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Elegant, you made a suggestion a while back to

check out Power of Now by Tolle. I'm getting a lot out

of it. Thanks.<br> <br>Regardless of my post in

which I expressed apprehensions about Buddhist

philosophy, I'm glad to have done fruitfull investigation. I

see my previous fears of diffussing my sadhana as

fear of new ways of looking at the big picture of

practice as spiritual evolution.

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Galaxy, I think you have me confused with someone

else, I've never heard of that book. But if you

recommend it I might check it out. I might have recommended

a different book. I'm glad your investigation has

been enlightening.

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Perhaps you reccomended "I Am That". I have yet

to read that. Someone mentioned that Tolle's book

has a lot of similarity to Advaita vendantism yet

without any use of the concepts from formal study. His

"discovery" was from a deep experience in which he collapsed

into an indivisible state (doing my best here). His is

not so much a memoir stating he has little use for

the past, as a dialogue of sorts, synthetic and real.

I've found it very helpfull in maintaining that so oft

used word "presence". A definite extension of practice

on the mat to off the mat and vice versa.

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Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta were certainly not incompatible for the Indian

yogi, Padmasampava who fused them with the Bon religion to form what we know

today as Tibetan Buddism.

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Tiber, can you recommend any books or online

resources about Padmasampava? I've come across references

to him here and there but nothing of any great

depth. I've never heard of him being associated with

Advaita Vedanta. Thanks.

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