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Enlightenment for Two TM

What is enlightenment? How do you find your way to the light within? Is there only one doorway, or many? Who's walking through? How do they do it? What's their experience? These articles give answers to your enlightenment questions.

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10 Steps to Full Enlightenment
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
When one who has been enlightened speaks, there are things he can say with relative certainty--as much certainty as is possible while still in a body in this world.
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The Holy Grail
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
From the experience I will draw conclusions and make interpretations of meaning, but I am doing so from memory, albeit memory profoundly affected by the illumination.
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For the Record
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
For the record, the day of Enlightenment for Two (TM) for Al Link and Pala Copeland was Monday, January 7, 2008.
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Not Not vs Subject/Object Consciousness
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
When trying to describe enlightenment with language, a different terminology is sometimes used, and this can be confusing to people who have never transcended the separation of subjects and objects.
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I am nothing; I am everything.
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
I am nothing in relation to the awesomeness of enlightenment, as a candle or 25 watt light bulb is to full sunshine.
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God is everything; everything is God.
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
In the enlightenment you realize that you are God, because God is everything and you are everything, understanding that everything is only one thing and that one thing is consciousness.
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You do NOT
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
You are completely and unconditionally free. You are simply required to remember who you really are.
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Just remember who you are.
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
You serve God in life by remembering God in every action. You offer every action as a meditation to remembering that you are God.
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The radical shift of consciousness.
Added on 05/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
In this illuminated awareness all that you perceive, feel and think is not other than yourself, not something your separate self becomes aware of, but rather...
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Illusion/Maya
Added on 11/ 11/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
The world is real, but it has no substance.
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Spiritual Questions - What is death?
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Death is the dissolution of that which has no substance, a simple change from one state to another, before and after a storm, a light on or a light off, take the blue suit off and put the black suit on...
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Conformity, Attachment and Karma
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Acting from conformity (being what others want you to be) will also accumulate karma as will all addictions (e.g., money, power, food, sex, alcohol, drugs-prescription and recreational). All addictions are the most extreme forms of attachment and selfishn
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Quantum Physics and the Now Moment
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Time and space are the boundaries of the collapsed point, the now moment. This is the edge of creation, being, and becoming.
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I don't know what I am going to do next.
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
You must fit in with the rest of the totality, whether you want to or not, whether you like that or not.
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Nothing has changed but everything is different
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
In God-consciousness, nothing changes, but everything is different.
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Spiritual Practice and Saving the World
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Spiritual practice does not cause enlightenment, although most typically enlightenment does follow after some sustained spiritual practice, but this is not in any way the usual cause and effect relationship.
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Special Powers
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
The enlightenment was not mystical at all. I had previously believed that enlightenment must be mystical, as my rational mind could conceive of nothing else.
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Recreational Drugs and Sex- A Warning!
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
It is possible to use recreational drugs intelligently, but this is extremely difficult to do.
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Bad Karma
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
When a cloud is polluted, the rain is polluted.
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Good Karma
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Actions which are normally considered to be moral and selfless do not accumulate bad karma.
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Selfless Action
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Selfless has an important expanded meaning in the context of enlightenment.
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Energy Healing to Remove Karma
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
There are a huge number of energetic healing modalities with new ones being created all the time.
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Karma and Remembering Who You Really Are
Added on 05/ 05/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
The second thing you must learn in order to be free of Karma is how to remember who you really are.
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Enlightenment for Two(TM) - A Spiritual Path for Couples
Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Enlightenment was somehow assumed to be a solution to all the pain and suffering and scarcity in the world, an escape from all that was bad and wrong in the world.
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Slaying the Ego- working with Daniel Odier
Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Odier is an enlightened man and during those 6 days he did pass something to me that has influenced the unfolding of my enlightenment experience, which I believe to be Mahamudra.
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Enlightenment for Two- Remember Me, Remember You
Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
This is Enlightenment for Two(TM). We have demonstrated that sacred sexuality can be a path to enlightenment, but not in any ordinary sense of cause and effect.
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The Circle of Enlightened Human Beings
Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Perhaps a year or more just before the enlightenment experience, I had more or less concluded that the enlightenment was simply not going to be in the cards for me in this lifetime; perhaps I was just too old (born 1945), or simply not worthy (not morally
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How do the circumstances of your life affect the search for enlightenment?
Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
In the days following the enlightenment, I found myself being troubled by a similar question, "What is a real enlightened man supposed to be like?"
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Do you need a guru?
Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Part of the difficulty for seekers, is that they have virtually no way to know what is really relevant to helping or blocking them from realizing the fully enlightened state.
