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Contemplative Mastery — Four Stages of Spiritual Development (Vols 1–4 + Appendices)
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Nath / Sahajiya tradition (sahaja doctrine)Indian tantric yoga · c. 8th–12th c. CE onwardgrounds · high
“O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Songs of Kabir, poem I, trans. Rabindranath Tagore (1915)
PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEparallels · medium
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
The Bhagavadgita, with Sanatsugatiya & Anugita (SBE Vol. 8)Hindu / Vedanta (Smriti) · c. 200 BCE–200 CE; SBE 1882grounds · high
“Your business is with action alone, not by any means with fruit. Let not the fruit of action be your motive to action. Let not your attachment be (fixed) on inaction.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Bhagavadgîtâ, Ch. II.47 — trans. Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang, SBE Vol. 8
The Dhammapada & Sutta-Nipata (SBE Vol. 10)Buddhist / Theravada (Pali) · c. 300–100 BCE; SBE 1881grounds · high
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— The Dhammapada, Ch. I (The Twin-Verses), v. 1 — trans. F. Max Müller, SBE Vol. 10
Texts of Taoism, Part I — Tao Teh King & Kwang-tze I–XVII (SBE Vol. 39)Chinese / Taoist · Tao Te Ching c. 400–300 BCE; SBE 1891grounds · high
“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Tâo Teh King, Ch. 1 — trans. James Legge, SBE Vol. 39
Texts of Taoism, Part II — Kwang-tze XVIII–XXXIII (SBE Vol. 40)Chinese / Taoist · Zhuangzi c. 300 BCE; SBE 1891grounds · high
Read the original · sacred-texts ↗Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali (Vivekananda 1896 / Woods 1914)Hindu / Yoga (Patanjala Darsana) · c. 200 BCE–400 CE; PD translations 1896/1914grounds · high
“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)