[Buddha-l] From Hans Gruenig

[jkirk]

proxy postingSubject: Buddhist Non-Dual Awareness Reading Recommendations

Greetings,

I teach a course on Buddhism (with a "Meditation Lab" and a fair amout of 
emphasis on the experiential) for the Philosophy Department at Tulane 
University, and I recently attended retreats with Richard Miller and 
Adyashanti that focused on recognizing, abiding in, and embodying non-dual 
awareness.  For years I've focused on vipassana, samatha, and metta 
meditation in my classes, but I'd like to incorporate some non-dual 
awareness texts, meditations, and teachings.  I asked Richard if he knew of 
any accessible and inspiring texts on this topic in the Buddhist traditions 
(Dzogchen? Zen?), but he only knew of classics like Longchempa's writings 
(such as the beautiful "THE PRECIOUS TREASURY OF THE BASIC SPACE OF 
PHENOMENA"), of which I was aware, but was not certain that they would be 
appropriate for my purposes.  I'd love to find contemporary texts that are, 
perhaps, the Buddhist-non-dual-awareness-discourse-equivalent of Lama Surya 
Das's "Awakening the Buddha Within" or Gunaratana's "Mindfulness in Plain 
English" -- that is, something clear, accessible, inspiring, poignant, 
evocative, practice oriented, non-sectarian, and not heavily laden with 
cultural trappings.  Do you have any book, article, chapter, or other 
recommendations?

Many thanks,
-Hans Gruenig.