Be still and know that I am God
“The Lord is in his holy temple:
let all the earth keep silence before him.”
—Habakkuk 2:20
“It is not possible to praise this tale of religious apostasy highly enough for all the themes it explores…”
Read Paula Marvelly’s compelling explorative review of the 1966 novel of historical fiction, by Shūsaku Endō, Silence,
Suffering is a system to which we attach ourselves. In a way, that’s OK. If that’s what we choose to do, then so be it. Except in another way it’s not OK, because we suffer. We find it painful.
Is it better to maintain what is in essence an addiction? Read more to find out …
“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.” ~ Eric Hoffer
In its efforts to consolidate and distribute authentic resources for those deeply interested in self inquiry, Stillness Speaks has created a nine part series that focuses on a central question: What was the secret promise held by the East that the West craved so deeply? This nine part series surveys the spiritual revolution, rooted in profound dissatisfaction with the “getting and spending” focus of western culture, that propelled many westerners to travel to the far east for solutions to the emptiness of materialistic culture.
“Many schools… of these Eastern ways of liberation reached the West as separate movements, each one conveying a message that seems to be different from the other. Investigation based on direct experience reveals that the core of some of these teachings is basically one and the same… “
Stillness Speaks is pleased to offer this comprehensive Introduction to Philip Renard‘s book Non-Dualism: Eastern Enlightenment in the World of Western Enlightenment. The Introduction asks (and answers) the key question: How can non-duality, which precedes and goes beyond all concepts, become the starting point for evaluating events of life, something that indeed is made up of concepts?
“As far back as ancient Greece, and at many subsequent times in history, there have been Western thinkers who investigated similar questions: objectivity, independence and essence” ~ Greg Goode
In Part 10 of this series, Greg concludes his overview of emptiness with the Western Teachings
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