Spontaneously Ejected from Time and Space – Jean Klein
What inspired you to go to India? An inner need, an urge to find peace, to find the center where you are simply yourself—free from all stimulation. All that I’d read about traditional India, especially...
View ArticleAwakening before Enlightenment
We hear the term ‘awakening’ thrown about today like a rag doll. And as is the case with almost all spiritual terminology, there seems to be levels and levels of meaning for the word ‘awakening.’ It is...
View ArticleYour Last Trump: The ‘I-am-ness’– Alexander Smit
Visitor: You were talking once about the last trump which everybody is holding back, the last card that is held back in the game of Self-realisation, when one is standing face to face with oneself....
View ArticleThe Last Barrier to Realization – Jean Klein
I have often heard it said that without the help of Yoga, metaphysical realization can be very difficult. What do you think about it? To begin with Yoga is a harmonization of the body, to prevent it...
View ArticleThe Silent Admirer – Jean Klein
Following is an interview with Jean Klein from the early 1990s, which apparently was published only in a small Seattle spiritual newspaper. I am not sure even where I came across it but it is well...
View ArticleBehind the Mind – Jean Klein
There are moments when you hear sounds, but you can’t distinguish anything. As long as you have ears, it will be so. This kind of audibility, which is not really hearing, is there. Likewise, the eyes...
View ArticleGive Yourself Entirely to this Light – Jean Klein
If I am already fundamentally free, then why do l not feel as though l am free? The only obstacle is your belief that you are an independent entity. That is the only obstacle. You are stuck in this...
View ArticleThe Flame of Being – Jean Klein
A Dialog with Jean Klein and Michael Toms, 1989 MT: Jean, what is your idea of life? What is life to you? JK: Life is consciousness and consciousness is life. But one must make a distinction between...
View ArticleLiving Stillness – Jean Klein
It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is completely spontaneous. If we make an effort to change we do no more than shift our attention from one...
View ArticleA State of Extreme Abundance – Jean Klein
During these meetings we shall discuss the knowledge of our true nature. But the word knowledge will here be used in its strict meaning of metaphysical realization, in other words, the actual...
View ArticleJean Klein: Master of Listening
The last time I saw Jean Klein was in 1996 in Santa Barbara, California. Amido and I had gone with him and his wife, Emma, to see the parade downtown. We had spent the weekend helping to care for Jean...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Subject – Jean Klein
You are looking for an experience, for God, for beauty. This means you see what you are looking for as an object. I would say: Simply inquire who is looking. When you really inquire, you will see that...
View ArticleNever Really Here – Jean Klein
Here is something which strikes me as being rather significant, and it happens every day, one does one thing while thinking about another. For instance I often happen to put my keys down somewhere, and...
View ArticleYou Are This Nakedness – Jean Klein
I have been searching for a long time for truth or God. When I began I was crippled by anxiety and fear. Now I feel I have an innate understanding of what truth is not, but I do not feel I have...
View ArticleRe-establishment in Reality – Jean Klein
Question: What does sadhana mean? Answer: What truly exists is ultimate reality, the Self. The ego and the world are no more than objects superimposed upon it. “I am”, which is the source of all...
View ArticleWhen You are Not there is Love – Jean Klein
When you look for yourself you can never find the one you are looking for. There comes a day when there is a certain maturity in you and you will see that the looker is what he is looking for. What you...
View ArticleA Transfer of Energy – Jean Klein
While meditating must we chase away all the thoughts that come to us? What should we do when they do come? So very often we get caught up in them and let ourselves be carried away. Ah! So you bring me...
View ArticleListening Arises from Wonderment – Jean Klein
Could you talk about listening and its origin? To discover your innermost being you must start from where you are at this very moment, wherever that is. You cannot begin anywhere else. Whatever appears...
View ArticleGod is Seeking Himself – Jean Klein
There may come a moment in life when the world no longer stimulates us and we feel deeply apathetic, even abandoned. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. When...
View ArticleDialogues with Jean Klein
Here you have an opportunity to spend some time with Jean Klein. There are two links for Dialogues, parts 1&2. In total they are approximately 2 1/2 hours in length. Dialogues with Jean Klein, part...
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