A few resources I’ve enjoyed along the way…

Free Resources

Samaneri Jayasāra’s YouTube Channel — Samaneri Jayasāra is a Buddhist nun who records herself reading sacred texts. Her YouTube channel is truly a pot of gold. She has also provided downloadable versions of her recordings here. A few of my favorites include:

• Advaita Vedanta

  • The Ashtavakra Gita: Part I and Part II

  • The Ribhu Gita: Chapter 26

  • Ramana Maharshi: Key Pointers for Meditation

  • Ramana Maharshi: Who Am I?

  • Anandamayi Ma: The Divine Instrument

  • Anandamayi Ma: Selected Teachings and Pointers for Meditation

• Kashmir Shaivism

  • Pratyabijñāhṛdayam: Realization of Our True Heart

  • The Spandakarika: The Song of the Sacred Tremor

  • Lalla: Selected Verses for Meditation, Part 1 and Part 2

• Christian Mysticism

  • Meister Eckhart: Existence is God

  • Meister Eckhart: An Inner Solitude

  • Bernadette Roberts: No Self

  • Brother Lawrence: The Practice of Presence

• Sufism

  • Ibn ‘Arabi / Balyani: Know Yourself

Rupert Spira’s YouTube Channel — Another true gold mine. You can start anywhere. Enjoy the conversations or the guided meditations.

Francis Lucille’s YouTube Channel — Beautiful conversations about truth and a wellspring of guided meditations.

Laura Lucille’s Meditations — I have always found Laura’s meditations to be incredibly beautiful and deep. When attending her live meditations, I was touched by the astounding depth and quality of the silence.

Mother Meera’s Live Daily Meditations — Mother Meera is an Indian mystic who hosts free, live and silent meditations every day.

Swami Sarvapriyananda’s YouTube Channel — Swami Sarvapriyananda is the minister of the Vedanta Society of New York and provides a wealth of knowledge about classical Vedanta.

Books

Contemporary Non-Duality

• Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira

• The Nature of Consciousness: Essays On the Unity of Mind and Matter by Rupert Spira

• The Heart of Prayer by Rupert Spira

• The Perfume of Silence by Francis Lucille

• Eternity Now by Francis Lucille

• Why Materialism is Baloney by Bernardo Kastrup

Advaita Vedanta

• Atma Darshan and Atma Nirvriti by Atmananda Krishna Menon

• Notes on Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) by Atmananda Krishna Menon and Nitya Tripta

• The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita by Thomas Byrom

• I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj

• Who Am I? by Ramana Maharshi

• The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharshi and Arthur Osborne

Kashmir Shaivism

• The Recognition of Our Own Heart: Ponderings On The Pratyabhijñahrydayam by Joan Ruvinsky

• I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded by Lal Ded

Christian Mysticism

• The Experience of No-Self by Bernadette Roberts

• What is Self? A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness by Bernadette Roberts

• Yeshua: The Unknown Jesus by Lewis Keizer

Sufism

• Know Yourself: An Explanation of the Oneness of Being by Ibn ‘Arabi / Balyani (Translated by Cecilia Twinch)

• Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah by by Wali Ali Meyer, Bilal Hyde, Faisal Muqaddam and Shabda Kahn

Philosophy

• Love, Power and Justice by Paul Tillich

• I And Thou by Martin Buber

Science

• The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman

• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli