Upanishads, Part 2

Scroll down a ways for Part 1.
Max Muller Translation, mostly. I just finished cleaning up the text tonight- eliminating some verbose debris, removing the original page numbers and fixing weird paragraph splits. This is a 19th century translation and they tend to run on and on. The upside is that it is public domain.

This is [...]

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Hear before you die, then after

Tibetan Book of the Dead-
Or, more correctly, the Bardo Thodol,
Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State

The Bardo Thödol (Tibetan: bardo “liminality”; thödol as “liberation”), Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State, is a funerary text that describes, and intends to guide one through, the experiences of the consciousness after death during the interval known [...]

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Sunday Soup May 3rd 2009

First, some poetry readings compliments of Librivox:
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gary-snyder-how-poetry-comes-to-me
charles-simic-i-was-stolen-by-the-gypsies
sylvia-plath-daddy
sylvia-plath-ariel
david-ray-the-greatest-poem-in-the-world
Not cleaned up, so formatting is weird, from Project Gutenberg, The Life of St. Francis by Paul Sabatier:
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By HH Shamar Rinpoche, The Seven Points of Mind Training, Dharma Teachings:
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Big Pictures (click for full size):

Beautiful creatures:

Bye for now

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My son draws pitchers

Download this: andrew-pics-collection
Extras:

Above remixed by Goopymart-

On a completely different note:
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americanwigeon
blackcrownnightheron
cinnamonteal
greategrets
greenheron
turkeyvulture
whitefacedibis

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For those who know where to look, there is a special prize.

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Dip deeply into the Dao, Soup Sippers of the Moon

An assortment of audio and doc format translations of the Tao Te Ching.
What more can I say?
It’s the way.
The Tao Te Ching
Translation by Gia Fu Feng & Jane English
Comments and layout by Thomas Knierim

E-Book, Doc Format, download here:
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Audio Book download of the same translation, read by Jacob Needleman:

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More well known, The James Legge version [...]

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J. Krisnamurti- Free E-Book- Freedom from the Known

Jiddu Krishnamurti background:
(from Wikipedia article)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (Telugu: జిడ్డు కృష్ణ మూర్తి) or J. Krishnamurti (Telugu: జే . కృష్ణ మూర్తి), (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a well known writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual subjects. His subject matter included: the purpose of meditation, human relationships, the nature of the mind, and how to enact positive [...]

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Autobiography of a Friend

Today’s free book: The Autobiography of George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). And he doesn’t look at all klike the guy on the cereal box. Just who are these Quakers anyway?

Wikipedia says:  The Religious Society of Friends, also known as The Quakers, is a movement that began in England in the 17th [...]

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Now available

From The Icarus Project:
Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness
Download the pdf here.
Go to The Icarus Project site here.
Click these thumbnails for Icarus related pictures/ posters-

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A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul

Just another book by St. John of the Cross.

Excerpt:
XXVIII
My soul is occupied,

And all my substance in His service;

Now I guard no flock,

Nor have I any other employment: 
My sole occupation is love.

Download the e-book:
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