This video is part three of four in my recommendation series. Today I'm going
to give you five book / resources on non-dual advanced meditation teachings. There's this idea
in meditation that you can transcend the usual way it feels like to be you you can feel much
more peaceful and much less limited to just the confines of your body, if you're interested in
that these are five resources which will help you make that shift. My first suggestion is waking up
or the waking up app, this resource is just becoming a very good resource for modern day
scientifically minded skeptics about meditation. Sam Harris is the creator of this piece of content
and he's trained with some very adept Tibetan buddhist teachers and actually i've trained with
some of the same people now. The waking up book and the waking up app is about making meditation
completely accessible without any other dogmas or doctrines, making that insight available
as our method of meditating. The argument with the waking up app is that we can see that insight
and take that as our predominant form of practice, there's a lot of content on there these days with
great modern day teachers. Next up on the list is Loch Kelly, you can find Loch Kelly on youtube
and you can also read his book Shift Into Freedom I think that's his latest one. In my experience
his words are a little more ambiguous but they're a bit more spacious and formless
and you more sense this shift through being rather than understanding. In my experience there's
also two types of people who will relate to these different resources better than one or the other,
there's a lot of ideas with non-dual teachings that you need not necessarily understand all this
because the understandings are irrelevant once you can arrive in that place. So potentially
just figuring out how to arrive in that place and having a sense of being in that place that could
be the predominant way that we move forward. Number three, probably one of the most I don't
know if you can say iconic but famous or most utilised buddhist texts. The Heart Sutra of
course the writing of the heart sutra will be a bit alienating for us if we're new to ideas of
non-duality, but the heart sutra is a very short read so you can do it today. And it's a good one
just to have in your mind because it's really one of the standout buddhist texts which clearly
reveal or speak about the nature of consciousness, the nature of mind, they're calling it emptiness.
That text really clearly speaks about that gleaming, this new way of being or this new
insight into the nature of our experience. There's also good chance which are derived from that text
or mantras so you can also meditate on that text. Number four I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj
is a series of questions and answers with this famous Indian sage. It's been deeply influential
in non-dual conversations and the question-answer form makes it very captivating because it is just
students asking their own questions along the path and getting answers from someone
who is maintaining the line or is really speaking embodied in their responses. It's clear from their
responses how they word them that the relationship to non-duality or consciousness experience being,
so self, is strong and where those words are coming from. And this time the teachings are
coming out of a non-buddhist context, more of an advice of Advaita Vedanta context which is really
the other predominant non-dual, uh, contextually Indian philosophy out there and they've very much
got an approach which leads to the exact same end, but what they emphasise and focus on is unique to
their system. So between The Heart Sutra and I Am That we're in good stead, and especially when
we then add in my final recommendation which is Fearless Simplicity by Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Fearless
Simplicity is rooted right in a Tibetan buddhist context, The Heart Sutra is a Mahayana buddhist
context which is distinctly different from Tibetan buddhism. Fearless Simplicity is very much how I
approach non-duality and advanced meditation and recognising this shift in my being, it's what
I spend the most time learning about and it's how i practice and whilst those other resources
will definitely build you up over time Fearless Simplicity is one book which will move through
pretty systematically meditation. There's a bit of a learning curve there because as I say it
is an advanced book and there are some concepts which aren't entirely explained, but at least on
this list this is one resource which after one consumption of it you'll have some idea of what
you're doing. And then you can go into either any of those avenues and you should end up as a nice
enlightened being. I think sometimes with meditation we want it to be too simple,
we want it to be very calm and polite and easy or we just want the answers to get into really deep
meditation. But in my experience meditation is not too much different from any other skill you learn,
over time you learn more, you get better then you unlock new skills or new practices and then you
keep training there. And therefore I think it is a long run, but identifying that it is training,
I think that's very essential. That way we're not fooling ourselves into what the task is, to really
transform ourselves. These resources amongst others will help us practice really sufficiently
and I think that's what we need to do ultimately if we're interested in this pursuit. So may we all
remain motivated and inspired to reach the final frontier along this intrepid journey,
this interesting landscape of advanced meditation practice. May we all be precise and impeccable.
May we be proficient and then, shall we all not come to know such wonderful ways of being.
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