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by frwrfwrfeefwf 22 days ago
Reading Christian mystics, Orthodox apophatic theology. It's correct and all very real despite the language they use. Zen etc is a better starting point, achieve kensho then go read the New Testament and watch your brain meltdown.
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Any reading suggestions? That sounds very interesting. I’m reading through the Bible this year and I’m currently working through the NT.
Ordered roughly by what's most palatable to the modern mind:

Secular non-duality:

  Awake: It's Your Turn -- Angelo DiLullo
  The Power Of Now -- Eckhart Tolle
Buddhism with the focus on mystic praxis:

  Seeing That Frees -- Rob Burbea
  Dependent Origination and Emptiness -- Leah Brasington
Mystic/Orthodox Christianity:

  The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian -- St Isaac around 700AD  (one of the best Christian mystics (IMO the best))
  The Complete Mystical Works Of Meister Eckhart -- Dominicon preacher around 1300AD
  The Philokalia -- various authors but St Maximos and Kallistos Angelikoudos are great
  The Mirror of Simple Souls -- Porette around 1300AD as well
Gnostic / Neo-Platonists:

  The Gospel Of Thomas -- The Apocryphal Gospels
  Plato's allegory of the cave (you'll get what he really meant after you have the awakening)
  The Enneads -- Plotinus

If you keep searching you'll discover more over time, they come from different regions, cultures and centuries but all tell the same story. They say Sufi's have some good ones too but I stick to Christian works now days.