Bitten by the black snake : the ancient widsom of Ashtavakra, the great Indian sage

Schoch, Manuel

Bitten by the black snake : the ancient widsom of Ashtavakra, the great Indian sage / Manuel Schoch - x, 114 pages

Corrected title: Bitten by the black snake: the ancient wisdom of Ashtavakra, the great Indian sage.

The first sutra: The witnessing consciousness The doer and the observer Getting in the way of liberation Games of the mind Desire for enlightenment A state of happiness Behind the mask Free will Modern meditation The space of stillness Perceiving with the senses Light vs. religion Consciousness and heart energy Stillness of the heart The second sutra: Looking out, looking in The act of projection The art of observation The space of no reaction Awareness and observation No separation Observing the whole The freedom of one mind The power of rebelling As you think, so you are Reality and projection The serpent of ego Thought processes The process of doing Creating desire Waking up Observing desire The third sutra: Being the observer The end of separation Bondage and innocence Confusion creates observation The bondage of motivation Nothing to do Faith and belief Faith in consciousness Form and stillness Stillness of the heart Being with what is Reflecting consciousness The stillness of emptiness The fourth sutra: The spiritual ego Bypassing the ego Becoming still The structure of feelings A third state Lost connections Beyond the ego Knowing there is nothing Sneaking around the ego Feeding the climate Dropping into stillness The fifth sutra: Creating illusion Living in the heart Beyond desire Fear and desire A question of motivation Forgetting the self Effortless awareness Nothing special Seeing the whole Attachment to detaching Desiring liberation Working with the heart The sixth sutra: Happiness itself Creating fear The ego is like the apple Transformation through observation Off the map The identification game Can the climate change?

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Aṣṭāvakragītā --Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Spiritual life--Hinduism

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