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Adyashanti: the Zen teacher who stepped outside the line
Fourteen years of zazen, permission to teach from his roshi, and a public step back from any Buddhist identity. The arc from that step to the books, courses, and conversations that followed is one of the cleanest case studies in how a non-institutional contemplative voice forms. Continue reading →
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How Christian contemplative practice came back
In 1975, three Trappist monks at Spencer, Massachusetts assembled a 20-minute lay practice from a 14th-century English text. The book, the course, and the heirs that followed are the visible side of a fifty-year recovery.
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Practising presence: the instruction under Tolle's bestseller pages
More than thirty million copies of The Power of Now have moved through readers' hands. The instruction inside is one specific contemplative move, repeated under many names, and it is neither manifestation nor Buddhist mindfulness.