Teachings -- Satsangs, Q & A sessions, Writings, etc.

The early writings were compiled from questions asked to me and the replies. Parts are summaries of questions and answers during informal satsangs in my home in Copenhagen, parts are from email correspondences. Other writings are plain texts I composed for the sake of teaching or simply having fun. 2006 and some of 2007 are mostly about "my" realization and about the process most go through. But after that the writings are more impersonal and more to the point.

2006
1. What is Self-realization?
2. Self-realization as nothing or bliss

2007
1. Self-realization and blissful recognition of the Self in other
2. Self-realization and the I
3. Self-realization and the I
4. The difference between bliss and lovebliss
5. From bliss to lovebliss
6. On dumping the ego
7. Dark Nights of the Soul - or Enlightened Pain

2008
1. Types of Bliss. Ecstasy, Ananda and Paramananda
2. Stages of enlightenment in relation to bliss vs. no-bliss
3. Observing the observer
4. Practicing minimum distraction and quick return to Self in meditation
5. Misconceptions about enlightenment -- and their corrections
6. Adyashanti's three phases of realization -- and the state beyond

2009
1. Four notions of the Self -- Illusion -- Critique of Vedanta
2. The Essence of Self-recognition. A new translation and commentary on Pratyabhijnahridayam, a central text of Kashmir Shaivism
3. Questions about practice
4. A long dialogue
5. Patanjali's definition of yoga
6. Close to Awakening

2010
1. I AM is thick as a brick. Pure Being is prior

Recommended reading

Consciousness and the Absolute, The final talks of Nisargadatta Maharaj, Edited by Jean Dunn, Acorn Press, 2006.
This book is intertesting since it deals with transcending I AM-ness. Nisargadatta's classic "I am That" focuses more on reaching I AM-ness and only casually touches on transcending that.

Play of Consciousness, Swami Muktananda. SYDA Foundation.
Muktananda's autobiography is a classic about an extreme journey of shaktipat with almost absurd kriyas. To me this book has a special place in my heart since it is the only time I have heard any one mention the supreme initiation be the Blue Being.

This House is on Fire, Anandi Ma.
Anandi Ma's biography of her great guru, Dhyanyogi. Dhyanyogi was a shaktipat master of a lineage going back to Rama.

Autobiography of a Yogi, Swami Yogananda's great classic.

KASHMIR SHAIVISM TEXTS:

The following are translated by Jaideva Singh. Published by Motilal Banarsidass, India. They are/were available on Amazon.

Pratyabhijnahridayam, The Secret of Self-recognition. Seem my translation above.
Vijnanabhairava, or Divine Consciousness.
Spanda Karikas.
Shiva Sutras.
 

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