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This list of recommended authors and books about nonduality and waking up is based on my own tastes and resonances and is in no way intended to be a comprehensive, definitive or authoritative list of nondual or spiritual books. I'm not endorsing every single word spoken or written by any of these authors (including Joan Tollifson). The list includes books from a variety of different perspectives (Advaita, Buddhism, radical nonduality, Taoism, Sufism, Christianity, brain science, and so on). Some of the books and authors listed below may appear to contradict each other. Some of them say that the entire movie of waking life (including you and your whole spiritual journey) is all nothing but a dream- like illusion, while others appear to take the phenomenal manifestation (and spiritual practice) very seriously. Some insist that there is nothing to do other than exactly what is happening, while others offer some kind of apparent process, practice or method for waking up. Some seem to suggest that . Some say liberation is found in the realization of complete impermanence while others insist it comes with the recognition of That which never changes. What should you believe? As soon as you open your mouth, you go astray. No words or concepts can capture reality. Maps are useful, but they can only describe and point to the territory itself. Eating the meal is what nourishes you, not reading the menu. Take what resonates and leave the rest behind. Don't believe anything you read. Question and look and see for yourself. The book that wakes you up one day may lull you to sleep the next. Always be ready to see something new and unexpected. These recommendations are periodically updated or revised. If you've been here before, refresh or reload the page to be sure you are getting the most current version. You're welcome to link to this page, but please do not re- publish this list anywhere else. JOAN TOLLIFSON: Nothing to Grasp(2. Painting the Sidewalk with Water: Talks and Dialogs about Nonduality (2. Awake in the Heartland: The Ecstasy of What Is (2. Bare- Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life (1. All of them are about waking up from the imaginary problems created by conceptual thought and discovering the aliveness and immediacy that is Here / Now. They all point to the simplicity of this moment and the seamlessness or wholeness of life. My books always encourage the reader to investigate directly rather than holding onto beliefs or ideas. All my books include material drawn from my own life, and several of them are wholly or partly in the form of personal narrative or memoir. At the same time, all of them are about seeing through the stories of our lives and waking up from the thought- sense of being an autonomous self encapsulated in a separate bodymind. These books all invite the discovery that . My books explore questions of identity and free will, as well as many of the commonplace issues people face in everyday life such as addiction, depression, anxiety, anger, uncertainty, illness and disability, difficult neighbors and so on, all from an inclusive and open nondual perspective. A fifth book that explores aging, dying and waking up is in the works and will hopefully be finished soon. All my books point to what is already whole and complete just as it is, and at the same time, they offer a direct, non- methodical, awareness- based, present- moment (pathless) path of recognizing this wholeness and seeing through the stories of deficiency and lack. Readers have expressed appreciation for the honesty, clarity and humor in all of these books. More details here. ALAN WATTS: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are and The Wisdom of Insecurity . They will give you an excellent understanding of the nondual perspective found in Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and Taoism, but without any of the traditional baggage. He zeroes right in on the undivided and seamless nature of reality and the illusion of a separate self with free will. Alan Watts was an unconventional, iconoclastic, renegade who left organized religion behind and went right to the heart of the matter, and this he communicated with great lucidity and always with a sense of humor and play. Watts was perhaps the single person most responsible for introducing Zen and eastern spirituality to America. Clear, direct, right on the mark, and always enjoyable to read. Watts was a one- time Christian minister with a doctorate in theology who left the church and turned to Vedanta and Zen, both of which he came to understand deeply and experientially, to the core and the root. There are many other wonderful books (including The Way of Zen) and several fine audio collections available now, and you can find Alan Watts on You. Tube as well. All very highly recommended. More here. TONI PACKER: The Wonder of Presence; The Light of Discovery; Seeing Without Knowing / What Is Meditative Inquiry?; The Silent Question: Meditating in the Stillness of Not- Knowing; and The Work of This