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5 Years With a Zen Master
by August Turak
When Augie Turak dropped out of college to study under Zen master Richard Rose, he had no idea what he was getting into. "I thought I would check him out, judge him and his path," he says. "I didn't realize that by the time I was really into it, the 'me' checking it out would be a completely different person."
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What is Zen?
by August Turak
Businessman and lifetime spiritual seeker August Turak has 30 years of experience explaining Zen in layman's terms. Turak contends that the heart of Zen isn't in the robes or meditation postures—it's the fact that Zen is the most direct path to spiritual insight he's ever seen.
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Einstein, Bill Gates, and the Buddha
by Kenny Felder
How do you live the life you decide to live, instead of the life that just happens to you? Can logic and common sense actually help you answer questions about God? Can philosophical discussions actually lead to real life changes? Kenny Felder addresses these questions in his witty, interactive lecture.
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Are You a Robot?
by Kenny Felder
Kenny Felder spent years working on artificial intelligence at Microsoft, while running a spiritual group from his home. Now he challenges you to answer the question—are you anything more than a walking, talking artificial intelligence algorithm?
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Mister Rose
Mister Rose is an intimate look at a West Virginian farmer many people call a Zen Master because of the depth of his wisdom and the spiritual system he conveys to his students. Richard Rose is the truest of teachers, one who has "been there," one who has had a cataclysmic experience of spiritual enlightenment. Running time: 1 hr 30 min (Part 1) 2hr 32 min (Part 2)
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Prison Sutras
Before being convicted in 1985, Fleet Maull was a practicing Buddhist who led a double life as a drug smuggler. When sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, he faced his self-deception at last. The Prison Sutras documentary was a finalist in the 1996 NC Film Festival, and was screened at the International Buddhist Film Festival in January/February, 2005. Running time: 33 min.
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Thinking the Unthinkable
by Dave Gold
David Gold—successful trial lawyer, author of After the Absolute, partner in multi-million dollar software company Raleigh Group International (recently acquired by MuTek Solutions), and lifetime spiritual seeker—discusses the risks and rewards of living by a different set of rules.
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From Vietnam to Zen
by Bart Marshall
In 1967, Bart Marshall, as a Green Beret in Vietnam, was confronted with a confusing barrage of intense experiences and emotions that eventually cracked his narrow view of reality and let him glimpse a part of himself he never imagined existed. His newfound awareness of the possibilities of the Self propelled him into a search for answers to the questions that now plagued him about existence, death, and life after death.
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After the Absolute: Real Life Adventures with a Backwoods Buddha
by Dave Gold
Foreword by Joseph Chilton Pearce
Richard Rose was an unlikely Zen master: A rugged, plainspoken, ornery West Virginian, he scraped out a living raising goats, planting crops and painting houses. But Richard Rose had a secret: Having once vowed to "find the Truth or die trying," Rose experienced a cataclysmic spiritual awakening at age 30 that thrust him into "Everything-ness and Nothing-ness," or what he called "the Absolute."
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Radical Spirit
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by various authors including SKS's Georg Buehler
This is a collection of 28 essays on spiritual topics, principally by "Generation X" authors. One of the authors, Georg Buehler, describes a typically chaotic Gen X life, with a career spanning from biochemist to night watchman to computer programmer, and an intensely spiritual focus throughout. Buehler, a long-time member of the Self Knowledge Symposium, also leads workshops in writing as a spiritual discipline.
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God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places
by Niles Goldstein
Niles Goldstein is the founding rabbi of The New Shul in Greenwich Village, New York, and he was a speaker at the Inward Bound conference. This book is a chronicle of some of his adventures on the spiritual path: part Hillel, part Indiana Jones, all adrenalin-filled.
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Lost Souls: Finding Hope in the Heart of Darkness
by Niles Goldstein
Another insight-filled work by Niles Goldstein! To illustrate the different stages we often encounter when we feel lost—whether the trigger for our disorientation and despair is the loss of a loved one or a job, or the result of an injury or depression—Goldstein interweaves contemporary stories of men and women he has met through his work as a rabbi and law enforcement chaplain with those of biblical figures such as Cain, David and Bathsheba, Samson, Tamar, and several of the prophets.
The Law of Suggestion
by Santanelli
Included are detailed instructions on how to hypnotize. Santanelli approached the study of hypnosis as a study of the mind. Through hypnosis, this turn-of-the-century genius explored healing, telepathy, self-suggestion, disease, heredity, and more.
Now available: the following books by Richard Rose, Augie Turak's mentor!
The Direct Mind Experience
by Richard Rose
This is a recommended introduction to Richard Rose. It is a compilation of lectures, interviews, and discussions addressing such topics as Zen, dreams, moods, miracles, psychology, perception, intuition, and many more. The dynamism and spontaneity of Richard Rose as speaker and teacher is well captured.
The Meditation Papers
by Richard Rose
A unique, but sensible approach to meditation—a system that advises looking for traumatic instances of the past to bring about an understanding of your true Self. It answers the same questions asked by sages such as Ramana Maharshi and Gurdjieff, not to mention the same questions asked by all honest seekers.
Psychology of the Observer
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by Richard Rose
A small book packed with information; a road map to interior discovery. It presents the author's examination of perception, levels of mind and spiritual progress, and the method of self observation. In it is a formula for mundane man to reach the maximum mental-spiritual experience. Such a book can save an individual a lifetime of random searching.
The Albigen Papers
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by Richard Rose
A shattering exposé of social, psychological, and spiritual illusions. The aim of this book is to approach reality. It is an indispensable guidebook to the path of self-knowledge and realization. It contains an examination of spiritual systems, blocks and aids to spiritual progress, and a common sense approach to spiritual seeking. Also included is a poetic account of Richard Rose's own spiritual experience—"The Three Books of the Absolute."
Carillon: Poems, Essays, and Philosophy of Richard Rose
by Richard Rose
This delightful and enlightening book will carry you from the poetic to the profound. The idealism and romanticism of youth, the realism of maturity, and the wisdom of spiritual attainment are eloquently and poignantly expressed in Richard Rose's poetry and prose.
Energy Transmutation, Between-ness and Transmission
by Richard Rose
One of Richard Rose's earlier works written for those who have found a direction through his lectures and other books. It is an examination of the role of tension in life, the creation and conservation of human energy, and the use of that energy for spiritual attainment.
Profound Writings, East and West
by Richard Rose
An inspiring collection, selected by Richard Rose, of hard-to-find writings from spiritual traditions around the world. Included are works by Ramana Maharshi, H.P. Blavatsky, Francis Thompson, and Franz Hartmann, as well as selections from the Upanishads, the Platform Sutra, and Elegant Sayings.
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From October, 1998 through October, 2003, the Self Knowledge Symposium published 27 issues of The Symposium magazine. Each issue was filled with stories from college students about the interaction of spirituality with their daily lives.
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Complete Simplicity
On the front is the attractive SKS logo. On the back is a quote by TS Eliot that sums up the entire goal of the SKS: "a condition of complete simplicity (costing not less than everything)."
Inward Bound
Now you can have your own T-Shirt from the exciting Inward Bound Conference at North Carolina State University. Front: "Adventure is not outside, it is within." -David Grayson Back: "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us..." -Marcel Proust
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