List your top 5 Teacher and/or Authors Please

[ravenscroft]

Hey Folks

sorry if you have done this before

List your top 5 Teacher and/or Authors Please (dead or alive)

I will start

1. U.G. Krishnamurti
2. Terence Gray (Wei Wu Wei)
3. Richard Rose
4. Rainer Maria Rilke
5. Jed McKenna



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[klaus]

Top 5

G. Spencer Brown

Rudolf Otto

Adi Da Samraj

Alex Grey

Alan Watts

[Guest]

Adi Da Samraj had lots of sex slaves and slept with loads of his students. If all these allegations were true then he wasn't a spiritual teacher.

In the mid 1980s, allegations by former devotees of financial, sexual and emotional abuses within Adidam garnered international media attention

[klaus]

Jun 9, 2010 18:29:11 GMT -5 @Guest said:

Adi Da Samraj had lots of sex slaves and slept with loads of his students. If all these allegations were true then he wasn't a spiritual teacher.

In the mid 1980s, allegations by former devotees of financial, sexual and emotional abuses within Adidam garnered international media attention

I am not going to explain, defend or justify Adi Da to anyone.
Read his works, listen to his talks and decide for yourself.

As stated in a previous post, I can only speak for myself and my experience was very positive with Adi Da.

I can unequivocally say that Adi Da was a realized being.

There have been negative allegations about spiritual teachers since time began whether true or false.

But let me ask you where is it written that a spiritual teacher cannot be an ass and realized at the same time.

Paradox, yes. All things are possible.

[karen]

Nisargadatta Maharaj - I AM THAT <-- full text
U. G. Krishnamurti <-- full text of all books attributed to him

Those are the main resources I've used.

[desertrain]

The clearest and most helpful for me thus far:

1. David Scoma
2. Ed Muzika
3. Ramana Maharshi
4. Takuin Minamoto
5. Adyashanti

[sherry]

INTERESTING to see so many new (and familiar) names!! Here's another 5:

1. Scott Kiloby
2. Byron Katie
3. David Carse
4. Eckhart Tolle
5. Kenneth Wapnick

[ravenscroft]

Jun 10, 2010 12:05:33 GMT -5 desertrain said:

The clearest and most helpful for me thus far:

1. David Scoma
2. Ed Muzika
3. Ramana Maharshi
4. Takuin Minamoto
5. Adyashanti

great list

both Scoma and Adya almost made it on mine

[ravenscroft]

Jun 10, 2010 13:13:43 GMT -5 sherry said:

INTERESTING to see so many new (and familiar) names!! Here's another 5:

1. Scott Kiloby
2. Byron Katie
3. David Carse
4. Eckhart Tolle
5. Kenneth Wapnick

another excellent list, Katie & Carse are awesome!

[Myself]

1. desertrain
2. sherry
3. burt
4. dave
5. seaside

[elduderino]

1. Douglas Harding
2. John Sherman
3. Robert Adams
4. Franklin Merrell-Wolff
5. Music of Klaus Wiese and Mathias Grassow

[karen]

Yes of course John Sherman. How could I have left him out!? Thanks again from mentioning him back in the day dude.

[elduderino]

Actually my first intention was to give John Sherman the first place

There is something about him... I don't know how to put it in words. The only teacher (who is alive) whom I trust totally. Not even my personality or mind, but something in me trusts him totally. Interesting feeling.

[dave]

Karen -

Thanks for the link to Nisargadatta Maharaj. I had not read anything by him - inspiring!

(And John Sherman - quite the character...)

[synapticrythms]

Top 5 of breakthrough epiphany type stuff:

1. Jed McKenna
2. PD Ouspensky
3. UG Krishnamurti
4. A Course in Miracles - Helen Schucman (channeling)
5. Ed Muzika (distilled practices derived from Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi and Robert Adams)*

There have been many others. Eckhart Tolle pointed the way a couple of times. So did these other people and spiritual works: J. Krishnamurti, Lao Tzu, Jane Roberts (channeling), the Bhagavad Gita, Meister Eckhart, Walt Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglas Harding, and others.

*I found this link through this web site, and I am always grateful for those who post things like this. itisnotreal.com