Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 189 views

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers

    Uploaded by

    Edward Muzika
    The document discusses several spiritual teachers that the author studied with including Robert Adams, Maezumi Roshi, Sasaki Roshi, Philip Kapleau Roshi, Muktananda, Bernadette Roberts, Ramesh Balsekar, and Jean Dunn. It provides brief biographies and context about each teacher.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers

    Uploaded by

    Edward Muzika
    189 views6 pages
    The document discusses several spiritual teachers that the author studied with including Robert Adams, Maezumi Roshi, Sasaki Roshi, Philip Kapleau Roshi, Muktananda, Bernadette Roberts, Ramesh Balsekar, and Jean Dunn. It provides brief biographies and context about each teacher.

    Original Description:

    From the collected works of Edward Muzika.

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses several spiritual teachers that the author studied with including Robert Adams, Maezumi Roshi, Sasaki Roshi, Philip Kapleau Roshi, Muktananda, Bernadette Roberts, Ramesh Balsekar, and Jean Dunn. It provides brief biographies and context about each teacher.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    189 views6 pages

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers

    Uploaded by

    Edward Muzika
    The document discusses several spiritual teachers that the author studied with including Robert Adams, Maezumi Roshi, Sasaki Roshi, Philip Kapleau Roshi, Muktananda, Bernadette Roberts, Ramesh Balsekar, and Jean Dunn. It provides brief biographies and context about each teacher.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 6

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers From a Collection of Works by Edward Muzika

    Teachers with whom I studied at one time or another...


    Robert Adams
    Robert Adams was my living teacher. All of Robert's teachings may be found on a number of sites put up by his modern day students. One such site isHERE You can also read more about Robert under the menu item Robert Adams above.

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers From a Collection of Works by Edward Muzika

    Maezumi Roshi
    The photo at left is of Sri Ananda, Thich Tien-An, Seung Sahn Soen Sa, Maezumi Roshi and Kozan Roshi, about 1972. This was taken near the International Buddhist Meditation Center. All four teachers had centers within a mile of each other. Maezumi Roshi, one of the founders of Zen in the United States and with whom I studied for 4 years, the most intellectual of all Zen masters (fourth from l e f t ) ; T h i c h Ti e n - A n , m y ordination teacher, a Vietnamese Zen master who brought Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism essentially Zen to the states (second from left behind Ananda); Kozan Roshi, a very down to earth Rinzai master from Okinawa (fifth from left), Seung Sahn Soen Sa, a ball of energy who transformed American Zen (third from left).

    Sasaki Roshi
    The unforgettable Sasaki Roshi (left), whose concentration camp-like Mt. Baldy Zen Center was a source of great pain and great pleasure and whose antics are legend. Samadhi is easily attainable after just sitting a few weeks there. One becomes one with the constant wind and cold. You learn how to blow out a candle at the top of Thunder Mountain.

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers From a Collection of Works by Edward Muzika

    Philip Kapleau Roshi


    Philip Kapleau Roshi, one of the originators of Zen in America, my first Zen master, whom I would later consider a friend; Song Ryong Hearn, an American Zen master who later became a psychologist in West Los Angeles.

    Muktananda
    Muktananda, who I knew only briefly and never really got. However, I loved the chanting for many years at the Ashram led by Swami Shankaranada, now in Australia. Strangely, years later I found his avoiding "substantive questions" and just abiding in bliss and extremely high practice.

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers From a Collection of Works by Edward Muzika

    Bernadette Roberts
    Bernadette Roberts, a catholic devotee who spent her life trying to understand her very Advaita-like enlightenment experience and who was a neighbor of mine in Santa Monica for many years.

    Ramesh Balsekar
    Ramesh Balsekar, who led me to the irrepressible Nisargadatta Maharaj, whose wisdom became the guidepost of my searching.

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers From a Collection of Works by Edward Muzika

    Jean Dunn
    Jean Dunn, a very close Bhakta disciple of Nisargadatta and editor of the three best Nisargadatta books, who also became a good friend, guide and confidant. The photo of Maharaj below was given to me by Jean a year or so before she died. She also gave me a copy of his book, Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization. Only 100 copies were printed for private distribution because of copyright fears. See download link for pdf file below. Now everyone who thinks of themselves as advaitans has published this book as their own with or without permission. Funny. Hanging onto words. I've also included an Inner Directions interview with Jean (see pdf file below you can download) as well as a number of excellent books on Nisargadatta under the NISARGADATTAmenu above.

    self_knowledge.pdf
    Download File

    jean_dunn_interview.pdf
    Download File

    It Is Not Real - My Teachers From a Collection of Works by Edward Muzika

    You might also like