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[Anonymous No.11124824]

What was the best spiritual book you've ever read? That gave you the clearest explanation of the essence of God or 'ultimate reality? Not necessarily Christian.

[Anonymous No.11124841]

The Noble Quran - القرآن الكريم

[Anonymous No.11124842]

>>11124824
Leaves of grass

[Anonymous No.11124845]

>>11124824
eckart tolle
alan watts
tao te ching

[Anonymous No.11124852]

The Ethics, I think...?
If not, perhaps Castaneda's Don Juan cycle or any kind of work in the field of the phenomenology/history of religion, even though you might argue they are less "spiritually uplifting" than they are a dissection of the sacred - but in the end, they give you an idea of the essence of God, ultimate reality, whatever you want to call it.

[Anonymous No.11124857]

Osho books on tantra. It surclasses the classics.

[Anonymous No.11124859]

>>11124842
Good recommendation, one I didn't expect. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.11124862]

>>11124857
>Osho

[Anonymous No.11124869]

>>11124845
>eckart tolle
This is for middle age white women, anon.
>alan watts
Pop philosophy. Has some good in it, but it's sensationalistic and shallow.
>tao te ching
Overrated, infinitely inferior to the Zhuangzi.
>The Ethics
You mean the book by the Jewish philosopher Spinoza?
>>11124857
Osho was a cult leader and criminal, man. Watch the docu on Netflix.

[Anonymous No.11124871]

>>11124824
this

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

[Anonymous No.11124891]

Nisargadatta Maharaj. Especially his later years when he was dying. Consciousness and the Absolute, Nectar of Immortality etc.

Very sharp, powerful and shattering if it truly hits you.

[Anonymous No.11124897]

>>11124871
also if you like pure advaita ribhu gita is also good

[Anonymous No.11124922]

>>11124824
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil.

>Creation: good broken up into pieces and scattered throughout evil.

>We are what is furthest from God, situated at the extreme limit from which it is not absolutely impossible to come back to him. In our being, God is torn. We are the crucifixion of God. The love of God for us is a passion. How could that which is good love that which is evil without suffering? And that which is evil suffers too in loving that which is good. The mutual love of God and man is suffering.

>There is every degree of distance between the creature and God. A distance where the love of God is impossible. Matter, plants, animals. Here, evil is so complete that it destroys itself: there is no longer any evil: mirror of divine innocence. We are at the point where love is just possible. It is a great privilege, since the love which unites is in proportion to the distance. God has created a world which is not the best possible, but which contains the whole range of good and evil. We are at the point where it is as bad as possible; for beyond is the stage where evil becomes innocence.

[Anonymous No.11125103]

>>11124922
English prof

[Anonymous No.11125140]

>>11124824
>Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

[Anonymous No.11125142]

truth cannot be written

[Anonymous No.11125146]

>>11124922
Based

Schelling's Inquiry into the Essence of Freedom and Ages of the World

[Anonymous No.11125172]

>>11125142
Is "truth cannot be written" true or false?
If true: contradiction.
If false: contradiction.

[Anonymous No.11125189]

>>11124824
>what was the best spiritual book you've ever read?
Phenomenology of Spirit
>>11125172
>trying to use your highfalutin "logic" in a thread on spirituality

[Anonymous No.11125193]

>>11124862
>>11124869
Being enlightened and being a good man are not the same thing. I see you yet have to abstract the experience itself than the paradigma in wich is expressed

[Anonymous No.11125212]

>>11125193
So you can be a criminal cult leader like Osho who fucks his "students" and is engaged in food poisoning of hundreds of people and still be enlightened?

[Anonymous No.11125375]

>>11125212
Being enlightened is not being a god superhero, this is the fruit of the religious context in which this ability is interpreted. Being enlightened is being able to reach a state of ego-death, communion with God (everything that exist), whatever you wanna call it, whenever you want. This doesn't make you smarter and doesn't make you more good. Being this the most important thing, I have to say also that for he poisoning was condemned his assistant and sex can be a big instrument in the quest for enlightenment. Nonetheless I have found profound insight and a clear description of meditation techniques in his books (specifically the tantra ones) like in no other books I have read on the subject. Nothing radically different but a very clear and capible explanation and presentation, and if you have been on this path for at least some time you will certainly know that this is the most important thing about mystical experience. They are simple, but very difficult to communicate.

I'm not saying this for defending Osho, i have no interest in it, i just think he is a teacher that still have something to say.
I have read his books amongst those of others spiritual teacher and I have found them valuable. I have no interest at all in his life, his cult and everything else related