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Why is enlightenment so rare?
Added on 05/ 06/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Beware of uncritically accepting a message that has been handed down over thousands of years, just because it has been handed down over thousands of years, even if it has been handed down from guru to disciple, one-at-a-time for thousands of years.
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In Search of the Guru
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Each person's journey to enlightenment will be unique, will likely span decades, and the details of the personal lives of those people will rarely have much in common, other than they arrive at the same destination, the summit of enlightenment.
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No Order of Difficulty in Healing
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Your past does not have to continue to hold you back, regardless of how serious you may think your flaws to be or how impossibly complex, difficult and sticky your issue may seem to be.
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Dependence Upon External Authority
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
It just might be that one of the reasons (perhaps the most important reason) why enlightenment is so rare is the mistaken assumption, hardened into belief, that a guru is required.
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Spiritual Monopoly
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
One of the reasons the belief in the necessity of having a guru is so culturally sticky, is the experience many people have when in the presence of a guru, or anyone in the enlightened state.
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You are the Buddha!
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
If enlightenment is who you really are, then it would make sense that you could only awaken to your Self, by being yourself, not by trying to be like anyone else.
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Points of Illumination-Jan Frazier
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Our first example is Jan Frazieri (wife, mother, and writer), currently living in Massachusetts, USA. She had no guru, no spiritual lineage, and not even any active spiritual practice. She was age 50 in 2003 at the time of the enlightenment...
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Points of Illumination-Jill Bolte Taylor
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Taylor was currently featured on the cover of Time Magazine (May 12, 2008) as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2008.
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Points of Illumination-John Michael Christian
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
According to John, for over 10 years he was "a recluse Monk and spent his time meditating, praying, and studying spirituality, psychology, metaphysics and various healing modalities. Eventually his quest for enlightenment took him...
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Enlightenment Threshold-Turn Your Lights On!
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Al's enlightenment, and the enlightenment of those others mentioned above, are some of the early signals alerting us to the fact that we are at an enlightenment threshold.
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Enlightenment Tipping Point
Added on 05/ 07/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
The human race is ready for a collective leap forward. This is the time of the enlightenment tipping point.
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Introduction to Carlos Castaneda
Added on 06/ 29/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Carlos Castaneda is one of the five most important mentor authors who have influenced and guided Al’s lifetime spiritual quest.
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Reality Diagram according to Kashmir Shaivism
Added on 06/ 29/2008 By M. Alan Kazlev
Reality Diagram according to Kashmir Shaivism
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Enlightenment Spotlight: Dr. Martin Luther King
Added on 07/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Enlightenment Spotlight: Dr. Martin Luther King
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On Becoming Buddha - Bob Thurman
Added on 07/ 02/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
On Becoming Buddha - Bob Thurman
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How to Live a Remarkable Life in a Conventional World
Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Chris Guillebeau
Some very practical advice to those of you who want to stop accumulating and start burning bad karma.
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A Simple System to Achieve Your Goals
Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Paul Myers
A Simple System to Achieve Your Goals
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Achieve Your Goals Workbook
Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Paul Myers
Achieve Your Goals Workbook
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Randy Pausch - Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Added on 07/ 15/2008 By Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch - Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. Use death as an adviser? Death has a way of helping us get things sorted out; of making priorities clear.
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Melissa Etheridge and Enlightenment
Added on 07/ 17/2008 By Al Link
In 2004 pop star Melissa Etheridge had a battle with breast cancer and almost died. Death has a way of motivating people to change their priorities.
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Soul Liberation
Added on 08/ 08/2008 By William
Becoming a free spirit.
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Integration: Human Consciousness and The Global Electronic Brain
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
The way this integration of human consciousness and the global electronic brain may proceed is with initiatives such as this one by Hector Ruiz.
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Gaia and the Global Brain
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
It is an old idea, dating back at least to the ancient Greeks, that the whole of human society can be viewed as a single organism.
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Enlightenment: One Million In Ten Years
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Passing enlightenment through one-on-one teaching and person-to-person transmission is a valid and useful thing to do, but it takes too long. The Planet is on the verge of extinction.
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One Million Points of Light
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
Can we predict who these one million points of light-one million enlightenments, will be? No. Can we predict where they will be on the planet? No.
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Invent Your Own Path
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
The idea of inventing your own path to enlightenment, without a guru, is actually a meta-path, a path of paths.
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Guru Etiquette
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Gurus know a lot, but not everything. Nonetheless, there will be people who assume the guru is a fake because they've admitted they don't know everything. In fact, human perfection is an oxymoron.
