Date:   6/18/2006 7:34:35 PM ( 19 y ago)
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You don't sound that lost after all!

As you seem healthily perplex on flat solutions I would suggest you sacred plants, they are uncomparable with anything else. Theirs is real wisdom.

Krishnamurti is always ok, but I thought you were more at the abc. It was actually my first book, together with The Way of Zen by Allan Watts. Zen is my basis, you could go for something of Master Suzuki (not D.T. Suzuki) who's the master who brought zen in US, he's delicious.
These are all oldies. But you know, with newer books you don't find easily that clarity. Whatever zen master of that generation can eat an Eckhardt Tolle in two bites.
Give a look also at Dso-chen, it is Vajrayana buddism, the most evolved of the three, using tantric techniques and shamanism. (but you would use these only when advanced).
You could also find interesting the taoist inner alchemy, the most famous contemporary teachers accessible to westerners are Mantak Chia and Michael Winn. It is not my thing, I don't like the fire way of taoism. Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and The Secret of The Golden Flower by Lu Don Bling (seemingly) are among the best spiritual books ever written. (failry advanced though)

Have you ever read Castaneda. Yes, it's likely to be fiction, but who cares? he's great.

One cannot possibly forget Ramana Maharshi, there is a site on him full of pictures, he was really something. I love him really, If there has been an enlightened creature on earth this century that's him.

To have better suggestions you should explain more of what you want. I gave you just some of my favourites, it seems just a mess but believe it or not it has some coherence.


 

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