Moment . Toni was a former Zen teacher who began to question the rituals, beliefs, dogmas and hierarchy of traditional Zen. She was deeply affected by her contact with J. Krishnamurti, and she eventually left formal Zen practice behind. She continued to offer silent retreats, but in a much more open and bare- bones way. Toni wasn't interested in the abstractions of metaphysics, philosophy or ideology, and her work was always rooted in present moment awareness, direct insight, and the breath and bones of ordinary life. The mind habitually wants comforting, feel- good answers; Toni provided none: ? Not a movement away, an escape into something that will provide what this state does not provide, or doesn't seem to provide: energy, zest, inspiration, joy, happiness, whatever. Just completely, unconditionally listening to what's here now, is that possible? She was wonderful at waking you up to the wonder, simplicity and immediacy of the nondual absolute: the wind in the trees, the swaying grasses, the chirp of a bird, the hum of the air conditioner, the listening silence being and beholding it all. She had a keen eye for when the mind was turning insight into dogma or making something out of no- thing. I recommend Toni for the open and explorative spirit that she so beautifully conveys, for the clarity with which she sees through all stories and beliefs, for her remarkable ability to point to the deepest truth in a way that is utterly alive and immediate, and for the nuanced subtlety of her expression. She invites us to pay careful attention as choices and decisions unfold, to question what it is that gets defensive or hurt, to see if we can find the . Her work reveals that there is no self with individual free will, and yet at the same time, Toni never makes . Instead, she invites us to be present and aware, to wonder and not know what is possible or not possible in this moment. Her overall approach, which she called . Toni looked closely at human suffering (anger, fear, compulsion, and so forth) and suggested meeting whatever is here with open interest and non- judgmental curiosity. She was no stranger to human pain and suffering—Toni grew up half- Jewish in Nazi Germany, and in the last 1. In 1. 98. 1, Toni and friends founded Springwater Center, a lovely 2. NY where others now carry on her work, meeting with people and offering silent retreats. Springwater is utterly unique in its open and undogmatic approach. If you're looking for a place to do meditation, meditative inquiry or silent retreats free of religious tradition, authority, ritual or dogma, Springwater is wonderful. The atmosphere is open and spacious, inviting you to look and listen and find your own way. You can learn more at the Springwater website, and you can find a treasure trove of her talks (audio and video) up on the Springwater Center You. Tube channel, including recordings from the early days of Genesee Valley Zen Center when Toni was still using koans and Zen terminology, through all the years when she was teaching at Springwater Center, on up to her final years when she was quite ill—many phases in her life and many amazing and wonderful talks. I talk about Toni and read from one of her books in the . Toni's books and talks are all very highly recommended. NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ: I Am That – translated by Maurice Frydman, this extraordinary collection of dialogs with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj is the most well- worn book in my library . Nisargadatta Maharaj was a rare jewel. An exceptionally clear 2. Indian guru, Nisargadatta was a family man and a shopkeeper, living and teaching in the back lanes of Bombay, where he died in 1. His teaching, which can be called Advaita Vedanta, comes not from book learning, but from his own direct insight. He points first to the boundless and formless conscious presence or beingness Here / Now, which he often calls the . If you need time to achieve something, it must be false. Both happen spontaneously. Our talk is also taking place in a dream. It is rather about seeing through delusions and discovering what remains: “Expect nothing from experience. Realisation by itself is not an experience, though it may lead to a new dimension of experiences. Yet the new experiences, however interesting, are not more real than the old. Definitely realisation is not a new experience. It is the discovery of the timeless factor in every experience.” Or as he puts it elsewhere: . The appreciation of this fact is itself enlightenment. He smoked bidis (Indian cigarettes) during his satsangs, even as he was dying of throat cancer, and he would sometimes yell at people and throw them out. Self- improvement was never his concern—he pointed to what is already free, prior to the body and the mind, prior to consciousness: “You are not confined to your body; you are everywhere. The limitation is your imagination.” And as he puts it elsewhere: “The universe is not bound by its content, because its potentialities are infinite.
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