Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Dwaraknath Reddy
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2008
- Pages : xvi, 117p.
- Weight : 240 gm.
- Size : 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
- ISBN-10 : 938278800X
- ISBN-13 : 978-9382788003
Description:
The approach is both scholarly and mystic. Pages soaked with fundamental Upanishadic ideas regarding mind, consciousness, ego, along with concepts of Relativity and quantum physics... scintillating lines... clarity of vision of author's flight on two wings of reason and intuition. - Swami Jitatmananda, physicist-turned-senior monk, Sri Ramkrishna Mission, Rajkot
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Guru Dayal
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2012
- Pages : 66
- Weight : 90 gm.
- Size : 6.3 x 4.5 x 0.2 inches
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071845
- ISBN-10 : 8188071846
Description:
I am not, but the apparent universe is my self. We all sentient beings are, Activated as puppets, mere concepts. We exist in each other's consciousness, As mere objects, mere appearances. Our existence is in Mind, is in constant Flow of Thoughts As mere concepts, Dreamlike existence. There is neither seer nor seen. There is only seeing, the function of seeing. All beings are mere illusory concepts. We are not the performer of any act, or any thought. Acts and thoughts are merely happening as conceptual functioning of totality. Every event, situation, every being, every happening is a miracle.
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Karl Renz
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2013
- Pages : 215p.
- Weight : 500 gm.
- Size : 6.2 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- ISBN-13 : 978-9382788843
- ASIN : 9382788840
Description:
Watch out. This is not another of those feel-good ‘oneness’ Advaita books. This one is a double-barrelled shotgun taking pot shots at the conceptualising mind -one barrel being fired by the great Indian mystic-sage Dattatreya (Avadhut) and the other by Karl Renz, the contemporary ‘Avadhut’. There is no escape here not just for the ‘fragmented-mind’ but also for the enlightened ‘whole-mind’!Though Echoes of Silence may come across as the quintessential playground for a relentless game of deconstructing the ‘mind’, you cannot however miss its omnipresent soothing core of Silence! Paradoxically, only Timeless, Motionless Silence echoes and pervades here despite the volley of ‘living’ words being fired by these two maverick ‘entities’ separated by centuries and geographies, who apparently have not much in common - except, perhaps, their ‘own’ non-existerice!
So, what comes out of all this? Non-existing masters prattling empty words to non-existing seekers seeking non-existing liberation? Can you, as the-one-existing-now, take it?! Find out for yourself... as you set forth on this turbulent voyage, with these two bafflingly wise masters at the helm, through the treacherous seas of the mind. Survival is not guaranteed - for any ‘one’!
And the good part? You survive, no complaints. You perish, no complaints again. You simply cannot find ‘the complainer’ here complaining to anyone about anything at all. All that remains is the carefree bliss of the eternal song of the duet of one... or none.
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- By : Karl Renz
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2012
- Pages : 220
- Weight : 270 gm.
- Size : 5.9 x 0.6 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10 : 8188071935
- ISBN-13 : 978-8188071937
Description:
‘You don’t need this book!’ Karl would say, ‘You stand to gain absolutely nothing from it. He would probably add he hopes nobody gains or understands anything from him. What’s more, he would mean it!
In Karl you encounter Advaita in its rawest form - undiluted, uncooked, unconditioned by thought and untainted by frills or more concepts. It’s bang-in-your-face, inescapable Advaita . . . ‘What-you-cannot-not-be!’
Jean-Paul Sartre said, ‘The Other is hell’. How does one define ‘The Other’? Are the people around us ‘The Others? Is the little echo in the mind also ‘The Other’? Who sees when the eyes open? Who defines? And then who defines the definer? Questions, questions.
As Karl eloquently describes it, ‘You realize yourself in the comfortin the absence and in the discomfort in the presence. Because the presence is always the experience of separation, from the beginning. Even Awareness needs an experience. The presence -separation, absence - no separation. Heaven and hell. And in both you realize yourself.’ He then takes even that away as well by saying ‘If there would be a reality in the presence or in the absence, then it will be hell again because it would be two.’
