Direct Approach: "You Are the Truth" -- Jean Klein

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"There are basically two known approaches to truth, the gradual and the direct.

In the direct approach the premise is that you are the truth, there is nothing

to achieve. Every step to achieve something is going away from it. The 'path,'

which strictly speaking is not a path from somewhere to somewhere, is only to

welcome, to be open to the truth, the I am. When you have once glimpsed your

real nature it solicits you. There is therefore nothing to do, only be attuned

to it as often as invited. There is not a single element of volition in this

attuning. It is not the mind which attunes to the I am but the I am which

absorbs the mind.

"In the gradual approach you are bound to the mind. The mind is under the

illusion that if it changes, alters states, stops, etc., it will be absorbed in

what is beyond it. This misconception leads to the most tragic state in which a

truth-seeker can find himself: he has bound himself in his own web, a web of the

most subtle duality." -- Jean Klein

 

Inspired by the late Jean Klein, teacher of Advaita Vedanta (nonduality), this

forum aims to bring together those who have been touched by the teachings of

Jean Klein, Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon) and other expressions of the direct

approach to truth. Please share your questions, your stories, your pointers to

the Ultimate.

 

The list home page is DirectApproach/

 

Mark