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How to Behave in the Presence of a Guru
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
There is no value in making yourself subservient to a guru. Kissing a guru's feet is going too far, unless he is willing to kiss yours also.
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Addictions - Money, Sex and Power
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
If gurus don't earn money to pay the rent, then someone else must give them the money to do so.
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Can Gurus be Financially Wealthy?
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
There is a very strong bias revealed in most religious and spiritual teaching, suggesting that a guru could not possibly be interested in money.
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It is Time to Reconnect Spirit with Life
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Rather than make money, sex and power the mortal enemies of spirit, consider the possibility that it is not money, sex, and power in and of themselves that are degraded and corrupt or devoid of humanist and spiritual value. It is how these things are use
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The Great Myth
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
A myth is a story that metaphorically conveys meaning to the reader or listener. It is a transform of the truth into a form the reader or listener can understand or comprehend.
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The Great Myth Continued - Infinity and Quantum Chaos
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
There are an infinite number of points on a straight line. In our myth, each line is a symbolic representation of a universe.
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The Great Myth Continued - Making a Cosmic Movie
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
There isn't only one movie, there are an infinite number, at least one for every "I" point of consciousness.
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Faust
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Faust signs a pact with Mephistopheles (the Devil), that Faust will surrender his soul, but only in return for Mephistopheles helping Faust find a moment so sublime and perfect that he would want it to go on forever.
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Back to the Cosmic Movie
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Pala Copelabd and Al Link
Because it is set up this way, even the Creator does not know what the movie will be from moment to moment. What kind of entertainment would it be if you knew the entire movie before you entered the theatre?
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Just Crumbs
Added on 08/ 13/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Remember, these words are just a trail of crumbs being left behind by Hansel and Gretel to help find the way home again.
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The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
Added on 09/ 28/2008 By Philip Zimbardo
Philip Zimbardo explores the nature of good and evil inside each of us, and explores the idea of how the situational context can strongly influence the behavior of ordinary human beings.
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A Digital Library Free to the World
Added on 10/ 09/2008 By Brewster Kahle
Here is another example of how human consciousness and the global electronic brain are being integrated for the benefit of all humanity.
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Seeing
Added on 10/ 12/2008 By Al Link
Seeing is a spiritual power.
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Enlightenment is Not Escape
Added on 10/ 13/2008 By Al Link
Enlightenment is not escape.
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Union of Lovers
Added on 10/ 13/2008 By Al Link
Union of Lovers
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What to do With Enlightenment
Added on 10/ 14/2008 By Al Link
Look for the moments between the moments.
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You are all of it
Added on 10/ 14/2008 By Al Link
You are all of it, everything.
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Enlightenment After-burn
Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Almost immediately following the enlightenment there will begin a regression, a return to the more ordinary and more familiar ego consciousness...
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Nirvana-with-remainder
Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link
In Mahayana Buddhism, there is a distinction between "nirvana-with-remainder" and "nirvana-without-remainder."
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Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point
Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes many different kinds of unusual and interesting research to shed light on common human behaviors, helping people to see why they act the way they do.
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Inner States - External Circumstances
Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link
"In ways that we don’t necessarily appreciate, our inner states are the result of our outer circumstances."
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Managing Emotions Through Action
Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Malcolm Gladwell stops short of taking the most important step. He leaves the reader feeling as if for most of us, we will simply act according to how we are pushed and shoved around by external circumstances, and he doesn't really offer any way out of th
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Schools of Buddhism - The Importance of Lineage
Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link
The origin of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism derives from the teachings of the enlightened Indian master Tilopa. Maha means great one, or highest.
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Enlightenment - The Loss of Innoccence and the Midlife Crisis
Added on 11/ 02/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Originally published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye[i], by J.D. Salinger is the poignant story of 16 year old Holden Caulfield.
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Buddhist Scripture - Sutra and Tantra
Added on 09/ 17/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Teachings of Buddha have been classified as sutra and Tantra. Mahamudra is primarily derived from the Tantra or Vajrayana teaching. In Mahamudra Tantra, thought is a lower order cognitive function. Much higher is observation or witnessing.
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Buddhist Spiritual Teachers
Added on 09/ 17/2008 By Pala Copeland and Al Link
Honoring the utter simplicity of the Mahamudra approach to enlightenment, Tilopa taught Naropa "six words of advice."
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Schools of Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana, Varjrayana
Added on 09/ 17/2008 By Al Link and Pala Copeland
Theravada (Sanskrit for "teaching of the elders", or "ancient teaching") Buddhism is the oldest surviving