In his irreverent, uncompromising style Karl presents the abject futility of any and every endeavour towards finding ‘a way out’. Many newcomers scurry for cover when they encounter this ‘disheartening and cold’ approach. Some come back later, on the rare apperception of the absurdity of any ‘one’ wanting a ‘way out’! But the ones who do return, stay on to enjoy the Karl Renz circus of irrelevance: irrelevance of what is spoken, irrelevance of the listener and irrelevance of the speaker. Grace in action!
Karl Renz, now based in Mallorca, Spain, travels throughout the world simply responding to few of the numerous invitations to hold meetings. He has no agenda, no teaching, no techniques, and no desire for whatever gets said to be understood. To him, his talks have no special significance as being different from, say, the barking of a dog or the gibberish sounds that he sometimes makes during the talks - not different than the next sip of coffee! The next (moment), for him is simply the next, an embrace of helplessness!
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- by : Karl Renz
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 1997
- Pages : 284
- Weight : 420 gm.
- Size : 5.9 x 0.8 x 8.9 inches
- ISBN-10: 8188071676
- ISBN-13: 978-8188071678
Description:
“People always ask ‘what do you think about unknotting the karmic knots? ‘ That’s Vedanta. Unknotting your tendencies by techniques, by meditation or something. You come to me, we are doing the opposite! I put so many knots in your bloody brain that you cannot even imagine that they ever will be gone. Because succeeding by unknotting knots makes the first knot, that there is one who has knots, stronger and stronger. No, I go the opposite way. I make so many knots for you, maybe there is a point of giving up even trying to unknot them. Because then laziness is there, your Nature. The laziest of the laziest.“
Welcome to Circus Renz! Are you ready for a high-speed roller coaster ride through spiritual concepts that might blow your mind and turn your understanding upside down? The experience of reading Karl Renz might just take you somewhere where your mind can’t follow, leaving you with a refreshing sense of wonder about what just happened. ‘May it be as it is’ is a collection of talks Karl gave in Mumbai in 2010 and 2011. Enjoy the ride!
After giving ‘Self-talks’ around the world for many years, Karl Renz came to Mumbai to give talks for the first time in 2010. He doesn’t fit into any category but calling him an ‘Advaita Punk’ might come close to describing the experience of the talks. Most people who discover him get addicted to the careless irreverence and ‘sixth sense of humour’ of this brilliant Advaita entertainer.
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- by : Colin D. Mallard
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 1997
- Pages : 148
- Weight : 210 gm.
- Size : 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- ISBN-10: 8188071706
- ISBN-13: 978-8188071708
Description:
“Like the happy, peaceful murmur of a steam, the wisdom and truth found in Colin Mallard’s Reflections Cascade effortlessly and ever so gently into our hearts, there to remain in the silence of direct understanding. Articulating the way with easy, poise, serenity and complete assurance, Colin’s own profound understanding and creative quietism shine forth on every page. If you yearn for peace, this is the book to read, perhaps just a page at time, so as to savour the blessings served verse after verse. “
- Madhukar B. Thompson, Author of the Odyssey of Enlightenment: Rare Interviews with Enlightened Masters
Specification:
- Publisher : Zen Publications
- by : Mahesh Hangal
- Cover : Paperback
- Language : English
- Edition : 2003
- Pages : 115
- Weight : 150 gm.
- Size : 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
- ISBN-13: 978-9382788126
- ASIN: 9382788123
Description:
The human being has always been anxious to know the meaning of life, to realize his true nature, to attain the ultimate possible fulfillment.
These scribblings may perhaps trigger a process that might finally culminate, in what the human heart has always longed for - peace and harmony. The least they will do is help develop insights beyond ordinary perceptions. They could even be read just for entertainment or can simply be flipped through...
Many have claimed that these mystical musings have in them an intrinsic ability to awaken dormant intuitive understanding. Profound yet pragmatic, they hammer away at our basic misconceptions rendering the psyche free of all erroneous concepts.
From the profane to the sacred, the mundane to the mysterious, the seemingly trivial to the most fundamental, get ready for an eclectic serving of cosmic titbits. For all you know, this little book could be the one, you may have been vehemently longing to read.