NLP and Beyond, Wolfgang Bernard (A nondual approach to NLP);  Adobe pdf e-book (with an introduction by Dr. Stephen Wolinsky)

Table of Contents and selected excerpts from NLP and Beyond

Quotes from readers of NLP and Beyond

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In Search of the Miraculous, P.D. Ouspenski;  Harvest Books (2001)

In this book, Ouspensky describes the different aspects of Gurdjieff's
teaching, a teaching which actually took place in the western hemisphere and that is adaptable to people who live in normal everyday life circumstances. Work  on oneself, self remembering, how to treat negative emotions, how to work with 'reminding factors' etc. are important devices for the sincere seeker.




I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj;  Acorn Press (1990)

Reading Nisargadatta intuitively and not intellectually, it is possible get glimpses of  the permanent-instant nothingness that is the basis of life. This book is a classic for those seeking spiritual enlightenment, personal liberation or more knowledge about Advaita and nonduality. Excerpts here. And here. And here. Free html version for download.



Radical Awakening, Stephen Jourdain;  Inner Directions Foundation (2001)

This outstanding irreverent Frenchman encountered (and has stayed with) the mystery of life and death at the age of sixteen. Today he's a seventy year old teenager who witnesses ultimate nothingness (liberation, enlightenment) combined with artistic everyday life management.





You Are Not, Stephen Wolinsky;  Quantum Institute (2001)

This book may bring some new understanding of what nothingness is about. When Stephen uses the the word 'nothing', he literally means 'nothing', total absence of anything. Nirvana means exitinction. This is 'hardcore' advaita vedanta.




Here is a translation of the Hsin Hsin Ming, written by Sosan the 3rd Ch'an Patriarch. Presented here in verse is all you need to understand.





If, one day, you suffer just to the very depths of yourself, beyond tears and desperation, just until you howl in horror, until you claw the black earth with your bare fingers, and even beyond that, just until you don't know if your own life is still possible in this nightmare, that day you will know that there is neither God nor human to get you out of this, and you will be drowned in the maelstrom of pain, crushed, flattened. Maybe you will survive, and maybe not. And that has no importance. Suffering is neither an atonement, nor a purification. Even less a redemption. But larger is the heart that has been broken, and stronger is love for having been wounded. And at the heart of the greatest suffering lies the greatest love.

We are not what we have experienced, nor what we believe to possess. Our richness could only be woven from threads of life in all the colors of its palette. And when we are all dressed in white, it's because we have integrated all the colors of the rainbow.

Throughout all our lives, we have discovered one at a time, or all at once, happiness and joy, sorrow and tears. Heedless butterfly, who only knows laughter and flowers. Gloomy caterpillar, who gets stuck in mud and tears. But the one, like the other, are only two aspects of the same being, the one would not exist without the other, who wouldn't know how to survive without engendering once more the first.

The day that you will be a caterpillar, even if you don't believe in butterflies anymore, know only how to remain conscious that you are in a cocoon. The metamorphosis will take care of itself. All your efforts won't do a thing. Only time will come, here or elsewhere, to dry your tears.
And it takes a lot of colors to paint the wings of a butterfly...

Marie-Françoise Céré