Guest guest Posted January 30, 2002 Report Share Posted January 30, 2002 Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna. A forthcoming book. Read a preview and pre-publication reviews. Jed is an enlightened teacher in Iowa who has drawn students to his 'accidental ashram' for the last six years. He is a natural, gifted teacher whose ordinariness is striking, when compared to many nonduality teachers out there. I read the book and liked how Jed came to life in the pages, and how he demonstrated the way he instructs a variety of students at different stages of understanding. He constantly refers to spiritual enlightenment as abiding non-dual awareness. Also he uses only one technique, which he calls Spiritual Autolysis, which is basically Ramana's inquiry, Who am I?, or What is me?. The difference is that he requires his students to write down the answers. He feels the inquiry works better that way. No doubt it helps see how his students are coming along. He comes across as being very good at what he does. I think a study of his book could help anyone be a better teacher of spiritual things because he provides tools. I know that sounds a little contrived to use such tools, but sometimes it may be necessary to resort to them, depending on who one's talking to. For example, what if you're talking to your 17 year old relative? You may not be accustomed to talking about nondual reality to a person of that age. Maybe a couple of simple teaching tools would come in handy. Or what if you're talking to someone first exploring spiritual subjects and you're only accustomed to talking to seasoned people on the lists? It might be worth thinking about anyway. <http://www.wisefoolpress.com> Jerry <http://nonduality.com> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2002 Report Share Posted January 30, 2002 -----Original Message----- Jerry Katz [umbada (AT) ns (DOT) sympatico.ca] Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:08 PM hs; wideopenwindows; gururatings; yearning; theendoftheroperanch; thewaystation Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing bold">Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna. A forthcoming book. Read a preview and pre-publication reviews. Jed is an enlightened teacher in Iowa who has drawn students to his 'accidental ashram' for the last six years. He is a natural, gifted teacher whose ordinariness is striking, when compared to many nonduality teachers out there. mso-color-alt:windowtext"> I read the book and liked how Jed came to life in the pages, and how he demonstrated the way he instructs a variety of students at different stages of understanding. He constantly refers to spiritual enlightenment as abiding non-dual awareness. Also he uses only one technique, which he calls Spiritual Autolysis, which is basically Ramana's inquiry, Who am I?, or What is me?. The difference is that he requires his students to write down the answers. Who’s writing? font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial; mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings"> symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings">J 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">. What’s written? Gimme a break Jerry, OK 12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings">J 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">. Yo Mama’s brother Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2002 Report Share Posted January 31, 2002 > Who's writing? :-). > What's written? > Gimme a break Jerry, OK :-). > Yo Mama's brother > Harsha Hi Harsha -- Yup, ready for a break. Mello cello, Yo Yo Ma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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