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c0nstant

15:26 / 23.09.07

Roy, wow! Cheers for digging that out for me, there's enough stuff there to keep me busy for a long time. Now I just have to wait for my first paycheque and the inevitable avalanche of books that it's going to create!

Katherine

07:34 / 24.09.07

Thank you Roy and Ghadis, the book is firmly on the book list to buy now.

Proinsias

23:03 / 24.09.07

Since the Headshop thread on Alan Watts was been bumped it has got me thinking I need more Zen, to stop me thinking. I seem to have a compulsion for reading books which delight in telling me there is no worth in reading.

My reading list is short, so far, but includes the usual suspects - Alan Watts, the big Suzuki & the little Suzuki. These are mentioned in the Headshop as a good intro but I would like a little further reading if anyone has any recommendations. I'm currently making my way through Osho: Finger Pointing to the Moon, which seems to slot in nicely with Zen and also grounds many of it's points by referencing Zen practitioners.

So maybe I'm not looking exclusively for Zen but anything along that line of thought/non-thought.

I wasn't sure if this request should be in here or the Headshop but I figure I'm more likely to get replies here.

Proinsias

23:14 / 24.09.07

Perhaps I should have said 'Bring on the academia, kids'?

Unconditional Love

19:41 / 25.09.07

That paradox is a nightmare books you read that encourage you to stop reading, ever actually tried the stop reading part. I find it really difficult, i find it easier to create spaces where i am not engaging with socially created information but the whole totally not doing it at all is so difficult.

I wonder how much socially created information acts as distraction, but i also wonder just how much of meditation would then proceed to deconstruct sensory experience as well and eventually consciousness. Or is the point to understand the natural construction of consciousness and sensory experience. Its all so complex in word think.

illmatic

14:14 / 26.09.07

Prionsias: Give Trungpa's Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism a go if you haven't already. It's regarded a classic and rightly so. Got a lot of psychological insight into what Crowley described as "lust of result", a problem we all bring to whatever path we're on.

Proinsias

01:52 / 28.09.07

Wolfangel: Not so much stopping reading as taking a break from those books and using fiction as a kind of methadone hit for a bit. I read you're second paragraph a few times before realising I was thinking about thinking about thinking...... which might be even worse for me than thinking about not thinking atm.

Roy: Cheers, I've not read that. Only a paycheck and a re-jigging of the reading list away.

Is this the place for me to freeload info on martial art books or is G&G in need of a book thread?

illmatic

06:51 / 28.09.07

Why not start a new thread? I'd be interested in that myself.

Proinsias

02:40 / 05.09.08

The paycheck arrived, in the form of my wife building up points elsewhere which ended up with £25 of Amazon money to spend.

Cheers for the recommendation Rex, I'm only about halfway in but enjoying it.

I had always intended on listening to Krisnamurti more but during the wait for the book I youtube'd Trungpa and found this interview between him and Krisnamurti. After watching all 5 parts I can't bring myself to listen to anymore Krisnamurti.

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