TY - BOOK AU - Schoch,Manuel TI - Bitten by the black snake: : the ancient widsom of Ashtavakra, the great Indian sage SN - 9788183281294 U1 - 181.482 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Wisdom Tree KW - Aṣṭāvakragītā KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Spiritual life KW - Hinduism N1 - 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? ER -