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What's behind the sense of "I am"? Who's living, and who's facing
death? Who or what am I, essentially? Will some part of me continue on after
death? Is there an unchanging, eternal part of me? Am I a part of some
unchanging, eternal essence?
Occasional individuals throughout history have told of finding the answer to
those questions, and their testimonies often have a surprising consistency.
As my friend and teacher Richard Rose wrote: "Beyond the mind is a golden
find...." For individuals seeking to find the answer for themselves,
those testimonies provide helpful clues for pursuing the search to a
successful conclusion.
For some searchers, working by themselves is the preferred method. Others
intuit that finding a few fellow seekers to work with may expedite their
progress. Still more fortunate may be those who find a living person who has
made the journey and can provide assistance from the perspective of that
realization. The Self-Discovery site is designed to offer all three modes of
help.
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Philosophical Self-Inquiry home page.
The Philosophical Self-Inquiry Groups are aimed at implementing maximum systems of self-discovery – an approach which can be duplicated anywhere by finding a few people to work with. See FirstKnowThyself.org for examples.
Common-Sense Meditation Experiment – updated
Link to the TAT Forum. Essays, poems, opinions and humor on seeking and finding answers to your deepest life-questions.
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Ch'an Masters home page: The Chinese forerunners of Zen.
- Seng-Ts'an page
- Hui-neng page
- Hui Hai page
- Huang Po page
- Bodhidharma page
- Other Ch'an Masters (Tang Dynasty)
- Song Dynasty Ch'an Revival
- The Diamond Sutra – simplified
- Chinese Pronunciation Guide
- Sanskrit Glossary & Pronunciation Guide
Benoit home page: Hubert Benoit's Supreme
Doctrine: Psychological Studies in Zen Thought.
Whenever you are travelling in what I call the desert without any railroad tracks—you have no
trail to go by—you have to have some beacon light, something to guide you. Logic will not do it;
your faith alone will not do it; but intuition will. It will take you through the abstract realms.
Insightful Quotes archive.
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Maximum Systems page: Common denominators of maximum systems of
self-realization such as the Albigen System of Richard Rose, Advaita Vedanta, Taoism and Zen.
Modern Teachers overview: Moving from the Ch'an Masters to the 20th and 21st centuries.
TAT Foundation Press: Unique books & videos
About the author of this site.
Greatest Teachers of Modern Times On Finding a Total Answer: Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Douglas Harding & Richard Rose:
Alfred Pulyan: Zen Master Without Lineage & Master of the Lost Art of Zen Transmission.
Conquest of Illusion: Is What We See Real? (J.J. van der Leeuw)
+ Rupert Sheldrake, Minds Beyond Brains
+ Douglas Harding on headless seeing
+ Cézanne and Neuroscience
William Samuel: A gentle teaching of awakening.
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Quote(s) of the Moment
Any system that pretends to take you into becoming has to have some mechanism for
facilitating your skill in becoming—the necessary skill—and that skill involves intuition. You
can’t argue it out logically, this is the whole thing.
So once you hear it—it amounts to the business of closing doors. The human mind is like this
room, and if they’re pounding on a piano next door, or the sirens are singing outside that
window, you’re going to be distracted, and your computer’s not going to work—because all this
stuff is continually going to be injecting itself into your problem. So the secret of course is
closing doors.
~ Richard Rose,
Laws, Yardsticks, Exaltations.
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