Epigraphs and poems without attribution are by the author.
Epigraph
1. Thomas Byrom, excerpts from The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1990), 75, 77.
PART I. BEGINNING THE SEARCH
1. Dorothy Hunt, excerpt from “The Invitation,” in Only This! (San Francisco: San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, 2004), 87.
Chapter 1. What Ends the Search Begins the Search
1. Idries Shah, “The Tale of the Sands,” in Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters over the Past Thousand Years (New York: Arkana, 1967), 23.
2. T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” in Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1943), 59.
Chapter 2. Spiritual Impulse and Spiritual Ambition
1. Kabir, Kabir: Ecstatic Poems, versions by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004), 50.
Chapter 3. Silence and Stillness: The Greatest Teachers
1. Ramana Maharshi, The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1988), 64.
2. Fynn, Mister God, This Is Anna (New York: HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1974).
Chapter 4. Paths and Practices in the Search for Truth
1. Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, trans. Maurice Frydman, rev. and ed. Sudhakar S. Dikshit (Durham, NC: Acorn Press, 1973), 140.
2. Psalm 46:10, The Oxford Annotated Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962), 691.
3. Lex Hixon, Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1992), 297.
Chapter 5. Peace, Ego, and Inquiry
1. Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 142. Here the word mind means the thinking mind, not what some call Original Mind, a term that could be used as a synonym for Self, true nature, or the limitless Heart of Awareness.
2. Ramana Maharshi, The Spiritual Teaching, 76.
3. Meister Eckhart, “True Hearing,” sermon IV of Meister Eckhart’s Sermons, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, ccel.org/ccel/eckhart/sermons.vii.html.
PART II. SEEN AND UNSEEN
1. Dorothy Hunt, “The Footprint of the Divine.” Unpublished poem.
Chapter 6. Background and Foreground
1. Rumi, Mystical Poems of Rumi 1: First Selection, Poems 1–200, trans. A. J. Arberry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
2. Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed., Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985), 71.
Chapter 7. The Heart of Awareness
1. Ramana Maharshi described his own meditation in this way in The Sage of Arunachala: A Documentary, a film directed by Dennis J. Hartel, produced by Arunachala Ashrama, and distributed by Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India, 1992.
2. Ramana Maharshi, Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India: T. N. Venkataraman, Sri Ramanasramam, 1984), 130.
3. Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 211.
4. Ramana Maharshi, The Spiritual Teaching, 91.
Chapter 8. Presence and Personhood
1. H. W. L. Poonja, The Truth Is (San Anselmo, CA: VidyaSagar Publications, 1995), 335. For those unfamiliar with the terms used: karma is action based on past causes and conditions. Maya is the play of Consciousness manifesting as illusion in the dream of Separation.
2. David Godman, ed., Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (London and New York: Arkana, 1985), 68–69.
PART III. CAUGHT IN THE JAWS OF THE TIGER
1. Dorothy Hunt, excerpt from “The Invitation,” in Only This!, 87.
Chapter 9. Caught in the Tiger’s Mouth
1. Ramana Maharshi, The Spiritual Teaching, 9–10.
2. Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji (Oakland, CA: Mooji Media, 2014), 287.
Chapter 10. Dying for Truth, Yet Afraid of Disappearing
1. Demi, The Empty Pot (New York: Henry Holt, 1990).
2. Kabir, Kabir, 50.
3. “Meditation without Memory” is adapted from one of Douglas Harding’s “Experiments,” The Headless Way, headless.org.
4. Rumi, “Chickpea to Cook,” in The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks (San Francisco: Harper, 1995), 132–33.
Chapter 11. Enlightenment Cannot Be Bought or Sold
1. Matthew 5:3, The Oxford Annotated Bible, 1175.
2. Raymond B. Blakney, trans., Meister Eckhart (New York: Harper and Row, 1941), 227.
3. Seng-Ts’an, Hsin-hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind, trans. Richard B. Clarke (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2001).
Chapter 12. Burning in Love’s Fire
1. Dorothy Hunt, excerpt from “The Invitation,” in Only This!, 88.
PART IV. THE SEARCH ENDS IN WHAT NEVER ENDS
1. Dorothy Hunt, excerpt from “The Invitation,” in Only This!, 89.
Chapter 13. The End of Seeking
1. The story of Liang-shan and his teacher, T’ung-An, is from The Record of Transmitting Light: Zen Master Keizan’s Denkoroku, trans. Francis H. Cook (Los Angeles: Center Publications, 1991), 190.
2. Dorothy Hunt, “When Seeking Ends,” in Only This!, 90.
Chapter 14. Awakening Is Only the First Step
1. Sekito Kisen (Shitou Xiqian), The Sandokai: Identity of Relative and Absolute.
Chapter 15. Resting the Mind in the Heart of Awareness
1. The Dhammapada, verses 153–54.
2. Mooji, White Fire, 327.
PART V. UNDIVIDED LOVE
1. Dorothy Hunt, a variation of “Until we have fully . . .,” in Leaves from Moon Mountain (San Francisco: Moon Mountain Sangha, 2015), 109.
Chapter 16. Love Flows from Emptiness
1. Dorothy Hunt, “What Can Be Said about Love?” in Leaves from Moon Mountain, 102.
Chapter 17. Love Contains Both Joy and Suffering
1. The Buddha’s first Noble Truth, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta.
2. David Hinton, trans., Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998), 87.
Chapter 18. Fierce Grace
1. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: HarperOne, 2001) 1.
2. C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (New York: HarperOne, 1994). Also portrayed in the play and film versions of Shadowlands.
PART VI. LIVING AWAKE, LIVING NOW
1. Dorothy Hunt, excerpt from “The Invitation,” in Only This!, 89.
Chapter 20. Living Awake Is Living Now
1. Anthony de Mello, “Arrival,” in One Minute Wisdom (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986), 50.
2. The words of Ramana Maharshi are from the film The Sage of Arunachala.
Chapter 21. Awakening and Surrender
1. Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2003), 70.
2. John 3:8, The Oxford Annotated Bible, 1287.
3. Ramesh S. Balsekar, A Duet of One: The Ashtavakra Gita Dialogue (Los Angeles: Advaita Press, 1989), 158–59.
4. Dorothy Hunt, “A Floating Leaf,” in Leaves from Moon Mountain, 4.
Chapter 22. Freedom from Freedom
1. Adyashanti, “The Only Price,” from Adyashanti’s website, 2014, adyashanti.org/index.php?file=writings_inner&writingid=1.
2. Dorothy Hunt, “Nakedness Has No Preference,” in Only This!, 38.
Chapter 24. An Afterword about Words
1. Dorothy Hunt, Leaves from Moon Mountain, 34.
2. Dorothy Hunt, “Silence Empty of Nothing,” in Only This!, 263.
3. David Hinton, trans., Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters, xviii.
4. Soen Nakagawa (1907–1984) was a Rinzai Zen master.