in my mouth, A shudder thrills my body, and my hair Bristles with…
(audio available for paid members) The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and—Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will…
(audio available for paid members) The soul that with a strong and constant calm Takes sorrow and takes joy indifferently, Lives in the life…
(audio available for paid members) His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the…
(audio available for paid members) “There is no religious content, no mystical overtones at all, in what I am saying. Man has to be…
(audio available for paid members) This is much; yet Ahab’s larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(audio available for paid members) Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He…
(audio available for paid members) He must dare to leap into the Origin, so as to live by the Truth and in the Truth,…
(audio available for paid members) There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes…
In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non-self.
(audio available for paid members) He knows himself, and all that’s in him, who knows adversity. To scale great heights, we must come out…
(audio available for paid members) “The person is a very small thing. Actually it is a composite, it cannot be said to exist by…
I’ll sing this song the rest of my life until I drop dead; whether anybody listens to it or not is of no importance…
(audio available for paid members) “Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three…