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Backward and Foreword

1.This and other quoted information about the workshop was taken from a copy of the program for the Naropa 1974 Summer Session, generously provided by Richard Chamberlain of the Communications Department at Naropa University.

Introduction

1. Jakob Böhme, The Confessions of Jakob Böhme, edited by W. S. Palmer (1954).

2. Kabir, Songs of Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1915).

3. Thomas Merton, A Search for Wisdom and Spirit:Thomas Merton’s Theology of the Self, edited by Anne E. Carr (1989).

4. Peter Ouspensky, The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution (1945).

Chapter 2: Karma and Reincarnation

1. Rumi, The Pocket Rumi Reader, edited by Kabir Helminski (2001).

2. Jack London, Star-Rover (1915).

3. Lama Anagarika Govinda, quoted in the foreword to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, by W.Y. Evans-Wentz (foreword by Donald Lopez) (2000).

4. The Buddha, The Words of the Buddha (An Outline of the Teachings of the Buddha in the Words of the Pali Canon), compiled by Nyanatiloka (undated).

Chapter 3: Karma Yoga

1. Plotinus, The Six Enneads, translated by Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page (1991).

2. Meister Eckehart, The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense, translated and edited by Bernard McGinn and Edmund College (1981).

3. Mohandas Gandhi, The Gospel of Selfless Action, or The Gita According to Gandhi (1946–2000).

4. Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtian:The Lessons of Don Juan (1972).

5. The Book of Tao, translated by R. B. Blakney (1955).

6. Meher Baba, Is That So? (1978).

Chapter 4: Jnana Yoga

1. Gurdjieff quoted in P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Frag mentsof an Unknown Teaching (1974).

2. Ramana Maharshi, in his poem “Reality in 40 Verses (and Supplement)” in The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, edited by Arthur Osborne (1972).

Chapter 5: Brahman

1. Janeshwar, Janeshwari (a thirteenth-century commentary on the Gita), quoted at www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Religions/texts/Janesh.html.

2. Rumi, quoted at www.iranonline.com/literature/Articles/Persian-literature/Rumi.

3. Ramana Maharshi, The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, edited by Arthur Osborne (1972).

4. Franklin Merrill Wolfe, Consciousness Without an Object (1973).

Chapter 6: Sacrifice and Mantra

1. P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1974).

2. The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way, translated by Helen Bacovcin (1985).

Chapter 7: Renunciation and Purification

1. Mohandas Gandhi, Epigrams from Gandhiji, compiled by S. R. Tikekar.

2. Mohandas Gandhi, “The Gita According to Gandhi,” in a translation which appeared in the columns of Young India on June 8, 1931.

Chapter 8: Devotion and the Guru

1. Hafiz of Shiraz, Divan-y-Hafiz, edited by Mirza Mohammad Qazvini and Dr. Qasem Ghani (1941).

2. For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai, translated by Andrew Schelling (1993).

3. Ramana Maharshi, Spiritual Instruction of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1974).

4. Swami Muktananda, Play of Consciousness: A Spiritual Autobiography (1978).

Chapter 10: Dying

1. Ramana Maharshi, The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, edited by Arthur Osborne (1972).

2. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, compiled by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki (1994).

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