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Profound Writings, East & West

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If you'd completed the trip to self-realization and then put together a selection of readings that you thought other seekers might find invaluable, what do you suppose you would include? This is a selection by Richard Rose, from across continents and eras, that he found profound and moving.

Long before such books as "The Enlightened Mind" hit the shelf, this anthology was languishing in obscurity. It has some excellent material from Ramana Maharshi, Francis Thompson, and Richard Rose, among others.

The marvelous thing about this book is that it combines in one volume the highest mystical teachings from several, seemingly disparate religious and metaphysical traditions. And yet while the spiritual "language" and paradigms of each tradition are different, they all point to the same path, that of "dying to the self", from non-attachment to the ego towards realization of the One Eternal Essence. "Profound Writings" contains poetic descriptions of the ego-death (Francis Thompson and Richard Rose), teachings and methods of practice (Ramana Maharshi and Hui-Neng), and precepts (Tibetan teachings, the Upanishads, and Franz Hartmann). There is also a brain-teasing chapter entitled "The Lecture of Questions", formulated by Richard Rose, founder of the TAT Foundation, under whose auspices this book was published. There is so much wisdom to be fathomed in "Profound Writings" that it will provide the spiritual seeker a source of inspiration for meditative and contemplative practice, as well as spiritual guidance, for many years to come.