RiverSnake Posted May 19, 2015 Currently reading this manga and really enjoying it: http://www.mangapanda.com/tate-no-yuusha-no-nariagari Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted May 19, 2015 I'm back to The Once and Future King. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jox Posted May 30, 2015 Recently, Pangu Shen Gong ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredaze Posted June 10, 2015 Books I like to keep nearby: I Ching Tao te Ching Collection of Books on Herbs Sayings of the Buddha The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius something by Nietzsche 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Posted June 10, 2015 I have not found any that were not at least very good, though for quite a time I had only read Blavatsky and Leadbeater and if I had it to do over again I might have skipped Blavatsky for the other works. The Secret Doctrine is what most associate with the Theosophical Society but for the most part it is over-engineering - of little practicle value by comparison to the amount of detailed but highly unverifiable information (it is verifiable but lightyears from the entrance exams). (Blavatsky is excellent in any case). All of Leadbeater is interesting and verifiable and helpful - and where the rubber meets the road. This is also true of Annie Besant - she is great - very clear headed and disciplined in her wording but as ballsy as Blavatsky. Blavatsky was a drinking smoking piece of work - I can see why Gurdieff was so jealous! The following are good and I think free at The Project Gutenberg: Elementary Theosophy by L W Rogers would be a good start - free for certain and more than just elementary. An introduction to Yoga. By Annie Besant - free for certain - very good from time to time for helping one to keep on track. An outline of occult science. By Rudolf Steiner - he can come in handy. If you are well along - purchase Experience & Philosophy. By Franklin Merrill Wolff Actually you should have this in your library regardless. If you break through to Awakening or not it is remarkably fine and disciplined in how it is written and inclusive of the experience. It is also two books: One is a very fine accounting of the happening from the days weeks and months following. The second is two years later - a recounting of the same Awakening from the more seasoned perspective of several years. Most of the translations from Eastern works are so entirely far from the mark in describing larger events within practice and including culminating pinnacle events. So much time is devoted to the minutia that one does not get the greater picture - and the descriptions a just so far off as to make the student unable to have a clue as to what might have just happened. I stumbled across an old copy of Bessant's Ancient Wisdom and found it very interesting. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RiverSnake Posted June 24, 2015 Currently reading Spirit Speak by Ivo Dominguez. This book is badass. It's fleshing out a ton of my own experiences and teaching me a great deal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wilfred Posted July 1, 2015 couple on the go: Burgs - The Flavour of Liberation Vol 1 & 2 - a big meditation/Dhamma manual. huge amount of knowledge on the path and its energetics made accessible for modern readers. Chalie Morley - Dreams of Awakening - on lucid dreaming, quite basic but covers a lot of ground - spiritual context, scientific angle and techniques to increase their occurrence. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerostao Posted July 9, 2015 at the moment reading this one http://www.amazon.com/Hermits-Story-Stories-Rick-Bass/dp/0618380442/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436458734&sr=1-1&keywords=the+hermit%27s+story&pebp=1436458735859&perid=0V281GKB52RZ1QCB4HX1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Basil Posted July 26, 2015 Just picked up Awakening to the Tao (Liu I-Ming, Cleary trans). I just recently finished Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. As for the nightstand, I don't actually have one, but the regulars that are always at my finger tips are TTC and P'u Ming's Oxherding Pictures and Verses (Red Pine, trans). I also keep 365 Tao in my desk at work. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sufiman Posted August 5, 2015 On my bed, because I don't have a nighstand: Man and His Becoming According to The Vedanta Initiation and Spiritual Realization The Holy Koran (Pickthall translation) == I'm also reading The Travels of An Alchemist, a medieval book about a Taoist master who was summoned to go speak with Genghis Khan and who was made the main religious authority of China... And I'm almost done with Nihilism: The Root of The Revolution of the Modern Age 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Basil Posted August 9, 2015 ...I'm also reading The Travels of An Alchemist, a medieval book about a Taoist master who was summoned to go speak with Genghis Khan and who was made the main religious authority of China... That sounds fascinating! What are your impressions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sufiman Posted August 17, 2015 That sounds fascinating! What are your impressions? I haven't had much time for reading lately and actually seem to have lost the book, but when I find it or re-order it and finish reading it I might start a thread sharing my impressions and quotes from the book... I read it years ago and found it boring, but that was because I was mainly interested in the Mongols and not in Taoism. Here's one of my favorite passages: ...the local population was exasperated by famine and there was perpetual brigandage. Fearing trouble, the Governor went to live on the north side of the river. The Master however, consented to live in this palace, sating with a sigh: "The Man of Tao lets fate lead him whither it will and measure his days as it may choose. Even when a naked sword is at his throat, he does not blench. How then should he be in panic at a rising that has not even taken place? Moreover Good and Evil go their own way, without harming one another". His followers were thus reassured. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Songtsan Posted November 24, 2015 (edited) The Heart of the Dragon - Alasdair Clayre A Brief History of Medicine - Paul Strathern Vagabonding - Rolf Potts ...And the Truth Shall Set You Free - David Icke Moonwalking With Einstein - Joshua Foer SotGF - trans. Cleary Taoist Yoga Allchemy & Immortality - Lu K'uan Yu Ascent to Civilization - John Gowlett Edited November 24, 2015 by Songtsan 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Harley Posted November 24, 2015 Ways to Better Breathing - Carola Speads The Way to Awaken - Robert Masters Everyday Zen - Joko Beck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MooNiNite Posted November 28, 2015 (edited) Good books sit on my night stand. (just kidding) Edited November 28, 2015 by MooNiNite Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted December 2, 2015 Currently in use: "The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics," by Julian Barbour "Ling Bao Tong Zhi Neng Nei Gong Shu," by Wang Liping "Integrated Chinese Character Workbook," level 1, part 2, Cheng and Tsui Chinese Language Series (well, this one I don't read so much as write in it. ) 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zhou Zhouqi Posted December 5, 2015 Curent selection: 1.Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood 2.Milan Kundera - Life is elsewhere 3.Alber Camus - The Fall 4.Wang Liping - Ling Bao Tong Zhi Neng Nei Gong Shu 5.Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vonkrankenhaus Posted December 5, 2015 Finnegan's Wake The Takeuti Documents -VonKrankenhaus 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Harley Posted December 6, 2015 Finnegan's Wake The Takeuti Documents -VonKrankenhaus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Harley Posted December 6, 2015 Finnigan's Wake, now that's an esoteric book! What are the Takeuti Documents? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted December 14, 2015 Daoist Internal Alchemy: Jerry Alan Johnson Chi Nei Tsang: Mantak Chia Daoist Nei Gong: Damo Mitchell Opening the Dragon Gate: Wang Liping 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jox Posted December 28, 2015 I just bought a four e books and one book by David Twicken ... Modern bushido The Luo colaterals The divergent channels Eight extraoridinary channels Spiritual qi gong 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
